Annapolis Linux Users Group

Next meeting is Feb 1 2010

Topic Scribus from Dave B.

Jan 4th 2010

About 6 people showed for this meeting.

Matt, the local who uses Linux for racing, came again. He brought his newest gadget called a mini-box. He wanted to use the device on-board monitoring computer for recording his car’s race data. Since he car will have a lot of vibration we recommended that he use a solid state hard-drive. Since most of the solid-state hard-drives have smaller drives, we explored some of the smaller OS that might work with it. We recommend he try damn small Linux, but there are five small distos according to tuxmachines that would work with his limited disk space. Another vendor that provides small computers that could fit into cars is jetway.

There was a failed demo of the Open Source Tomato router. More specifically, the presenter myself, did not have enough information on the router to make a decent presentation. The presentation was more of a show and tell. I hope to try this again. The open source router. Firmware for the WRT54GL router comes in three flavors: Tomato, DD-WRT, or OpenWRT.

Dave our Suse user demoed Inkscape and creating Scalar Vector graphics.This was actually cooler than the router stuff.
Also, Dave B. volunteered to present on Scribus in the next meeting.

Next meeting is Jan 4th 2010

Happy new year. We will be meeting again at 7PM on Monday Jan 4th 2009.
Directions are here.

Dec 2009 meeting notes

About 8 people showed up.

We had an open meeting today.

Topics discussed:
1. Novell’s Open Enterprise server using Suse to interconnect with Active Directory.
2. What Linux are you survey . The survey is found here.
3. What do people use for managing server configurations ? – Nick
answer: cfengine, puppet, custom scripts with rsync
4. Services for Unix: GNU code that lets you mount NFS mounts on Windows machines.
5. Ubuntu 9.10 came out in Oct 2009 and it works with clouds.
6. RHEL and Xen story.
7. Intel 48 core chips coming out.
8. Commercials: Linux and Mac commercials. #1 Linux song.
9. Finding Cheap laptops for $500 or less. Lenovo brand.

Next Meeting is scheduled for Monday Dec 7th 2009 at 7PM.

The next meeting is Monday Dec 7 2009 at 7PM. The directions are here.