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

[Marc Lijour]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 16:23, Herb Richter wrote:
> 	This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held
> 	Tues Oct 25th., at Seneca College.
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> ...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
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> Date:		Tue, Oct 25th,
> Time:		7 - 10pm
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> 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.
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> 		2) various.
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> 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

Mandriva is the new name for Mandrake (merged with Connectiva and Lycoris).
The Mandrake name rights was claimed by the authors of a (famous) cartoon 
character.


Thanks.
> 		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 ...
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> 		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
> 	http://PartsAndService.ca
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