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USENIX '04: Training Track
June 27–July 2, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts

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Free and Open Source
Software (FREENIX) Track

NEW! SIG Sessions
• UseLinux
• Extreme
  Linux
• Security
• UseBSD

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TRAINING TRACK

Submitting a Training Track Proposal
USENIX's highly respected training program offers intensive, immediately applicable tutorials on topics essential to the use, development, and administration of advanced computing systems. Skilled instructors, hands-on experts in their topic areas, present both introductory and advanced tutorials covering topics such as (this list is not comprehensive—feel free to propose topics not listed):

  • System administration, maintenance, monitoring, and security:
    • Systems application configuration and maintenance
    • High availability and quality of service
    • Monitoring: SNMP, log analysis, etc.
    • Distributed data: LDAP, Web, etc.
    • Techniques: time management, failover management, etc.
  • Operating systems (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Solaris, NT, etc.):
    • File systems and storage systems
    • Interoperability of heterogeneous systems
    • Embedded systems
  • Systems and network security:
    • Intrusion detection and prevention
    • Hacking and countermeasures
    • General security topics: Internet, wireless, data, etc.
  • Applications and algorithms:
    • Security and privacy, cryptography
    • Web-based technologies
    • Mobile code and mobile computing
    • New algorithms and applications
    • Application development (threads, Perl, scripting, etc.)
  • Technologies:
    • Wireless and mobile computing
    • Personal digital assistants
    • Distributed, replicated, and Web-based systems
  • Emerging technologies:
    • New applications
    • New technologies
  • Topics not listed above!
To provide the best possible tutorial slate, USENIX continually solicits proposals for new tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, contact Dan Klein, Training Program Coordinator, dvk@usenix.org.

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