Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:03:49 -0700
To: lwn@lwn.net
From: Hali McGrath <hali@mail.usenix.org>
Subject: 4th Annual Linux Showcase, Atlanta


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For Immediate Release
September 18, 2000

For further information contact:
Monica Ortiz
510-528-8649
monica@usenix.org
http://www.usenix.org

4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference Gets a Face lift

Berkeley, CA - The teaming up of the USENIX Association and the
Atlanta Linux Showcase is producing a new kind of Linux Conference.
Next month's 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference (ALS 2000)
technically saavy program has already attracted platinum sponsorship
from heavyweights in the Linux community such as VA Linux, SuSE,
Atipa, IBM, Compaq, and RedHat.

The new partnership between ALS and USENIX has been welcomed by the
Linux community as the perfect meld of high-caliber, technical
conference programming delivered in the form of a warm,
community-oriented show. With ALS 2000, USENIX flexes its
considerable muscle in developing technical tracks addressing
clusters, development, and system administration issues, as Linux
continues to be integrated into existing IT environments. Linux
notables such as Ted Ts'o, Peter Beckman, John "Maddog" Hall, and
Marc Torres are already key parts of the conference committee.

ALS 2000 features three days of new technical tracks.  Hack Linux,
the Technical Development track, covers a wide range of low-level
systems issues, including Linux kernel performance, new and upcoming
filesystems that have been ported to Linux, the latest developments
in XFree86, kernel security enhancements, and much, much more.  Use
Linux, the Tools and Applications track, examines topics such as
development on Mozilla, Perl, Python and Zope; Linux tools for
graphic artists; and Integrating Linux and Windows systems.  Extreme
Linux, the Clusters and High Performance track, explores and expands
the use of clusters of commodity nodes and Linux to enable efficient,
affordable computational engines.

Keynote Speakers Ken Coar of Apache Software Foundation and Larry
Wall, inventor of PERL,  highlight the conference with their views on
the Open Source community. In addition Urs Hoelzle, Vice President of
Engineering for Google,talks about Linux Clustering in the Real
World. Conference attendees have ample opportunities to network and
learn new tricks in two days of tutorials Works-In-Progress reports,
poster demonstrations, Birds-Of-A-Feather sessions, Linux in Action,
and, of course, the infamous "hallway track" where attendees gather
in groups to swap opinions, suggestions, and tips. And of course,
ALS's free Vendor Exhibition is back for three days with over 85
companies and open source community organizations.

ALS 2000 promises to be the best of both worlds, a place to talk with
Linux folks of like mind and where all the cool goodies can be
collected. The 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference will be held on
October 10 - 14, 2000 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Georgia. Full
conference program and registration is available online at
http://www.linuxshowcase.org.


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ABOUT USENIX ASSOCIATION
USENIX is The Advanced Computing Systems Association, an
international, not-for-profit society of engineers, scientists and
systems administrators working in the cutting edge of systems and
software. For 25 years, USENIX conferences and workshops have been
the forum for the quality exchange of technical ideas and innovations.