FreeBSD 7 Launch Meeting at Unigroup NEXT THURSDAY, with George<br>Neville from the Project Team (& co-author with project leader Kirk<br>McKusick of "Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating<br>System") & lots of giveaways, natch. <br>
<br>-Forest Mars<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br> ==================================================================<br> UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MARCH 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS<br> ==================================================================<br>
<br> Here is a quick notice, the full announcement will follow...<br><br> -------------------------------------------<br> 1. UNIGROUP'S MARCH 2008 MEETING CHANGE/NOTICE<br> -------------------------------------------<br>
<br> Unigroup has moved our March 2008 meeting one week earlier than<br> usual to 13-MAR-2008 (2nd Thursday). This allows us to avoid<br> a holiday on the next week AND have the following meeting and<br> speaker...<br>
<br> When: THURSDAY, March 13, 2008 (** SPECIAL 2nd Thursday **)<br><br> Where: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility<br> Downtown Center<br> 104 Washington Street<br> South West Corner of Wall Street Area<br>
Downtown, New York City<br> ** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **<br><br> Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration<br> 6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,<br> Answers and Current Events<br>
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements<br> 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation<br><br> ------------------------<br> Topic: FreeBSD 7 Launch Meeting<br> ------------------------<br>
<br> Speaker: George Neville-Neil,<br> The FreeBSD Project Team <<a href="http://www.freebsd.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.freebsd.org</a>><br><br> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br> FreeBSD version 7 was released within the past two weeks<br> (CD-ROM images are dated 24-FEB-2008). We hope to learn as<br> much as we can about the latest in FreeBSD from our speaker<br> George Neville-Neil, a member of the FreeBSD Project Team.<br>
<br> From the FreeBSD 7 Release Announcement:<br> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64,<br> pc98, and powerpc architectures. The version for the sparc64<br> architecture will become available in a few days.<br>
<br> FreeBSD 7 Links:<br> <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.FreeBSD.org/</a><br> <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/errata.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/errata.html</a><br> <a href="http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a><br><br> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br> To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup<br> Registration Page:<br> <a href="http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html</a><br>
<br> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> Giveaways:<br> ----------<br><br> O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their<br> books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our<br>
meetings.<br><br> Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind<br> enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will<br> continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.<br><br> Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support<br>
provided by their User Group programs.<br><br> Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of<br> our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway<br> (ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!<br>
<br> ** Thanks to our friends at Sun Microsystems, Unigroup also has<br> some Solaris 10 DVDs to raffle off.<br><br> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> Fee Schedule:<br>
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00<br> Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00<br> Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00<br> Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00<br>
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.<br><br> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes<br> "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled<br>
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,<br> pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.<br><br> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>
Directions:<br><br> Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility<br> Downtown Center<br> 104 Washington Street<br> Wall Street Area<br> Downtown, New York City<br><br> This building is located on the West side of the street, the<br>
second building north of Rector Street. Cross Streets:<br> Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.<br><br> Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,<br> North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,<br>
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West<br> on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then<br> Washington Streets.<br><br> There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between<br>
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel<br> and extending North for a number of blocks.<br><br> Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector<br> Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).<br>
<br> -----<br><br> Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!<br> Please tell your friends about Unigroup!<br><br> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br> -Rob Weiner<br> Unigroup Executive Director<br> unilist (-a_t-) <a href="http://unigroup.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">unigroup.org</a><br> <a href="http://www.unigroup.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.unigroup.org</a><br>
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