This Sunday's meeting will be held in the Danson Room at Trinity College (the same room as we have used before) and NOT in Comlab.
It'll start at 6.30pm as usual. The entrance to Trinity College is through a small door just to the right of the large gates half-way along Broad Street. If you're late, ask the porter for directions to the room.
The speaker is Charlie Brady and the topic is E-Smith.
The e-smith server and gateway is a specialised Linux distribution suitable for small-to-medium enterprises or home networks. It provides Internet gateway functions; file and print sharing; mail, web and FTP servers; and a heap of other useful features. Best of all, it's both easy to administer (via a web interface) *and* extremely customisable and extensible by the more experienced Linux user. This presentation will introduce the e-smith server and gateway system and explore some of the features that make it appealing to novice and experienced users alike.
Charlie Brady is Lead Software Developer at e-smith, inc. He's been contributing design ideas and code to the e-smith software project since soon after the initial e-smith software release announcement on Freshmeat. You can read about some of this early work (which has an Oxford connection) at http://www.caa.org.au/groups/IT/dili/ . He is currently touring the UK with YAACT (yet another Australian cricket team).
(Direct any queries about the arrangements to events@oxlug.org)
Alasdair