| Introduction: |
GNU/Linux is a free/libre operating system that has found an impressive number of applications: from embedded systems to network control, from servers to desktop. The goal of this conference is to give a general and view on the diverse applications of Linux in places which aren't generally known, and require high reliability or specific developments.
Also, it will give interested companies and individual an opportunity to discuss with specialists. |
| Organization details: |
| Room, video/retroprojector: |
ESNIG |
| Advertising: |
/ch/open, GULL, ENIGME, GRI, paper mail |
| Organization: |
/ch/open, ESNIG |
| Apéritif: |
GULL |
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| Referants: |
| Name: |
Georges SCHILD, Ascom AG |
| Summary: |
The CFF/SBB ticket machines run SCO UNIX. There is an ongoing project to use Linux instead. The reasons to choose Linux instead of SCO UNIX or a proprietary embedded OS will be explained. |
| Name: |
Julien LINDER, Bytec Engineering AG |
| Download: |
uclinuxcoldfire.pdf |
| Summary: |
PC-104 reimplementation, with Motorola Coldfire 5307 (m68k) processor, for phone central accounting. This is a hardware and software development. The reasons for choosing the PC104 plateform, Linux and the Dragonball processor will be explained. |
| Name: |
Didier Frick, Didier Frick, Freelance software engineering |
| Download: |
tout.pdf, html-Version |
| Summary: |
MIPS and Linux-based Ethernet switch. |
| Name: |
Marc SCHAEFER, SFI Technology Services AG |
| Download: |
as400.pdf |
| Summary: |
Linux in an AS/400, providing basic Internet/intranet services in a multisite customer architecture. The reasons for using Linux on AS/400, the basic architecture and the projects and solutions will be presented.
This is a project that is still being implemented. |
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