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. -30- 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