[LOCAL] Fairfax VA 11 Feb GNU/Linux Applications

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From: Geof Goodrum
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:02

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You are invited to the next meeting of the Washington Area Computer User 
Group (WACUG), scheduled on Saturday, February 11 from 12:30 PM to 3:30 
PM at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center 
Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia. The meeting is free and open to the public.  
Preregistration is not required to attend.

The February 11th meeting will feature a demonstration of the GNU/Linux 
Operating System and several popular desktop applications for it. 
Besides being noted for stability and security, GNU/Linux also offers 
its users a wide choice of software, including desktop environments, 
office applications, games, graphics and sound editors, image managers 
and e-mail clients. WACUG member Geof Goodrum will provide some 
background on Open Source software and GNU/Linux distributions, then 
demonstrate the KDE and Gnome desktop environments and several popular 
applications such as OpenOffice.org, Kword, Scribus, the GIMP, 
ImageMagick, Gnucash and Celestia.

WACUG is a non-profit general interest computer user group that supports 
the Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. For more 
information, call the WACUG AnswerLine at (703) 370-7649 or visit our 
web site at http://www.wacug.org/.

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From: Geof Goodrum <ggoodrum@nospambigfoot.com>
Subject: [LOCAL] Fairfax VA 11 Feb GNU/Linux Applications
Organization: http://www.wacug.org/
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Summary: Washington Area Computer User Group February 2006 meeting announcement
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