Also included below, this one time.
Topic: Linux in general and Debian in particular.
Time: about two hours (including pauses?).
Utilities: overhead, possibly a computer.
Audience: about 200 people, admin types
1. Introduction
+ overview of talk
+ my background, briefly
2. Linux
+ Linux is a free (GPL) Unix-like kernel, written by LT
+ Interesting features:
o multi-platform: Intel, Alpha, Motorol 68K, Sparc,
PowerPC, ...
o loadable modules
o good memory management
o a little SMP support
o lots of drivers
o all the usual Unix stuff
+ Distributions
o Linus does the kernel only (and not all of that)
o Other people package the kernel + other programs +
installation tools and instructions = distribution
o Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Yggdrasil, and many others
o Mostly the same programs, but big differences in
packaging
+ Commercial interest
o Caldera
o Ports of commercial programs: ...
o Native commercial programs: ...
+ Support
o The Net: WWW, newsgroups, mailing lists, irc
o Linux Documentation Project: free books
# Installation and Getting Started, by Matt Welsh
# Network Administrators' Guide, by Olaf Kirch
# System Administrators' Guide, by Lars Wirzenius
# Programmers' Guide (?)
# Users' Guide (?)
# FAQ's and HOWTO's, by lots of people
# from the net and commercially
o Commercial books
# Running Linux, by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufmann
o Linux Journal
o From commercial distributors for money: ...
+ Plans for future
o better SMP support
o keep ahead of the pack
+ Contact info
o http://www.linux.org/
o http://sunsite.unc.edu/~mdw/linux/
3. Debian
+ How Debian is different
o goals: free, best, can be used as a base
o volunteer project
o packaging system
o bug database
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+ The packaging system
o best of all the free ones, possibly of all
o extensive use of dependencies
o multiple levels of dependencies
o both source and binary packages
o multi-platform support
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+ Available packages
o The base system
o main/contrib/non-free
o admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, games, graphics, mail,
math, misc, net, news, shells, sound, tex, text, x11
o all of the usual freeware stuff: gcc, Emacs, TeX,
XFree86, ...
o very little commercial stuff
+ History
o started by Ian M in 199x
o support from the FSF
o version 1.1 in June, 1996
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+ Plans for future
o to boldly go, where no distribution has gone before
+ Contact info
o http://www.debian.org/
4. Why Linux? Why Debian?
+ ?
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