Meeting Notes Dec 4 2006

Under the Hood: Fedora Linux and Upstream Communities On November 1st the Linux Users Group welcomes Jared Smith, Fedora project leader, who will share his thoughts on upstream communities and their role in the rapid release cycle of the operating system and innovation on the desktop. Smith is a popular contributor to Fedora, the second…

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 8 people showed up for the meeting. We had two new users. Demitri a pen tester showed up. Also, Brad, who works at home for a firm in Chicago came. We had an open and lively discussion about a number of different topics. topics discussed: a) vm servers and the cloud b) init.d and…

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…

We met at Barnes and nobles. We had about 10 people show up for this meeting. There were two talks going on at the same time at this meeting. On one corner of the table Tim Cash brought some hardware that was being troubleshot. We also had a talk about software. On software there was…

About 6 people showed up for this meeting. We had an open meeting. New Linux issues: 1. Nick was having some issues setting up Subversion 1.6 and in dependency hell. 2. Demitri was setting up Ubuntu 10 on this new System76 laptop. He had some questions about cron and anacron, which put us in a…