The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:
Epicycles, flywheels, and (widening) gyres: UNIX Network Programming in a Manycore NUMA World – by Nick Black

College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
Building Map: http://lugatgt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ccb-102.png

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It’s high time UNIX application developers had a robust, parallel, architecture­ sensitive unification of their various event sources, engineered with explicit consideration for manycore processing environments and non­uniform memory access.

I intend to provide it. Enter libtorque.

This week the LUG will be screen printing our club t-shirts. Join us and “compile” your own t-shirt by hand in traditional Linux fashion.

Cost
If you bring your own clean dark colored shirt (black or navy recommended) the price is zero. If you do not want to use your own shirt, we will have blank medium and large sized t-shirts on hand for $8 each.

Time and Location
For this event will be meeting up outside of the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at our usual time: 7PM on Wednesday. A map to the building can be found here. After forming up outside in front of the building we will move inside to work on the shirts. Please make it a point to be on time because it’ll be a lot easier to find us that way. If you’re reading this message while stuck outside of the TSRB during the meeting time, shoot me an email and I’ll try to remind future me to diligently check his email during that time.

Designs
Note: The color on these previews may be a little off; the ink color we’re aiming for is old gold

We’ll be using a high quality plasticized ink which will look great and hold up well.

What can we say? We love Tux

Questions?
If you have any questions about this event please email president@lugatgt.org or drop in our IRC chatroom: #lugatgt on irc.freenode.org

April 4th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
Building Map: http://lugatgt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ccb-102.png

The LUG will be meeting up this week to work on and finalize the design and plans for our club t-shirt.

Unlike most of the clothing in your closet, this shirt will be “compiled” from source. That’s right, in keeping with Linux/DIY fashion (heh) we will be making our shirts from scratch (almost) by doing our own screen printing.

This process will be split up over two weeks. This week we will be determining things such as pricing (probably free), design (possibly Tux), and colors (somewhere in the visual spectrum). After that the plan is to meet up next week and actually do the screen printing. This should occur during the regular meeting time next week (April 11th, room TBA). More details coming soon!

The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:
Drupal by Ryan Curtin

March 28th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
Building Map: http://lugatgt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ccb-102.png

Drupal is a popular open-source content management system (CMS) and
content management framework (CMF) written in PHP. It is commonly used
for websites — including many Georgia Tech pages (there is even a
support community for Drupal GT sites: http://drupal.gatech.edu/ ).
With hundreds (probably thousands) of well-maintained modules and
extensions, a Drupal site can be very tailored to specific needs.

This presentation will cover the initial setup of a Drupal installation,
an overview of the way Drupal is laid out, how to install modules and
third-party extensions, and how to develop modules for Drupal. I’ll
also talk about the drupal.org community, how to get involved, and what
all the site offers. Themeing a site will also be covered.

The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:
lntroduction to Packaging for Debian Based Systems By Sterling Peet

March 14th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
Building Map: http://lugatgt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ccb-102.png

The easiest way for a user to install software on a Debian based system is to install a package. It doesn’t matter if the user is a total newbie, or seasoned power user, nor does it matter if the software is being installed on one machine or a an entire network of computers, the Debian package is easy to install. It turns out, creating a package is also not very difficult, and there are numerous reasons why one might decide to write a package.

Presented by Kurt Nelson on January 25, 2012
Located in CoC 102

Thinking about deploying Linux in the enterprise or any situation in large quantities? There’s plenty of software out there to help you do it, and most of it is available in a perfectly good free community edition.

Some subjects that will be covered:
-What makes RHEL different than Debian/Ubuntu?
-What is this licensing stuff on open source software?
-Kickstart, a component of the Anaconda installer that makes deploying similar systems easy.
-Spacewalk, server software that does package and configuration management for your network.

Slides

January 25th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
Building Map – Campus Map

Presented by Thomas Holmquist on January 18, 2012
Located in College of Computing 102

The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:

“ZSH Gems” by Thomas Holmquist
January 18th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102 <– New room!
(Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50 )

If as a Linux user you choose to spend a lot of time in the command line (a very wise choice), you will no doubt want to maximize your efficiency. With a powerful shell such as Zsh there are numerous features just hidden below the surface that will boost your productivity to new levels. This presentation will aim to familiarize you with some more advanced Zsh features that will not only come in handy but also be easy to start using with common use cases.

Building Map: