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Archive for March, 2009
Fedora Project: Professors Open Source Summer Experience
Author: WNYLUG-Admin25 Mar
I wanted to share this, as it was posted to our mailing list.
The deadline is looming for this project, so please feel free to pass on to other FOSS mailing lists.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Professors_Open_Source_Summer_ExperiencePOSSE is a program of Fedora and Red Hat that will immerse professors in Open Source projects so that they can better teach Open Source development techniques to their students.
Those selected to participate will have their living costs covered for the week.
My own take on this…As FOSS community members we’re beginning to see more personal and corporate adoption of Open Source Software. It’s becoming more mainstream all the time. Students who aren’t already learning Open Source development techniques are missing the boat.
This is an excellent opportunity for educators to learn FOSS Development from experts. So please pass this on.
WNYLUG March Meeting Recap
Author: WNYLUG-Admin25 Mar
- Installation
- NTFS auto mount on startup
- Multimedia playback
- nVidia & ATI driver installation
- Differences between Fedora and Ubuntu USB keys
- Creating a live USB Key with personal data on the remaining free space
- Toured the Logical Volume Management GUI
- Adding logical volumes and adding more storage to existing volumes
- Formatting & partitioning
- Creating a snapshot
- Problems with creating a snapshot while programs are running
- Problems associated with volume names overwriting existing volumes when salvaging data from one system and restoring to another
- Running SELinux in Permissive vs. Enforcing modes
- Background discussion on SELinux and the NSA’s $50,000 public challenge to hack the system…nobody has collected yet…
- Discussion on using the Fedora Policy Creator vs. SELinux Policy Generation Tool
- KVM (built into Fedora but not ready for prime time)
- Vmware (largest market share)
- XEN
- VirtualBox
- Reviewed 3 logos under consideration and discussed how voting should be handled
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