[Fsuk-manchester] Reminder: MFS Talk. Tuesday, 15th June. Michael Dorrington, "GNU's Not Linux: kFreeBSD and Hurd kernels for the GNU System"

[Michael Dorrington]

Talk reminder.

Michael Dorrington wrote:
> * Talk: GNU's Not Linux: kFreeBSD and Hurd kernels for the GNU System
>         <http://www.gnu.org/>
> * Speaker: Michael Dorrington
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> * Location: The Lass O' Gowrie's Salmon Room (upstairs).
> * Address: 36 Charles Street, Manchester. M1 7DB
>            <http://www.thelass.co.uk/>
> * Date: Tuesday, 15th June 2010 (3rd Tuesday of the month)
> * Start time: 19:00
> * Finish time: 20:30
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> Details
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> This talk is by Michael Dorrington on the alternative kernels of
> kFreeBSD and Hurd to Linux for the GNU System. The talk will explain
> what a kernel is and its role in a system, it will explain the GNU and
> Linux in GNU/Linux, it will then investigate GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd
> including showing them running. If you are interesting in Linux or Free=

> Software or GNU or FreeBSD or Hurd then this talk should be of interest=

> to you.
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> Michael has been using GNU/Linux for many years, and is very interested=

> in the GNU project. The Hurd project has been of interest to him for
> many years too but in the last year he has actually got to use it via
> the Debian GNU/Hurd project. In the last year or so he also heard of th=
e
> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project and he wishes to help make Debian
> GNU/kFreeBSD an official architecture of the next Debian release, Squee=
ze.
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> Location
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> The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass O'Gowri=
e
> <http://www.thelass.co.uk/> pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester=
=2E
> We will be located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be
> people around a little earlier downstairs (probably sampling the food
> and drinks on offer). Just ask at the bar if you can't find us. Their
> website has full details of how to get there and the fine selection of
> food and drink available. The venue also provides WiFi.
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> More Information
> ----------------
> General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be foun=
d
> on our websites.
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> * http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/Meetings
> * http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-06-15
> * http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/
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> If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
> contact us at <address@hidden>.

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