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2004-05-15 Tacoma Wheelock Library

Agenda:

Theme of the day: !Linux

1:00-1:45 Introductions and Announcements

2:00-3:00 Jeremy C. Reed will be giving a presentation about BSD licensing, BSD history, and BSD operating systems. This introduction will discuss some of the similarities and differences between Linux and *BSD, and also between the three main BSD flavours:  NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Reed will also quickly introduce the build from source systems and the ports and pkgsrc collections.
Reed, a consultant for Puget Sound Technology, is a NetBSD and pkgsrc developer and also works on a variety of other open source development and advocacy tasks.

3:15-3:45 How UNIX Made Linux Possible
Chris Negus will talk about free (as in speech) software, community, and building blocks that all started with the UNIX operating system.

4:00-4:30 OS X for Linux geeks
A hands-on demonstration by Jesse Keating

Notes:

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