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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