March 2010

We had about 5 people show up for this meeting. During the beginning of the meeting we had a lengthy discussion of RedHat vs SUSE. Two members were having problems with RHEL 5 upgrades. Apparently, the new version of RedHat goes out and gets updates automatically. Although this my be a configuration that need to…

about 10 people showed up for this meeting. Questions: What are some the advantages/ disadvantages of using 64Bit Linux ? Answers: Advantages: You can use more than 4GB of RAM without doing the 64GB Hack. Advantages: Code should in theory run faster. Previous disadvantages: Not all software ran on 64bit. Flash was one such example….

About 6-8 people showed up for the meeting. Bob G. brought in a laptop that he purchased from the one laptop from child project. Dave had a problem with a weird application called Gnopernicus or something similar was starting on bootup of his kde desktop. He said he tried Gnome desktop once and this application…

The Annapolis Linux Users Group had their fist meeting in Mavenspire’s conference room. We are very happy to have a new meeting place. Meeting notes: 1) Need to get sign for LUG meeting. Annapolis Lug meets here 2.) We had some volunteers for future presentations, additionally mavenspire said they could bring in some vendors. Here…

We had an open meeting this day. Michael Tanenhaus gave a quick overview on how to setup Asterisks. In summary, there are two parts to configure for asterisks to function. There is the ‘/etc/dahdi’ stuff which configures the card, previously known as ‘zapper’. The ‘/etc/asterisks’ stuff holds the extensions and the software configuration for the…

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…