Topic: Learning Lenovo Linux Life
Presenter: Mark Pearson
When: Thursday, 08 April 2021 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Might be Recorded
Speaker notes: PDF
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/275495299/

Summary

A while ago Lenovo announced they would be selling laptops with Linux from factory instead of Windows. Having a large computer vendor offering that is a nice boost for Linux as a valid desktop/home OS. But, what does that mean to us? How supported is it? What is the long term plan? How much of the shenanigans required to make it work are placed in open source?

How about if we get some info from the horse's mouth? This thursday our speaker is Mark Pearson from Lenovo, who promised he'll give an overview of what Lenovo is doing with Linux, how they work with the open source community, what is involved with getting Linux supported from their side of the fence, and what is to be expected from a Lenovo Linux platform.

He has been warned to expect stutter-inducing questions, so I am counting on you to write down all your issues anf concerns. Don't disappoint me!

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG20210408 and the password is TriLUG. See you there!

Bio

Mark Pearson is the technical lead for the Lenovo Linux PC team. He has been working with Linux for almost 20 years, mostly on network switches until 18 months ago when he joined the PC team and found out that PCs are significantly more complicated than network switches - he got introduced to a whole new wonderful world of graphics, audio, touchscreen, fingerprint, power management and a myriad other complexities all crammed into an amazingly small space.

His team is responsible for delivering Linux on over 50 platforms - ranging from the tiny m90n, through almost 30 different laptops and up to their desktop and workstation models. They work with multiple distros with a focus on making sure support for their platforms is upstream so any distribution can work.

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Topic: All Things SUSE
Presenter: Dwain Sims
When: Thursday, 11 March 2021 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes PDF
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/275495250/

Summary

Long time Trilug Member, and SUSE employee, Dwain Sims will do a presentation on the topic of "All Things SUSE" at the regular Thursday Februrary 11 TriLug Zoom get-together.

Items on the Agenda

• Brief (very) History of SUSE
• Current Products
• OpenSUSE
• Directions

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG20210311 and the password is TriLUG. See you there!

Bio
Dwain Sims has been attending TriLug since 2008. He became a Triangle resident in August 2000, relocating with his wife and 3 (now 4) kids from the Bay Area in California. Dwain has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University, and has worked for so many companies that it's getting hard to count them. Among these were Lockheed, Sun Microsystems, SteelEye Technology, Fusion-io, and SanDisk. He started work at SUSE in March 2018. Dwain likes working in the garden and tending the family's massive poultry flock (3 hens) when he's not messing with some techy thing.

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Topic: BPFTrace - Finally Dtrace Replacement for Linux
Presenter: Peter Zaitsev
When: Thursday, 11 February 2021 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes PDF
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/275495240/

Summary

While eBPF was included in Linux kernel for quite a few years, we lacked a good "frontend" to complete Dtrace functionality in the Linux ecosystem. In this presentation, we will look into BPFTrace as a capable Dtrace replacement. We will also show how you can develop your own tools and utilities using BPFTrace as well as how you can use the tools from BPFTrace collection to get great insights into Linux Operations.

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG20210211 and the password is TriLUG. See you there!

Bio

Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at Open Source Databases and related conferences. He has also been tapped as a contributor to Fortune and DZone.

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Topic:Adventures in Working Remotely
Presenter: Brave & Opinionated TriLUG Members
When: Thursday, 14 January 2021 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes N/A
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/275495209

Summary

We start 2021 with yet another virtual meeting; it seems this will be the trend for a while. I hope everyone managed to adapt to the new normal.

How about we begin the year with talking about what we have to do to stay productive and sane in 2020? Which tools did you use, and which ones worked? Are you working remotely? How much of a shift or accomodation you had to do?

Think of what you can say to those (trilug members) who are still struggling in this new environment of masks (some of which are more like nose or chin supports) and remote work. If you have questions, from technical to privacy to social, bring them in!

There will be no pizza.

Meeting Link

https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG011421

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Topic: December Science Fair
Presenter: TriLUG
When: Thursday, 10 December 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes N/A
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267709100

Summary
It’s that time of year again - the December Science Fair! Come show off the projects you’ve been working on!

Feel free to sign up at https://forms.gle/3ZMwSoko2GYxZ72u5 so the steering committee can have a rough idea of the number of presentations.

As usual, we will use Jitsi as our meeting platform.

Within the linked form is a question soliciting speakers for next year. If you are interested, either reach out to the steering committee (steering@trilug.org) or answer the last question on the questionnaire and a member from the steering committee will reach out with details on scheduling and other details. All levels of topics are welcome, but it is worth noting that the most reception is received from introductory-mid level talks.

Some time after Thursday and before the end of the year, a survey will be sent asking what kind of content, you, the members want to see. We will use that data to make sure we go in the right direction in 2021.

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG121020 and the password is TriLUG. See you there!

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Topic: Kubernetes App Development from the Ground Up
Presenter: Jeff Moore
When: Thursday, 8 October 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes N/A
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267708981/

Summary
How can one take an idea all the way to deployment on Kubernetes? Come see! In this presentation, Jeff Moore, Vice Chair of TriLUG, will walk you through the process of building and deploying a Kubernetes-native web app. Slides and code will be shared afterwards.

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG100820 and the password is TriLUG. See you there!

Bio
Jeff Moore works at Bandwidth with a focus on operations and extensions of Kubernetes, AWS, and the Elastic Stack.

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Topic: CIAB Full Mesh VPN Internet Overlay
Presenter: Brian Mullan
When: Thursday, 10 September 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes N/A
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267709036

Summary
Brian will show off his Cloud-In-A-Box Full Mesh VPN Internet Overlay project, which has a goal of securing communications between multiple networks by leveraging LXD, Wireguard, VXLAN and other popular technologies

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG090820 and the password is TriLUG. See you there!

Bio

Brian Mullan has over 20 years of experience in the Cisco ecosystem and has worked with LXD containers, Gaucamole (Apache flavor), and various cloud-orchestration platforms like OpenStack.

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Topic: Bash tips and tricks
Presenter: Jonathan Mainguy
When: Thursday, 14 May 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: Online
Parking: Virtual
Map: Video: Will Not be Recorded
Speaker notes N/A
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267709028

Summary

This will be a virtual meeting only. Link to be posted on trilug.org before the meeting.

We will begin with a quick election for the Sysadmin position on the steering committee. If you wish to nominate yourself or someone else. Please reach out to the steering committee via steering@trilug.org, or the general mailing list trilug@trilug.org.

Currently we have one nominee.

Matt Flyer: "I've been a Linux user for 15'ish odd years now, and really started getting into it with some laptops back in the days of Ubuntu 7 and Fedora 9. Over the years, I have run public facing servers for my own use, largely for email (postfix + dovecot), music streaming, and a local Xenforo forum. I also maintain a couple of Linux servers here at work that are used for a reporting web server.

While I sometimes do require some tech support assistance, one of the things that this group excels at, I am used to solving problems in those instances where it doesn't "just work"."

After the election. Jonathan Mainguy will give a talk showing off tips and tricks in bash he has learned during his career.

Meeting Link
https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG0813 and the password is hunter2. See you there!

Bio

Jonathan Mainguy is the current Trilug Chair.

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