From: "Linux Expo" <i...@linuxexpo.org> Subject: CONFERENCE: Linux Expo Update! Date: 1997/02/05 Message-ID: <pgpmoose.199702052025.25851@liw.clinet.fi> X-Deja-AN: 214662757 x-original-date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:01:32 -0500 x-server-date: 5 Feb 1997 18:26:16 GMT followup-to: poster organization: Linux Expo x-auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.os.linux.announce reply-to: "Linux Expo" <i...@linuxexpo.org> newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Announcing Linux Expo 97 http://www.linuxexpo.org Expo news since last post: New Sponsors! New Speakers! New Events! Linux Expo is pleased to announce that Applix, Caldera, and Linux International and Red Hat Software have signed on as sponsors! Thanks to these fine organizations for supporting Linux and the Linux Expo! We've added 2 new speakers to our roster, bringing the number of technical talks up to 18 (for complete speaker list see below, and our web site). Dave Taylor of crack.com will be presenting a talk on Linux Game Development, including a sneak peak of crack.com's forthcoming title, Golgotha, the first officially supported commercial Linux game. And Dan Quinlan will be speaking on the future of the Linux Filesystem Standard: the FHS. We will be holding the First Annual Linux Bowl at the end of the Expo on Saturday. The Linux Bowl is patterned after the familiar quiz-show type games, including the famous Computer Bowl held every year at the Computer Museum. Two teams of panelists will put their Linux knowledge to the test answering Linux Trivia questions. Best of all you can participate by submitting questions on our web site, and from the audience just before the show! Also on Saturday, throughout the day, we will hold a Linux Install Fest. For those that have never been to such an event, there will be CD-ROMs and NFS servers available for you to install your machines from, and volunteers on hand to help you through process. These events are always great fun and draw lots of people. If you would like to bring in a machine, or volunteer to help out, please register your interest on our web site. Doing so will help us plan for proper room size and equipment. This year's Linux Expo is better than ever! Sign up now at http://www.linuxexpo.org !! Linux Expo PO Box 4325 Chapel Hill, NC, 27515 http://www.linuxexpo.org i...@linuxexpo.org (919) 361-5841 (919) 361-9288 (fax) [ Press release and Speaker List Attached ] ====================================================================== The Third annual Linux Expo Technical Conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 4th and 5th at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Expo has expanded dramatically this year. It will be even more valuable and entertaining than last year. We have over a dozen leading Linux developers who will be giving two full days of technical talks on various Linux topics. See the schedule below. We'll have an expanded vendor exhibition area, installation-fest, birds-of-a-feather sessions, food, and entertainment, including the first annual world famous Linux Bowl! On Saturday juggling tutorials, magic tricks and other valuable stress relieving skills will be demonstrated, and there will be a Linux "install-fest" where you can get help installing the latest distributions of Linux. All of this will be at no cost: yes like Linux itself the Expo is "Free". Of course you are going to have to figure out how to get to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina and arrange your accommodations once here, but entry to the Expo itself will not cost you a penny. The event will be funded by the generous contributions of the sponsors, commercial exhibitors, and those on corporate expense accounts who can afford the limited reserved seating in the auditorium from which the technical talks will be broadcast. The technical talks, which run all day Friday and Saturday, will be broadcast throughout the Expo area. The talks will be held in the Biotechnology Center's 170 seat auditorium. The limited seating in the auditorium is available on a first come, first served basis so reserve your seat today! The cost is $199, which covers both days. The exhibition area with the vendors, demos, food, entertainment, and the install-fest is free for all. Much more information on the Expo including info about traveling to, reserving seats at, or exhibiting at Linux Expo, is available at: http://www.linuxexpo.org This site will be updated regularly as we add events, exhibitors, and more to the Expo between now and April. This show is going to be extremely useful to anyone using Linux for professional or commercial applications as well as to casual users. It should be a cross between UNIX Expo (tm) and Woodstock. ;-) If you or your group would like to become involved with sponsoring an activity, presenting a demonstration, or teaching your favorite Linux trick, please contact us at: i...@linuxexpo.org Linux Expo PO Box 4325 Chapel Hill, NC, 27515 http://www.linuxexpo.org (919) 361-5841 (919) 361-9288 (fax) ====================================================================== * "MkLinux - Microkernel Linux" by Brett R. Halle <br...@apple.com> Apple Computer Discuss benefits and technology related to Linux hosted on the Mach microkernel. * "Next Generation SparcLinux, and the Free Software Development Model" by David S. Miller <da...@caip.rutgers.edu> What tomorrow will bring for the SparcLinux port, and why the current development model has taken us to where we are now and will take us to where we are going. * "Network File Locking: An Introduction" by Jeff Uphoff <juph...@nrao.edu> Scientific Programming Analyst, National Radio Astronomy Observatory The basics of the NLM and NSM protocols and the current implementation effort for Linux. After abortive careers as a chicken egg gatherer, a naval aviation electronics technician, a Naval Academy Midshipman, and a college student known for erratic class attendance, Jeff found Linux in early '93 and NRAO in late '93. He's been pretending to work for NRAO while secretly tinkering with Linux ever since. * "The Debian Linux Distribution" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> An overview, explaining what is unique about the distribution. * "The Computer Graphics of Toy Story" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> Trace how the first 100% computer-animated film was made, from story concept to animation. Learn about the 19 computer languages used in the production, and the extensive use of Unix. * "Linux and Amateur Radio" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> How Radio Hams use Linux to communicate, design circuits, etc. * "Debugging malloc() problems with Electric Fence" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> The author of Electric Fence explains how to debug malloc() problems. * "Linux/Alpha---or How to Make Your Programs Fly" by David Mosberger-Tang <dav...@AZStarNet.COM> This talk focuses on how to optimize code for platforms running Linux on DEC Alpha processors. While the focus is on the Alpha architecture, many of the topics covered are applicable to any RISC processor and even to modern CISC CPUs that employ implementation techniques pioneered by RISCs. The first part of the talk covers performance analysis tools that are available under Linux. The second part covers specific techniques that often improve performance by an order of magnitude or more. The talk assumes some basic knowledge of computer architecture and programming in C. * "The Coda Filesystem" by Peter Braam <br...@cs.cmu.edu> Coda is a state of the art, freely available networked filesystem developed at CMU by the group of Satyanarayanan. It has advances features such as client side write-back caching, server replication, disconnected operation (laptops), bandwith adaptation, and solid security models. The Linux port is nearly complete (Nov 1996) and CMU is making further ports, and improving the performance of the system. * "The Linux Network File System" by Olaf Kirch <o...@monad.swb.de> Daveg Gmbh (soon Linux Support Team, Erlangen) The talk will cover some new development in the NFS area that will improve performance and add several new features, including support for NFS over TCP and alternative authentication flavors. I'm age 29, and have studied mathematics (aka chewing pencils) before becoming a full-time programmer. I've been working (playing?) with Linux since the days of Owen's MCC Interim Releases back in 1992, and I'm happy that I've finally found an employer who actually pays me for playing with my favorite toy. * "A Tour of the Linux Networking Stack" by Alan Cox <a...@cymru.net>, Techincal Director, CymruNet * "The ext2 Filesystem --- Design, Implementation, and the Future" by Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/home.html Theodore Ts'o has been involved with Linux since almost the very beginning. ``Be a Linux hacker, and you too can see the world and get free hardware.'' * "Linux and Legacy LANs" by Michael Callahan <m...@stelias.com> The talk will survey Linux's capabilities as a server for Mac and PC networks using legacy protocols. * "General Linux Security" by Alexander O. Yuriev <a...@bach.cis.temple.edu> This talk will discuss some threats to Linux security and how to deal with them. It will include information about real break-ins, the loopholes that were utilized by intruders, how the system administrators could have closed the loopholes and how the intruders were discovered. The topics covered will include Security Policies vs. Security Mechanisms, password security, UNIX security model, basics of cryptographic protection, management of priviledges and security of systems connected to networks. * "Networks 101 : IPv4 Family of Protocols and Infrastructure" by Alexander O. Yuriev <a...@bach.cis.temple.edu> The IPv4 protocol family is the foundation on which the other network technologies are built. Understanding what really happens at that level is mandatory for being able to make correct decisions on issues that system and network administrators face today, whether it is tuning the network to get an extra Kbit of a bandwidth, creating a better filter for a screening router or verifing a claim of a vendor that says "Only mail can go across our SuperGuardian/Deluxe firewall. Only port 25 is open to the outside world." This class is intended for the system or network administrators that are either responsible for configuring and running networks in the organization, or who may want to gain better understanding of nuts-and-bolts of the networking. * "Working and Playing Well With Others: Linux Grows Up" by Dr. Greg Wettstein <g...@wind.enjellic.com>, Chief Techology Officer - Velocity, LLC http://www.enjellic.com With the Linux development team using a paradigm of 'You Snooze You Loose' to direct kernel releases it can become difficult to find time for entertainment. Don't miss this opportunity to hear a speaker who is world-renowned for bringing humor and a business world perspective to Linux and the free software movement. Dr. Wettstein will discuss strategies for enabling Linux to compete in heterogenous environments composed of legacy mainframe systems, dilapidated mini-computers and the ever present shadow of Windows and Novell Netware. So take a break from kernel patches and enjoy an hour of entertainment while the master of metaphor recants how he developed the bravery to stake his professional career on free software. * "The New Linux RAID Code" by Miguel de Icaza <mig...@nuclecu.unam.mx> Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares This talk is about the new Multiple Devices (MD) personalities written by Gadi Oxman, Ingo Molnar and Miguel de Icaza that adds RAID-1, RAID-4 and RAID-5 capabilities to the Linux kernel. * "Beyond ELF" by Eric Youngdale <e...@sub2317.jic.com> Senior Software Engineer. Platinum technology Inc. The ELF file format has become the defacto standard executable format for linux on all of the different architectures, and while it serves us well and offers a lot of flexibility, there are some shortcomings that were not anticipated by the original design committee. Discussions are currently underway about potential extensions which will serve to solve the problems in a backwards compatible manner. In the talk,I will discuss the nature of the problems, and the solutions that are being considered. Eric has been working with Linux since back in the 0.95b days, and over the years has worked in a number of different areas of the kernel. He doesn't have as much time for Linux as he used to, but he still manages to get a few things done inbetween extended bouts of goofing off. * "Linux Game Development" by Dave Taylor <d...@crack.com> crack.com This talk will offer a technical look at Linux's special features leveraged in game development so far and where Linux needs to go to continue its status as the most cost-effective advanced solution to stable game development. The talk will feature a sneak peak of Crack dot Com's forthcoming title, Golgotha, the first officially supported commercial Linux game. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMvjP2oQRll5MupLRAQH7/gQAjcD/3XUGIDgn+SpSIw7bp5ghLf6kC6v2 rctdxC/J5bapPaIQuLn/ydNJal6+1OiXZ9N9f/tyRB34aq+8v2c5dpT9UGi+v+7X +CFNeSUuSSBw5KQHP+qzs+Weo3JPvBKErzqon/i3nsnNCGmmUTAOoeMjQMtT76oh DLRxP1Dh8cE= =Vd6h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/liw/lars-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-annou...@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html
From: Linux Expo <i...@linuxexpo.org> Subject: CONFERENCE: The 3rd Annual Linux Expo Date: 1997/01/06 Message-ID: <pgpmoose.199701060430.12255@liw.clinet.fi> X-Deja-AN: 207969976 x-original-date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:46:37 -0500 followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc organization: ? x-auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.os.linux.announce newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Announcing Linux Expo '97 http://www.linuxexpo.org The Third annual Linux Expo Technical Conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 4th and 5th at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Expo has expanded dramatically this year. It will be even more valuable and entertaining than last year. We have over a dozen leading Linux developers who will be giving two full days of technical talks on various Linux topics. See the schedule below. We'll have an expanded vendor exhibition area, installation-fest, birds-of-a-feather sessions, food, and entertainment, including the first annual world famous Linux Bowl! On Saturday juggling tutorials, magic tricks and other valuable stress relieving skills will be demonstrated, and there will be a Linux "install-fest" where you can get help installing the latest distributions of Linux. All of this will be at no cost: yes like Linux itself the Expo is "Free". Of course you are going to have to figure out how to get to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina and arrange your accommodations once here, but entry to the Expo itself will not cost you a penny. The event will be funded by the generous contributions of the sponsors, commercial exhibitors, and those on corporate expense accounts who can afford the limited reserved seating in the auditorium from which the technical talks will be broadcast. The technical talks, which run all day Friday and Saturday, will be broadcast throughout the Expo area. The talks will be held in the Biotechnology Center's 170 seat auditorium. The limited seating in the auditorium is available on a first come, first served basis so reserve your seat today! The cost is $199, which covers both days. The exhibition area with the vendors, demos, food, entertainment, and the install-fest is free for all. Much more information on the Expo including info about traveling to, reserving seats at, or exhibiting at Linux Expo, is available at: http://www.linuxexpo.org This site will be updated regularly as we add events, exhibitors, and more to the Expo between now and April. This show is going to be extremely useful to anyone using Linux for professional or commercial applications as well as to casual users. It should be a cross between UNIX Expo (tm) and Woodstock. ;-) If you or your group would like to become involved with sponsoring an activity, presenting a demonstration, or teaching your favorite Linux trick, please contact us at: i...@linuxexpo.org Linux Expo PO Box 4325 Chapel Hill, NC, 27515 http://www.linuxexpo.org (919) 361-5841 (919) 361-9288 (fax) ======================================================================= Technical Talks * "MkLinux - Microkernel Linux" by Brett R. Halle <br...@apple.com> Apple Computer Discuss benefits and technology related to Linux hosted on the Mach microkernel. * "Next Generation SparcLinux, and the Free Software Development Model" by David S. Miller <da...@caip.rutgers.edu> What tomorrow will bring for the SparcLinux port, and why the current development model has taken us to where we are now and will take us to where we are going. * "The Debian Linux Distribution" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> An overview, explaining what is unique about the distribution. * "The Computer Graphics of Toy Story" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> Trace how the first 100% computer-animated film was made, from story concept to animation. Learn about the 19 computer languages used in the production, and the extensive use of Unix. * "Linux and Amateur Radio" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> How Radio Hams use Linux to communicate, design circuits, etc. * "Debugging malloc() problems with Electric Fence" by Bruce Perens <br...@pixar.com> The author of Electric Fence explains how to debug malloc() problems. * "Linux/Alpha---or How to Make Your Programs Fly" by David Mosberger-Tang <dav...@AZStarNet.COM> This talk focuses on how to optimize code for platforms running Linux on DEC Alpha processors. While the focus is on the Alpha architecture, many of the topics covered are applicable to any RISC processor and even to modern CISC CPUs that employ implementation techniques pioneered by RISCs. The first part of the talk covers performance analysis tools that are available under Linux. The second part covers specific techniques that often improve performance by an order of magnitude or more. The talk assumes some basic knowledge of computer architecture and programming in C. * "The Coda Filesystem" by Peter Braam <br...@cs.cmu.edu> Coda is a state of the art, freely available networked filesystem developed at CMU by the group of Satyanarayanan. It has advances features such as client side write-back caching, server replication, disconnected operation (laptops), bandwith adaptation, and solid security models. The Linux port is nearly complete (Nov 1996) and CMU is making further ports, and improving the performance of the system. * "The Linux Network File System" by Olaf Kirch <o...@monad.swb.de> Daveg Gmbh (soon Linux Support Team, Erlangen) The talk will cover some new development in the NFS area that will improve performance and add several new features, including support for NFS over TCP and alternative authentication flavors. I'm age 29, and have studied mathematics (aka chewing pencils) before becoming a full-time programmer. I've been working (playing?) with Linux since the days of Owen's MCC Interim Releases back in 1992, and I'm happy that I've finally found an employer who actually pays me for playing with my favorite toy. * "A Tour of the Linux Networking Stack" by Alan Cox <a...@cymru.net>, Techincal Director, CymruNet * "The ext2 Filesystem --- Design, Implementation, and the Future" by Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/home.html Theodore Ts'o has been involved with Linux since almost the very beginning. ``Be a Linux hacker, and you too can see the world and get free hardware.'' * "Linux and Legacy LANs" by Michael Callahan <m...@stelias.com> The talk will survey Linux's capabilities as a server for Mac and PC networks using legacy protocols. * "General Linux Security" by Alexander O. Yuriev <a...@bach.cis.temple.edu> This talk will discuss some threats to Linux security and how to deal with them. It will include information about real break-ins, the loopholes that were utilized by intruders, how the system administrators could have closed the loopholes and how the intruders were discovered. The topics covered will include Security Policies vs. Security Mechanisms, password security, UNIX security model, basics of cryptographic protection, management of priviledges and security of systems connected to networks. * "Networks 101 : IPv4 Family of Protocols and Infrastructure" by Alexander O. Yuriev <a...@bach.cis.temple.edu> The IPv4 protocol family is the foundation on which the other network technologies are built. Understanding what really happens at that level is mandatory for being able to make correct decisions on issues that system and network administrators face today, whether it is tuning the network to get an extra Kbit of a bandwidth, creating a better filter for a screening router or verifing a claim of a vendor that says "Only mail can go across our SuperGuardian/Deluxe firewall. Only port 25 is open to the outside world." This class is intended for the system or network administrators that are either responsible for configuring and running networks in the organization, or who may want to gain better understanding of nuts-and-bolts of the networking. * "Working and Playing Well With Others: Linux Grows Up" by Dr. Greg Wettstein <g...@wind.enjellic.com>, Chief Techology Officer - Velocity, LLC http://www.enjellic.com With the Linux development team using a paradigm of 'You Snooze You Loose' to direct kernel releases it can become difficult to find time for entertainment. Don't miss this opportunity to hear a speaker who is world-renowned for bringing humor and a business world perspective to Linux and the free software movement. Dr. Wettstein will discuss strategies for enabling Linux to compete in heterogenous environments composed of legacy mainframe systems, dilapidated mini-computers and the ever present shadow of Windows and Novell Netware. So take a break from kernel patches and enjoy an hour of entertainment while the master of metaphor recants how he developed the bravery to stake his professional career on free software. * "The Linux Kernel Memory Management" by Miguel de Icaza <mig...@nuclecu.unam.mx> Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares A talk on how the Linux kernel manages the system memory, the interface available to kernel code and how this is used trough the system as well as it's interface to the underlying hardware. * "Beyond ELF" by Eric Youngdale <e...@sub2317.jic.com> Senior Software Engineer. Platinum technology Inc. The ELF file format has become the defacto standard executable format for linux on all of the different architectures, and while it serves us well and offers a lot of flexibility, there are some shortcomings that were not anticipated by the original design committee. Discussions are currently underway about potential extensions which will serve to solve the problems in a backwards compatible manner. In the talk,I will discuss the nature of the problems, and the solutions that are being considered. Eric has been working with Linux since back in the 0.95b days, and over the years has worked in a number of different areas of the kernel. He doesn't have as much time for Linux as he used to, but he still manages to get a few things done inbetween extended bouts of goofing off. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMtBjlIQRll5MupLRAQEUowP/Rz3yrnPXt2LtNaP0rmcPq5lbvB/2kB5G rdAl8W4rq4JBFnwqSKaSzJA7PmCscM8OVkkw6C9Foi2LGsOfN/qUDQGhhhuIbMXg baD72M/0vTHqReeuV6OLQ1eNkcwrgZQTzisSz5jX2lzkMLaUPNHCoXaQz+tRCfNT VEUkwP98a9o= =TJW3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/liw/lars-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-annou...@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html