[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt for this announcement. ]
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com
At 6pm pst, 7pm rmt, 8pm cst, 9pm east and 1am GMT Kevin, Jeff,
PJ and Doc Searls (of the Linux Journal) have a fun show lined up
tonight on The Linux(r) Show!!
In Segment One- News: As usual we will be
covering the hot linux news of the week and a talk about our trip
next week to Linuxfest in KC.
In Segment Two- Sair Linux/GNU certification:
Check out the Sair Web site at http://www.linuxcertification.com
We will be joined by associate professor of computer science
at the University of Mississippi, Dr. Tobin
Maginnis has taught detailed courses in Linux
internals and Linux system administration. He has been teaching
three levels of operating system courses since 1980 and has
employed Version 6 Unix, Xinu, Minix, FreeBSD and Linux source code
in these classes. Dr. Maginnis also teaches four levels of computer
networking courses at Ole Miss. He served as acting chair of the
computer science department from 1991 to 1994.
Dr. Maginnis has been an advocate of digital logic since the
1960s when, as an undergraduate and graduate student, he designed
and constructed electro-mechanical logic circuits that controlled
behavioral experiments. These circuits were programmed with “plug
boards” and “snap leads.” He also was a laboratory manager
responsible for the day-to-day operation of thousands of these
circuits and trained others in circuit programming.
He joined the computer science faculty at Ole Miss in 1979.
Here, he designed novel “bus mapping” interfaces that allowed
LSI-11 computers transparent high-speed access to other computer
memory and I/O space. From 1978 to 1980, he co-developed one of the
first general-purpose computer network file transfer programs,
called ThriftNet, which inter-operated among eleven different
operating systems.
Dr. Maginnis’ current research topics include the construction
and integration of distributed operating system components into the
Linux kernel and the development of a performance-oriented
distributed operating system.
In his spare time he was able to become
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT OF SAIR, INC. a leader
in the Linux/GNU certification business. We will discuss with
Tobin the present state of the Sair Certification program and his
views on certification in general.
Remember tune in at 6pm pst, 7pm rmt, 8pm cst, 9pm east and 1am
GMT.
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com