[ncolug] Re: March Meeting (NCSTATE!)
- From: Aidan Artos MacTyre <wolfson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:35:52 -0500
Thanks for the early update on location.
In keeping with the theme of your planned presentation and the location;
is this the time to suggest a Linux 102 seminar?
Questions I have regarding Linux (also applicable for us Windoze Luddites)
Firewalling a Linux System on a home network with full time internet
connectivity
Optimizing system settings, both Windows and Linux, for internet
connections
Package installing as a non-distro specific way for new users to see
the new apps
Home network awareness for older installations (repurposing older
machines)
Remembering that older Hardware and Older distro's.are still valid
and need Open Source support
With the latest hardware capable of running Windows Vista, I can install
any version of Linux quite nicely. One of the touted benefits of Linux
is the ability to run it on older machines. Finding necessary tools and
successfully installing them w/o being a linux geek can be a trial.
Perhaps this is April's meeting in a request.
And for any students seeing this list for the first time, I am still
thanking linux for saving critical data for a friend.
Aidan.
M. Knisely wrote:
Well, that time is drawing near... yes March 5th is the North Central
Ohio Linux Users Group meeting.
For the month of March, we are looking to temporarily relocate the
meeting site to NC State College Room 136 of the Fellarious(sp?)
building. The meeting will run from 6:30 - 8:00, from 8:00 - 8:30
will be a transition time where Chuck will be teaching his Linux I
class. This will be a time to meet the students and to share with
them our experiences with Linux and to introduce them to a community
of Linux users here in Mansfield.
The topic this month will be the FogProject
(http://www.fogproject.org). The FogProject is a suite of GPLv3 tools
that allow you to image PCs across the network, boot diagnostic tools
on machines, securely wipe hard drives, push printers, manage assets,
and a myriad of other tasks. It's an AMAZING platform; I use the
phrase "ABSURDLY AMAZING" when describing this product to my
co-workers and fellow geeks... The fact that this is a FREE (liberated
and beer) is just icing on the incredibly rich cake that is the
FogProject.
I'll be demonstrating the following task around the FogProject:
1: Installation on and Ubuntu Linux system (just as easy on a
Fedora/Redhat RPM disto)
2: Basic Pieces, Parts & Concepts (Apache, DHCP, PXE Boot, DHCP
Options, etc)
3: Implementation Scenarios
a: Managing Corporate Machines
b: Home Machine Imaging - Don't clean spyware, just image the
system!
c: Securely wipe HDDs automagicaly!
d: What are the hardware specs on my machines???
4: Other stuff???
I look forward to seeing you all there. PLEASE REMEMBER, we're going
to be changing the location, so tell your friends!
Mike K.
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