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Fedora 11 - Get yours today!

Leonidas reigns!
Get it here.
You can read the official release announcement and other helpful links as well.
Cheers,
Herlo

June 9, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Community, Fedora, Guru, Releases, Tech • No Comments

Meeting: SLLUG Daytime SIG: IPTables Basics, Same Bat Time, New BetaLoft Location

Hi all,
I’ve been a bit quiet about the SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting this month.  That’s because I’ve been trying to decide whether we should continue to meet at the Salt Lake Public Library.  While the library is a nice place to meet, I learned about a great new business opening up this month called BetaLoft.  [...]

June 6, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Community, Fedora, Guru, News, Tech • No Comments

Event: Geek Lunch Today @ 12:30pm

I’m going to this month’s Geek Lunch in Salt Lake at My Thai.  If you’ve never been there, the lunch specials are not only cheap, but tasty!  If you’re near the Salt Lake area today around 12:30 to 2:00, come enjoy some good Thai!  There is also a Geek Lunch in the Davis/Weber and [...]

May 29, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Community, Tech, UTOS • No Comments

Hack Night Reborn: UTOS-ConMan needs some features

So, you don’t know what I am talking about?  Not sure where this is all leading?  Well, if you are interested in learning Python and Django or are an artistic hacker, we need you.
Last year, we started a project called utos-conman.  This project in about 3-5 months became the system that ran the speaker approval [...]

Cancelled: SLLUG Daytime SIG: Basics of Puppet cancelled

At about 11pm last night, our presenter sent me a message indicating that there were some unresolvable conflicts and I wanted to get the word out that today’s meeting has been cancelled.  I’ll be up at the Salt Lake Public Library to hang out and chat for an hour about whatever you all want, but [...]

May 13, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Community, LUGs, Tech • No Comments

Meeting: SLLUG Daytime SIG - May 13, 11:30am-1pm, Basics of Puppet

Presentation: Basics of Puppet
Presenter: Andrew Shafer

Next Wednesday, May 13 is the next SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting.  We’ll be getting a great presentation on Puppet from Andrew Shafer of Reductive Labs.  Andrew is a full-time Puppet developer and has been demonstrating the value of puppet for some time.  He lives here in Salt Lake and is [...]

May 7, 2009 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: Community, Guru, LUGs, News, Tech • No Comments

Report: LinuxFest NorthWest

This past weekend, I spent some time at LinuxFest NorthWest. It was quite fun and entertaining, probably the most relaxing conference I’ve ever attended.  Interestingly enough, I didn’t rent a car, which is unusual for me.  This is because I ran into the unmistakeable Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, who offered me a ride to the event.  [...]

April 29, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Tech • No Comments

Craziness: LFNW, OLPC and UTOS, oh my!

It’s been a crazy month here in my little part of the world. My favorite organization, the Utah Open Source Foundation announced it’s conference theme, dates and location. I’m really excited about this year’s possibilities and I keep hearing good things that people want to do during UTOSC 2009.
Now: Life has been hectic, [...]

UTOSC 2009: Theme, Venue, Dates Announced

So we finally announced the theme, dates and venue for the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.  Looks to be fun to see what people will think of it and the presentations that will result.  The theme, Affordability, Scalability, Reliability seemed appropriate.  I hope others will see the value in it as well.
Looking forward, I’m thinking [...]

Reminder: Cooking with PAM - This Wednesay 11:30am @ SLLUG Daytime SIG

Hi all, just sending out a reminder that the SLLUG Daytime SIG will be meeting this Wednesday @ 11:30am.  The presentation details are below:
Cooking with PAM
Thad Van Ry will cover the basics of Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). If you’re a Sys Admin who wants to know how PAM can help you or hurt you, this [...]

April 5, 2009 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: Community, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Tech • No Comments