Dear Readers,
O'Reilly has set up camp in San Francisco this week for Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference. You may have heard some of the headlines: new G5 computers produced by Apple and IBM, and the developer's release of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), created in partnership with Apple and the open source community.
Yes, that's right, open source software, and the people who wrote it, have enabled Apple to evolve Mac OS X at a truly impressive rate. Now that much of the OS X foundation is built, we're starting to see refinements in this latest release, which will make Panther one of the most stable, beautiful, and useful operating systems to date.
If you want to learn about the tools that Apple used to bring this Unix-based OS to life, then you might want to consider attending O'Reilly's Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon the week of July 7. There's still time to register and make your travel plans. Once there, you'll have the opportunity to learn advanced system administration techniques and programming from the same developer community that helped Apple move from its own proprietary software to the world of Unix.
Hope to see you there,
Derrick
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