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Issue 30
  February 2007    

 

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UKUUG Spring 2007 'Kerberos' Tutorial & 'Virtualisation' Conference

Manchester Conference Centre 19th - 21st March 2007

UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - is a non-profit organization and technical forum for the advocacy of open systems, particularly Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the promotion of free and open-source software, and the advancement of open programming standards and networking protocols.

Full information on conference talks, speakers, venue, costs etc. is available together with an on-line booking form at: http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007

With the major theme being virtualisation the conference include major talks on:

* Xensource by Ian Pratt and others
* Solaris Logical Domains & Zones by Sun
* Transitive Technologies
* Google
* An afternoon of Uses and Experiences of virtualisation & how it solved contributors' problems

And talks on :

* Perl 6 by Jonathon Worthington
* System Configuration by Paul Anderson
* Svk by its author Chia-Liang Kao
* Secure Filesystems with AFS
* FreeBSD by Poul Henning-Kamp & Robert Watson

With the core of the conference being a full afternoon session on virtualisation, it will focus on experiences and direct benefits including talks by users & developers of virtualisation tools.

The conference dinner, sponsored by Google will take place on the Tuesday evening at Old Trafford. For more details, see www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007 or contact the
UKUUG Office to book.

If you can't make it to the conference but want to know more about Linux and Open Source then take a look at - UK Linux Users Groups www.lug.org.uk - which lists regional groups UK-wide.



 
   
   
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