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Postponing meeting to the 23rd due to career week.

by Tim Keller

Speaking with Frank, this week is career week at WPI and a mob scene. There are zero rooms to reserve. I think it makes the most sense to push the meeting off to the 23rd so we can get a room with proper A/V, etc. As for a topic, a couple people have asked me about container based distros. I think this would be a great topic. I've recently gotten heavy involved in k8s deployment stuff and I've had to wrap my brain around this stuff. Fedora, Container OS, Rancher OS, Blend OS, the list goes on. I think there's an interesting conversation around how user friendly, secure, etc. this various options are. Is this something people would be interested in? Later, Tim. On Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 4:08 PM Joel <joelgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > That makes sense with a meeting last week. . > > See everyone on the 16th. . > > Joel > > On February 9, 2023 3:30:18 PM Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> We are not having a meeting on the 9th, we'll have a meeting on the 16th. >> >> Thanks, >> Tim. >> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 9:52 PM Joel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Are having a WLUG meeting as tomorrow 2/9 is the second Thursday? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Joel >>> >>> On February 6, 2023 10:46:54 AM Joshua Stone via WLUG < >>> wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> I thought I'd share a side project I've been working on, which involves >>>> building containers with Nvidia kernel modules and userspace components >>>> that work as bootable OS images thanks to "container-native" >>>> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainerStable> >>>> support within Fedora Silverblue. >>>> >>>> This approach has several advantages over the traditional package >>>> management model for installing out-of-tree drivers, including: >>>> >>>> 1) Have the install process and QA shift from client side to server >>>> side, making a CI/CD model of driver distribution possible. >>>> >>>> 2) Eliminate the possibility of update failures (i.e., will a , as only >>>> container builds with successful runs will be committed to a container >>>> registry and updates are delivered with an "immutable" model >>>> >>>> 3) Modules are signed with one key from a central repo, ensuring that >>>> only one key has to be enrolled for all client systems for enabling secure >>>> boot support >>>> >>>> 4) Enable the possibility of supporting multiple driver release >>>> streams. i.e., give users the freedom to rebase on 525xx, 520xx, 470xx >>>> series drivers, etc, as well as pin to a specific image snapshot in case of >>>> a driver regression >>>> >>>> 5) Have the ability to download a pre-built bootable image from a >>>> central repo, or build an image locally with further customizations thanks >>>> to the flexibility of the Containerfile format >>>> >>>> 6) Give maintainers a broader framework for debugging regressions, >>>> namely being able to boot into a specific snapshot listed in a bug report >>>> >>>> It's true that Nvidia has been the source of many hardware issues >>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ>. I refuse to own an >>>> Nvidia card because of this. But many Linux users use Nvidia, which I >>>> thought would be a great motivation for working on a container-native >>>> approach to out-of-three driver support. >>>> >>>> More info here: >>>> >>>> Nvidia images available for testing! >>>> <https://github.com/ublue-os/base/discussions/33> >>>> >>>> We did it! Hassle-free Nvidia drivers on Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite: >>>> Testers wanted! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl9EJCF_GM4> >>>> >>>> >>>> <https://www.ypsidanger.com/a-34-line-container-file-saves-the-linux-desktop/> >>>> Nvidia Linux users, this thirty-four line Containerfile might make your >>>> life suck way less. >>>> <https://www.ypsidanger.com/a-34-line-container-file-saves-the-linux-desktop/> >>>> >>>> - Josh >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>>> Change Settings: >>>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>>> Web Forum/Archive: >>>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/UCJVP… >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>> Change Settings: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>> Web Forum/Archive: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/TRIDU… >>> >> >> >> -- >> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >> constituents as "consumers". >> > >

2 years, 8 months

Re: [Wlug] I presume we're meeting the 10th of Oct?

by Frank Sweetser

I'm almost there now, we'll see what's going on Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I'm standing outside of Higgins 230 and its's full of people... None >of which look like they're here for wlug... > >On 10/9/12, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: >> I reserved Higgins Labs 230 again, same place as last month. >> >> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:41:23PM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: >>> Chuck, >>> >>> Where will this meeting be held? My current demo setup is two pcs... >>> I'm probably going to need help depending on where we have it. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tim. >>> >>> On 10/5/12, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: >>> > Sounds great! >>> > >>> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: >>> >> That's a great idea. I do lots and lots of virtualization >stuff.. I'd >>> >> be >>> >> willing to do some research, setup a demo and do a talk about >>> >> OpenStack. >>> >> >>> >> Chuck, what do you think? >>> >> >>> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, David Glaser >>> >> <dglaser(a)glaserresearch.net>wrote: >>> >> >>> >> > How about the cloud -say OpenStack. I see references to it. >>> >> > >>> >> > -David >>> >> > On 10/04/2012 03:38 PM, Tim Keller wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> > Hey Gang! >>> >> > >>> >> > I presume we're having a meeting on the 10th? Does anybody >have a >>> >> > topic/idea? >>> >> > >>> >> > Thanks, >>> >> > Tim. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > >-- >Sent from my mobile device > >I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >constituents as "consumers". >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

13 years

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Meeting Dec. 10th at 7pm! NOTE: !!!!LOCATION CHANGE!!!!

by Robert Schwein

Ahhhh.... do you mean the "Sports and Recreation Center"? On 12/9/2015 3:04 AM, Robert Schwein wrote: > The "Rec Center" is not on the WPI campus map. Can you help me find > it? And, is room 61 really on the 4th floor? > > Thanks > Bob > > On 12/7/2015 5:06 PM, Tim Keller wrote: >> Hey Everybody, >> >> Dmitri Pal, the director of engineering at Red Hat has graciously >> offered to speak about Kerberos, FreeIPA, SSSD and I'm sure a whole >> host of other things! >> >> Here are the vitals! NOTE: THE LOCATION IS CHANGED FOR THIS MEETING!!!! >> >> When: December 10th, 2015 @ 7pm. >> Where: Rec Center Rm. 61! (4th Floor) >> Who: Dmitri Pal, Engineering Director at Red Hat! >> What: FreeIPA, SSSD, Kerberos, etc. >> >> Refreshments and snacks will be provided and as always we'll be >> heading to Tech Pizza afterwards to continue the lively conversation! >> >> I'd also like to thank Chuck for getting this organized! >> >> Thanks, >> Tim. >> >> >> >> -- >> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >> constituents as "consumers". >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

9 years, 10 months

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Next WLUG Meeting will be Thursday February 12th 2015 @ 7pm Rm 331 (Mid-Century Room)

by Andy Stewart

On 02/05/2015 10:29 AM, Tim Keller wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > I'm glad to announce that our founder Andy Stewart will be doing a talk > on wireless mesh networking! > I expect this talk will be both entertaining and interesting. > > Afterwards we'll be retiring to Tech for pizza! > > Date: Thursday February 12th, 2015 7pm-9pm > Location: WPI Campus Center, Mid-Century Room 331 > > Later, > Tim. HI WLUG, Thanks, Tim, for sending that notice to the WLUG membership. Specifically, I will be discussing Broadband-Hamnet (trademark), which is a mesh network designed by amateur radio operators, but can be used by mere mortals :-) as well. One can reflash many versions of the the Linksys WRT54G with this software and create your own mesh network, as has been done in Austin, TX and I believe Seattle, WA. Also, the Ubiquiti hardware can be used. I will have slides and a few Linksys boxes to demonstrate the concept. Feel free to bring your laptop to connect to the demo network. One can connect via an ethernet cable (bring your own) or wirelessly. For more information: http://www.broadband-hamnet.org I look forward to seeing you at the meeting, and joining you afterwards for pizza. Andy -- Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ) Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)

10 years, 8 months

Re: Reminder!!! Meeting tomorrow night! Topic: Nix

by John Stoffel

Hey guys, What a great meeting last week! A big shout out to Xavier for doing his presentation on NixOS! Hopefully Tim will be able to share the links to the slides and other info. We talked about: NixOS - A tool and environment for building systems in a deterministic manner. Sorta like Ansible, or Puppet, or Chef, or Salt or cfengine (old school!) or Terraform. But with it's own twist on how it keeps a hash pointing at the version you have, so you can mix-n-match tools versions easily. nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/) - a new shell for Linux and MacOS which includes some PowerShell like features. It looks interesting for sure. But maybe this old dog is too stuck in his ways to change direnv (https://direnv.net/) - A way to have your shell environment updated when you 'cd' into a directory, so that you don't have to remember what environment settings your need when you're moving around and doing work. I wish I had this for my engineers back when I was supporting an ASIC design team, they would have loved this. So who's going to present next month? And what are the feelings of those who are remote? Were you able to follow along and enjoy the talk? Doing both in-person and streamed stuff is tough at times, and I feel like we're not paying enough attention to those who try to comment from remote connections. Cheers, John

4 months, 2 weeks

Re: recent post, Technocopia, hybrid meetings

by Andrew Oprea

open source robotics? I'm for it! On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 7:20 PM Kevin Harrington via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > As a theme, i would be interested in showing off the latest revisions of BowlerStudio and open source robotics in general. thoughts? > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:47 AM Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >> >> I removed & banned the drive-by-spammer. >> >> Here is Technocopia's website for those interested: >> >> https://technocopia.org/ >> >> I like the idea of Hybrid meetings--some participants remote and some >> in-person. It's hard to do well, though. Does Technocopia have a >> videoconferencing setup with an in-room camera/mic system, projector, >> and PC that could join Jitsi? Maybe we could help them set one up. >> _______________________________________________ >> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/SW5UB… > > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/PYIQU…

5 years, 2 months

Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 4/10 7PM Jim Gettys on Internet buffer bloat

by Chuck Anderson

Hi folks, The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is Wednesday, April 10, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331. This month we will have Jim Gettys from Bell Labs talk about Internet buffer bloat. "Internet buffer bloat, by Jim Gettys (Bell Labs) VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of wireless goodput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP implementations, and a focus on benchmarking Internet performance solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets have conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers; each of which may introduce latency when filled. The mistaken quest to never drop packets has destroyed interactivity under load, and often results in actual higher packet loss, as TCP's congestion avoidance algorithms have been defeated by these buffers. The lessons of the "RED manifesto" of 1997 have been forgotten or never learned by a new generation of engineers." Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 - 10:00 PM WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331 I will also be raffling off some more items. Afterwards, we will go out for pizza. See you there, Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group http://www.wlug.org/

12 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] The speaker for the February meeting has been lined up!

by Frank Sweetser

I've been watching the whole software defined network mania fairly closely, and while I honestly don't even know what a presentation about it would look like, I'd always be happy to just chat for a while about if it there's interest. (One little teaser - a good segment of it involves running Linux directly on enterprise class network gear!) Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 01/21/2015 10:43 AM, Tim Keller wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be > doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with > Frank's talk about 802.11/[nn]/ networking. Once I get the official title for > the talk I'll send out a more official reminder. > > On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we > could work on lining up speakers for? > > Here's a couple of ideas... > * Software defined networking > * Robotics > * Home automation > > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

10 years, 9 months

Re: Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by Cara Salter

On 2/12/24 17:10, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: >>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Wason via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >> Heya - fun meeting, cool stuff! I meant to mention, I have a ton (literally) of decommissioned >> equipment at work we're looking to give/sell/donate away. Mostly Dell, but some other brands mixed >> in. I may have posted a partial list at some point on the list. A few older servers (R805, R300, >> two 32-bay Celeros NAS units, Synology RS2416+ with SAS expansion chassis), Optiplex and Precision >> desktops, a few Precision laptops (that cost us between$4-7K when new), a 16-port KVM, about 30 >> monitors, keyboards, mice, etc. etc. etc. > > What kind of KVM is it? I'd love to get one for home for my main > server/desktop combo in my basement, but if someone else can really > use it, I'm ok with it. I was interested in the KVM to replace the... "interesting" KVM currently in my server rack. It's two nonfunctional KVMs kludged together to make one functional KVM with no docs and no monitor. One of the switches only has a functional switch, and one of the switches only has a functional keyboard, with a COTS Dell monitor essentially gaff taped on top. In general though, I'd love to see a list of equipment up for grabs! --cs

1 year, 8 months

Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 10/9 7PM Jim Gettys on Internet buffer bloat

by Chuck Anderson

Hi folks, The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is Wednesday, October 9, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331. This month we will have Jim Gettys from Bell Labs talk about Internet buffer bloat. This is the talk that has been rescheduled from April. "Internet buffer bloat, by Jim Gettys (Bell Labs) VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of wireless goodput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP implementations, and a focus on benchmarking Internet performance solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets have conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers; each of which may introduce latency when filled. The mistaken quest to never drop packets has destroyed interactivity under load, and often results in actual higher packet loss, as TCP's congestion avoidance algorithms have been defeated by these buffers. The lessons of the "RED manifesto" of 1997 have been forgotten or never learned by a new generation of engineers." Wednesday, October 9, 7:00 - 9:00 PM WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331 Afterwards, we will go out for pizza. See you there, Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group http://www.wlug.org/

12 years, 1 month

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