NewTlug Meetings:2005-10-25

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NewTLUG meetings > Tuesday October 25th 1) The new Mandriva 2) new project(s) for NewTLUG

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@telly.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@York Building number 40 on the map: http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/KeeleMasterMap.pdf The Seneca@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) 

       Herb Richter  <hgr@buynet.com>
       Richter Equipment, Toronto, Ontario
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