Presentations from 2000
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Presentations from 2000
January, 2000. Presentation by David Palmer, Intel
February, 2000. Presentation by Rich Burroughs <rich@indiepopradio.com> on Postfix (An alternative to sendmail and smail)
March, 2000. USB on Linux by Dunlap, Randy <randy DOT dunlap AT intel DOT com>
April, 2000. Linux Clusters by Chuck Morrison <cmorrison AT
valinux DOT com>
Chuck is coming from Colorado to give this talk. He is an engineer
with VA Linux specializing in Linux cluster technology. We are
fortunate to get him.
He didn't say too much about his talk, except that it will be aimed at the hardware side of clustering and won't be about programming techniques for Linux clusters.
May, 2000. Enterprise Management Open Source Solutions to Proprietary Problems by Shane O'Donnell <shane AT www DOT opennms DOT org> Prerequisites Attendees are expected to understand basic data networking concepts, basic network management concepts, and relate to the problem of managing networks.
Description We discuss the effect of the open source revolution on network/systems management and compare technology in commercial platforms to open source alternatives. Emphasis is on the four value cornerstones of open source network management; speed, price, customizability and technology.
Demonstration of OpenNMS.org software There will be a 30-45 minutes demonstration of the software. (This assumes that David Mandel is able to get the equipment.)
Biography Shane speaks regularly on network management and business topics at international user group and industry events. Shane's recent focus is on leveraging Open Source tools in network management and building the Open Source developer community at OpenNMS.org.
June, 2000. Security Software and OpenSource by Chris Perez <perez AT tripwire DOT com>
July, 2000. The PSU Mobile Network by Jim Binkley <jrb AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>
August, 2000. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) by Eric Harrison <eharrison AT mail DOT mesd DOT k12 DOT or DOT us>
September, 2000. Webmin by David Mandel <dmandel AT transport DOT com> Webmin is a system administration tool for numerous Linux distributions, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It is web based, highly configurable, and designed to be extensible. All of this makes webmin an excellent tool for specialized Linux boxes such as internet appliances.
Webmin is fairly simple, and this presentation will reflect this simplicity. Don't expect high powered computing.
Instead, we will:October, 2000. Comments on XFree86 by Keith Packard <keithp AT suse DOT com> Also: Timothy D. Witham <tim DOT wookie DOT witham AT intel DOT com> who is Intel LSM - Linux Program Manager, will speak to us for a few minutes about the Open Source Development Lab coming to Portland.
November, 2000. Comments on ZOPE by Someone from Digital Creations Dave talked with Adam Davis <adam AT digicool DOT com> from Digital Creations. Digital Creations publish Zope which is the leading Open Source Web application server, written mostly in Python, and portable to most Linux/Unix distributions. He said someone from Digital Creations would come and speak to us.
December, 2000. WireX's Immunix Linux distro by Greg Kroah <greg AT wirex DOT com> Greg Kroah of Wirex will talk about Wirex's Linux Immunix distribution, Immunix. This is a modified Red Hat distribution aimed at the internet appliance market. Among other things, Wirex has added security features to their distribution. For example, they have recompliled all the code using a modified C compiler that prevents buffer overflows.