~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linux 2005 Conference & Tutorials, Swansea, Thur 4th - Sun 7th August ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Full details at http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/

* Early-bird discount is available only until Thursday 30th June *

The event begins with a choice of tutorials on Thursday. Then the 2-track 3-day conference runs from Friday to Sunday.

Tutorials on Thursday 4th August --------------------------------

Full Day: Advanced Networking Configuration - Steve Whitehouse, Dave Miller, Jamal Hadi Salim and Patrick Caulfield

Half-Day: Advanced Shell Skills, using Zsh - Sven Guckes and Julius Plenz

Half-day: Advanced Editing, using Vim - Sven Guckes and Julius Plenz

Provisional Conference Programme: Friday 5th August - Sunday 7th August -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Applications * Music Recording, Production and Dist'n with Free Software - Ole Aamot * Remixing the Open Source radio show with LUGRadio - Jono Bacon * Software Defined Radio and GNU Radio - Bdale Garbee - HP / Debian * Video and Linux - Torsten Spindler - ETH Zurich * The coming geodata revolution - Steve Coast - xrefer.com * A Python Framework for Rapid Application Development - Katherine Goodwin and David Chan - Clockwork Software Systems * Managing Biomedical Images and Knowledge by Flickr Web Services - Siu-wai Leung - University of Edinburgh * A New Deal in Payroll Software using GNU/Linux and Python - John Pinner - Clockwork Software Systems * Mono and ASP.NET - Gonzalo Paniagua Javier - Novell * Exchange for Unix - myth or reality? - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Case Studies * A large linux deployment in education - Mike Banahan - Cutter Project * e-Government Internet - Chris Smith - netFluid Technology * Bringing F/L/OSS to the UK Gov't - Mark Taylor - Open Source Consortium

Desktop * FreeNX - Virtualization of the Desktop - Fabian Franz - Univ of Karlsruhe * Hacking OpenOffice.org 2.0 - Michael Meeks - Novell * Cutting-edge Desktop-related Development Projects - Michael Meeks, Novell * Introduction to the GNUstep Project - Nicolas Roard

Embedded Systems * Skyguard's Skyminder - the Free Software Community's GSM / GPS phone! - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Filesystems * UnionFS: Knoppix (Re)writable - Fabian Franz - University of Karlsruhe

Kernel * Linux and ACPI - power management - Matthew Garrett - Univ of Cambridge * The Linux Development Philosophy and Corporate Contributions - Christoph Hellwig - LST e.V. * Diagnosing System Hangs with lkcd & dprobes - Richard J Moore - IBM * Adopting a driver - from fixing typos to breaking thousands of machines worldwide - Matthew Wilcox - Hewlett Packard

Networking and Security * Keynote - Dave Miller - Red Hat * Network Scheduling - Jamal Hadi Salim * Exploit Mitigation Techniques - Tom Cosgrove

Productivity * Vim Feature Show - Sven Guckes * Zsh rules! - Sven Guckes

Systems Administration * Preseeding Debian GNU/Linux for automated installations - Philip Hands * FAI - the Fully Automatic Installation - Thomas Lange - Univ of Cologne * Jigdo - Spreading the load of CD/DVD downloads - Steve McIntyre - Debian

Virtualisation * Xen 3.0 & the Art of Virtualization - Ian Pratt - XenSource / Cambridge * Xen: Experiences & performance measurements - Ruediger Berlich - Karlsruhe * openMosix - Kris Buytaert * Linux on the POWER5 processor - Nigel Griffiths - IBM

If you book on or before Thursday 30th June you can take advantage of the Early Bird rates e.g. just 40 pounds for the 3-day conference (50% discount) or just 10 pounds for students. (If you're not already a UKUUG member, you'll need to add the membership fee to this - details on website.)

There are also still opportunities for sponsors and exhibitors: contact office@ukuug.org for details.

Web: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/ Email: office@ukuug.org Tel: +44 1763 273 475

Event sponsored by Red Hat, Astaro Internet Security and i.t.wales.