We had an open meeting. About 8 people showed up for the meeting. We had a bunch of new people during this meeting. We discussed using the Linux command line. We helped a user with an Ubuntu install. We also discussed Linux news sources.

Richard Cruz gave a presentation on AMD’s | SEAMICRO “SECRET SAUCE” TO EFFICIENCY. During this presentation, he will showed some really cool new hardware. SeaMicro is a AMD owned company that provides tiny modular servers which are helping making server datacenters more efficient. Directions: http://annapolislinux.org/?page_id=23

We had a small group of 6-8 people this evening. Items of Interest: Brad was getting 25Mb Business Class Fiber from Verizon. He said it took 30 calls to setup the order. Talked about how Linux and Ubuntu are doing things differently. There seems to be a desire to make Linux more friendly to the…

On December 6th LUG will be having guest speaker Nick Yeates come and from 7PM to 9PM. Learn how to handle data center monitoring and assurance with Zenoss, an Enterprise Open Source monitoring application. Zenoss helps companies like LinkedIn, SAIC, VMware, Verizon, and DISA handle the monitoring, operations and management challenges of their evolving data…

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…