From: linux@linuxexpo.org
Subject: CONFERENCE: 4th Annual Linux Expo, May 28-30th
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:01:48 GMT

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February 17, 1998--Linux is making waves in the news, and now is the
opportunity for the world to find out why.  It's time to get ready for
the largest gathering of the best and brightest minds in the computer
world.  For three business-centered and technology-packed days, May
28-30, the fourth annual Linux Expo will take over Duke University in
Durham, North Carolina.


This year's Linux Expo is shaping up to be a can't-miss event.  Visit
the record number of Expo exhibitors (there is still time for your
company to become involved) showing the latest in Linux-based hardware, 
software, and service solutions.  And stop in on the business and technical 
discussions to hear talks by some of the most important names in technology 
today.

Yes, Linus Torvalds will be there.  And so will many others.

Technical track speakers include:


*Eric Youngdale - Future Directions of Linux SCSI Development

*Dirk H Hohndel - XSuSE -- adding more to the XFree86 offerings

*Frank T. Kujawski - Setting Up Diskless Computers, Quickly!

*Simon Horman - Creating Redundant Servers in Linux

*Jacques Gelinas - LinuxConf

*Alan Cox - "I don't care if space aliens ate my mouse" or Porting
Linux to the Apple Macintosh 68K

*Mike Westall - ATM Device Driver Development in Linux

*Jes Sorensen - Linux/HIPPI - Linux Joins Supoercomputing Networking

*Bruce Perens - The Computer Graphics of Pixar

*Lars Wirzenius - Linux Anecdotes

* Greg Badros - A Caching NFS Client for Linux

*Eric S. Raymond - Homesteading the Noosphere: Custom and Property
Rights in                                  the Free Software Community

*David S. Miller - Optimizing the Cobalt Microserver

*Miguel de Icaza - GNOME: The GNU Network Object Model Environment

*Alex "Mr. Worf" Yuriev - Optimizing Network Performance

*Peter J. Braam - The Linux 2.1 New VFS Interface

*Steffen Seeger - KGI: Graphics and Games with the Kernel

*Andreas Beck - LibGGI The next generation fully portable graphics
library

*Jason McMullan - EvStack - Linux Console Design, Take II

*Daryll Strauss - Linux helps create Titanic

*Stephen C. Tweedie - Journalling the Linux Filesystem

*Peter J. Braam - The Coda Distributed Filesystem on Linux


There will also be Tutorial Sessions featuring:


*Peter J. Braam - Coda Demonstrations

*Jakub Jelinek - Hacking the Linux Kernel

*Owen Taylor - GTK

*Jacques Gelinas - LinuxConf

*Sean Reifschneider - Python


Business track speakers include:


*Bruce Perens, Software in the Public Interest--Free Software Licensing

*Jon maddog Hall, Digital Equipment Corp.-- Linux Around the World

*James Gray, S.u.S. E.-- A Cooperative Model for Linux Certification

*Tim Bird, Caldera, Inc.-- The COAS Project

*Mike Carpenter, Collective Technologies--The Future of Linux
Support-Where do we go from here?

*Mark Mathews, AbsolutValue Software--Developing Linux Software for
Fun...Turns into Profit

*Larry Augustin, VA Research--Technical Obstacles to Linux in the
Enterprise

*Daryll Strauss, Digital Domain--Linux Helps Create The Titanic

*Don Rosenberg, Stromian Technologies--Copyleft and the Religious Wars
of the21st Century

*Jim Knoble, Applied Information Systems, Inc.--Integrating Linux into
a Multi-Platform Commercial Software Development Environment

*Jeff Farnsworth, Caldera, Inc.--Caldera: Linux for Business?

*Robert Hart, Red Hat Software, Inc.- Linux User Certification- Pros,
Cons, and Directions

*Bob Young, Red Hat Software, Inc.

*Randy Kessle, Southwestern Bell

*Glenn Jacobsen, Unique Systems


You're going to want to start making plans to attend today.


For more information about the Linux Expo or to register for the events
of the Expo, please see http://www.linuxexpo.org or call 919-547-0028










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