LOCAL -- Boston, MA - 11/20/96 - Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG]

[Guy W Bzibziak]

Keywords: Unix  Linux  Standards  BLU.ORG  DEC

Meeting Topic for November: "Unix Standards & How Linux Fits In"

Presented by: Finnbarr P. Murphy <fpm at amber.zk3.dec.com>
 
Finnbarr P. Murphy, Principal Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation,
will be giving a talk about the history & structure of standards in the
Unix community, covering such topics as the history of standardization for
Unix, where organizations such as USENIX, IEEE, IETF, ANSI, ISO and other
fit in, the part specifications such as X/Open, FIPS, OSF/1 AES, and
others play, as well as where "Branding" fits in.  He will also give a
look at the future of POSIX and UNIX98.  And if that isn't enough, what
Linux's role is currently in these items, as well as why Linux should
conform to these various standards, among others.

Who:    Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG]
Date:   20 November 1996, Wednesday
Time:   7:00 pm.
Place:  MIT, Building 4  Room 231
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The Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG], is the successor to the Boston
Computer Society's Linux & Unix User Group. We want to promote the
awareness and use of Open Systems, and to educate the public and our
members about Open Systems.

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.
>From its inception less than six years ago, it was developed over the
Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen
each other, and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems.
The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone
who wants it. It has been ported to at least the following platforms:
Intel, SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, and M68K. This is probably the largest
development project ever accomplished using the Internet.


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