EVENTS

OS Fest
  • Dates:  23rd - 27th April
  • Venue: 1st Floor Lobby, Tompkins Hall, School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Agenda :
    • Heard about open source operating systems, but never got about installing one to check it out? Here is the oppurtunity.
    • Get a hands on experience with different flavors of open source operating systems including Slackware, Fedora Core, Open SUSE, Open Solaris, Ubuntu and FreeBSD.

PAST EVENTS

  •  March 7th, 2007-  dtrace
    • Speaker: Samy Al Bahra
    • "INTRODUCTION TO dtrace"-  a powerful new dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris operating system (ports pending) providing users and developers the power to understand application and system behavior in a waynever quite seen before.
  • Dec 14th, 2007- FreeBSD Workshop - Part I 
    • Speaker: Samy Al Bahra
    • "INTRODUCTION TO FREEBSD"- What is FreeBSD, why FreeBSD, How to install and use FreeBSD
  • Dec 7th, 2007- OFFICIAL KICK OFF EVENT 
    • First address - Kartik Bulusu
    • "Why Open Source" by Dr. David Chichka (Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, MAE Dept.)
  • (As Linux Club) - Security/hacking in *nix environments
    • Speaker: Samy Al Bahra
  • (As Linux Club) - Workshop on Exploit mitigation technologies and trends
    • Speakers: Samy Al Bahra
       

     
  • (As Linux Club) - Why migrate to Linux?
    • Speakers: Dr. David Chichka