[SLUG] A Sydney Uni SLUG chapter?

[Danny Yee <danny@nospam.anatomy.usyd.edu.au>]

Just a reminder to people that there is a Redhat Linux mirror at
	ftp.anatomy.usyd.edu.au
and a Debian mirror at
	ftp.usyd.edu.au
(The anatomy mirror is only accessible from within the NSW RNO.)

I think it would be a good idea to have a web page like
http://freesoftware.usyd.edu.au/ with information about these and other
free software resources within the University.  This is something a
Sydney University Free Software Users Group might maintain.

Some universities in the US have their own customised Linux distributions,
see e.g.  
	http://sulinux.stanford.edu/
	SULinux stands for Stanford University Linux. SULinux is a version
	of Linux, based upon the standard RedHat distribution of Linux,
	that has been pre-configured to work safely and securely within
	the Stanford computing environment. Stanford has added its own
	packages (in RPM format) to the Redhat version of Linux as a
	means of achieving that goal.

As we get more and more desktop GNU/Linux systems within the uni,
we might want to start doing something like this too.  One of the huge
advantages of Linux over Windows or Macs is in client auto-configuration
and maintainance, but I haven't seen that brought together in a nice
integrated package yet.

Danny.

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