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1 Fedora 11 Released
2 Community Project
3 Upcoming Meeting
4 Previous Meetings
- 4.1 Keywords
5 SMLUG Members

Fedora 11 Released

See The Fedora Project Website

Community Project

Tom Cannan has managed to get his hands on a bunch of identical used machines and has came up with a great idea to help out the Jackson County Literacy Council. Read More....

Upcoming Meeting

SMLUG meets on the third Monday of each month, usually at 7 PM, and usually at "Books-A-Million" in Biloxi.

Upcoming "third mondays" include

18 May 2009
15 June 2009
20 July 2009
17 August 2009

When and Where

Next Meeting will be 18 May 2009 7:00pm

Books a Million	
2650 Beach Blvd #45
Biloxi, MS 39531

Google Map of Location

Street View

The May meeting's requested topics are SAMBA 4 and Active Directory, Wireless Networking and Encryption. Jim Nanney has volunteered to bring a few Ubuntu and Fedora Live CDs. If other Live CDs or DVDs are needed contact him at jnanney at gmail dot com.

April's Meeting (held 20 April 2009)

Tonight's meeting included two newcomers who we would like to welcome, "Nick" and Larry. Glad you guys could make it, and hope to see you at future meetings.

The topics of discussion were open forum style and included:

Simple Live CDs and New User Friendly Linux Distribution
An informative albeit strangely addict like introductions
A definitive reiteration that we are not religious zealots, Windows, Mac OS, and even BeOS are acceptable. "Right Tool for the Right Job", no one tool is perfect for any job -- except maybe the iPhone (smirk)
IPv6 introduction
Josh showed-off his "Google Android Phone"[1]
Tom showed-off his hackintosh
Kernel Mode SCSI Targets for Fibre Channel (a very cool garage-IT SAN project of Bill Maloy's)
- See Generic SCSI Target Middle Level for Linux Project at sourceforge.
- Generic SCSI target mid-level for Linux project (SCST) consists of SCST itself as well as SCSI target drivers for it, e.g. for QLogic 2xxx Fibre Channel cards or software iSCSI target driver.
- Bill is admin'ing a proof-of-concept machine providing a SCSI target (which actually just a logical volume) to a directly attached Dell 2650 server over fibre channel HBA.
Cybertot explanation. (Yes, that's right: "Timmy" of "Timmy Feeds the Birds" fame is actually driving now.)
Jackson County Literacy Project
Our Mailing List as a definitive source of chatter and happenings.
OpenDNS
- Tom Cannan: "OpenDNS can help protect your computer from the Conficker Worm."
- Bill Maloy: "Can you really think of no better way to accomplish that?" (smiley face)
Josh (and the cybertot cracks up, being the only one who fully understood the reference("2fort2furious")[2] 2fort2furious on Youtube

additional refrences for 2fort2furious Mass A.I. [3] Mass A.I. 2 [4]

I know I have left out some topics as I left early and did not take notes, so add as you see fit...

Keywords From Previous Meetings

NoMachine (FreeNX)

"VNC is really nice, and you're right that tunneling it over SSH works well. The main difference is FreeNX is a lot faster. It might not matter on a fast connection, but on anything slower than 256K I notice a substantial difference. With VNC there is noticeable lag, but not FreeNX."