Monday, December 15, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - Linux File Systems Comparison

When: December 17, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Linux File Systems Comparison
Moderator: Jerry Feldman

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

Summary

A discussion including ext3, ext4, zfs, btrfs, and xfs

Abstract

Every computer uses some kind of file system to manage its storage
systems, whether that be hard disks SSD, or USB stick. The Linux EXT
family of file systems is over 10 years old and is getting a big long in
the tooth. My focus is primarily the end user because the end user just
wants his/her system to work reliably and efficiently. We want our
documents and pictures to be in tact when we write them and for the
forseeable future. It is the file system that manages all this.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Friday, November 28, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIV Saturday December 6, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LIV
When: Saturday December 6, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.2 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 14.04.1 DVD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.

Lunch is generously sponsored by Bluefin Technical Services, John Ross
and Ron Thibeau


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Reminder Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - Jeff Schiller on Security

When: November 19, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Jeff Schiller on Security

Moderator: Jeff Schiller - Network Manager , Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

Summary

Jeff discusses the importance of security early in the development process

Abstract
TBD

BIO
Jeff works at MIT in the Information Services and Technology Department
(IS&T). For more then 20 years he's managed MIT's Internet presence. He
also built a significant portion of MIT's Security Infrastructure
including its X.509 certificate deployment. MIT is probably has one of
the largest deployments (and certainly the oldest, dating back to 1996)
of X.509 client Certificates.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - Jeff Schiller on Security

When: November 19, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Jeff Schiller on Security

Moderator: Jeff Schiller - Network Manager , Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

Summary

Jeff discusses the importance of security early in the development process

Abstract
TBD

BIO
Jeff works at MIT in the Information Services and Technology Department
(IS&T). For more then 20 years he's managed MIT's Internet presence. He
also built a significant portion of MIT's Security Infrastructure
including its X.509 certificate deployment. MIT is probably has one of
the largest deployments (and certainly the oldest, dating back to 1996)
of X.509 client Certificates.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Monday, November 3, 2014

Reminder: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Learning to Change the World - Weds, Nov 5, 2014

When: Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html <http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>
Also easily accessibly by T.

Cost: Free

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Join us as Walter Bender
presents "Learning to Change
the World: How the Technology
and Culture of Free Software
Can Fuel a Learning Revolution
One Teacher and One Child at a
Time."

Walter Bender is founder and
executive director of Sugar
Labs. Sugar Labs is a member
project of the non-profit
foundation Software Freedom
Conservancy. Sugar Labs
develops educational software
used by more than
three-million children in more
than forty countries.

In 2006, Bender co-founded
the One Laptop per Child, a
non-profit association with
Nicholas Negroponte and
Seymour Papert. As director
of the MIT Media Laboratory,
Bender led a team of
researchers in fields as
varied as tangible media to
affective computing to
lifelong kindergarten. In
1992, Bender founded the MIT
News in the Future consortium,
which launched the era of
digital news.

More Events & Announcements

Jeff Schiller on Security
Weds, Nov 19 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-nov

Installfest LIV (Hands-on)
Sat, Dec 6 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest54

Meet the Creative Commons with Matt Lee
Weds, Jan 7 at Akamai
http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group/events/217495612/




_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Learning to Change the World - Weds, Nov 5, 2014

When: Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html <http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>
Also easily accessibly by T.

Cost: Free

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Join us as Walter Bender
presents "Learning to Change
the World: How the Technology
and Culture of Free Software
Can Fuel a Learning Revolution
One Teacher and One Child at a
Time."

Walter Bender is founder and
executive director of Sugar
Labs. Sugar Labs is a member
project of the non-profit
foundation Software Freedom
Conservancy. Sugar Labs
develops educational software
used by more than
three-million children in more
than forty countries.

In 2006, Bender co-founded
the One Laptop per Child, a
non-profit association with
Nicholas Negroponte and
Seymour Papert. As director
of the MIT Media Laboratory,
Bender led a team of
researchers in fields as
varied as tangible media to
affective computing to
lifelong kindergarten. In
1992, Bender founded the MIT
News in the Future consortium,
which launched the era of
digital news.

More Events & Announcements

Jeff Schiller on Security
Weds, Nov 19 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-nov

Installfest LIV (Hands-on)
Sat, Dec 6 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest54

_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Friday, October 10, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - Linux runs the spectrum from High Performance to Power Efficient Computing

When: October 15, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Linux runs the spectrum from High Performance to Power Efficient
Computing

Moderators Brian DeLacy and Kurt Keville

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

Summary

Dart on Debian on BeagleBoneBlack, plus a Linux HPC update

Abstract

Debian + Dart + BeagleBoneBlack

Brian DeLacey introduces the recent packaging of the Dart language
for Debian on the BeagleBoneBlack. We'll look at Wheezy today and Jessie
tomorrow. Brian's demos will showcase a webserver and a variety of
sensor circuits and applications running Dart on the Debian-friendly
BeagleBoneBlack. We'll discuss how this simple setup ties into the core
ideas of "The Physical Web" project, recently announced by Google.

We'll revisit the crazy code churn rant heard round the community,
and why Device Tree architecture was a huge revolution for ARM
platforms. We'll also review the evolution of GPIO in the Linux kernel
for software controlled digital signals. Bring your multimeter for a
closer look at power efficient computing.

Also, Kurt Keville updates us on the current state of Linux High
Performance Computing (HPC).

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

When: September 17, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV
Moderators:Bill Ricker
Shava Nerad, Founding executive director of the Tor Project

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.


Summary
Bill's annual Crypto News update, a history of TOR, and our annual
keysigning party. Pre-register your PGP key before the meeting!

Abstract

Add your key to the keysigning party checksheet:
[url]http://blu.org/keysignings/[/url]

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP
encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each
others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a
great degree. Key signing parties also serve as great opportunities to
discuss the political and social issues surrounding strong cryptography,
individual liberties, individual sovereignty, and even implementing
encryption technologies or perhaps future work on free encryption software.

The basic workflow of signing someone's key is as follows:

[list] [*]Verify that the person actually is who they claim to be;
[*]Have them verify their key ID and fingerprint; [*]Sign their key;
[*]Send the signed key back to them [/list]

At the meeting, we go through the first two steps. Each person who
preregistered their key will announce their presence and then read off
their key ID and fingerprint, so everyone can verify that their copy of
the list of keys is correct. Once we've run down the list, we line up,
and each of us examines everyone else's photo IDs to verify that they
are who they claim to be. After the meeting is over, each participant
can then retrieve the keys that they've personally verified, sign those
keys, and send the signed keys back to their respective owners.

In order to complete the keysigning in the allotted time, we follow
a formal procedure as seen in V. Alex Brennen's "GnuPG Keysigning Party
HOWTO", attached below. It is strongly advised that if you have not been
to a keysigning party before, you read this document. We're using the
List-based method for this keysigning party, and the keyserver at
subkeys.pgp.net.

It is essential that, before the meeting, you register on the signup
form listed in the attachments. You should bring at least one picture ID
with you. You must also bring your own printout of the report on that
page, so you can check off the names/keys of the people you have
personally verified.

The list will be printed on Wednesday afternoon, the day of the
meeting; be sure to register your key for the keysigning before that.
The official cutoff time is 3:00 pm.

Additional Links:
Registration http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php
GNUPG Keysigning Party Howto:
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
GNU Privacy Guard: http://www.gnupg.org/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Software Freedom Day - Sat, Sept 20, 2014

When: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9AM - 5PM

Location: Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA

Directions
10 - 15 minute walk from Central Square T stop
or take 68 or 69 bus

Cost: Free

Notes

1) Breakfast and lunch provided by RedHat and Akamai.
Thank you sponsors!

2) Interested in giving a lightning talk? Spots available.
Please send me your name and topic.

Summary

Join us at our annual
celebration of free software.
This year's schedule includes
talks on:

-- free software for smart phones
-- protecting your privacy
-- how to contribute to
free software (you don't need
to be a techie)
-- how to make money with free
software.

Beginners, experts and
everyone in between are
welcome to this free event!

Interested in giving a
lightning talk? We'd love to
hear from you. Contact Will
Rico.

More event info here:
http://meetu.ps/2sB29b

More Events & Announcements

Crypto News + Keysigning Party at MIT
Wednesday, September 17 at 6:30
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-sep

An Evening of IoT at MIT
Friday, September 19 at 6:30pm
http://www.iotinit.com/

Learning to Change the World (Walter Bender of Sugar Labs)
Wednesday, November 5
http://meetu.ps/2pxLP8

_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIII reminder - today, Saturday September 13, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LII
When: Saturday September 13, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
Bluefin Technical Services.

Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

When: September 17, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV
Moderators:Bill Ricker
Shava Nerad, Founding executive director of the Tor Project

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315


Summary
Bill's annual Crypto News update, a history of TOR, and our annual
keysigning party. Pre-register your PGP key before the meeting!

Abstract

Add your key to the keysigning party checksheet:
[url]http://blu.org/keysignings/[/url]

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP
encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each
others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a
great degree. Key signing parties also serve as great opportunities to
discuss the political and social issues surrounding strong cryptography,
individual liberties, individual sovereignty, and even implementing
encryption technologies or perhaps future work on free encryption software.

The basic workflow of signing someone's key is as follows:

[list] [*]Verify that the person actually is who they claim to be;
[*]Have them verify their key ID and fingerprint; [*]Sign their key;
[*]Send the signed key back to them [/list]

At the meeting, we go through the first two steps. Each person who
preregistered their key will announce their presence and then read off
their key ID and fingerprint, so everyone can verify that their copy of
the list of keys is correct. Once we've run down the list, we line up,
and each of us examines everyone else's photo IDs to verify that they
are who they claim to be. After the meeting is over, each participant
can then retrieve the keys that they've personally verified, sign those
keys, and send the signed keys back to their respective owners.

In order to complete the keysigning in the allotted time, we follow
a formal procedure as seen in V. Alex Brennen's "GnuPG Keysigning Party
HOWTO", attached below. It is strongly advised that if you have not been
to a keysigning party before, you read this document. We're using the
List-based method for this keysigning party, and the keyserver at
subkeys.pgp.net.

It is essential that, before the meeting, you register on the signup
form listed in the attachments. You should bring at least one picture ID
with you. You must also bring your own printout of the report on that
page, so you can check off the names/keys of the people you have
personally verified.

The list will be printed on Wednesday afternoon, the day of the
meeting; be sure to register your key for the keysigning before that.
The official cutoff time is 3:00 pm.

Additional Links:
Registration http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php
GNUPG Keysigning Party Howto:
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
GNU Privacy Guard: http://www.gnupg.org/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Monday, September 8, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIII Saturday September 13, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LII
When: Saturday September 13, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

RSVP Required: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Write Your First Android App - Weds, Sept 3, 2014

When: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
<http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>
<http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
<http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>>
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) RSVP *is* required this month.

2) This is *not* the same Akamai building we usually meet in.
The RSVP requirement is due to this building's security
procedures. See location above.

3) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

4) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

5) We have tickets to the MongoDB Boston conference to
raffle off, courtesy of MongoLab (https://mongolab.org).
Must attend in person for a chance to win.

Summary

Adam Stroud is the author of
Professional Android Sensor
Programming, former lead
developer at RunKeeper, and
current lead developer at
Mustbin. He is a
self-proclaimed "phandroid"
and is an active participant
in the Android virtual
community on StackOverflow and
Android Google groups.

All skill levels are welcome!

Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T
stop and other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

Linux InstallFest LIII at MIT
Saturday, September 13, 2014 9am - 5pm
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53>

An Evening of IoT at MIT
Friday, September 19 at 6:30pm
http://www.iotinit.com/

Software Freedom Day at Industry Lab in Cambridge
September 20th, 9am-5pm
http://meetu.ps/2sB29b

Learning to Change the World (Walter Bender of Sugar Labs)
Wednesday, November 5
http://meetu.ps/2pxLP8
_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder tonight, Wednesday, August 20, 2014 AMD Night

When: August 20, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: AMD Night
Moderators:Shankar Viswan, Dave Jessel
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Latest developments from AMD

Abstract
Details to follow.

About Shankar Viswan

Shankar Viswanathan has been involved in high performance
microprocessor design for almost 10 years, last 5 years of which have
been at AMD. His first project at AMD was the Pacifica extensions for
the AMD Opteron, Athlon64 and Turion64 processors. He is currently
working on the next generation "Fusion" microprocessor at AMD.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, August 20, 2014 AMD Night

When: August 20, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: AMD Night
Moderators:Shankar Viswan, Dave Jessel
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Latest developments from AMD

Abstract
Details to follow.

About Shankar Viswan

Shankar Viswanathan has been involved in high performance
microprocessor design for almost 10 years, last 5 years of which have
been at AMD. His first project at AMD was the Pacifica extensions for
the AMD Opteron, Athlon64 and Turion64 processors. He is currently
working on the next generation "Fusion" microprocessor at AMD.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Reminder: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Build a GNU/Linux Super Desktop on a Budget - Weds, Aug 6, 2014

When: Wednesday, Aug 6, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html <http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) RSVP isn't required, but appreciated to help me
plan space / food.

2) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

3) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Want to build your own PC and
run your favorite GNU/Linux
distro? Brian DeLacey did all
the research and suffered the
battle wounds, so you don't
have to. See how he built a
super GNU/Linux desktop for
under $400 and get your
questions answered.

Brian has recently built
GNU/Linux PCs for under $400,
under $300 and under $200!
Find out how he did it. As an
added bonus, Brian will demo
the newest Beagle Bone Black
running Debian. There is truly
something for everyone in this
talk. And as always, everyone
is welcome so bring a friend.


Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T
stop and other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

How to Build Your First Android App (Adam Stroud)
Wednesday, Sept 3
http://meetu.ps/2pH6md

Linux InstallFest LIII at MIT
Saturday, September 13, 2014 9am - 5pm
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53 <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53>

Software Freedom Day at Industry Lab in Cambridge
September 20th, 9am-5pm
http://meetu.ps/2sB29b

Learning to Change the World (Walter Bender of Sugar Labs)
Wednesday, November 5
http://meetu.ps/2pxLP8

_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Saturday, July 26, 2014

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Build a GNU/Linux Super Desktop on a Budget - Weds, Aug 6, 2014

When: Wednesday, Aug 6, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Want to build your own PC and
run your favorite GNU/Linux
distro? Brian DeLacey did all
the research and suffered the
battle wounds, so you don't
have to. See how he built a
super GNU/Linux desktop for
under $400 and get your
questions answered.

Brian has recently built
GNU/Linux PCs for under $400,
under $300 and under $200!
Find out how he did it. As an
added bonus, Brian will demo
the newest Beagle Bone Black
running Debian. There is truly
something for everyone in this
talk. And as always, everyone
is welcome so bring a friend.


Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T
stop and other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

How to Build Your First Android App (Adam Stroud)
Wednesday, Sept 3
http://meetu.ps/2pH6md

Linux InstallFest LIII at MIT
Saturday, September 13, 2014 9am - 5pm
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53

Software Freedom Day at Industry Lab in Cambridge
September 20th, 9am-5pm
http://meetu.ps/2sB29b

Learning to Change the World (Walter Bender of Sugar Labs)
Wednesday, November 5
http://meetu.ps/2pxLP8

_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix Annual Summer BBQ XX reminder Saturday, July 26 2013 1:00 PM

Boston Linux and Unix Annual Summer BBQ XX
When: Saturday, July 26, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Where: John and Shelley Chambers' home
33 Cedarwood Avenue, Waltham, MA.
BYOF - Bring Your Own Food

Boston Linux & Unix is holding its nineteenth annual summer BBQ on
Saturday, July 26(rain date: August 2), beginning at 1:00 p.m. Everyone
is welcome.
Guests are encouraged to bring along something for the grill and the
snack table. We're holding the barbecue at the same location as the past
few years, John and Shelley Chambers' home at 33 Cedarwood Avenue,
Waltham,MA.

Please refer to the BLU website for further details and directions.

http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-bbq20

The forecast calls for a few showers in the morning but should be clear
in the afternoon
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Friday, July 18, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix Annual Summer BBQ XX Saturday, July 26 2013 1:00 PM

Boston Linux and Unix Annual Summer BBQ XX
When: Saturday, July 26, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Where: John and Shelley Chambers' home
33 Cedarwood Avenue, Waltham, MA.
BYOF - Bring Your Own Food

Boston Linux & Unix is holding its nineteenth annual summer BBQ on
Saturday, July 26(rain date: August 2), beginning at 1:00 p.m. Everyone
is welcome.
Guests are encouraged to bring along something for the grill and the
snack table. We're holding the barbecue at the same location as the past
few years, John and Shelley Chambers' home at 33 Cedarwood Avenue,
Waltham,MA.

Please refer to the BLU website for further details and directions.

http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-bbq20
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, July 16, 2014 OpenCL: The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems

When: July 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: OpenCL: The open standard for parallel programming of
heterogeneous systems
Moderator:Chris Allen
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
OpenCL is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform,
parallel programming of modern processors

Abstract
OpenCL is a framework for programming across multiple processors, such
as CPU, GPU, ASICs, etc. It's primary goal is mathematics and
cryptography. The OpenCL spec is:
1. Platform model: Specifies that there is one processor coordinating
execution (the host) and one or more processors capable of executing
OpenCL C code (the devices). It defines an abstract hardware model that
is used by programmers when writing OpenCL C functions (called kernels)
that execute on the devices.
2. Execution model: Defines how the OpenCL environment is configured on
the host and how kernels are executed on the device. This includes
setting up an OpenCL context on the host, providing mechanisms for
host–device interaction, and defining a concurrency model used for
kernel execution on devices.
3. Memory model: Defines the abstract memory hierarchy that kernels use,
regardless of the actual underlying memory architecture. The memory
model closely resembles current GPU memory hierarchies, although this
has not limited adoptability by other accelerators.
4. Programming model: Defines how the concurrency model is mapped to
physical hardware.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, July 16, 2014 OpenCL: The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems

When: July 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: OpenCL: The open standard for parallel programming of
heterogeneous systems
Moderator:Chris Allen
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
OpenCL is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform,
parallel programming of modern processors

Abstract
Details to follow - please see http://www.blu.org



For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tonight, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Federico's OSCON Preview BLU 20th Anniversary

When: June 18, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Federico's OSCON Preview && BLU's 20th anniversary
Moderator:Federico Lucifredi
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
*** Note: room changed from last month.


### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Federico previews the talk he'll be giving at OSCON 2014

Abstract
Details to follow - please see http://www.blu.org

Cake and other refreshments will be provided,
Infinio (http://www.infinio.com/) will be sponsoring the refreshments

About Federico Lucifredi

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary
documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College
and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at
Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell
corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years,
overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance
business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software
architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent
two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate
programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent
speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux
Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention,
and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the
Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing
performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's
clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic
issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the
large-corporation panel.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Federico's OSCON Preview BLU 20th Anniversary

When: June 18, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Federico's OSCON Preview && BLU's 20th anniversary
Moderator:Federico Lucifredi
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Federico previews the talk he'll be giving at OSCON 2014

Abstract
Details to follow - please see http://www.blu.org

Cake and other refreshments will be provided,
Infinio (http://www.infinio.com/) will be sponsoring the refreshments

About Federico Lucifredi

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary
documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College
and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at
Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell
corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years,
overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance
business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software
architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent
two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate
programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent
speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux
Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention,
and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the
Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing
performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's
clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic
issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the
large-corporation panel.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LII today, Saturday May 31, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LII
When: Saturday May 31, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
Bluefin Technical Services.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LII Saturday May 31, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LII
When: Saturday May 31, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
Bluefin Technical Services.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow, May 21, 2014 OpenStack from Scratch, Part II

When: May 21, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: OpenStack from Scratch, Part II
Moderator:Federico Lucifredi
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Part 2 of Federico's discussion of OpenStack

Abstract
OpenStack is a free and open-source software cloud computing platform.
It is primarily deployed as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects
that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources
throughout a data center, able to be managed or provisioned through a
web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API. It is
released under the terms of the Apache License.

OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and
NASA, and is currently managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit
corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack
software and its community.[4] More than 200 companies have joined the
project, including Arista Networks, AT&T, AMD, Canonical, Cisco, Dell,
EMC, Ericsson, Go Daddy, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp,
Nexenta, Red Hat, SUSE Linux, VMware, Oracle and Yahoo!.

The OpenStack community collaborates around a six-month, time-based
release cycle with frequent development milestones. During the planning
phase of each release, the community gathers for the OpenStack Design
Summit to facilitate developer working-sessions and to assemble plans.
The most recent OpenStack Summit, in November 2013 in Hong Kong, drew
3,000 attendees.

About Federico Lucifredi

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary
documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College
and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at
Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell
corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years,
overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance
business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software
architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent
two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate
programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent
speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux
Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention,
and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the
Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing
performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's
clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic
issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the
large-corporation panel.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, May 21, 2014 OpenStack from Scratch, Part II

When: May 21, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: OpenStack from Scratch, Part II
Moderator:Federico Lucifredi
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Part 2 of Federico's discussion of OpenStack

Abstract
OpenStack is a free and open-source software cloud computing platform.
It is primarily deployed as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects
that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources
throughout a data center, able to be managed or provisioned through a
web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API. It is
released under the terms of the Apache License.

OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and
NASA, and is currently managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit
corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack
software and its community.[4] More than 200 companies have joined the
project, including Arista Networks, AT&T, AMD, Canonical, Cisco, Dell,
EMC, Ericsson, Go Daddy, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp,
Nexenta, Red Hat, SUSE Linux, VMware, Oracle and Yahoo!.

The OpenStack community collaborates around a six-month, time-based
release cycle with frequent development milestones. During the planning
phase of each release, the community gathers for the OpenStack Design
Summit to facilitate developer working-sessions and to assemble plans.
The most recent OpenStack Summit, in November 2013 in Hong Kong, drew
3,000 attendees.

About Federico Lucifredi

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary
documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College
and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at
Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell
corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years,
overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance
business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software
architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent
two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate
programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent
speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux
Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention,
and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the
Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing
performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's
clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic
issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the
large-corporation panel.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Thursday, May 1, 2014

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Free Software for Photographers - Weds, May 7, 2014

When: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) To kickstart the meeting, we'll have a brief talk on DRM
by FSF Licensing & Compliance Manager Joshua Gay.

2) See the "More Events" section for a separate event
on Tuesday for Day Against DRM.

3) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

4) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Do you take photos? Do you ever need to enhance your photos?
What about organize them? If you answered "yes" to any of
these, join us for part 2 of our series on Free Software for
Photographers.

Dick Miller is going to teach us Fotoxx, a free open source
GNU/Linux program for photo editing and collection
management. The goal is to meet most user needs while
remaining fast and easy to use.

What you will learn:

-- Index images and create photo collections

-- Adjust brightness, color and gamma curves

-- Sharpen, blur and reduce noise

-- Anti-alias: suppress "jaggies" in low-rez images

-- Apply special effects

-- Much more!

Bring your questions, your laptop, and even your photos if
you'd like!

Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T
stop and other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

Day Against DRM Tues May 6 at Best Buy Fenway
http://meetu.ps/2kWnnq

OpenCL: Parallel Programming Weds May 21 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-may
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - Getting Started with IPv6

When: April 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Getting Started with IPv6
Moderator:Walter Horowitz
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315
NOTE: The location has changed since last month!

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
An overview of transitioning to IPv6

Abstract
Walter looks at why we need IPV6, and some of the requirements to use IPV6.
He discusses some of the differences between IPV4 and IPV6 and some
specific differences in how addresses are specified. he also discusses
how to plan for transition to IPV6.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Friday, April 11, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - Getting Started with IPv6

When: April 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Getting Started with IPv6
Moderator:Walter Horowitz
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315
NOTE: The location has changed since last month!

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
An overview of transitioning to IPv6

Abstract
Walter looks at why we need IPV6, and some of the requirements to use IPV6.
He discusses some of the differences between IPV4 and IPV6 and some
specific differences in how addresses are specified. he also discusses
how to plan for transition to IPV6.


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Reminder, tonight, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - Linux Soup XIV: CGroups and Linux Containers (LXC)

When: March 19, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Linux Soup XIV: CGroups and Linux Containers (LXC)
Moderators:Christoph Doerbeck
Location: MIT Building 32, Room 155 (Stata Center)
NOTE: The location has changed since last month! Note that you can park
in the E-51 parking lot and walk over to the Stat Building or find
on-street parking.
We'll return to MIT Building E-51, Room 315 next month.

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Christoph talks about Linux Control Groups = CGroups
(http://tinyurl.com/o2bd54p)
and Linux Containers (LXC)

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - Linux Soup XIV: CGroups and Linux Containers (LXC)

When: March 19, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Linux Soup XIV: CGroups and Linux Containers (LXC)
Moderators:Christoph Doerbeck
Location: MIT Building 32, Room 155 (Stata Center)
NOTE: The location has changed since last month! Note that you can park
in the E-51 parking lot and walk over to the Stat Building or find
on-street parking.
We'll return to MIT Building E-51, Room 315 next month.

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
Christoph talks about Linux Control Groups = CGroups
(http://tinyurl.com/o2bd54p)
and Linux Containers (LXC)

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

LibrePlanet 2014 - March 22 & 23 at MIT

The speaker list and schedule for the FSF's annual conference, LibrePlanet,
is available here:
http://libreplanet.org/2014/

This year's theme is "Free Software Free Society."

I'm impressed with the mix of social, cultural, technological, ethical or
legal aspects of free and open source software that they are covering.
Timely stuff. And the keynotes look fantastic:
https://libreplanet.org/2014/program/speakers.html
(Jacob Appelbaum isn't listed on the above page, but is speaking Sunday
morning).

I'm looking forward to it and hope to see some fellow BLU'ers there!
http://libreplanet.org/2014/

Will
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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LI Reminder, today, Saturday March 1, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LI
When: Saturday March 1, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
Bluefin Technical Services.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Monday, February 24, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LI Saturday March 1, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LI
When: Saturday March 1, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
Bluefin Technical Services.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow, February 19, 2014 - SoC Deep Dive

When: February 19, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: SoC Deep Dive
Moderators:Brian DeLacey, Federico Lucifredi, Kurt Keville
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
A deep technical dive into Linux on the Intel Galileo and other
System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platforms

Abstract
We hold an interactive and deep technical dive into Linux on the Intel
Galileo development board. We'll look at system level software and
hardware, the boot sequence, file system structure, distro
modifications, and overall performance. We'll discuss and demo a number
of applications running on the Galileo.

We have 3 books and a video training to raffle from Pearson, Prentice-Hall
Practical Guide to Fedora and RHEL
Unleashed Ubuntu
Technical and Social History of Software Engineering
I have 2 codes for viewing this online video.
Linux System Administration Live Lessons

Also please check the IOT festival on Feb 22

http://www.iotfestival.com/
iotfestival@gmail.com (Internet of Things Festival)

And the Next Installfest on March 1
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest51

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - SoC Deep Dive

When: February 19, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: SoC Deep Dive
Moderators:Brian DeLacey, Federico Lucifredi, Kurt Keville
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315

### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right
### onto Amherst.

Summary
A deep technical dive into Linux on the Intel Galileo and other
System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platforms

Abstract
We hold an interactive and deep technical dive into Linux on the Intel
Galileo development board. We'll look at system level software and
hardware, the boot sequence, file system structure, distro
modifications, and overall performance. We'll discuss and demo a number
of applications running on the Galileo.

Also please check the IOT festival on Feb 22

http://www.iotfestival.com/
iotfestival@gmail.com (Internet of Things Festival)

And the Next Installfest on March 1
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest51

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Date Change: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Community Outreach Planning - Weds, Feb 5, 2014

DATE CHANGE: Due to the snow forecast, the date of this meetup has been
changed to Wednesday, February 12. Sorry for any inconvenience.

When: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Do you want to use your free software skills and passion to help
under-served communities in the Boston area?

Last month, we brainstormed organizations to work with and how to
help. Join us this month as we start converting some of those
brainstorms into concrete actions.

Everyone is welcome! We need help with community outreach, creating
workshops, organization, video/audio recording/editing, graphics and
teaching.

Notes

In March, we'll return to more topic-based meetups.

Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food'
for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/

Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T stop and
other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

SoC Deep Dive
GNU/Linux on Intel Galileo and other
System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platforms
Weds Feb 19 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-feb

Internet Festival of Things Festival
Sat Feb 22 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-iotfest

BLU Installfest LI
Sat Mar 1 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-ifest50

Linux Soup XIV: CCGroups and Linux Containers (LXC)
Weds Mar 19 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-mar

LibrePlanet 2014
Sat & Sun Mar 22 & 23 at MIT
https://libreplanet.org/2014/
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Community Outreach Planning - Weds, Feb 5, 2014

When: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Do you want to use your free software skills and passion to help
under-served communities in the Boston area?

Last month, we brainstormed organizations to work with and how to
help. Join us this month as we start converting some of those
brainstorms into concrete actions.

Everyone is welcome! We need help with community outreach, creating
workshops, organization, video/audio recording/editing, graphics and
teaching.

Notes

In March, we'll return to more topic-based meetups.

Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food'
for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/

Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T stop and
other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

SoC Deep Dive
GNU/Linux on Intel Galileo and other
System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platforms
Weds Feb 19 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-feb

Internet Festival of Things Festival
Sat Feb 22 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-iotfest

BLU Installfest LI
Sat Mar 1 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-ifest50

Linux Soup XIV: CCGroups and Linux Containers (LXC)
Weds Mar 19 at MIT
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-mar

LibrePlanet 2014
Sat & Sun Mar 22 & 23 at MIT
https://libreplanet.org/2014/
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