Name: Unix Users Meeting
Start: 2009-04-29T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2009-04-29T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Wilson Hall

Unix Users Meeting

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 - 13:00

Monday, 27 April 2009
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Wednesday, 29 April 2009

13:00 Security
Security
13:00 - 13:10
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Security Topic of the Month

13:10 Scientific Linux
Scientific Linux
13:10 - 13:20
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Scientific Linux 4.x - We expect Update 8 to come out next month (May)

13:20 Scientific Linux Fermi
Scientific Linux Fermi
13:20 - 13:30
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Scientific Linux Fermi 5.3 - SLF 5.3 was released on April 1 for both i386 and x86_64 <a href="http://linux1.fnal.gov/download/slf53/">Download SLF53</a> Everything is up and working except x86_64 CD and DVD's Fermi Linux STS - We have updated the STS Live CD -- It now has ddrescue and gparted <a href="http://linux1.fnal.gov/download/sts10/">Download STS10</a> - Fedora 11 is due out next month. -- supposedly worked better with exchange -- supposedly has a kerberized VNC -- supposedly is what RHEL 6 will be based on

13:30 Misc
Misc
13:30 - 13:40
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Other Unix and Linux announcements - Downtime scheduled for FNALU for Tuesday May 5, from 7:30-9:30. -- The entire cluster will be rebooted except for flxi11, which will be available - Unix and Linux Baselines -- Will there be changes? -- Will they start being enforced? - aklog and kcron -- Fixed for SLF4 (though still in testing) -- Progress made for SLF 5 - Redesigning the home page of <a href="https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/">fermilinux.fnal.gov</a>

13:40 Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks
13:40 - 13:55
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Our monthly tip or trick - <a href="https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/documentation/tips/yum.tricks.html">Yum group commands</a> - <a href="https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/documentation/tips/video-driver">Nvidia and dkms</a>

13:55 Question and Answers
Question and Answers
13:55 - 14:00
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Any questions from the audience.

14:00 Quiz and Free Stuff
Quiz and Free Stuff
14:00 - 14:10
Room: Curia II (2nd Floor) Our Monthly Quiz to give away our monthly supply of free stuff - This months quiz will be kernel related.