On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:11:38 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > For our first 'official' meeting of the year, Tue 8 Feb 2005, I've > secured the services of visiting Michael Kerrisk, who will be presenting > a talk on the History of Unix and Linux. > > > 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
My guess is that we'll fill two hours easily with this guy, and no matter how interesting Nick and Jim might be, I won't have the endurance to sit through a second or third topic. I'd like to hear Nick and Jim when I'm able to take it all in. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
