NewTlug Meetings:2006-04-25

From GTALUG

This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held Tues April 25th., 7:00pm at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, during the LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Conference & Expo

Topic:

The What, Why and How of Linux Distributions:

1) What is a Distribution?

2) Why there are so many diverse Linux distributions and how users benefit from the choice.

3) How To Choose One Linux Distribution Over Another:

A number of local power users will discuss a few of the more prominent distributions and explain why they chose one over another.

Scheduled Distribution discussion and speakers are:

- Debian and Knoppix - Colin McGregor

- Fedora - Paul Mora

- Mandriva - Evan Leibovitch

- PCLinuxOS and SimplyMEPIS - Geoff Mitchell

- Ubuntu - David J Patrick

Time, Date and Location:

Date: April 25, 2006 Time: 7:00 to 10:00pm

Room: 201D

LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Conference & Expo April 24-26, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre see <http://lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca/>

If you haven't already, you have until *April 23* to claim your *free* pass to the tradeshow: <https://www.exporeg.com/lwnw/>