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News: Fedora 13 Beta Released!!

Get yours today!! From the announcement by Jesse Keating: The countdown is on: Fedora 13, “Goddard,” is set to launch in mid-May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But wait! What’s that? You can’t [...]

Posted on April 13, 2010 at 9:29 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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News: The future of SLLUG Daytime

For the past several months the fine folks at BetaLoftSLC have been hosting SLLUG Daytime and it’s been going pretty well.  However, this month I was informed that BetaLoftSLC will be closing their doors at the end of March. I was saddened to hear this, Drew and his crew have been doing a bang-up job [...]

Posted on March 20, 2010 at 9:14 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SLLUG Daytime: Git this Wednesday!

Just so you are aware, we are holding the SLLUG Daytime Meeting this month. As usual, come from 11:30am-1pm at BetaLoftSLC (357 W 200 S #201)  - http://betaloftslc.com This month, I thought I would share a basic git introduction.  In my opinion, the best Source Control Management (SCM) system out right now.  I’ve been using [...]

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 3:35 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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News: Fedora 12 is NOW AVAILABLE!!

I’ve been running Fedora 12 for about a month now (Beta first, Alpha before that).  It’s the best Fedora to date. Everything Just Works(TM). I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a system working with great sound, awesome graphics and very usable GNOME and KDE desktops.  I really like the new NetworkManager [...]

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 10:31 am by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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UTOSC 2009: Breakfast is served!

As part of my effort to help out folks coming in for the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, we have filled up our household with out-of-towners. However, when I asked my awesome sweetie , Jennifer, about food, she had this reply: 21:37 <herlo> did you say you were willing to cook breakfast for us during [...]

Posted on September 3, 2009 at 8:50 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on June 6, 2009 at 8:33 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 4:20 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Congrats: SLLUG celebrates 15 years

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 [...]

Posted on May 20, 2009 at 9:39 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 6:51 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Fedora Classroom: May 3 classes with a new format and schedule

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 [...]

Posted on May 2, 2009 at 12:21 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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