The May 9th joint meeting of Baltimore and DC SIGAda will feature Dr. Samuel Tardieu, speaking on "Developing Software Hosted on or Targetted for Linux". Come hear what all the excitement surrounding Linux is all about. Get pointers on getting Linux up and running on your system.  Slides from the presentation are now available.

The talk will cover the following:

• What exactly is Linux? (Linux kernel, different distributions, architectures, licenses, etc.)
• Development model of open-source projects, ease of maintenance, languages used. Why Ada should be mandatory.
• Linux as a desktop environment or target for desktop applications.
• Linux as a platform for hosting Ada embedded development.
• Real-time Ada programs on RT-Linux.

Updated May 18, 2000