[Fife Linux Users Group] FW: [BCS-Edin] Linux and OSS in Informatics

[John A Thomson of Roundtrip Solutions]

Is anyone going along to the EdLug meeting tonight?


Many thanks and regards
 
John A Thomson 
 
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: standrews-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:standrews-
>>>bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John A Thomson of Roundtrip
>>>Solutions
>>>Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 7:58 PM
>>>To: 'The Fife.LUG - Open Your Mind to Opensource'
>>>Subject: [Fife Linux Users Group] FW: [BCS-Edin] Linux and OSS in
>>>Informatics
>>>
>>>Thought you guys may be interested in this one... see below.
>>>
>>>
>>>Many thanks and regards
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>
>>>Simon Wilkinson and Stephen Quinney will be talking in next week's
>>>Edlug
>>>presentation about the School  of Informatics at the University of
>>>Edinburgh's use of Linux and  other free software to provide a
>>>computing
>>>infrastructure for all of  our staff and students.
>>>
>>>You can find a more formal abstract at
>>>http://scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Edlug-2007-10-04
>>>
>>>Edlug meetings are held at
>>>http://scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Edinburgh_Training_and_Conference_Venue
>>>
>>>In summary, this is about using open source components to manage a
>>>system of
>>>around 1500 machines, supporting over four thousand accounts.
>>>The supported desktop system is entirely Linux based, as are most
>>>servers.
>>>
>>>The breadth of the topic means that this  will be a fairly high level
>>>overview, but there will be plenty of pointers for  people interested
>>>in
>>>finding out more.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Dan Shearer
>>>dan at shearer.org
>>>
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