NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• Wednesday, June 4, 2008
• 6:30 pm -

• Barry Morrison
• Carl Fitch
• Jeff Muse
• Lee Lammert
• Stan Reichardt

• Need to print out minutes for April.

• Balance: $1,071.50 as of 4/30/08
• Receipts:
  • SBS Creatix $200
  • Syllogistics $200
  • Mike Kriz $ 35
• Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
• Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
• Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
• Open issues:
  • Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
  • Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply
• A nice Sponsor Letter and voluntary invoice was sent to sponsors for which we have contact info. None Replied except Syllogistics.

• Some numbers, as of end of May 2008:

• No - indicates no meeting.
• () - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2008:

• Numbers will now be as end of each month.
• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.

• ANNOUNCE mailing list.
  • Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter.

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
• Well attended!

• NOTE: Back to back meetings
• BASE: Setting up a firewall in 10 minutes with pfw on OpenBSD by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig)
• Excellent - well attended!

• NOTE: Back to back meetings.
• TOPIC: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig)
• Even though both were advertised as duplicate sessions, confusion still reined.

• TOPIC: new OpenSolaris Live-CD, Its root ZFS filesystem, and new package manager (IPS).

• TOPIC: Firewalls - pfSense in Depth by Carl Fitch

• DISCUSSION 1: Updated Information Links on CDROM disc web page posted.
• DISCUSSION 2: Demoed new Information web page on Networking resources (posted next day).
• DISCUSSION 3: Diagram of sample home network with aDSL modem, router and switch.

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: TBD
• MAIN: TBD
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC 1: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month).
• TOPIC 2: Partitions.
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: TBD

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN:
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory (not done during prior month).
• TOPIC 2: Partitions.
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: TBD

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN:
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC1: Exploring the /etc directory.
• TOPIC2: Partitions
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: TBD

• VMware by Matt Skipton (via Lee)
• various Sun topics by Jeff Logullo
  • new version of OpenSolaris
  • Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
  • New release of ZFS " " " " " " "
  • MySQL
  • VirtualBox (& xVM (Zen)) by Jeff Logullo?
  • Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
  • Belenix & otherlive CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
• Last.fm, Amarok,…free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary)
• GIMP by Scott Nesler.
• Encryption by Mike May S.J., Prof @ SLU, Chair Math/CS dept (via Gary)
• Natural Language Processing by SLU professor (via Gary)
• Stoneware webOS and Desktop Virtualization by Jack Loane (via Carl/Craig/e-mail)
• iSCSI
• EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL) (via Carl)
  • Would be a video-conference, so requires solving the logistics
• APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
• Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) - still looking for volunteer
• Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
• AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
• Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland
• Using git%