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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
Meeting March 11 2009
Author: WNYLUG-Admin19 Feb
The WNYLug will be holding our next meeting on March 11th 2009 from
6:30pm to 9:00pm.
The meeting will take place at 455 Cayuga Rd Suite 200, Buffalo, NY 14225.
Food and drink will be provided (Pizza and Wings)
Meeting Agenda:
- Presentations :
- “Fedora Desktop” – A brief conclusion of last months presentation focusing on LVM and SELinux – Presented by Brian Powell.
- “Got Shell??” – The last segment of our 3 month series of installing and using Ubuntu and Fedora with a detailed focus on command line usage.
- “Command Line Basics” – Overview of common command line utilities. – Presented by Neal Chapman.
- “Command Line Tips and Tricks” – Presented by Brian Powell.
- Open Floor
Cuba Launches Own Linux Variant to Counter U.S.
Author: nchapman5517 Feb
Cuba cracks me up:
A Linux operating system variant called Nova, introduced in Cuba at a computer conference on technological sovereignty, is part of an effort to replace the Microsoft software running most of Cuba’s computers. The Cuban government views the use of Microsoft systems as a potential threat because it says U.S. security agencies have access to Microsoft codes.
Read more at: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Cuba-Launches-Own-Linux-Variant-to-Counter-US/?kc=EWKNLLIN02172009STR3
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