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Previous Meetings:
Whatever - January 28, 2010
By Gary McKee and someone else
Small turn out without Carl.
HIATUS - November and December 2009
No meetings due to Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Linux from Scratch - October 22, 2009
by Bob Hanse
Linux From Scratch
(LSF)
is a way to install a working Linux system by building all components of it manually.
Bob covers his exporing this unique Linux system and points out issues and his
techiques for keeping a grip on sanity during the process.
redmine - September 24, 2009 [Not Done]
by Carl Fitch
This was supposed to be a review of the redmine presentation done during September at the St. Louis LUG meeting.
Again, with no web access, it turned into an amazing social meeting delving into various 'NIX subjects.
Wildly Various Discussions by The Usual Suspects - August 27, 2009
Due to various technical dificulties with the projector and having the wrong laptop we
degenerated into individual groups talking about one topic after another.
A Virtual Network Simulator - July 23, 2009
by Richard Warwick
Want to study for your CCNA or other Cisco certification, study network topography for work, practice or fun? Gns3 in
combination with Dynamips may be your answer. Gns3 (graphical network
simulator 3). Dynamips is a Cisco simulator.
Richard Warwick will walk us through the installation, configuration and operation of Gns3. Demonstrating how these suite of programs can ease the design of networks, from small home networks, to multi layered WAN's
Samba Shares Across Subnets on pfSense - June 25, 2009
by Carl Fitch
Want to study for your ccna or other cisco certification. Gns3 in
combination with Dynamips may be your answer. Gns3 (graphical network
simulator 3). Dynamips is a Cisco simulator. Richard Warwick will present
the installation, configuration and operation of Gns3.
Tonight we will set up a three nic network. WAN, LAN and DMZ. When finished the computers on the LAN will be able to access the web server and Samba shares located on the DMZ. This is one time when laptops with the Dark Side will come in handy to provide proof of practice.
An in Depth Look at SystemrescueCD, A Follow Up - May 28, 2009
by Carl Fitch
This presentation will be a follow up to the SLUUG tutorial from May 13, 2009.
SystemrescueCD is a toolbox
in a live CD. Tonight we will dive into the depths of the programs that can be
started from or after booting the CD. There is a number of tools available before
entering the SystemrescueCD's Linux OS. SystemrescueCD boots into a CLI interface
for speed, once there, you can enter an X GUI if needed. Some of the tools available are:
- GNU Parted creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more).
- GParted GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library.
- Partimage saves / restores partitions to an image file on another partition or to another system.
- File systems tools (for Linux and Windows filesystems): format, resize, and debug an existing partition of a hard disk
- Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions.
- sfdisk saves / restores partition table (and more).
- Test-disk tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others
- Memtest+ to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or unexpected problems)
- Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...)
EXPO - Free Software & Technology Expo on Saturday - 9 May 2009
This live event will be held from
1 PM - 7 PM
at the Sheraton hotel (Gold Tower), Westport Plaza, in St. Louis Missouri.
It will showcase free software applications and other technology for home and business.
Attend to learn more about Free Open Source Software for Microsoft Windows and the GNU/Linux operating system.
See them demonstrated, have them installed on your PC at no charge, or buy a PC with them pre-loaded.
More information and directions are available at the
http://freesoftwareexpo.com home page.
++ Posted 28 Mar 2009 Updated 29 Mar 2009 Updated 3 Apr 2009
Ubuntu Release
The Ubuntu Linux distribution will be releasing a new version the end of April.
Two Google Topics - Thursday - April 23, 2009
by Two Guys
First: Google Calendar by Stan Reichardt
Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google.
While users are not required to have a Gmail account,
they are required to have a free Google Account in order to use the software.
Stan will give Carl and Gary hands on instructions that are focused on maintaining multiple calendars.
Second: Google Gadgets by Jerry Stutte
Gadgets powered by Google are miniature objects made by Google users like you,
that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web.
Bulk Deployment with Linux - Thursday - March 26, 2009
by Tony Lovasco
What is bulk deployment?
Also more planning for the Ubuntu Release Party.
Google Apps Experieces - Thursday - February 26, 2009
by Jim Roe
Jim recently converted an organization to Google apps. Tonight he is going to
Explain the processes, problems and positives he encountered.
Also tonight Tony Lovasco is talking about the progress on the Ubuntu Release party on May 9, 2009.
Software RAID - Thursday - January 22, 2009
by Carl Fitch
Software Raid, long scorned as the cheap substitue for big money, can be useful in a lot of circunstances.
This presentation will touch on installation on Debian and how to get a broken mirror running.
We will also touch on some of the ways it can be better then the high dollar raid cards.
If you have used software raid before, bring some of your "good and bad" experiences.
Favorite Applications - Monday - December 22, 2008
by Various Members
Holiday scheduling has moved this meeting to the Monday before Christmas.
This meeting will be sort of like our past keyboard karaoke meetings.
They were a lot of fun and very informative. Participation was very active
with a lot of positive feedback.
Come forward and briefly demo or just talk about your favorite application.
It can be either something that strictly uses a Command Line Interface (CLI)
or something that uses a Graphical Users Interface (GUI), or even uses both.
No meeting was held during November 2008
Nexradix™ Release Party - Thursday - October 23, 2008
by Tony Lovasco
We are going to host the release party to celebrate the latest release of
Nexradix™.
This evening's session will include:
- Copies of the latest version,
- a live demonstration,
- a complete walk through of all unique and new release features,
- a VirtualBox installation,
- a laptop installation.
Nexradix™ is a locally developed, full featured, free distribution of the GNU/Linux
operating system based on the Ubuntu distribution.
Our community has given out some Nexradix CDs at the SLUUG Linux booths manned
during the August EPC Warehouse Sales event and at the St. Louis Business Expo
that was held the first of October in the St. Charles Convention center.
Spearheading development is Tony Lovasco, of
Twisted Lincoln, Inc.,
an O'Fallon, Missouri company. Tony is also a Linux savy contact at EPC, Inc.
Nagios Demonstration
- Thursday - September 25, 2008
by Carl Fitch
Nagios® is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program.
Additional background information is available
here and
here .
Our speaker for July had "called in sick" and the meeting was a very informal affair.
We had returned in August to demonstrate Nagios in action, but, events all too often
overwhelm the presenter's ability and inclination to follow the schedule.
Fortunately the alternate topics of discussion were very interesting and varied.
We have rescheduled the demonstration again. However, with the new projector,
life will be very good. Everyone will be able to see the demo in living color!!
Or, at least without crowding around a laptop screen.
Bring some questions and/or share your knowledge. Soak up the experience and enjoy
the company. Plus, you can learn while enjoying the food.
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