[CALUG] Minimalist Distro

Mon Jan 25 12:20:46 EST 2010

In addition to DSL, you could use Damn Small Linux - Not  which is about 85 megs vs DSL's 50 

-Josh

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Today's Topics:

   1. February Meeting Announcement - Jonathan Riddell and Justin
      Kirby (Chuck Frain)
   2. Minimalist Distro (Ben W)
   3. FOSE Conference Call (Rich Goodwin)
   4. Re: Minimalist Distro (Craig Younkins)
   5. Tetravex Logic Puzzles on Martin Luther King Jr, Day
      (Phil Shapiro)
   6. Re: Minimalist Distro (Bryan J Smith)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:30:04 -0500
From: Chuck Frain <chuck at chuckfrain.net>
Subject: [CALUG] February Meeting Announcement - Jonathan Riddell and
	Justin	Kirby
To: Columbia Linux Users Group <calug at unknownlamer.org>,	Ubuntu
	Maryland Loco Team <ubuntu-us-md at lists.ubuntu.com>
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Hi Everybody!

I have scheduled a couple of talks for our February 10th meeting! 

About 7 days ago I was able to confirm Jonathan Riddell and Justin Kirby
for talks at our next meeting.  

Jonathan Riddell will be opening with his talk entitled "Kubuntu
Community and Technology". He will talk about the Linux distribution 
Kubuntu[0] who makes it and the tools used.  

Jonathan works for Canonical[1] and started Kubuntu five years ago.

As long as Jonathan keeps to his contract and doesn't do his Leno
impression he'll turn over speaker responsibilities to Justin Kirby*.

Justin will be presenting his talk "Making the leap from KDE user to
contributor". Justin will discuss simple ways for KDE[2] users to become
contributors, even without knowing a thing about developing code.  His talk
will provide specific details about various teams that exist within KDE,
what you can do to help them out, and who to talk to if you have questions.

Justin Kirby is an active contributor to the KDE Promo team.  He has
been a user of KDE for about 3 years but more recently got actively involved
in giving back to the community in July of 2009.  You can learn more about
the KDE Promo team on their wiki[3].

We will be meeting at the Columbia, MD[4] offices of Tenable Network
Security[5] from 6:30-9pm. From 6:30-7 we'll be enjoying pizza, wings
and soda provided by Praxis Engineering[6]. We'll get Jonathan started
pretty close to 7 to accommodate both speakers.

As always once you're on Columbia Gateway Drive and you think you're
close to the building look for the Nessus Eye logo looking out at you.
Go to the back of the building and enter at the patio with the blue
tables.   

[0]http://kubuntu.org
[1]http://canonical.com
[2]http://kde.org
[3]http://community.kde.org/Promo
[4]http://bit.ly/8GaGau
[5]http://tenablesecurity.com
[6]http://www.praxiseng.com

See you there!
http://calug.org

* After minutes of negotiation with Justin's agent I was able to
schedule a return appearance should Jonathan decide the evening belongs
to him alone. 

-- 
Chuck Frain 
GPG Key: B2420431
http://www.chuckfrain.net

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:52:20 -0800
From: Ben W <bigmojo74 at gmail.com>
Subject: [CALUG] Minimalist Distro
To: calug at unknownlamer.org
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Relatively simple question here, I'm looking for as light of weight - and
current - distro as I can find for a server. I'm only realy familiar with
Debian variants and am thinking of building off a base install, but I'm
curious if there's anything anyone else would suggest?

*By lightweight I realy only need to be able to get onto a network out of
the box, I'd prefer to build from as little as possible than sift through
services and cut out what I don't need. They'll be the basis for a woefuly
underpowered processing cluster, if anyone has any additional input on that.

Thanks
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:39:41 -0500
From: Rich Goodwin <Rich.Goodwin at PinnaclePointTechnologies.com>
Subject: [CALUG] FOSE Conference Call
To: Fose at calypso.tux.org
Cc: dclug at calypso.tux.org, NOVALUG <NOVALUG at calypso.tux.org>,
	calug at unknownlamer.org, ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com, misc at capbug.org
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I setup a conference call account with FreeconferenceCall.com and the
first call will be on Tuesday, 26 January at 8PM.  The dial-in info is
on the FOSE wiki under the Coordination link).  If the long distance
number is an issue - let me know.  I will see what I can do.

The topic will be identifying applications to demonstrate Linux and
other Open Source efforts that will help with Technology Solutions for
the Business of Government (in line with FOSE's tagline).  If we create
a demo of a tux.org enterprise with a variety of applications that would
interest business & government, I believe it would be extremely
advantageous.  Some sample demos could be

                Web (OpenID for the
                identity) 

                        Drupal
                        Joomla 

                Database 

                        MySQL
                        Postgres 
                CRM 

                        SugarCRM
                        openCRX
                        vtiger 

                HRM 

                        OrangeHRM 

                ERP 

                        OpenERP
                        openBravo 

                Healthcare 

                        PatientOS
                        openEMR
                        FreeMedFoms,
                        FreeMed
                        OpenTAPAS
                        OpenMEDIS 
                Security/Privacy 

                        GPG
                        TrueCrypt
                        OSSEC,
                        Nessus,
                        Snort 

                Office/ADmin
                Products 

                        OpenOffice
                        AbiWord
                        Networking
                        Nagios 

              * Virtulaization 

                        XEN Virtual
                        Box 

This is a large effort to be done in a short period of time.  Help is
definitely needed.  A side point would be to offer a list of the
volunteers who did work so the attendees can see some of the depth of
the community.  It might also help those looking for work to get some
visibility.

Rich Goodwin
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:55:31 -0500
From: Craig Younkins <cyounkins at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Minimalist Distro
To: Ben W <bigmojo74 at gmail.com>
Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org
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Well, the Debian base is pretty light. Recently I've been looking at KVM
(kernel-based virtual machines), so I use Fedora for that. You can get a
pretty light installation by doing "Customize now" during the installation
and unticking everything.

Unless you need something specific from an OS (like me and KVM), I'd just
suggest going with what you're comfortable with. Good luck!

--

Craig Younkins
Website/Blog <http://cyounkins.blogspot.com/>

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ben W <bigmojo74 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Relatively simple question here, I'm looking for as light of weight - and
> current - distro as I can find for a server. I'm only realy familiar with
> Debian variants and am thinking of building off a base install, but I'm
> curious if there's anything anyone else would suggest?
>
> *By lightweight I realy only need to be able to get onto a network out of
> the box, I'd prefer to build from as little as possible than sift through
> services and cut out what I don't need. They'll be the basis for a woefuly
> underpowered processing cluster, if anyone has any additional input on that.
>
> Thanks
>
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:35:45 -0500
From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com>
Subject: [CALUG] Tetravex Logic Puzzles on Martin Luther King Jr, Day
To: calug at unknownlamer.org
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hi calug community,

    i recently mentioned on this list about the fun tetravex logic  
puzzles in ubuntu. here are some thoughts on why i created the  
screencast about these puzzles.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/187568/article.html

           phil
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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
"Learning happens thru gentleness."

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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:26:34 -0500
From: Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Minimalist Distro
To: Ben W <bigmojo74 at gmail.com>
Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org
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On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 16:52 -0800, Ben W wrote:
> Relatively simple question here, I'm looking for as light of weight -
> and current - distro as I can find for a server. I'm only realy
> familiar with Debian variants and am thinking of building off a base
> install, but I'm curious if there's anything anyone else would
> suggest?
>  
> *By lightweight I realy only need to be able to get onto a network out
> of the box, I'd prefer to build from as little as possible than sift
> through services and cut out what I don't need. They'll be the basis
> for a woefuly underpowered processing cluster, if anyone has any
> additional input on that.

Debian has been, and will continue to be, an outstanding distro fro
such.  I don't see any reason to use anything else if you're already
familiar with Debian.

At most, I could only suggest a few others ...

- Slackware, the original.  If you're already a fan of APT-DPKG, this
might seem like a regression, although their is Slack-APT as well.

- Gentoo, ports/source build.  Gentoo is an interesting project that
finally brought the "ports" concept from the BSD world to Linux, and put
it on steroids.  Ignore half of the Gentoo community that talks about
"optimization," Gentoo is really about managing a system build to be
small and just what you need -- without having to go Linux From Scratch
(LFS) which is not manageable.

- Damn Small Linux (DSL) and variants.  There are a number out there
like DSL if you really need to fit something in a tiny space.  Frankly,
if I'm doing embedded, I'm doing Gentoo or considering an
embedded-specific distro -- e.g., Montavista, based on Red Hat if I need
3+ years of updates, or Timesys reference distro, based on Fedora if I
need targets that Gentoo doesn't do.

-- 
Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>

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