Fort Wayne Linux Users' Group Meeting
September 17: Canterbury High School, Computer lab, 7:00 PM.
Meeting Info
Main Presentation
Linux Wherever You Want It, by Brian Proffitt.
Right now Linux is seen by the mainstream media as a fringe server- or desktop-oriented operating system. In reality, Linux users know differently. Linux's most powerful features, its openness and its modularity, have put it on more platforms than any other operating system.
This talk covers why Linux is so successful as a multi-platform OS, from the embedded space with Moblin to the supercomputer space with Red Hat and SUSE Linux. It will also examine the challenges Linux faces for interoperability, and what the community and the Linux Foundation have been doing to address those challenges.
Brian Proffitt is Community Manager for the Linux Foundation, with responsibility for content management for Linux.com, the Linux Developer Network, and the LF Video site. He is a long-time advocate of the Linux operating system, having written multiple books and hundreds of articles on how to work with Linux.
Date, Time and Location
We are meeting on September 17, 7:00 PM at ![[WWW]](/wiki/rsgrey/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
Canterbury High School, in the computer lab. The presentations take about an hour, and people generally hang around afterwards to chat.
If you are coming from outside Fort Wayne, here's a Google Map and a Yahoo! Map and driving directions that will lead you to the general area.
Parking is available in the rear parking lot - enter the back doors, go straight to the end of the hall, turn right, then left, go past the office, then left. The Computer lab is straight ahead across the student commons.
