January 2003
- Linux.conf.au 2003 by James Bromberger, Tony Breeds
In 2003, Linux.conf.au was held in Perth. A number of people on the organising team were PLUG members.
March 2003
- What's New in 2.6 by Tony Breeds
The 2.5 series kernel is approaching stability and should be ready to be released as 2.6.0 within the next 12 months. Tony will show some of the new features in the current development kernels. Touching on user concerns, passing thought new features for system administrators, and stopping at some of the nifty things that have happened that you shouldn’t ever see :)
April 2003
- Sun's Position in the Linux Market by Hans Humboldt
Hans will talk about Sun Microsystems’ current and future position in the Linux market.
May 2003
- User-Mode Linux (UML) by Trent Lloyd
User-Mode Linux is a project that is maturing quickly and has become fairly stable for everyday general use. This talk will go over the basics of User-Mode Linux, what it is, how to run it and more. “More” will probably include the use of User-Mode Linux for another interest of Trent’s, i.e. IPV6.
June 2003
- Speex Development and Applications by Bernard Blackham
Speex is an audio codec designed specifically for recording and compressing speech. As the VoIP industry is invaded by patented and expensive voice-compression codecs, Speex hopes to bring a free, open standard to the world. The talk will cover a bit about the development of Speex and its applications to Internet telephony, streaming, PLUG, Linux.conf.au 2003 and world peace.
July 2003
Creating forms for the maintenance of a MySQL database, using the GUI elements available in OpenOffice.org 1.0.3. No code will be harmed in the creating of this presentation. Programmers’ sensibilities may be bruised, but this is for the users!
September 2003
- ebXML by Sacha Schlegel
Electronic business and ebXML (electronic business eXtensible Markup Language) in particular in the Free Software/Open Source world.
October 2003
- Networking, part 1 of 3 by Tony Breeds
This is part 1 of a 3 part seminar series. This week you’ll learn enough to get 2 (or more) machines networked and “pinging” each other. Plus I’ll touch on DNS and why it’s a good thing for a home network.
November 2003
- Networking, part 2 of 3 (Samba) by Adrian Woodley
This is part 2 of a 3 part seminar series. This week you’ll see Samba in action.
December 2003
- Networking, part 3 of 3 by Tony Breeds
This is part 3 of a 3 part seminar series. Tony will consolidate what has previously been discussed in parts one and two of this lecture series and then move onto ISP hookup. This leads inexorably to routing and firewalling. The session will end with a networking Q&A session.