LinuxTalk December 20th 2003

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LinuxTalk December 20th 2003

Venue	Room N, Computer Center, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon (It's on 2/F, if you enter CityU Academic Building from the main entrance, you need to go DOWN 1 floor, there will be some directions pointing you to Room N)
Date	December 20^th 2003 (Sat)
Time	2:30pm to 5:30pm
Fee	Free of charge
Media	Cantonese

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An Introduction to Eclipse - The universal tool platform.

Eclipse is an open extensible IDE - Originally donated to the open source community by IBM, it has flourish and become the primer IDE for many programmers around the world. It supports many programming languages, for example Java, C/C++, Cobol, Python, Perl, Php and many others. Come and learn about what Eclipse is, its architecture and where it is going, also a demo of the Java Development Tools, C development tools and many other features. I will also be happy to answer questions on Java VM on Linux, and other topics related to developing Java program on Linux.

Mr. Sunny Chan,
System Engineer,
e-business Integration Technology
IBM Hursley Software Development Laboratory

Introduction to Syllable

Syllable is an Open Source Operating System which aimsfor Intel x86. The goal of Syllable is to create a reliable and easy to use Open Source Operating System for the home and small office user. Syllable is currently under development, but it is stable and relativly mature, with a number of useful applications already available. Syllable supports a wide range of common hardware devices, including video, network and sound cards from manufacturers such as Intel, AMD,3Com, nVidia and Creative.

Fast Loading is one of the key features of Syllable. Also, it integrates GUI into Kernel that provided efficient and standard User Interface. A Number of Open Source Softwares have ported to Syllable like Apache, PHP, Emacs, etc.

Zipped PowerPoint

Mr. Hilary Cheng,

About the Speakers

About Mr. Sunny Chan

Mr. Chan is a software engineer working in e-business Integration Technology, IBM Hursley Software Development Laboratory, near Winchester, United Kingdom. He graduated from Imperial College, London in 2001 with a Master of Engineering in Computing, and have been working in IBM since graduation. He is currently involving in the project to develop and test the IBM Java VM, and also IBM Websphere SDK for Web Services. Mr. Chan is also a Redhat Certified Engineer, and have been using Linux since the days of Linux Kernel 1.0.

You can find out more about IBM Java VM and Websphere SDK for Web Serivces from http://www.ibm.com/java/

About Mr. Hilary Cheng

Mr. Cheng has been work in IT for 6 years and now is a embedded software engineer of a Local POS Company. He first use Linux since Redhat 4.0 and change to Debian GNU/Linux now. He is also one of the commitee of Hong Kong PalmPilot User Group (HKPUG) .

Recently, he is developing driver for Syllable and ported S3 Savage XFree86 Driver to Syllable successfully.

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