Topics of the talk are as follows. It runs for about 75 mins.
Unix
In the beginning Early days at Bell Labs Unix Develops (Editions) Unix is Free Berkeley and BSD System V The 1980s Standardization
Linux
The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation The Linux Kernel An Aside: the Modern BSDs Linux Today (ports, distributors) Why is Linux Popular?
Michael Kerrisk started programming in 1978 on a PDP-11 using FORTRAN 4 and assembler, and has been using and programming on Unix since 1987. He is a follower of, and sometime contributor to, the Austin group (the standards body for Unix), is an occasional submitter of small patches to the Linux kernel, and can sometimes be found answering Unix programming questions on Usenet. He has been a technical reviewer of several books on Unix and Linux programming, and is himself nearing completion of a book on Linux system programming. In November 2004, after several years as a contributor, he assumed maintainership of sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Linux manual pages. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Psychology, both from the University of Canterbury, and has worked as a software engineer and architect, university teacher, and commercial technical trainer. Originally from Christchurch, he has lived for the past few years in Munich, Germany, the home of the first large city administration in the world to migrate its desktop computer systems from Windows to Linux. Of course, he wrote this blurb.
Because of the length of his presentation, and the potential for lots of spin-off discussions, I'm currently proposing that both my and Nick's planned topics be suspended until a leter meeting.
Comments, please :-)
-jim
