30th and 31st of May, 2008, World Trade Center, Bucharest, Romania.
Book conference tickets - check now!
About eLiberatica
Following the huge public success the first edition of eLiberatica gained in 2007, the second edition will continue in the same tradition: to gather community and business leaders around the world to talk about the hottest Open and Free Technologies topics; you will hear from today’s experts in various fields of technical and business practice and become part of an event that is far more than a simple conference.
eLiberatica 2008 is intended to focus on three main concepts:
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Business adoption - how to make/save money and gain profit using Open and Free Technologies;
Government, administration and public schools - the importance of Open and Free Technologies;
Professional growth participating in the FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) community.
eLiberatica has its unique spirit and identity, all who attended the first edition know what this is about: you will learn and discover new things, but you will also meet high profile speakers, business people, high-tech professionals, you will make new friends, new partners, celebrate and truly enjoy the event.
Who is speaking this year
We are pleased to announce high profile keynote speakers from: Google Inc. • IBM • MySQL AB • Mozilla Messaging (the latest Mozilla Foundation subsidiary) • European Commission • Gartner, Inc. • Python Software Foundation • Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology • eZ Systems AS • OpenOffice.org • Mozilla Foundation • Navarik Corp. • ActiveState Software Inc. • Free Software Foundation Europe • APTI Romania (The Association for Internet and Technology) • Mozdev Community Organization and more.
This is not our final list. We are in discussions with other international and local organizations who want to participate with us in eLiberatica 2008.
As soon as they are confirmed, they will be listed under the Speakers section .
Find more on eliberatica.ro
Win one of two free invitations to the eLiberatica conference!
We are going to monitor all the links coming from external sites which have inserted an eLiberatica logo; like in the first edition , a few weeks before the conference, we will pick two winners, which will get free invitations for eLiberatica 2008.
Help students and teachers to know about our special discounted ticket offer
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Download the PDF "Conference Offer for Students and Teachers" flyer (click eLiberatica-2008-poster-A3.pdf or eLiberatica-2008-poster-A4.pdf ), print it and post it on your school's message board or another public location;
Send an email to [email protected] with a short note where you mention where you placed the poster.
If you send us a picture, we are going to cover it in our blogs and/or newsletter.
Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.0! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.0 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 11.0) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.
This first Slackware edition of the year combines Slackware's legendary simplicity (and close tracking of original sources), stability, and security with some of the latest advances in Linux technology. Expect no less than the best Slackware yet.
Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.4.1, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 3.5.7, the latest version of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. We have added to Slackware support for HAL (the Hardware Abstraction Layer) which allows the system administrator to add users to the cdrom and plugdev groups. Then they will be able to use items such as USB flash sticks, USB cameras that appear like USB storage, portable hard drives, CD and DVD media, MP3 players, and more, all without requiring sudo, the mount or umount command. Just plug and play. Properly set up, Slackware's desktop should be suitable for any level of Linux experience.
Slackware uses the 2.6.21.5 kernel bringing you advanced performance features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume support, SATA support, Software RAID, LVM (the Logical Volume Manager, and encrypted filesystems. Kernel support for X DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to Linux. We have switched from the older one-piece X11 Window System to the newest modular X11 from X.Org, which should be simpler to maintain and will likely speed up development of new features for X (such as translucent windows and a few other things that are on the horizon.
Patrick J. Volkerding
*** NOTE: This is a fan page, here you're not actually speaking to Patrick or anyone else from the Slackware team.