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LOCAL: SPECIAL EVENT !! Saturday,8/26/96 Computer Workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Aug 23 09:45:37 1995
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:43:55 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Richard Cramer <rwc@cscfx.sytex.com>
Subject: LOCAL: SPECIAL EVENT !! Saturday,8/26/96 Computer Workshop
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Please release for immediate distribution the attached announcement
of a Installation Workshop for the new Red Hat Commercial Linux Release
Version 2.0 for this Saturday, August 26, 1995 in Northern Virginia,
at the Northern Virginia Community College - 8333 Little River Turnpike,
Annandale, VA.
Thanks,
Dick
SPECIAL EVENT ! SPECIAL EVENT ! SPECIAL EVENT !
WHAT: Computer Workshop for Installation of Linux,
Red Hat Commercial Software Distribution Version 2.0
Co-sponsored by Sytex Access Ltd, and Red Hat
Software, Inc.
WHEN: Saturday, August 26, 1995 - 10:00AM to 4:00PM
WHERE: Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike (Rt. 236) Annandale, VA
Community Cultural Center, Room: Forum
Enter parking lot in front of Community Center from
Wakefield Chapel Road. Wakefield Chapel Road inter-
sects with Little River TurnPike, 1 mile West of the
495 Capital Beltway Exit-6 exchange.
COST: FREE !!!!
Directions: For those of you that need special directions or other
information please email Richard Cramer, Sytex
Access Ltd., rcramer@sytex.net or phone during
normal business hours, 703.425.2515.
Misc: Liberal parking will be allowed in front of the
NVCC Community Center, yellow striped curve, for
unloading and loading computers only! After
unloading computer please park in adjacent lot.
LINUX INSTALLATION EVENT:
This is a unique event and the first of its type that I am aware of. We
will not just talk about how to install this software release, but we will
show you how on your computer. Yes, that's right, your computer.
Marc Ewing, President and Erik Troan of Red Hat Software, Inc. will be leading
the workshop.
If you would like to learn how to install and configure the latest Red Hat
release on your computer all you have to do is bring it along. We request
that you have a CD-ROM drive or an ethernet network card installed in your
computer configured ready to go. Yes, I am sorry, but you must bring your
own monitor! (Please have your documentation available for the video card
and monitor to speed X window installation)
We will have a limited number of CD-ROM drives and ethernet cards available
to lend for those who don't have them, but this will slow the process so we
urge everyone to come prepared with there computer properly configured.
Red Hat Linux is the most advanced Linux distribution available today, and
this is the latest edition of Red Hat Commercial Linux, the Version 2.0 release.
Here are some details on the new release to wet your appetite:
1) fully ELF based
2) both *graphical* and text installations
3) install via CD, NFS, or FTP
4) PCMCIA install support - install on a laptop via NFS or FTP!
5) easier-than-ever (tm) networking with included httpd and gopher servers
6) new package system -- RPM -- which:
a) uses *pristine* sources, so you can now see what the Red
Hat folks broke when they compiled it
b) faster querying options
c) a really nifty X admin tool that will be released any day now!
7) Lots of new software:
XFree86 3.1.2
libc 5.0.9
gcc 2.7.0
Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0
Python 1.2
There's plenty of other cool stuff included - but you have to come to find
out what!!
This is a fully functional system, which Red Hat has used for all development,
on a number of different machines, every day. What we would like from the
participants of this workshop, is feed back on the ease of installation, and
the look and feel of the installation system which we would like to test on
a wide range of hardware configurations.
There is a mailing list for discussion of the beta. You can subscribe
by sending mail to listproc@redhat.com with the line
subscribe beta-list Firstname Lastname
in the body of the message.
Red Hat will be supporting this release via the list server. We will
also announce at the workshop official FTP sites for future Red Hat
software releases.
RED HAT SOFTWARE INC:
Red Hat Software, Inc. are the developers of the Red Hat Commercial Linux
distribution that is being adopted by increasing numbers of leading Linux
vendors from Caldera, Digital Equipment Company, Pacific Hi-Tech,
Infomagic, Sytex Access Ltd., Workgroup Solutions, and Yggdrasil.
Applications and Books for Sale:
Red Hat Software, Inc, is also the publisher of the ACC PC Unix and Linux
catalog and we will be offering a wide range of the most popular Linux
Applications and Books available in our catalog at significant discounts to
the attendees.
Door Prizes:
There will be more than a dozen door prices given away on a random basis to
attendees including copies of the most recent (July '95) Dr Linux, and the
brand-new Linux Library CD, and other cool prizes.
See you there!
Richard Cramer, President - Sytex Access Ltd.
703-425-2515
rcramer@sytex.net
Mark Ewing, Bob Young, Erik Troan and all the gang from Red Hat Software Inc.
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Richard Cramer rcramer@sytex.net Phone: 703-425-2515
President Fax: 703-425-4585
Sytex Access Ltd. POB 2385, Fairfax, VA 22031-0385
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