From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: LOCAL: Bruce Perens, leader of Debian, to speak at LXNY meeting.
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:55:31 GMT
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Bruce Perens, leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Project, will be at
Mariella's Pizza at 225 West 57-th Street in New York City at 6:30 pm on
January 25, 1997.  Mariella's is near to Coliseum Books, and across the
street from the Duane Reade drugstore.  Columbus Circle is near by.  For
those who dare to bring a car into Manhattan, somewhere in the West
Fifties is a municipal parking lot. 

Bruce will meet with as many as possible GNU/Linux/Unix/Other hackers,
users, and enthusiasts.  Those who have never seen Linux in action are
also warmly invited to attend.  Skeptics about the possibility of anarchy
as a mode of production are particularly welcome. 

If possible rsvps from those intending to come should be sent to
jays@panix.com as soon as possible, so that we have some idea of how many
to expect.  But come, even if you do not send an rsvp.  If you are late
that is all right too.



                     What is Debian GNU/Linux?

			Linux Distributions
Linux is a non-commercial variant of Unix, developed by volunteers all
over the world.  Linux proper is an operating system kernel, not an
environment.  The next layer around the kernel is called a distribution.
The distribution provides a system:  installation/bootstrapping, assign-
ment of pathnames to files, coordination of packages, e.g., with shared
library (matching versions).  There are a number of base distributions
(my terminology), including:  Yggdrasil, Unifix, Tamu, SLS, Slackware,
Red Hat, MCC, Linux-FT, Debian, Craftworks.  Some of these are sold
directly, some are sold by third party distribution companies such as
Springer Verlag, Linux Systems Labs, InfoMagic and iConnect, and some
are repackaged further, often combined with other packages and services,
e.g., Caldera and WGS. 

			The Debian Project
The Debian Project, presently under the leadership of Bruce Perens, is,
like Linux itself, a non-commercial worldwide development effort.
Debian GNU/Linux is "a complete Unix-compatible operating system".
Debian is famous for developing a method for checking the dependencies
among its diverse packages and for providing a means to upgrade the
system selectively and "in place".  The distribution is available for
free from Debian and many mirror sites, see
http://www.debian.org for further details, including a list of companies
providing the distribution (e.g., on CD-ROM).



Michael Smith, mesmith@panix.com
Jay Sulzberger, jays@panix.com
The Interim Committee for Visitors of Linux New York.
LXNY is Linux New York, New York's Linux organization.

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