[Linux-SIG-Planning] Meeting topic for Apr. 21???

[Nancy J. Christolear]

Jason has some interesting statistics and experiences from the Dayton
LANfest.  Perhaps he would give us a summary?

Nancy

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 10:52 -0400, Dave Lundy wrote:
> As best I can recall, no meeting topic has been set yet for our next 
> Linux SIG meeting April 21.  Several possible topics were suggested.  My 
> summary of last month's meeting shows:
> 
>      * Multi-OS interoperability (Samba and / or Windows Services for UNIX)
>      * Low cost firewall (FREESCO, theWall, ClosedBSD (AKA floppywall), 
> SmoothWall, etc.)
>      * webmin (It's best to learn how to administer systems using config 
> files, but webmin makes it easier)
>      * Synching PDAs
>      * Disk partitioning - A good overview is here
>      * Virtual laptop: using a "thumb drive" with a "LiveCD" such as 
> Kanotix, Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, etc.
>      * Demo of MythTV or similar PVR installation. Scripted? Seat of 
> Pants? "Franken Myth7quot;?
>      * GPL and real world (commercial) implications
> 
> And, from July 2004, we have:
> Presentations Volunteered
> -------------------------
> James Keating (cypher at woh.rr.com): Peview Enlightenment DR17
> 
> Nancy Christolear (njc at dma.org): Applications like Star Office
> OpenOffice.org, The GIMP
> 
> Paul Ahlquist (pea at ahlquist.org): Things KDE
> 
> Paul Vischer (paulv at canonical.org): emacs, user-mode Linux, mail
> servers, DHCP, DNS, any networking, mutt, Apache, MySQL, etc.
> 
> Andy Grimm (ag381597 at ohio.edu): PXE booting, PAM, *maybe* Kerberos,
> GRUB
> 
> Jason Cook (jasonc at canonical.org): Anything, GL, Glite, new graphics
> system
> 
> 
> Presentations Requested
> -----------------------
> Distribution showcase -- how to install Debian, Gentoo, etc.
> 
> MySQL howto w/ Apache
> 
> Wine, Samba, WineX
> 
> Video editing
> 
> Music editing / Audacity
> 
> Video capture from security camera (capturing only changes)
> 
> Installing programs under Fedora
> 
> Installing programs under SuSE
> 
> iptables / firewalling
> 
> System start-up sequence (/etc/initab, sysv vs. BSD styles inits,
> rc.local)
> 
> Debian package management (from the bottom up: dpkg->dselect->apt)
> 
> Bootloaders -- how they work
> 
> So, what do we tell them this month's topic will be?
-- 
Nancy J. Christolear