Monthly Archives: July 2009

VoIP: Fedora Talk gets talky!

Not that I was bored, I wasn’t!  Not that I didn’t have anything else to do, I do!  Not that there isn’t more to do, there is!  It’s just that I have been spending a little bit more time using Fedora Talk lately and I noticed a few things were missing.

First, there wasn’t (and still isn’t) any good instructions for setting up the Grandstream GXP 2000 with Fedora Talk.  I spent a good bit of time with Jon Stanley and Ian Weller who helped me get past this hurdle.  I would say that it’s much easier to set up Twinkle than it is the Grandstream VoIP phone.  But it’s all configured now, so I’m pretty happy.  I should get some energy in the next week or two to get up a page for this as well.

But that’s not why I am blogging this!  Instead, I spent some time today with Ian Weller to get some new Conference Bridges up on Fedora Talk, which he did in a snap.  I then proceeded to code a new page that describes the current conference bridges available within Fedora Talk.  If you didn’t know, there are several already set up for many sub-projects along with the 5 new ‘General’ conference bridges.

I sure hope you all enjoy the new availability, configure twinkle and start chatting more and more on Fedora Talk!

Cheers,

Herlo

Meeting: SLLUG Daytime SIG – Cobbler, the powerful, installation, dhcp, dns and repo server!

HI all,

This month’s SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting is this coming Wednesday, July 8, from 11:30am-1pm at BetaLoft.  I apologize for being slow getting this out, we’ve been working through a big datacenter move this past week at work.  Now that is over, it’s time for SLLUG Daytime at BetaLoft, (357 W 200 S Suite 201 Salt Lake City, UT, 84101).  Here’s a map if you need directions.

I’d like to let you all know that I (Herlo) will be presenting this month, and the topic is: Cobbler, the powerful, installation, dhcp, dns and repo server!

If you have ever wanted to setup a system with pxe, dhcp, customized repositories and more, then cobbler is for you.  Feel free to read up on the cobbler website before the meeting.

I should mention that cobbler supports several distributions of Linux, and will soon support Windows remote installation (using Linux RIS).  Albeit, I’ll focus on setup of cobbler, a simple installation server with just one distro, using kvm and koan (kickstart over a network) with some basic networking and showing the gui tools as well.

Bring your lunch and your brains and learn all about setting up your very own install server in under an hour.

See you all on Wednesday!

Cheers,

Herlo