Not sure we are the oldest, but we /might/ be the oldest still in
operation. Is GNHLUG still in operation? If so, they are probably
older. I was inspired to dig into my archives:
An early email from our founder, Andy Stewart:
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:22:18 -0400
From: Andy Stewart <astewart(a)world.std.com>
To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mass-pc.wpi.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: Caldera Inc. IT Forum]
OK, gang, tell the man what you think!
Remember, he is the gentleman who graciously donated the tee shirts and
CDROM discs from Caldera...
Andy
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:30:22 -0600
From: Paul La Fluer <paull(a)caldera.com>
Organization: Caldera, Inc.
To: astewart(a)world.std.com
Subject: Caldera Inc. IT Forum
Hello Andy, I hope everything is going good. I am in the process of
organizing a conference while in New York. My goal is to rent out a
large ballroom in a hotel and have all the usergroups in the area come
and listen to Bryan Sparks our CEO and other talk about Linux and
OpenLinux. There will be presentations plus a Q&A session. I would like
to hear your feedback on the idea and if your group would attend. We
would be giving away door prizes like OpenLinux Base and Standard and
handing out t-shirts, papers and OpenLinux Lite and OpenDOS to all that
attend. Please give me some feedback on this idea. I need to know soon
to get things set up.
Thanks,
Paul La Fleur
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An email about our SECOND meeting (that refers to the first meeting):
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 21:29:13 -0400
From: Andy Stewart <astewart(a)world.std.com>
To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mass-pc.wpi.edu>
Subject: Next WLUG meeting
The next scheduled meeting for the Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG)
is August 21, 1997, at 7 PM in the Gordon Library on the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute (WPI) campus in Worcester, MA.
We had a great turnout of about 20 people at our very first meeting last
month - I hope to see all of you come back, and I'd like to extend a
welcome to anybody who would like to attend.
I would suggest parking in the "lower library" parking lot and hiking up
the 102 stairs to the library (not to mention the 12 or so more stairs
in the library to get to the 2nd floor!).
For more information, feel free to send me E-mail at:
astewart(a)world.std.com
Look for the penguin signs! Hope to see you there!
Andy Stewart
WLUG
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I'd guess our first meeting was about July 23 or 24, 1997, or perhaps
the week before, July 16 or 17.
But maddog from GNHLUG forwarded this, which says "as always, the
meeting are free..." which implies that July 30th is NOT their first
meeting. If they had monthly meetings, that would place their first
meeting in June 1997 or before.
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 10:28:09 -0400
From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall, USG Senior Leader" <hall(a)zk3.dec.com>
To: gnhlug(a)zk3.dec.com
Subject: GNHLUG - Linux Cluster meeting July 30th at Martha's Exchange
Hi,
We now have a venue for the July 30th meeting of the GNHLUG, with Loki,
a cluster of 16 Pentium PRO 200s, running Linux as the topic of the talk.
We will be meeting on the *second* floor dining room of the Martha's Exchange
Building in beautiful downtown Nashua. I will be picking up the speaker in
Cambridge that day and transporting him to Martha's for dinner, arriving about
1730 hours. For those of you who wish to join us for dinner, please RSVP.
The meeting itself will start at 1900 hours, with the speaker probably getting
up steam about 1915 hours.
As always, the meetings are free and open to everyone, and as a FINAL
enticement I will be handling out *free* CD ROMS with the V1.2 Debian release
for Intel on it.
M. Patrick Goda, a principal of the Loki
( http://loki-www.lanl.gov/ )
project at the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Labs, a Beowulf
( http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux-web/beowulf/beowulf.html )
style computer will be our speaker. I have convinced him to present a talk
on the Loki project, one of linking together 16 Intel Pentium Pro machines to
create a system that has:
o high reliability
o high throughput
and generally 16-node IBM SP2 performance (over 1.2 GigaFlops) at 1/20th the
cost (about $60K)!!
Pat is a friend of mine that I introduced to Red Hat Linux when he was a
graduate student at the University of Hawaii (long story).
Due to the fact that Patrick is a rare find, I will invite the Boston Linux
User's Group and the Worcester Linux User's group to join us that night, so I
have arranged for larger quarters.
Some additional Beowulf pages are from my own alma mater:
http://einstein.drexel.edu/beowulf/Beowulf_concept.html
including exerpts from the original Beowulf story:
http://einstein.drexel.edu/beowulf/original_beowulf.html
Warmest regards,
maddog
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Nevermind, GNHLUG is definitely older by several years according to their web page:
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PastEvents
1996
When Where What Who How Many
31 Jan 1996 UNH Durham Linux Linus Torvalds 200+
1994
When Where What Who How Many
19 Oct UNH (?) First meeting Members ???
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:13:25PM -0500, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote:
> What do we know about WLUG's history? If it really is one of the oldest
> LUGs, it might merit a Wikipedia article. It would be great if we could
> flesh that out, too.
>
> This article seems like it could use a list of LUGs:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:43 PM Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
> wrote:
>
> > The NatickFOSS group uses gettogether.community instead of meetup.com. I
> > don't know that it has gotten us any visibility but the software is open
> > source. I've been tempted to join meetup to go to Boston Indie Game
> > Developer meetings but have so far held off.
> >
> > The NatickFOSS group also gets a booth at the Science on State Street
> > event at Framingham State. It is a free STEM activity fair for kids. My job
> > at the event is to generally occupy the time of the kids so the other
> > members talk to the parents. First year I had a playstation controller
> > hooked up to my laptop and held it out to any kid that walked by. Last year
> > I brought the arcade machine assembled by my son's cub scout den. Any idea
> > if WPI does any thing similar? Even if it is something only for WPI
> > students it might be useful to alert people to the group's existence.
I'm getting tired of booting into Windows for work. I figured out how to
connect to the VPN from Debian, but it would be very helpful to RDP into
the workstation in my office.
I know the URL for my workstation, the domain, the username, and the
password, but I'm failing to get it to work. What should I try?
Remmina says "Connecting to <server>..." for a minute, then fails with
"Connection to RDP server <server> failed."
--
Rich
I am trying for figure out what, if anything, of FEDORA RED HAT LINUX is
still available. I have downloaded a DVD that I plan to install on my DELL
XPS desktop PC running WINDOWS 10. Will it find for me my old LINUX
atmosphere?
Ken Jones
Hey Gang,
I hope everybody is staying safe and healthy. While Linux doesn't need
virus protection, we do. Wash your hands you filthy animals.
As the subject reads, we're going to be doing the WLUG meeting online.
I've been active in the wlug-ma irc channel as have others.
What do people think about Jitsi for doing a video meetup?
Refreshments will not be provided and we won't be going out for dinner!!
Stay home, stay safe and I hope we'll all get to see each other soon.
Later,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
Hey everyone,
Apparently Lenovo is planning on shipping Fedora on their Thinkpad lines,
and will use only packages from the official repos instead of custom
packages.
I think this is great news as somebody who shopped for Thinkpads before and
had to contact support about refunding a Windows license (turns out that
wasn't possible at the time). Having a distro pre-installed should mean
improved hardware compatibility, and maybe even be able contact support for
Linux-specific issues.
More info here:
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/
-Josh
What is the best way to provide proof to an audit person who needs to know
all the root/sudo users for a RHEL 6 server?
(I am new at this company, and don't have access to all their resources)
We can provide the /etc/passwd & /etc/sudoers file (the auditor may
not know how to read these files)
We also have the RedHat Identity Management running here, but I am not
familiar with this tool.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
John Malloy
jomalloy(a)gmail.com
Hey Everybody,
I just wanted to give a shout out to everybody who showed up to the virtual
meeting last night. It was cool to see Maddog show up, I'm glad he's
staying safe and healthy.
Yeah, there were a couple of audio/video hiccups, but I thought overall it
went great.
I shared my screen a couple of times and that worked just fine as well.
One cool thing that was brought up doing the meeting and I thought was
worth talking about is "vscodium" which is a 100% open source recompile of
the visual studio code editor. The big difference is that the vscode as
shipped from microsoft contains telemetry tracking data that gets sent back
to the mothership... https://vscodium.com/ solves that problem.
We obviously jibber jabbed about COVID19 and folding@home and Logan showed
off the facemasks he's been printing as well as the antennae he's building
to contact a long lost satellite in geostationary orbit.
While it wasn't the same as a physical meeting, when we do manage to get
ourselves all back in the same room, I think it's something we'll
definitely incorporate into the physical meetings.
Stay safe, stay healthy and wash your hands!
We'll see what May brings us and decide from there...
Tim.
WLUG President
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
Guys,
I'm starting to work on deplying ansible at $WORK to start managing a
bunch of existing servers. The goal is to A) get them consistent, B)
learn ansible, and C) automate deployments so if I get hit by a bus,
they can have a hope of keeping things going.
So my first thoughts are about organization. Ansible is a
file/directory heavy setup. And I understand how a task has one or
more roles. And then a playbook can have one or more tasks. But it's
how to manage the overall site or bundles of playbooks that I want to
understand.
I've looked at:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_best_practices…
and I think I can deal with the first layout suggestion, but I'd
porbably put playbooks into a playbooks/ directory. But... how to
keep them organized as my collection grows.
Do I want a new directory structure for each group of playbooks? For
example I want to do:
- add ssh-keys for logins
- make sure right repo(s) are configured
- ntp client config
- postfix config
- NIS config
- fstab config
- nsswitch.conf config
So ideally all of the above would be a playbook each, since for
example ntp config, would/could include:
- install ntp
- install default client config
- restart ntpd once configured
- etc...
Where it all comes down to is keeping all this organized nicely,
especially as it grows ever more complicated. All the silly examples
of setting up a LAMP stack completely gloss over the actual pushing of
content, which is really what we want to do.
So, thoughts? Real life experience? Suggestions for good training
classes? Unfortunately it would have to be online now, not my
preferred in-person training....
John
Hey Gang,
We've got a virtual meeting today!
We're all going to meet on Jitsi! Here's the location:
https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA
The big blue button stuff looks really awesome, but I haven't had a chance
to dig into it, however for presenting it looks pretty awesome.
I hope everybody is staying sane and staying safe.
Later,
Tim Keller
WLUG President
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
