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Congrats: SLLUG celebrates 15 years

May 20, 2009 – 9:39 am

I wanted to personally congratulate the Salt Lake Linux User Group on 15 years of Linux education and community.  It’s exciting to see such a strong following!  Thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into making SLLUG such a great group.

Here’s the email from Marc Christensen:

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group started its humble beginnings sometime in May of 1994.  A few weeks later we officially incorporated as a non-profit on July 28, 1994. That makes this month our 15th year soft-anniversary with the official one coming up in July.  It also makes SLLUG one of the oldest and most established Linux user groups in the world!

Congratulations to everyone one for making SLLUG a success and contributing to such a great Local Linux community.  We have members of our group that have greatly influenced and contributed heavily to Linux over the years.  We make up a diverse group of individuals of varied backgrounds and depth of knowledge.

We rock!  :)  Thanks to everyone who has helped make the Salt Lake Linux Users Group such a success over the years and here’s to many many more!!!!!

–
Marc Christensen
http://www.sllug.org

Again, congratulations to the Salt Lake Linux User Group and all of its members for 15 great years.  Here’s looking forward to 15 more.

Cheers,

Herlo

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

May 7, 2009 – 6:51 pm

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 excited to show the basics of Puppet.

What is Puppet?  (for the curious and uninitiated)

Puppet is an open-source next-generation server automation tool. It is composed of a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the configuration.

More information is available here: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

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We meet in conference room A on the lower level of the Salt Lake Library.  Head down the stairs, make a left turn.  The conference room  is directly under the foyer area (the area with all the shops on the 1st level)  If you aren’t clear, ask the information desk.

Also, our meetings should be posted on the Electric Signs by the entrance to the library on the first floor.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Fedora Classroom: May 3 classes with a new format and schedule

May 2, 2009 – 12:21 pm

This month’s Fedora Classroom will be held this Saturday/Sunday (actually it’s all Sunday UTC time).  We’ve got four fun presentations lined up for you with a new format to boot.

Essentially, the new idea is that we’re going to let the presenters be flexible with their schedules.  Thus presentations can happen any time in a 24-hour period (from 00:00 to 23:00 UTC time) this Sunday, May 3.

It looks to be a much simpler thing to make work for everyone.  Presentations will be available afterword on our Fedora Classroom Archive as well, so if you can’t stay up to watch it live, at least you can live it afterwards in the logs.

So you ask, who’s presenting.  Well, check out the Fedora Classroom wiki page and find out.  It looks to be fun and there should be something for everyone.

See you all there!!

Cheers,

Herlo

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UTOSC 2009: Theme, Venue, Dates Announced

April 8, 2009 – 8:29 am

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 a lot about the tracks we’ll be having at UTOSC 2009.  I’m wondering what others think, but I want to have at least Developer, Business and Beginner tracks.  I know that Laura Moncur and I have are already been discussing the beginner track, so that’s very exciting.

So here’s my thinking, if you want to see a particular presentation at UTOSC 2009, comment here, or on one of the blog posts on utos.org.  In addition, when we put the call for papers out, we’ll try to do a similar thing to other open source conferences, like open source bridge, linuxfest northwest and others have done.  We’ll show you all of the presentation submissions.  We’re also hoping to alter our voting system to allow anyone who has registered for the conference to vote for or against a particular presentation.

I’m getting really excited about the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.  I hope you all are too.

Cheers,

Herlo

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

April 5, 2009 – 11:44 pm

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 meeting is for you. Thad will go over the different stacks available as well as how to call modules and their control flags.

Thad is a Linux System Administrator for the LDS Church. He has been using Linux in his work life for the past 12+ years.

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LazyWeb: What is that . doing there?

March 27, 2009 – 9:34 pm

So tonight I was sitting there tonight getting ready to setup cobbler for another installation source, and I noticed something very odd.

# ls -l /root
total 88
-rw-------. 1 root root  1176 2008-11-23 17:22 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 2008-12-14 18:37 bin

See the . ? Where you ask?  Look closer!

drwxr-xr-x. <– look, there it is!!  At first, I thought it was just one file, but then I noticed it other places, then I looked further, and it seems to be everywhere.

What is up with that? Where does this come from?  What is it for?  LazyWeb, can you help me?

Cheers,

Herlo

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SLLUG: A new daytime Special Interest Group (SIG)

February 4, 2009 – 4:52 pm

So, I’ve done it.  I’ve scheduled a room at the Salt Lake Public Library for the 2nd Wednesday of each month.  The meetings will begin at 11:30 and go til about 1pm.  We have the room reserved from 9-1 each time we meet so feel free to come early and participate.  Feel free to bring your sack lunch or buy something from the vendors on the first floor (just make sure to clean up after yourself).

Our first meeting will be next Wednesday, Feb 11 from 11:30am-1pm
I will present ‘Fedora Remix: Custom distributions based upon proven design’

Here’s the rest of the details:

Conference room A on the lower level of the Salt Lake Library has been reserved.  Head down the stairs, make a left turn (essentially a U turn).  The conference room is directly under the foyer area (the area with all the shops on the 1st level)  If you aren’t clear, ask the information desk.  A map is available here of all floor plans of the library.

Also, our meetings should be posted on the Electric Signs by the entrance to the library on the first floor.

Meeting Days & Times:

All meetings will be held from 11:30am – 1pm on the Second Wednesday of each month.

  • Wednesday, February 11
  • Wednesday, March 11
  • Wednesday, April 8
  • Wednesday, May 13
  • Wednesday, June 10

Feel free to add this and other Utah Tech Events to your calendar by adding the ‘Utah Tech Events’ feed to your calendar.

Traxx

You can get off 2 blocks west of the Library.  If you get off at the ‘Courthouse 500 South’ stop
There is also a University Train that stops right next to the library, but you’ll have to transfer at Gallivan Center.

Parking

Parking is recommended to be one block away from the Library as they have reduced the meters in front of the Library to only 30 minutes.  However the meters directly east (on 200 East) should still be 2 hours.  Make sure to check the time you allow yourself is plenty.

See you all there.

Herlo

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Hear ye, hear ye, Fedora 10 has arrived

November 25, 2008 – 8:20 am

Get yours today.

Fedora 10 - Released

Fedora 10 - Released

Available at mirrors everywhere.  Also via bittorrent ? and jigdo ?.

Freedom, Friends, Features, First!  That’s Fedora!

Cheers,

Herlo

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So it appears we may be onto something

November 5, 2008 – 11:54 pm

As of this afternoon, between myself and Steven Moix, it appears that almost all of the Fedora 10 Tour will be ready for the upcoming release.  Check it out for yourself, we’re only missing the release summary which should be written very soon.

Also, I should note that the countdown has already started:

Also, F10 Preview came out yesterday during the election so nobody probably noticed.  Get yours today!

Cheers,

Herlo

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Meme: First thing I do after installing (insert your distro here)

November 5, 2008 – 1:54 am

Obviously, my distro is Fedora, but for those of you who might choose something else, let’s play along.

This meme comes from Valent Turkovic’s blog post a few days ago, so I thought I’d share mine.

$ su -c 'yum install nautilus-open-terminal'

This enables me to right click on the desktop and click ‘Open in Terminal’. This is much better than choosing ‘Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal’, which in my opinion is a big pain in the ass!

While it used to open in the user’s home directory, now it opens in their Desktop.  Not sure of the benefit for that, but I’m glad it’s still around.

Cheers,

Herlo

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