March 2010

About 5 people showed up for the meeting. Tough Book CF-Y4 configuring on Debian. Mark brought his new lightweight toughbook. The toughbook does not have any fans and weighs in at about 3lbs. He had debian installed on it but was having trouble with the wirless card, and getting the max display size. Dave worked…

About 7 people showed up. Questions/Problems What defines a distro ? How can you view DVD’s on Linux ? Troubleshooting X when it is not working right. What defines a distro ? This was actually a hard question to answer. It is almost like trying to define what makes one soup different from another soup….

About 6 people showed up for this meeting. This meeting was an open topic. Thus, we just talked about random things. Topics: 1. Fon Router Patrick R. gave a review of the Fon Router. He says in Europe many are given the fon router if they setup an open/free wireless. Here in America Star bucks…

We had about 8 people at this meeting. We met at the Starbucks in Severna Park, MD. Topics discussed: Ijet paid our Meetup bill – Thanks ijet. ezboot Drives – 250GB SSD drives are selling for $50 and the price of them is getting really low. Media servers – Kodi Nix and systemd – Patrick…

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…

About 6 people showed up. John Massey from Washington College talked about alternative Open Source trouble ticketing system. On his mac, he was running a virtual session with Ubuntu. On Ubuntu, he had GLPI running. On GLPI he was using a inventory module called OSC inventory. Together the two applications integrate together created a full…