[Plug] Posting Linux Speaker at Drexel October 21 1999

["Pat McMichael" <pat.mcmichael@storm.ie>]

Avenue of the Technology---Brown Bag Lunch Series
Presents John ?maddog? Hall

Open to Public and
all Philadelphia Area
Computer Science and Linux (interested)

Linux Wizard to speak --- October 21 1999
1:00 PM Drexel University Nesbitt College
 Stein Auditorium at 33rd and Market Streets
(Local Area University CS departments invited)

Topic: From Hell to Eternity or "We never had it so good".

So you "suffer" from only having 32 Megabytes of main memory in your
PC? Your disk drive is so small it can only hold 15 or twenty MPEG-3
songs? Your graphics card is so old that it only does 1024x768 at
256 colors? You gripe to your parents because your 100 MHZ pentium
system will only allow you to recompile your computer project fifteen or
twenty times a day?

Listen as a Drexel Alumni speaks of the days before Computer Science,
in the days of "Computer Black Magic", when (and if) you spoke of a
Megabyte of main memory, it cost over a hundred thousand dollars (and
that was when a hundred thousand dollars meant something). The days
when getting one compile a day meant that you were doing well.

Hear how modern day PCs and the Linux Operating System will
revolutionize the teaching of computer science.  Send email for Jon  Bio
Pat.mcmichael@storm.ie or visit the www.linux.org web site.

Jon "maddog" Hall
Executive Director, Linux International
Director of Linux Evangelism, VA Linux Systems

Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International
(www.li.org), a non-profit vendor organization dedicated to the promotion
of the Linux Operating System. His salary is graciously paid by VA Linux
Systems (www.valinux.com), where he holds the title of "Director of Linux
Evangelism".

Jon is active in promoting the Linux operating system. Linux is a freely
distributable re-implementation of the UNIX operating system

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus
Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Linux is an
independent POSIX implementation and includes true multitasking, virtual
memory, shared libraries, demand loading, proper memory management, TCP/IP
networking, and other features consistent with Unix-type systems. Developed
under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely
available to everyone.




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