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Suggested topics for presentations
Using X Windows
- politics of desktop environments --- David
- setting up and using kde --- Sam
- setting up and using gnome
- ximian --- Sara
- overview of window managers --- Danny and Dustin
- windowing libraries (QT, GTK, etc.)
- setup and review of a particular window manager
(afterstep, blackbox, enlightenment, fvwm, icevm, sawfish, scwm, windowmaker, etc.)
- demonstration of customizing themes --- Peter
- office applications (applixware, word perfect, staroffice, etc.) --- Sid
- virtual machines (vmware, wine) --- Adam and Raj
- setup and review of games, etc --- Abe, Onkar, and Alex
- setup and review of multimedia apps --- Khin Khin Gyi
- SMIL --- Andrew
Comparing Distributions
- Debian GNU/Linux --- Sara
- Red Hat --- Alex, Abe, Onkar
- Mandrake
- Slackware --- Peter
- Caldera --- Andrew
- TurboLinux --- Raj
- SuSE
- Corel linux, Stormix, Progeny Debian --- Sam
- Stampede
- Linux on non-i386 architecture
- BSDs --- Jason
- Commercial UNIXes --- Khin Khin Gyi
- other
Services
- file sharing (samba, netatalk, ftp)
- talk (finger, irc, nntp) -- Khin Khin Gyi
- terminal emulation (telnet, ssh, scp) --- Abe
- printing (lpd, lprng, cups)
- web (apache, php) --- Sam
- databases (postgresql, mysql, ldap) --- Onkar
- routing (ppp, ipchains, ipfw) --- Peter
- proxy (squid, junkbuster) --- Sid
- mail (sendmail, qmail, postfix) --- Andrew
- dns (bind, djbdns) --- Alex
- dhcp (dhcpd) --- Adam
- other