Pthreads & Signals.

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:31 am, David Kramer wrote:
> I've been hesitant to suggest programming-related meeting topics since
> many of our fold are not programmers (though I did a PHP presentation
> once, and we recently had a presentation on Agile programming), but I
> would certainly welcome more meetings about *NIX programming topics.
>
> - Threads and how they work with one processor vs multiple processors
> - TCP/IP and sockets programming
> - Device drivers
> - Kernel modules
> - Interesting but useful programming languages
> - Compiling, linking and debugging with the GNU toolchain
> - Graphical programming for KDE/Gnome/tk
> - How to use make and ant, and make vs ant
> - Web App Server roundup (J2EE, etc)
> - IDE/Editor roundup, followed by religious war and mass graves
>
> Some of these could be minimeetings.
>
> Can I hear some yeahs and nays on these topics?
>
> Actually, a non-programming topic I would like to see is apache 2 vs
> apache 1.3.  Lots of people seem to be staying with 1.3.  Why?  Why not?
We have several open slots in January, February and April. Dave Butenhof 
still works for HP, and I could possibly get him down here one night, or I 
could do a presentation myself since I've done quite a bit of threads 
programming. 

Another possible idea to expand on what you suggest above, is how to 
configure and build a Linux kernel, aimed more at the end user. That could 
also include an explanation of what device drivers and kernel modules are. 
(That could also be a topic for Linux Soup).


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