On Tue, January 18, 2005 3:11 pm, Jim Cheetham said: > 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.
thats kool what was i talking on anyway? > > Comments, please :-) > > -jim >
