Resources
Dan Kegel has written up
a
lengthy document on why universities should be teaching Linux to their
students. It's a very good start, but he's seeking feedback on ways to
make it more complete and convincing.
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The Linux Professional Institute's LPI News-Letter
for September, 2002 is available.
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Linux Gazette Issue #83 (October, 2002) is now
available. It
includes articles on replicating Linux systems, "Qubism," DVD authoring,
and many other topics.
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The September 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey has been released.
"
When counting by ip address, the supposed volatility of the past few
months disappears, with Apache showing a three percentage point
increase from 51% to 54% since the start of 2001, and Microsoft
unchanged at 35%."
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Upcoming Events
A Linux and software event will be held
in Luxemburg from October 1-3, 2002. Click below for the
full announcement (In French).
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The Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer
covers Robert Young's Lulu Technology Circus.
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There will also be experts from all over the country who bring their
expertise about everything from personal digital assistants to building a
supercomputer using clusters of Linux PCs. Circus attendees can play advance
copies of interactive video games from local companies, build a robot out of
Legos, help edit a movie, listen to electronic music, learn how to burn a CD
and, for those with disc-jockey talent, win the latest professional digital
CD-player from Pioneer."
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The Open Group Conference in Cannes, France
will feature speeches by Jon "Maddog" Hall, Bruce Perens,
and Larry Rosen among others. The conference will be held on October 14.
Thanks to Andrew Josey.
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Registration for
Linux.conf.au
(Perth, January 22 to 25) is now
open.
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Four additional
MySQL Compact Seminars have been scheduled for late october in Germany.
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| Date | Event | Location |
| October 9 - 10, 2002 | Linux EXPO-UK 2002 | (Olympia 2)London, England |
| October 11 - 13, 2002 | V Congreso Hispalinux | San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain |
| October 14 - 16, 2002 | The Singapore Linux Conference 2002 | (Le Meridien Singapore)Singapore |
| October 14 - 15, 2002 | The Open Group Conference | (Hotel Martinez Palace)Cannes, France |
| October 17 - 18, 2002 | Open Source for E-Government | Washington, DC |
| October 24 - 25, 2002 | PHPCon 2002 | (The Clarion Hotel SFO)Millbrae, California |
| October 28 - 31, 2002 | International Lisp Conference 2002 - The Art of Lisp | San Francisco, CA |
| October 30 - 31, 2002 | Think-Linux, The Solutions Show | (The Pinnacle)Toledo OH |
| November 1 - 3, 2002 | 2nd Annual Ruby Conference(RubyConf 2002) | (Washington State Trade and Convention Center)Seattle, Washington |
| November 2, 2002 | Southern CaliforniA Linux Expo 2002(SCALE) | (Davidson Conference Center, University of Southern California)Los Angeles, CA |
| November 3 - 6, 2002 | International PHP 2002 conference | Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 3 - 8, 2002 | 16th System Administration Conference(Lisa '02) | Philadelphia, PA |
| November 14 - 15, 2002 | The Open Source Health Care Alliance(OSHCA) | (UCLA Medical Center)Los Angeles, CA |
| November 18 - 21, 2002 | Embedded Systems Conference, Boston | (Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass |
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Web sites
The
Gimp User Group has announced
the return of its online forum system.
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Software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of
Freshmeat.net. They are available in
two formats:
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Miscellaneous
Long time Linux proponent Jon "Maddog" Hall is now working for SGI,
click below for the announcement.
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