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First Annual Ottawa Linux Symposium a tremendous success

Expectations exceeded as 350 members from the Linux® community join together
to share ideas.

Ottawa, Canada - August 16, 1999 - Achilles Internet, organizers of the
first annual Ottawa Linux Symposium, are pleased to announce the success of
the Symposium that was held July 22-24, 1999 in Ottawa, Canada. Hosted by
Rebel.com and Corel Corporation, the Symposium exceeded expectations after
bringing more than 350 Linux developers together for two days of tutorials
on subjects ranging from programming the Linux kernel to IpSec. Speakers
included Zach A. Brown from RedHat Software Ltd., Sam Lantinga from Loki
Entertainment Software, Jes Sorensen from CERN, and Alan Cox, whose keynote
presentation provided an enlightening look into the commercial and free
software models.

"The Ottawa Linux Symposium was a great technical conference," said Alan Cox
of Building Number Three. "Three tracks of high quality tutorials and
technical presentations, an E-mail garden and beer, everything needed to
make it a great success."

"It was a very interesting and informative couple of days," said Craig Ross
of Rebel.com and one of the event organizers. "At the outset we were
expecting about 250 attendees, so it was very rewarding and encouraging to
see such a high level of interest and over 350 people participating. People
are already asking about next year."

The intent of the Ottawa Linux Symposium was to provide a forum for Linux
developers and experienced Linux system administrators to expand their
knowledge of the inner workings of the Linux operating system. In addition
to the number of Linux developers and system administrators on hand at the
Symposium, the impressive list of prominent speakers from the Linux
community made the event a valuable experience for all those involved.

"I found the atmosphere to be very much like the old days, with a calm,
relaxed crowd gathered together to work out the nitty gritty details to move
towards world domination," said Werner Almesberger of EPFL.

"I was very impressed by the high skill level of the attendees," said Pat
Bierne of Corel Corporation, who did a presentation on memory and file
management in the Linux kernel. "The audience was very attentive and
appreciative and there were a number of good questions and lots of
interaction."

The Ottawa Linux Symposium was sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Loki
Entertainment Software, The Puffin Group, User Friendly, Zero Knowledge,
Corel Corporation and Rebel.com.

About Linux
Linux is a freely distributable, UNIX®-like operating system. The Linux
project was originally started by third year university student Linus
Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, Finland in 1991. With the help of
the Internet, Linux quickly took on a life of its own and now after the
contributions of hundreds of developers around the world, Linux is running
on over 7 million computer systems.
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For more information, please contact:

Andrew J. Hutton
Achilles Internet Ltd.
+1 613 688-0707
ajh@achilles.net

* Please note that the conference proceedings will be available for download
at www.ottawalinuxsymposium.org