Flavio Castelli

Last Saturday Linux day 2007 took place.

Linux Day is an Italian manifestation that promotes Linux and FOSS.
During this day different organizations (mostly Linux User Groups) arrange events with speeches, installation parties and more.

Since lot of people requested it, I gave a speech about KDE 4 during the Linux day organized by my LUG (BGLug).

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An overview of desktop searching under linux.
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Yesterday I’ve made a speech at Gazzaniga’s Lug regarding next KDE4 major features and Strigi.

I’ve uploaded the slides, you can find them in the paper category.

A KDE 4 small overview
This speech illustrates some of the major KDE4 features.

Slides are shorts since has been made for a “wiki-night”

KDE4 preview

Short abstract:

Strigi desktop integration: how to access Strigi features.

Strigi, the fastest and smallest desktop search engine, provides fast searches and good metadata extraction capabilities. It will be used by the next KDE, but it can be easily integrated in other programs.
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An introduction to netiquette.
Revised version
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An introduction to Regular Expressions.
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These slides are about linux and modern console

The article focuses on the installation of linux over some modern console like:

• Sega Dreamcast™
• Sony Playstation 2 ™
• Microsoft Xbox™

The presentation focuses mostly on the Xbox™ case.

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WARNING: slides are in italian
Linux and modern console

A speech about cryptography and linux.
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