Archive | 2006

Wind River Systems presenting at Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, Thursday August 3rd

From the DLSLUG announcement list:

The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held Thursday, August 3rd, 7-9PM at Dartmouth College, Carson Hall, Room L02. All are welcome, free of charge.

Agenda

7:00 Sign-in, networking

7:15 Introductory remarks

7:20 “Taking Open Source, Enterprise-Class applications off the desktop and into the Field” presented by Thomas Hall, Technical Account Manager, Wind River Systems

“There are many compelling reasons to adopt Open Source applications for the desktop; one asks… Why stop there? Well, turns out there are significant technical hurdles to overcome minimal resources – successfully scaling powerful Open Source applications like Apache and MySQL into a handheld device requires Linux development and testing
tools well beyond printf.”

“However, while the groundswell of interest in the Linux OS has resulted in highly stable, mature kernels, this interest has not yet translated into commercial-quality Public Domain development tools. While it is comforting to have a ubiquitous technology like GDB available, one wants to further draw on best-in-class tools and paradigms that have been developed in the commercial software development space.”

“Wind River Systems will present on this topic and demonstrate the Eclipse-based Workbench IDE and Platform for Consumer Device, Linux Edition. As time permits, several commercially available products will be demonstrated running Wind River Linux.”

8:30 Roundtable Exchange – where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux question of the group.

The Ajaxifiation Of Yahoo

Jeremy Zawodny blogs about “The Ajaxifiation Of Yahoo” and points to the YUI Library, a promising AJAX library, licensed under the BSD library, free in cost and licensing. I've been looking forward to testing out an AJAX library, and this looks like a well-documented one to try out.

Python Special Interest Group: July 27th, Cole Tuininga on Myghty

On the Python-Talk mailing list, Bill Sconce of the GNHLUG PySIG announces the July meeting:

“The next meeting of the New Hampshire PySIG will be one week from
tonight — the 27th of July, 7:00 PM at the usual fine place, the
Amoskeag Business Incubator.”

“Our topics will be everything that's fair game to Python, including
a report by Bill on the Northeast Linux Symposium, where Python RULED,
and a remarkable development sprint by Jeff Elkner's students.”

“Our featured speaker will be Cole Tuininga, a founding member of PySIG, who knows a lot about “other languages” as well as Python, and who will tell us about Myghty.”

SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 released

Ars Technica reports SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Released. “Utah software vendor Novell has officially released much-anticipated SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. By segphault@sbcglobal.net (Ryan Paul).”

SuSE is one distribution I have yet to get around to testing. I've got a number of machines running in the office and at client sites using RedHat and related Fedora or CentOS distributions. I've been enjoying Ubuntu on several laptops as a small and relatively efficient distribution (especially with the xfce-based desktop Xubuntu), but there's a lot of positive comments on SuSE and I'm going to give it a try.

MerriLUG, 20 July, SELinux

The Nashua Linux User Group meets this Tursday, and will feature a great presentation on SELinux. Hope to see you there!

MerriLUG announcement follows:

  • Who : Daniel J Walsh, Lead SELinux Engineer, Redhat
  • What : SELinux for Dummies
  • Where: Martha's Exchange
  • Day : Thur 20 July
  • Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for workshop

:: Overview

Dan starts with an overview of SELinux: How is it different? Who should use it? What are the benefits for home users, small businesses, and non-server installations? Is installation and maintenance comparable with regular Linux distributions?

After establishing the application scope and benefits, Dan will cover the utilities, commands, administration, and general use of SELinux. You will learn how to use it, not just turn it off!

Driving directions:
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange

Web site disasters made easy…

InfoWorld: Application development relays a delightful tale of classic bungling in replacing an app in no need of replacement: Web site disasters made easy. “In 1997, I was working in the IT department at a midsize consumer products company in the San Francisco Bay Area. My job was mainly to keep the network up; the company had no Web presence. But as our competitors ate more and more of our lunch, it gradually dawned on management that we ought to be selling online. So I built a LAMP (Linux, Apache, and Perl/Python/PHP) sales portal that handled online ordering and a corporate Web site. It generated revenue from the outset.”

I think most software developers have seen similar tales. This one's told well.

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