[Cialug] Wanted Topics Wanted

[Dan Hockey]

Here's a link to a thread I started to try to get people interested in linux

http://www.savagecircuits.com/forums/showthread.php?230-What-are-you-doing-with-linux


--- On Tue, 3/1/11, jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

From: jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wanted Topics Wanted
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 2:45 PM

This is a list of ideas I dropped out there in 2009.  A lot of it is for people who are new to linux or may be new to serving/hosting with linux.

Also, I'll throw in a couple of "others."  Right now I'm trying to back up my multiple home PC's (windows 7 on most) to my linux box and then I'd like to potentially back it up to the cloud.  Also, if anyone knows much about LCDProc/LCD4Linux I could use some help!  Lastly, setting up and maintaining a VM system. I use VMWare server (free) right now, but it's a pain to fix back up each time a kernel update comes down on ubuntu.  Sometimes it kills my VMWare install until someone comes up with a fix!


1.       Install and use of linux as a desktop os (replacing
winblows)

a.      
Verifying
Hardware setup

                                                              
i.     
WiFi

                                                             
ii.     
Graphics adapter

b.      
Installing
applications

                                                              
i.     
Office replacement

                                                             
ii.     
iTunes
replacement

                                                           
iii.     
Outlook
replacement

1.      
Inc. sync w/
mobile devices

                                                           
iv.     
Etc.

c.       
Setting up
preferences

d.      
Remote access

e.       
Gaming in linux
(in brief)

f.       
Etc

2.       Installing and configuring a Linux basic web server
(LAMP/XAMPP/etc)

a.      
Linux Server
install

b.      
Apache install
and basic configuration

c.       
MySQL installation
and tools (phpmyadmin?)

d.      
PHP/Ruby/Rails/Perl/etc?

e.       
Email POP3/IMAP/SMTP/other?
Server

f.       
DNS server

g.       
Configuration of a-f.

                                                              
i.     
Perhaps get recommendations
for configuration tools and setup and use one of those?  i.e. Webmin.

h.      
Log watching?

                                                              
i.     
Splunk IT?

3.       Writing and compiling applications for Linux



a.      
Scripting

b.      
Console
Applications

c.       
X/GDM/KDE/other
apps

d.      
Web languages

e.       
IDE’s

4.       Linux + old PC = …


a.      
NAS

b.      
Router

c.       
Streaming Media
Server

d.      
???

5.       Linux as a HTPC/Media Center (didn’t want to put this
under “old PC”)

a.      
MythTV

b.      
HDTV connections
& graphics configuration

c.       
LIRC

d.      
LinuxMCE?

Would
anyone else be interested in any of this? 
I’d hate to waste the group’s time if I’m the only one in need of some
of this.  I was thinking #1 would be a
good meeting after SFD.  We could try to
set up the following meeting in a larger space if possible and invite people
who come to SFD to come to the meeting for a more in-depth demonstration.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Josh More <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:








A discussion on the LUG channel (#cialug on Freenode, Join Now!) has pointed out that some people might want a topic presented at the LUG meetings, but not know enough about the topic to present it themselves.



If there are topics that you would like discussed, reply to this thread with ideas.  Then we'll try to find folks to give lightning talks on these topics.  The presentations might not go deep, but it'd be nice to have a few more presentations of whatever depth.













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