BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 2012-11-20 Devin Teske on FreeBSD [updated announcement]
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items, details further below: 2012-11-20 Devin Teske on FreeBSD [updated] Book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc. new group/meeting: Ubuntu Hour Berkeley Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org volunteering to help BALUG
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting TOMORROW Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2012-11-20 Devin Teske on FreeBSD [updated]
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2012-11-20 BALUG meeting, we are pleased to present: Devin Teske, FreeBSD[1] "src" developer - join us for an informal FreeBSD Q&A session, which may include demonstration(s).
Devin Teske is a FreeBSD "src" developer (opposed to "doc", "ports", etc. the "src" folk maintain the base operating system including the boot loader, kernel, and all base user land).
What does he do for the FreeBSD project?
o Maintains the boot loader menu o Maintain sysinstall, bsdinstall, bsdconfig, sysrc, and the install/configuration aspects in general
What does he use FreeBSD for? At his work, they use FreeBSD as the platform for a leading check processing system. Customers across the United States have used FreeBSD since 1995 to process paper payments in the United States. As early as 2008, our customers had a new choice of running our software on top of RedHat Enterprise Linux instead of FreeBSD. In the last year of 2011, Linux helped process $50 BILLION in payments for 2011, but FreeBSD in the same year processed $1.7 TRILLION in payments. FreeBSD is still a very large part of the U.S. economy in this way.
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 2012-11-20
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
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Book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
Book(s): Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, A, 3rd Edition see: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-November/004885.h...
CDs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have "door prizes".
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new group/meeting: Ubuntu Hour Berkeley
New to Berkeley - Ubuntu Hour Berkeley: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/berkeleylug/ic...
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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities) Drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
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