[Wylug-discuss] Next Meet: Why Linux doesn't work on your laptop, and what to do about it by Matthew Garrett

[John Leach]

Hi all,

Matthew Garrett has agreed to do a talk at the December WYLUG meeting.
I'm not sure of all the other details (I'm assuming they'll be following
soon in an announce-list post) but since I know about the talk I thought
I'd send what I could along.

TITLE: "Why Linux doesn't work on your laptop, and what to do about it"

BLURB: "Laptops contain large quantities of weird hardware made by
companies you've never heard of and assembled together with firmware
written by a contractor in Taiwan. How can Linux deal with all this
variation, and how can you help it work better?"


Matthew has been a Debian developer since 2002.  He is currently the
leader of the laptop team at Ubuntu and is also a member of Ubuntu's
Core Development team and sits on their Technical Board.

While he focuses mostly on laptop issues these days, in the past he has
worked porting Debian to the NetBSD kernel on various architectures;
represented Debian on the Gnome advisory board; and was a lead developer
on the Dasher project (an accessibility application).

His blog can be found here: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/ 


Talks usually take place at Leeds University's Stoner Building, open for
coffee tea + biscuits from 18:30.  The December meetings usually involve
going somewhere for food afterwards, but I'm not sure if anything has
been arranged yet (I think we're probably all looking to Dave on this by
default but he's been very busy of late).  Again, if anything has been
arranged I'm sure more details will follow soon.  If not, pub as usual I
guess :)

John.