28 Feb
2003
28 Feb
'03
1:31 p.m.
March 11th, regular meeting: Linux Bootable Business Card Project
March 15th, special event: RevolutionOS
Details on both follow:
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Linux Bootable Business Card:
WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting
TOPIC: LNX-BBX (Linux Bootable Business Card)
SPEAKER: Nick Moffitt & ??
WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol
http://nblug.org/directions.cgi
http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html
WHEN: Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 @ 7:30PM
This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place.
The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a
CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a
business card. LNX-BBCs can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform
intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, and perform many
other tasks that we haven't yet imagined.
Nick Moffitt, of the BBC project, will be talking about the build system
they use to create the images. He'll be bringing along another person
from the project that will be talking about the BBC itself from a user
perspective.
http://lnx-bbc.org/
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REVOLUTION OS screening:
WHAT: NBLUG Special Event
TOPIC: REVOLUTION OS Screening
WHERE: Sonoma State Campus Schulz Info Center, Room 2015
WHEN: Saturday, March 15th, 2003 @ 2:00PM
This is a Special Event in an unusual location. This is the same building
as our InstallFests, but in a room on the second floor. Sorry, but no food
allowed.
The movie runs for about an hour and a half, and we plan to start it right
at 2:00PM, so plan to show up around 1:40PM.
We'll be showing this on a large projection television; we were hoping to
show the special edition DVD, but it's not shipping until a week after our
screening.
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against
the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the
Open Source movement.
On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said "Linux is a cancer
that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it
touches."
Microsoft fears GNU/Linux, and rightly so. GNU/Linux and the Open
Source & Free Software movements arguably represent the greatest threat
to Microsoft's way of life. Shot in cinemascope on 35mm film in Silicon
Valley, REVOLUTION OS tracks down the key movers and shakers behind
Linux, and finds out how and why Linux became such a potent threat.
REVOLUTION OS features interviews with Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman,
Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry
Augustin, Frank Hecker, and Rob Malda. To view the trailer or the first
eight minutes go to the ifilm website for REVOLUTION OS.
http://www.revolution-os.com/
--
Eric Eisenhart
NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life
The North Bay Linux Users Group
http://nblug.org/
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