The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding a hands-on demonstration of Linux and other open source software, and giving out a limited number of free software discs as part of international "Software Freeom Day"
Saturday September 18, 2010 4:00pm - 7:00pm At the Davis Food Co-Op's demo station (near the meat department) Davis Food Co-Op 620 G Street Davis, California 95616 For more about this event, and Software Freedom Day, visit: http://www.lugod.org/sfd/ ====================================================================== Additionally, LUGOD's next meeting takes place the following Monday: Monday September 20, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm The meeting will be held at: Explorit Nature Center (aka Explorit's Mace Ranch Facility) 3141 5th Street Davis, California 95616 Presentation: "Haiku" operating system with Scott McCreary and Urias McCullough of the Haiku Project Haiku is a project to create an open source operating system compatible with BeOS. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. Its GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design and its API was written in C++ for ease of programming. Though it has POSIX compatibility and access to a command-line interface through Bash, internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system. Haiku aims to be compatible with BeOS at both the source and binary level, allowing software written and compiled for BeOS to compile and run without modification on Haiku. For more details on this meeting, visit: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/ For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/ About LUGOD: The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source and Free Software. Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public. Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/ -- Bill Kendrick [email protected] Public Relations Officer Linux Users' Group of Davis http://www.lugod.org/ (Your address: [email protected] ) _______________________________________________ vox-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-announce
