In putting together a Linux system for Small Office / Home Office users, a number of thing need to be covered slightly differently from the way that Linux has evolved. The choices aren't always made for technical reasons...
Desktop Linux. Two simple words that, like the phrase "Military Intelligence", are considered to be a tired, tired joke: completely incompatible. What is it that gives that impression, and how can the perception be changed?
Speaker: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Sunday 3rd October 2004 6.30pm, Comlab: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html (entrance from the door by the car park)
Followed by a visit to the Lamb and Flag.
************************************************************** Creative Commons UK goes live! Professor Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law School 12-2pm Monday 4 October 2004 Edward Lewis Theatre, Windeyer Building, UCL, London. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Brown/ccuk-flyer.pdf ************************************************************** LinuxWorld next Wednesday and Thursday at London Olympia http://www.linuxexpouk.co.uk/ Weds eve: Pizza, 7.30pm (contact brian at uklinux.net, GBP 15) Thurs eve: Lonix http://www.lonix.org.uk/cgi-bin/Lonix?CODE=searchMeeting&CURRENT=YES ************************************************************** Building an Enterprise Logging Infrastructure - Tina Bird Thursday, 14 October 2004, Marlborough Hotel, London, WC1 http://www.ukuug.org/events/logging-2004/ ************************************************************** Apple conference (free) Mon 1st November 2004, London http://www.ukuug.org/events/ [TBA] ************************************************************** UK LISA 2005 - Security & Networking. 24-25 February, Birmingham (Preceded by Exim conference 23-24 Feb, provisional) http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/ ************************************************************** FOSDEM 2005 (free) http://www.fosdem.org/ 26-27 February, Brussels ************************************************************** Linux 2005 http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/ Thurs 4th August - Sunday 7th August, Swansea. **************************************************************