SPUG: Sep 11th, 2004 GSLUG Meeting: Version Control;
Keeping Your Linux Box Patched
Ken Meyer
kmeyer at blarg.net
Fri Sep 10 13:33:08 CDT 2004
The September 2004 Greater Seattle Linux Users Group (GSLUG) meeting
will be held this Saturday, September 11th, starting promptly at 10:00 AM
on the North Seattle Community College campus.
Please feel free to forward this announcement as appropriate.
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We are confirmed to use room IB 3319. For directions, see the meetings
page: http://www.gslug.org/meeting.html
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The presentation topics will be:
* 10:00am - Version Control Systems: An Introduction
Brian Bassett
Ever want to contribute to a free software project, only to be baffled
by the
management of files by the development team? Have you been told to put
something in CVS, but have been unable to distinguish your check-ins
from
your check-outs? This talk will discuss basic version control concepts
and will
focus on the strengths, weaknesses, and basic user-level experience with
four of the main version control systems used today in the free software
community: CVS, Subversion, Bitkeeper, and GNU Arch (with a side trip
down memory lane with RCS/SCCS). The slides for the talk are available
at
http://www.bbassett.net/talks/version-control
Brian Bassett's Bio:
Brian Bassett is a software engineer specializing in release management
and
the Linux operating system. He has worked as a developer on the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution for seven years and acts as a release manager for
a number of free software projects, most notably the NJS JavaScript
Interpreter, for which he is also the lead developer.
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* 11:15am - Keeping your Linux System Patched
Jarod C. Wilson
Concerned about keeping your Linux system up to date? Want to install
additional software, but you keep running into dependency hell? We'll
examine some of the utilities that are available for popular
distributions,
that can take care of these very things for you automatically.
Jarod Wilson's Bio:
I've been using Linux since 1997, circa Red Hat Linux 4.2 and very early
LinuxPPC releases. Only dabbled mostly, until the Red Hat Linux 6.2 era,
when I got a job somewhere that used Red Hat extensively. I worked
there for about two years, towards the tail end of which I took the
Red Hat Certified Engineer exam (and passed the first try -- this test
is
no joke; it ain't the MCSE).
I also maintain a little HOWTO document for setting up a MythTV box
running on Fedora Core 1 (soon to be FC2).
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/.
As for my personal choice of Linux distribution, yes, I'm pretty much a
Red Hat guy, love it or hate it. Almost all my professional work with
Linux has been with Red Hat, so I'm just comfortable with it. I like
Gentoo and SuSE quite a bit also though. I've tried umpteen other
distributions, but those are my favorites.
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The typical GSLUG meeting agenda is as follows:
10:00 AM First Presentation
11:00 AM Break
11:10 AM Raffle Quiz
11:15 AM Second Presentation
12:15 PM Break
12:30 PM Raffle prizes giveaway
12:35 PM GSLUG announcements and business, including
discussion of potential future presentation
topics
Announcements from attendees
Requests for assistance with trouble-shooting and
installations desired during the ensuing
Workshop
session
1:00 PM-ish Formal meeting is adjourned; Workshop and
social networking opportunities begin,
including:
* Installation and trouble-shooting assistance
For recommendations on preparations to maximize the
probability of a successful outcome, it is recommended
that you consult the "What to Bring" topic, way down the
page at:
http://www.gslug.org/meeting.html
* Potential break-out discussions about interest-group
activities
* Informal PGP key signing
* Talking, chatting, blathering, etc, etc.
4:00 pm End of meeting
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