| Who: | Simon Patience (Head of Core OS, Apple), and other speakers |
| When: |
Tuesday 11 November, 2003 10:45am start; 10am doors |
| Where: | Apple UK, Stockley Park, Near Heathrow. |
| Cost: | Free entry although preregistration is required and places are strictly limited. You do not have to be a UKUUG member to attend |
On November 11th, in association with Apple, UKUUG
is proud to be organising an
“Apple Technology briefing – Mac OS X and the Power of UNIX”
| 10:00 | doors |
|---|---|
| 10:15 | Registration with coffee. |
| 10:45 | intro |
| 10:50 | Apple Pie: A new recipe – Stuart McRobert |
| 11:20 | Clustering in a High Performance, Heterogenous Environment – Ken Tabb: Slides (PDF) |
| 11:50 | discussion |
| 12:00 | lunch |
| 13:00 | Mac OS X and the Power of UNIX – Simon Patience, Head of Core OS, Apple |
| 14:15 | Discussion |
| 14:30 | Coffee |
| 14:45 | The joy of scripting on OS X – Simon Cozens: Slides (PDF) |
| 15:15 | Discussion |
| 16:00 | End. |
Simon Patience is responsible for the BSD Core of Mac OS X, including
the kernel and BSD commands and libraries and has been in
Unix kernel development for 20 years. He will talk about the UNIX
underpinnings of Mac OS X. Other talks will cover how to utilise Mac OS X
in a heterogenous system/user environment.
OS X is known for its ease of use and innovative user interface, but many
people don’t know that it is also the most widely-distributed UNIX-based
operating system.
This talk will discuss the architecture of OS X, the role that Unix plays in
the system and the value it brings to a simple to use, desktop computer. It
will describe what makes OS X a good server OS, combining the standard and
secure Unix environment with Apple’s ease of management. Topics will include
the value that Apple brings to the Unix community, the commitment to Open
Source and its contributions to the BSD and Darwin communities.
Apple has also brought some significant innovations that are available in
Panther to Unix users and programmers. Some of the more important
innnovations and the motivations for them will be described. It will also
touch on some of the possible future challenges for Unix as the core of an
advanced computer operating system and why OS X is the most likely place
that these challenges will be solved.
This event is aimed at all UNIX users, particularly those
interested in its core technologies and the associated
development environments.
Registration for this event is free and open to all.
Registrations must be confirmed
and can be cancelled
at any point after confirmation
. Lunch is provided free of charge.
O’Reilly and Associates will be present selling books at a 25% discount.
If you are attending the event, and wish to view/purchase a particular book,
email Sarah at O’Reilly before November 4th, giving
the full title, author, and your details. Also state that you will
collect the book from the “UKUUG event at Apple on November 11th”.
Acknowledgements:
The UKUUG is grateful to Simon Patience for agreeing to speak, Apple for
providing the main speaker, venue and publicity; along with a raft of
other support.
About UKUUG
The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open Systems in the
United Kingdom. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area
and, being totally funded by membership subscriptions, is completely
independent of specific hardware and software vendors. All profits are
used to further the activities of the organisation.
(More details about UKUUG at http://www.ukuug.org/about/).