I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

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Friday, October 11 1:00 PM
Room M-102

About SDCS

San Diego Computer Society (SDCS) is a non-profit tech-incubator for college students founded out of San Diego Miramar College.

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We provide students access to workshops, professional resources and network enabling them to collaborate and solve real-world problems. We are the largest and most-rapidly growing student ran organization in San Diego.

We have taken teams of students to Hackathons, tech conferences, and hosted interviews of Tech-industry professionals in the form of a live podcast, previously interviewing industry professionals (software engineers, database administrators, entrepreneurs, startup founders, astro-physicists, book authors etc.)

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We host a Discord server with over 350+ student members, which allows for students and teachers to connect, collaborate to work on different projects, share news, ideas and community opportunities such as internships, events and networking.

We offer workshops for students such as coding interview preparation, introduction to Linux programming, Basics of Git, and Amazon Web Services with San Diego Miramar College and Professor of Computer Science, Andrew Huang.

Our vision is uniting free-thinkers, self-starters alike and connect them to an ever-expanding network of peers, professionals, resources and opportunity towards their path to success.

Interested in becoming a part of the team? We are looking for intelligent, driven and like-minded individuals like you: apply to SDCS today.

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