-->> May Meeting Special Announcement

[guybz at moonlet.checker.com (Guy W. Bzibziak)]

Meeting Topic: Linus Gets Ported To Boston!

		"Linux: Past Present and Future" 

On May 17th, at 7 P.M. in room 100 of MIT's building 26, Linus Torvalds,
chief architect of the Linux operating system, will be giving a talk
"Linux: Past Present and Future".  The talk is free, and no reservations
are necessary. 

Who:    Boston Computer Society Linux/Unix User's Group
Date:   17 May 1995, Wednesday
Time:   7:00 pm.
Place:  MIT, Building 26, Room 100 (the big auditorium).
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How to get there:
        By Car: Ames Street runs between 414 Main Street and 130
        Memorial Drive. Near M.I.T. Coop & Legal Seafood.

        By MBTA: Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. Walk past MIT Coop
        & Legal Seafood, turn left onto Ames St., walking towards the
        Charles River. Building 66 [25 Ames St.] will be on your right
        near the bend in the road (the building is triangular or wedge shaped
        when you're standing in front of it). 

>>>>	Go in to Building 66, walk past where we have our usual meeting
>>>>	room, and follow the corridor (don't worry, there WILL be signs
>>>>	pointing the way!)

The talk, jointly sponsored by The Boston Computer Society, Digital
Equipment Corporation, MIT, and the Greater New Hampshire Linux User's
Group leverages offthe presence of Mr. Torvalds in the United States due
to a Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society (DECUS) convention in
Washington D.C. in May.  At the DECUS convention there will be a day of
seminars on Linux, and a half-day tutorial on the internals of the kernel. 

Mr. Torvalds is expected to talk about why he started Linux, present
plans to expand the functionality of the operating system, the various
ports of Linux to different hardware architectures, and future directions
of Linux.  Then he will open up the talk to questions from the audience.

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.  From
its inception less than three years ago, it was developed over the
Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen
each other, and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems. 
The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who
wants it.  This is probably the largest development project ever
accomplished using the Internet. 

	For more information on this talk, please see the URL:

>>>>  http://www.bcs.org/bcs/Calendar/May95/May_1995_detailed_3.html

	or call the BCS Waltham Office at (617)290-5700.

	For more information on the DECUS event, please see URL:

>>>>  http://www.decus.org/decus/events/dc/dc-index.html

	or call the DECUS office at 1-800-DECUS55.



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