Oct 25th., NewTLUG meeting - 1) The new Mandriva 2) new project(s) for NewTLUG

[Herb Richter]

	This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held
	Tues Oct 25th., at Seneca College.

...please note that the room is different than our usual room.
   more info below...
...drivers; please note the change of status of the one outdoor
   parking lot - see "Parking:" below

Date:		Tue, Oct 25th,
Time:		7 - 10pm

Presenters:	1) Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>
		Evan has been a passionate and effective advocate of all
		things Linux for many years including: speaking at
		conferences around the world, president of the Linux
		Professional Institute, writer for Linux Journal and
		other magazines and especially important for us, founder
		of NewTLUG.

		2) various.

Topics:  	1) The new Mandriva.
		Mandriva is the company which develops Linux-Mandrake:
		the strong graphical Linux Operating System, famous for
		being easy to install and ready to use.
		http://frontal1.mandriva.com/en/community/users/about_mandriva_linux

		2a) Discussion of a project that may be of interest to
		NewTLUG members:  to compile a list or cross reference of
		utilities and features that differ between distributions
		i.e. what would "lokkit" in Redhat be in Debian, in SUSE,
		in Mandrake etc; or ntsysv, rpm, up2date, kudzu ...

		2b) What would NewTLUG collectively like to see happen at
		LinuxWorld with user group activities.  Among other
		things, we may have the opportunity to have our April '06
		meeting at the conference on the Tuesday evening.

Location:       Room S1206 Stephen E. Quinlan building (SEQ) - Seneca at York
		Building number 40 on the map:
		http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/KeeleMasterMap.pdf
		The Seneca at York Campus, which is physically located in the
		south east part of York University, at Keele/Steeles.

Directions:	For detailed directions and info on public transit, please
		see:	http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~scs/seneca-directions.html
		note: parking lot "HH" is no longer available to visitors

Parking:        Paid parking is available on campus (about: $8).
		Building #84 on the map above is a close-by parking
		garage. - note #87 the parking lot is no longer for
		visitors so PLEASE use the parking garage (#84)

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	Herb Richter  <hgr-FjoMob2a1F7QT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
	Richter Equipment, Toronto, Ontario
	http://PartsAndService.com
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