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TechTalk Links Sun, Oct 28. 2007

Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Tom D'Auria of the IMI TechTalk radio show, talking about the X Window System and my upcoming book, X Power Tools.

For the convenience of TechTalk listeners, here are some links mentioned in or related to the interview:

X.org, the community that maintains the X Window System
the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation, where you can find out about Open Source and Free Software ("Free" is this sense referring to freedom, as opposted to price -- though usually free in that sense too)
GNOME and KDE, two popular desktops based on the X Window System
the Compiz project, a very cool 3D extension to the GNOME and KDE desktops
Fedora Linux, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE -- three Linux distributions that include the X Window System and Compiz. Download and run these from CD or install on your system to see X in action.
Seneca College Computer Studies, where I teach -- a world leader in teaching Open Source development
the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology
Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS 2007) - the 6th annual symposium was held last Thursday and Friday and was a great success. Videos of the symposium presentations are being posted on-line at this site.

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I am a Christian, college professor, computer programmer, system administrator, author, and consultant. My specialty is open source, particularly Fedora Linux.

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These are my first two books: X Power Tools, a thorough guide to the X Window System (O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596101954) and Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distro, a practical hands-on book on Fedora (O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596526825).

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