Ish Sookun // openSUSE Advocate & LC
LINUX FESTIVAL 2013
LINUX! Tell me more ...LINUX USER GROUP OF MAURITIUSA genius
designed this operating during his university time in the early
90's. Several like-minded folks joined the project. Today Linux
powers 96% of the top 500 supercomputers of the world.
Ahaaan Apart from the supercomputers running at NASA, CERN,
Fermilab etc Linux also runs on the majority of web servers,
Smartphones, Smart TV, Gaming Consoles, Routers etc.LINUX IS A
UNIX-LIKE OPERATING SYSTEM RELEASED WITH A FREE & OPEN
LICENSE
HOW OLD IS LINUX?WHERE IS LINUX USED?
TOP500.ORG SUPERCOMPUTERS! YAY!LINUX USER GROUP OF MAURITIUS
Linux User Group MetaLINUX USER GROUP OF MAURITIUSWe are a bunch
of like-minded geeks with the passion to make computing something
fun ( :We are dedicated to the Linux & FOSS community. We
strive to promote free software, open standards and share ideas
& knowledge.
GEEK! NERD! GENIUS! AWESOME...WE BELIEVE IN KNOWLEDGE
SHARING...WWW.LUGM.ORG
openSUSE ProjectLINUX USER GROUP OF MAURITIUSopenSUSE is a
community developed Linux distribution.
The project has support and sponsorship from a number of
companies notably SUSE (a subsidiary of Novell), AMD, B1 Systems,
Heinlein Support and IP Exchange.
The SuSE community has been around since the early 90's making
it among the oldest surviving Linux distributions.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
openSUSE Features
YASTYaST Yet another Setup ToolA tool for administering &
maintaining the openSUSE installation. It contains both GUI &
ncurses front-ends.
OPEN BUILD SERVICEFormerly known as openSUSE Build Servcie, is
development platform designed to encourage developers compile
packages for multiple Linux distributions.
SUSE STUDIOSUSE Studio is an online Linux image creation tool by
SUSE. Users can create customize their own 'custom' Linux by
selecting various applications and use openSUSE or SUSE Linux
Enterprise as base.
openSUSE Advocate ProgramLINUX USER GROUP OF MAURITIUSAct as an
evangelist for openSUSE to the public
Support openSUSE at local events
Promote use of openSUSE and contributions to the openSUSE
Project
Have a lot of fun!
GOALS OF THE ADVOCate program
I have been an openSUSE Advocate for almost 4 years. It's been
an fabulous learning curve while studying how a global project is
handled & managed. You get to meet a lot of awesome people from
around the world!
MY EXPERIENCE AS AN OPENSUSE ADVOCATE IN MAURITIUS
Ish Sookun // openSUSE Advocate & [email protected]
