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March 2003 General Meeting
General Meeting
Location:Auditorium
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 pm
Topic: Tips, Tools & Tricks to Be Successful with Linux
Speaker: Kevin Dalyd, BFA Datasystems, www.bfacolor.com
Topics.

  1. What Linux Is (Advantages,Misconceptions of Linux).
  2. What Linux is not (Problems, downside).
  3. Open Source Concepts / Licences & Culture.
  4. Linux As A Server:
    • Apache
      • ,
    • Zope
      • ,
    • Firebird
      • ,
    • Interbase
      • ,
    • MySq
      • l,
    • Postgres
      • ,
    • PHP
      • ,
    • Java
      • ,
    • Webmin
  5. Linux As A Desktop:
    • Open Office
      • ,
    • Evolution
      • ,
    • Wine
      • ,
    • GIMP
      • ,
    • KDE
      • ,
    • GNOME
      • ,
    • Crossover Office
  6. Linux In The Enterprise:
    • LDAP
      • ,
    • SAMBA
      • ,
    • PostFix
      • ,
    • Linux Terminal Project
      • .
  7. Common Linux "Trips"
  8. Sources Of Information about Linux.
Demos will be used when appropriate. Kevin woud like to demonstrate a simple terminal server. Is it possible to have some people bring their notebooks.

Kevin Dalyd is a principal at BFA Dataystems, a consuling company specializing in enterprise integeration and software development. Kevin has extensive experiance with Visual Basic, Delphi, Java as well as OS/2, Solaris, Windows and Linux.

Kevin has worked with Linux for the last 2 years and has acheived SAIR Linux Certification.

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