2010 Sept meeting notes

About 6 people showed up for the meeting. At this meeting we had two new people. One person Bob, brought in his new Linux Laptop. The other, Perry, was interested in gaining more information about Real Time Linux for embedded systems. Since Patrick, our embedded systems guru was missing, we gave Perry some ideas on…

This LUG meeting met at Barnes and Nobles. We had about 10 people show up for the meeting. At the meeting topics ranged from Hacking a laundry machine to getting training. As for training, Brad mentioned he took a $50 course through Piston. He said the training was ok, but the software tools they provided…

1. Trouble shooting X. 2. Central Repositories for code. 3. Managing startup scripts through Yast 4. Compiliers 5. Dos2Unix 1. Someone had a problem with X on a laptop with SUSE running. Some basic trouble shooting methods for getting X working were discussed. One ideas was to load Knoppix to see if the the latest…

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…

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 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…