After a month off, we’re starting off the 2010 year for the Salt Lake Linux Users Group with a meeting on Hudson, an extensible continuous integration server, presented by Stephen Shaw of Novell.
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Hello everyone!
This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to Linux and a basic
overview of what it is. It will be a great opportunity to invite people
who would like to know about what Linux is and get started. Please
bring some people you would like to introduce to Linux.
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For this month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting I’ll be presenting on SUSE Studio. The announcement follows:
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Our Aug., 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting is this Wednesday.
Nilson Beebe will present on a new math library and decimal arithmetic.
We decided to postpone last months topic till this month so no one
missed his great talk. Should be very informative.
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The June 17, 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Blender a free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GPL presented by Christian Horn.
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This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will about a consumer
Network Attached Storage device.
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This month’s meeting will be presented on Parrot by Stephen Weeks:
Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages and a very nice set of
compiler tools. I’ll be walking through the steps of implementing a
compiler for Parrot from the ground up, using scheme as an example.
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This month, Clint Savage will be presenting on “Fedora Remix: Custom
distributions based upon proven design” at the Feb 18, 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting.
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A week or so ago I posted a request to the Salt Lake Linux Users Group members list for ideas for upcoming SLLUG meetings. Here’s a list of what they sent in. All great ideas. I think I got them all listed here. If you suggested an idea and it’s not in the list below, shoot me an email, reply to the thread on the sllug-members@sllug.org list or to this post here.
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Hey, just letting people know that if I can’t find a laptop with an nvidia chipset, I’ll demo using GPSs on Linux and talk about gpsbabel, gpicsync and Google Earth instead of talking about Google Sketchup on Wine.
Either way, this meeting tonight will be a blast!
Oh I also have openSUSE 11.1 DVDs to give out. See you there!!!!
See the original post for directions and time, etc: SLLUG meeting: Wed. Jan 21, 2009: Google Sketchup 7 running on Wine demo
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Here’s the announcement I made for the December Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting. Note the time/date change! It will be held on Monday, Dec. 8th and we will be attending a lecture rather than having an organized meeting. Should be fun!
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Finally the long awaited ePUB format books are starting to show up on Penguin Publisher’s site! Here’s a search for the word ‘epub’ that turns up 682 results as of October 15th, 2008. Not all of them are available for download yet but a number of them are accessible right now.
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This month’s meeting will be on databases. A combined meeting with the Utah Database Users Group. The original announcement follows:
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The September Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Vyatta, and OpenSource network appliance. The original announcement follows:
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Stuart Jansen from Guru Labs will be presenting on KVM kernel based virtual machine at SLLUG this month. Here’s the announcement for next week’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting:
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Wow, I have several friends that use MSN and I use Pidgin to communicate with them. They have told me time and time again that I always appear off line when I am not or have been on line all day. I get this message a lot: “Message could not be sent because a connection error occurred:” when sending messages to them.
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I’ll be presenting tomorrow night (Wed. May 21, 2008) on the OpenSuse Build Service at the Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting. Everyone is welcome and it’s free! The announcement I wrote for the SLLUG mailing list follows:
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I don’t want to have to go through some winding, confusing process of reading HOWTOs, hand editing xorg.conf files, restarting X over and over again just to get decent support for my wacom digitizer pad. Especially when the experience on windows and mac is completely painless.
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Linux handheld devices at SLLUG this week (Wed. Feb 20, 2008). Hope to see everyone there!
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Wow, first it’s announced recently that MySQL will be bought by Sun and now Trolltech by Nokia. It’s pretty interesting, as I see Nokia’s primary interest in the embedded market. I wonder if this will translate into less focus on the desktop versions of the GUI tool kit.
The press release from Trolltech can be found on their site.
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