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