Announcement

Thanks again to Pat Patterson and Sun Microsystems for this month's great meeting. The meeting was well-attended and the presentation timely and interesting.

The November 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, will be held Thursday, November 8, 2007 at Red Hat. Directions can be found here.

The September 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (Sponsored by Zenoss) will be held at 7pm, September 13, at Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University (directions) . The talk is on Linux video editing, given by Joey Carr.

The mailing list TriLUG-ontopic has been created for technical discussion related to Linux and Open Source. This is list is open to any who wish to subscribe. Go to:

http://www.trilug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/trilug-ontopic

The August 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (Sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.) will be held at 7pm, August 9, at Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University (directions) . Our speakers will be Max Spevack and Greg DeKoenigsberg of the Fedora Project and Red Hat, Inc.

There will be a special announcement for TriLUG members at the beginning of this meeting.

The talk is on Fedora 7 from the perspective of a free software contributor:

Thanks everyone for your interest. The Linux 101 class for this Saturday, July 14, 2007, is officially full. We will let everyone know of the next class as soon as information is available.

Just a reminder - the Linux 101 class will be held at Raritan in Raleigh on July 14, 2007 from 9am to 12pm. As of this writing, the class is a little more than half full. This class is free, but space is limited so email Matt Frye mattfrye at gmail dot com to register or for more info.

Raritan is located at 801 Jones Franklin Road Suite 100.

The July 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (Sponsored by Hosted Solutions) will be held at 7pm, July 12, at Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University (directions) . Our speaker will be Ken Coar, Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation on the topic of "Communication in Distributed Open Source Development".

Video of the June TriLUG meeting via ibiblio.org is now available. The meeting featured Sapna Kumar speaking about GPLv3.

Thanks to ibiblio.org and COSI for making this video possible.

On May 6, 2007, /var on talon.trilug.org (web, mail, lists) began exhibiting failure consistent behavior. Kevin Otte presented the following error info to the sysadmin subcommittee:

find: /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20030811/019424.html:
Input/output error
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=15750559,
sector=15750496
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector 15750496
I/O error in filesystem ("ide1(22,1)") meta-data dev ide1(22,1) block