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ILA International Linux Association

	MONTHLY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Time:	7 PM		DATE: 4/10/95	Monday
Location:	IHOP International House of Pancake
		5403 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara
		 (near Lawrence Expressway, I-280, Howard Johnson)
Topic:	Linux On Laptop 
Meeting Cost: $5 non-member, $0 member
Food: Minimum $3 order to IHOP
Display/Sale: Various Linux CD-ROMs, books, journals (current and back 
		issues)

For more info: email to ila@bigmall.com or call 408-992-0453 Charles 

About the Speaker:


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Topic: Linux on a laptop, or have computer will travel

Personal Background:

Earl Stutes is a software engineer working as an independent
contractor here in the Bay Area.  He has been in the computer
consulting business for nine years.  Prior to entering independent
practice, he was employed at Hewlett Packard for seventeen years. His
specialties are Internet Security Administration, object oriented
programming, and X-windows development.  he is also a principle in
Firewalls Security Corporation, (FSC) a professional Internet security
system provider. FSC's products include secure routers, bastion hosts,
and authentication servers.  He is a graduate of San Jose State, with
a BA in Math (1967).  He has a MSEE (1972) from Santa Clara
University.  He is married and has three grown children, none of whom
are in the computer business yet.

Outline of Presentation:

How I discovered linux.
Loading a laptop the hard way.
File system trade off choices.
Watching pcmcia module development happen in real time.
The switch from kernel drivers to loadable modules.
Stability comes to the laptop kernel.
My current laptop status.