See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

FreeOS how-to articles. FreeOS has a series of articles for newbies including Starters for Linux - Part 1, Starters for Linux - Part 2 and Sharing, the NFS way.

Tip Of The Week: Breaking Up is Easy to Do. This week's tip from LinuxLookup is about the the "split" and "csplit" commands.

Help Wanted

Dominet Systems. Located in San Jose, California, Dominet Systems is an early stage startup developing 'Ethernet in the first mile' products. The company is looking for a professional to will help develop the systems software and Linux Kernel for its embedded Ethernet devices. The embedded space is just one more step on the path to Total World Domination!

Event Reports

Pictures from linux.conf.au. James Bromberger has his pictures from the recent linux.conf.au available here.

Notes from Linux Expo Paris. Here are Stéfane Fermigier's notes from the first day of Linux Expo Paris. He covers talks by Dirk Hohndel, Eric Allman, Jean-Paul Smets, Henri Poole, and others. The notes are in a combination of French and English.

David Faure's Impressions from Linux Expo Paris and OSDEM Bruxelles. KDE hacker David Faure attended both Linux Expo Paris and the Open Source and Free Software Developer's meeting in Brussels; he has written up his impressions in this article in KDE Dot News. "One thing about presentations: never hack KPresenter the night before a presentation :). When you realize at 2am that you don't have it working, you're in trouble."

25,000 Linux Vendors, Developers and Enthusiasts Pack LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. IDG World Expo, the organizer of LinuxWorld, announced a record-breaking number of attendees and exhibitors at this year's LinuxWorld.

Python seminar. A Python seminar was held in Korea recently and was a big success; apparently around 600 people attended it in the end.

Upcoming Events

Speakers at the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference. O'Reilly & Associates announced that Dr. Andrew Chien, CTO and co-founder of San Diego-based Entropia will speak at the P2P conference. (San Francisco, Feb. 14-16, 2001.)

XML DevCon Europe. Camelot Communications has an updated press release with keynote speakers and schedules and such. (London, Feb. 21-23, 2001)

Linux convention in Iceland. Eric Raymond and Alan Cox have been announced as speakers for the Linux convention in Iceland, March 15th, 2001. (The site is in Icelandic.)

Chairpeople needed for EIC2001. The 2nd annual Embedded Internet Conference is coming up August 14-16, 2001 in Santa Clara, California. Chairpeople are needed, so take a look at the schedule to see if you might be interested in chairing something.

Events: February 8 - April 4.

Date	Event	Location
February 14 - February 16, 2001.	O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference	Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California.
February 21 - February 23, 2001.	XML DevCon Europe 2001	Novotel London West Hotel and Convention Centre, London, England.
February 28 - March 2, 2001.	3rd German Perl Workshop	Sankt Augustin, Germany.
March 3, 2001.	LinuxForum 2001	Copenhagen, Denmark.
March 5 - March 7, 2001.	BangLinux 2001	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
March 5 - March 8, 2001.	The 9th International Python Conference	Long Beach, California.
March 5 - March 9, 2001.	Networld+Interop 2001	Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia.
March 7 - March 9, 2001.	Linux Open Source Conference and Business Expo.	Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia.
March 15. 2001	Linux convention (in Icelandic).	Iceland.
March 19 - March 22, 2001.	SGI Global Developer Conference	Burlingame, Califonia.
March 20 - March 22, 2001.	FOSE 2001	Washington DC Convention Center.
March 21 - March 24, 2001.	Singapore Linux Conference / LinuxWorld 2001	Singapore.
March 22 - March 23, 2001.	Linux Accessibility Conference	Los Angeles, California.
March 28 - March 29, 2001.	LinuxBazaar 2001	Czech Republic.
March 29 - March 30, 2001.	Colorado Linux Info Quest	Denver Marriott Tech Center, Denver, Colorado.
April 4 - April 5, 2001.	Linux Expo Madrid	Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Spain.
April 4 - April 6, 2001.	ApacheCon 2001	Santa Clara, California.

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

User Group News

NorthWest Chicagoland Linux User Group. NWCLUG is having an Installfest on March 11, 2001.

LUG Events: February 8 - February 22, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
February 8, 2001.	Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG)	Sequoia Charter School, Mesa, AZ.
February 8, 2001.	Boulder Linux Users Group (BLUG)	NIST Radio Building, Boulder, CO.
February 10, 2001.	Route 66 Linux Users Group	La Verne, California.
February 10, 2001.	Consortium of All Bay Area Linux (CABAL)	Menlo Park, California.
February 13, 2001.	Long Island Linux Users Group (LILUG)	SUNY Farmingdale, NY.
February 13, 2001.	Victoria Linux Users Group(VLUG)	University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
February 14, 2001.	Toledo Area Linux Users Group (TALUG)	University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
February 15, 2001.	Linux User Support Team, Taegu (LUST-T)	Taegu, Korea.
February 15, 2001.	St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) - Linux SIG	St. Louis County Library, Indian Trails Branch, St. Louis, Missouri.
February 17, 2001.	North Texas Linux Users Group (NTLUG)	Nokia Centre, Irving, Texas.
February 17, 2001.	Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Installfest	Computer Literacy Bookshop, San Jose, CA.
February 17, 2001.	Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group	Eugene, Oregon.
February 18, 2001.	Beachside Linux User Group	Conway, South Carolina.
February 20, 2001.	Kansas City Linux Users Group Installfest (KCLUG)	Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO.
February 19, 2001.	Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD)	Z-World, Davis, CA.
February 21, 2001.	Arizona State University Linux Users Group (ASULUG)	Tempe, AZ.
February 21, 2001.	Linux User Group of Groningen	Groningen, Netherlands.
February 21, 2001.	Central Iowa Linux Users Group (CIALUG)	West Des Moines, IA.

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

Software Announcements

As part of the FreshMeat II site redesign, packages can now be listed in multiple categories. This will substantially change the former "by section" option as multiple packages will be listed multiple times. We hope that in the future the "by section" option, and potentially other options made possible by the new site, will be available to LWN readers.

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