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LOCAL: July 19th SLLUG Meeting (OpenGL Night!!!)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jul 14 23:37:16 1995

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 17:44:10 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu

X-Mn-Key: announce

From: Marc Christensen <Marc.Christensen@m.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: LOCAL: July 19th SLLUG Meeting (OpenGL Night!!!)
Keywords: LOCAL users, meeting, Linux
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc

        
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                    The Salt Lake Linux Users Group

          The July 1995 SLLUG general meeting will be:

        Date:           Wednesday, July 19, 1995
        Time:           7:00pm ~ 9:00pm
        Place:          EMCB (Engineering Mines Building) Room 104
                        University of Utah Campus
                        (Map Available via the SLLUG WWW Server)
                        http://www.sllug.org/club/announcement.html


    Agenda:
    ^^^^^^^
	* Introduction

	* Whats new in Linux

	  - Current changes in the Linux Kernel
	     o 1.3.x and pppd
             o 1.3.7+ and elf

	  - Announcements of interest to Linux Community
	    (mostly taken from c.o.l.a.)

	  - Summary of linux-security announcements

        * Software Package Demonstration

	  Highlight 'o' the evening!!!!!!
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	    Join us for a look at two great implementations
	    of OpenGL released for the Linux OS and also
	    a look at Mesa - a free implementation of an OpenGL
            like API.

	    For those of you who haven't heard of OpenGL:

	    From SGI "OpenGL is the premier environment for developing 2D
	              and 3D graphics applications. The OpenGL application
                      programming interface (API) is a vendor neutral,
                      multiplatform industry standard."

		Be sure to check out the OpenGL Center at:
		http://www.sgi.com/Technology/OpenGL


        * Give-Aways (include but may not be limited to):

		      * A couple of O'Reilly Linux books
		      * 2 copies of XessLite (the spredsheet from last
			meeting's product demonstration!) 
		      * Pacific HiTech, Inc.
		      * Caldera Inc.

	* SLLUG Forum

	  - Give your input
	  - Ask questions
	  - Tell us what hardware you toasted while testing that
	    new driver last week. 
	  - General discussion...


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	      Special thanks go to (in alphabetical order):

			- Applied Information Systems, Inc.
			- Caldera Inc.
                        - IntleNet
			- Metro Link Inc.
                        - Pacific HiTech
			- Portable Graphics, Inc.
                        - U of U CS Department
			- Universal Systems Inc.
			- Various Volunteers

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http://www.sllug.org
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general computer users dedicated to the use and development of Linux - a
free implementation of UN*X for the Intel 386, 486, Pentium and ALPHA class
processors.  Projects are also in progress to support other processors.

	Linux is now more stable than many commercial versions of Un*x!! 
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