BLUG meeting
05/07/2007 at 12:00 AM
Tomorrow, Thurs June 7th, from 7pm til 9pm,
in D bldg (usually room D-5) at BTC, will be the
regular monthly meeting of BLUG.
Jim will be presenting on “system disaster recovery”.
An overview of DOS disk segmentation, and partition tables.
Issues having to do with the capture of information from a hard disk as
related to disaster recovery
How to backup and record information on optical media from the command line
A description of the SystemRescue rescue disk distribution and its
customization
A demo of some scripts written in bash shell script for the purpose of
disaster recovery
We’ll have our usual Q&A and Linux news sessions, as well
as open discussion.
See you there,
Bill
Dot Org Mtg at Marks Thursday 19th
04/19/2007 at 12:00 AM
This Thursday the 19th is the special meeting of Blug’s Fest Dot Org Committee.
A lot of last minute stuff has yet to be accomplished to pull this Fest off.
It’s this Thurs the 19th, 7pm till 9pm, at Mark’s house.
I’ll still have some of the large posters available.
If you’d like to attend and need directions contact Mark at xxxx
see you there,
Bill
Bill Wright
bill at blug dot org
www.blug.org
www.linuxfestnorthwest.org
BTC Meeting
04/05/2007 at 12:00 AM
Jim Armstrong’s talk has been re-scheduled for another month.
Instead we will talk about plans for the Linuxfest coming up at the end of the month, and I will demo an open source hardware emulation system called QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/index.html
QUEM is a virtual machine similar to Vmware that can be used to run virtual computers on a Linux host system.
Linux Virtualization with OpenVZ
03/01/2007 at 12:00 AM
John Blandford will be presenting: Linux Virtualization with OpenVZ
OpenVZ is an Operating System level server virtualization system
recently released under the GPL by SWsoft.
An OS level virtualization scheme runs a single OS kernel. It provides
resource isolation and management to divide up the system into multiple
virtual servers. These virtual servers look to their users like full
physical servers, but are really just containers of normal processes and
files in the underlying OS. This lite weight approach lets these
systems run hundreds of virtual servers on common hardware.
John will talk a bit about virtualization, and then show OpenVZ in action.
For more information, take a look at:
http://openvz.org/
http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/OpenVZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization
Blug BTC Meeting – Slackware
02/01/2007 at 12:00 AM
Aaron Miller will demonstrate a new version of Slackware. John will marvel at how much it has changed since the old days.
Blug Meeting – Ubuntu/Kubuntu
12/07/2006 at 12:00 AM
Install Ubuntu or Kubuntu and fatten up your machine with lots of useful additions from various Debian repositories. This will be an informal session with an MC at the front and lots of input from members of the audience. We plan on doing a live demo.
If you’ve been thinking about moving from Novell/SuSE to another distro this would be a good meeting to attend.
Blug Install Fest Thurs Oct 5th
10/05/2006 at 12:00 AM
On Thursday Oct 5th at BTC in D bldg 7pm til 9pm
BLUG will host an open to the public Linux install fest.
I have three SuSE Enterprise Desktop 10 and four SuSE Open Linux CD’s,
donated by Novell, that will be available.
Anyone else with other flavors please bring your CD’s.
BLUG’rs tell your friends who’ve been thinking about Linux and
come yourselves to lend support with technical assistance.
John B. will be there to talk about “Install HowTo’s, Tips and Tricks”
It should be fun, so spread the word “Now is the time to try
Linux”.
BLUG meeting Thrusday Sept 7th at BTC
08/31/2006 at 12:00 AM
Adrian will finish his talk on Base and Mark will use the second half of the meeting for Dynamically Generated Open Office Documents. The meeting will be held in D building at Bellingham Tech College from 7pm till 9pm.
Blug summer picnic
08/13/2006 at 12:00 AM
The annual summer picnic will be held at Fairhaven Park in the upper shelter on Aug 13 from 4:00-8:00 PM. Bring food, kids, frisbees, tall tales etc. The is uphill from where we normally hold the Christmas party. Look for Tux on the horizon.
July 6th Meeting: Open Office applications
07/06/2006 at 12:00 AM
Open Office is the leading office suite for Linux. It also runs on Windows, so non-Linux users can get a sense of the value of free and open source software.
This presentation by Carl and Adrian will cover OpenOffice applications, including the basics, styles/formatting, tips, politics/culture, compatibility with other popular office suites, and technical details lurking deep.