The September Triangle Linux Users Group meeting will be held on September 14 at RedHat HQ map and directions

In a traditional office setting, there are relatively high powered Intel based PC's spread around at every desk. Each with several gigabytes of hard disk space. Users store their own data on the local hard drives and backups are rarely (if ever) performed.

Does it really make sense to have a full computer at each desk?

The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) http://www.ltsp.org/ provides asimple way to utilize low cost workstations as either graphical or character based terminals on a GNU/Linux server.

Jason Tower will present and demonstrate LTSP, and how to put those old low-powered machines to use.

Documents from the August Meeting, including the presentation slides in .odp format, can be found at trilug.oldos.org. Thanks once again to Jason Faulkner and Ian Kilgore for their presentation.

Jason Faulkner and Ian Kilgore will be presenting "Nagios: FTW". They will cover a wall-to-wall setup of Nagios, including the Super Secret Broadwick Setup Method(tm) and lots of cool scripts to help manage your nagios installation. Also, some custom nagios plugins that Ian and Jason have written will be available for download, along with a sample config.

Jason Faulkner is the System Administrator for Broadwick Corporation. He runs the website OldOs.org and has been a TriLUG member for a year and a half.

Ian Kilgore is an Intern at Broadwick Corporation.

Tribot in #trilug on freenode says:

"movienight" is June 30 @ 2100, jtate's house, come straight in, DO NOT KNOCK, down the stairs turn right. Limit 10. @movienight-res for a reservation list. Showing Sneakers.

Want to come? Drop through #trilug on chat.freenode.net and talk to Tribot (or ask some real people if you like).

The June TriLUG meeting will be held Thursday, July 13, 2006 at Red Hat Headquarters (map and directions) at 7pm.

Details at 11.

The April TriLUG meeting will be held Thursday, April 13, 2006 at Red Hat Headquarters (map and directions) at 7pm.

Matt Frye will discuss Xen and Fedora Core 5. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

The May TriLUG meeting will be held Thursday, May 11, 2006 at Red Hat Headquarters (map and directions) at 7pm.

Tanner Lovelace, et. al. will be discussing Certificate security using the CACert.Org Certificate Authority. We're planning on having enough CACert assurers at the meeting to give you 100 or more points at a single event. Stay tuned for details.

May is also the month for our annual Steering Committee elections. Nominations for any of the five positions should be sent to the trilug list or to steering AT trilug DOT org by 4 May, 2006 at 23:59:59. Note that 5 members are elected to the Committee "at-large" and the positions are determined by a game of "Not-it" shortly thereafter.

TriLUG Articles of Incorporation

Articles of Incorporation of the undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens of the United States and residents of the state of North Carolina, desiring to form a Non-Profit Corporation under the Non-Profit Corporation Law of North Carolina, do hereby certify:

First: The name of the Corporation shall be Triangle Linux Users Group.

Second: The place in this state where the principal office of the Corporation is to be located is the City of Cary in Wake County.

Third: Said corporation is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purpose, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Fourth: The names and addresses of the persons who are the intial trustees of the corporation are as follows:

Jeri Camp Gloege 1221 Waterford Forest Cr. Cary, NC 27513

Ulrich Jason Gloege, Jr. 1221 Waterford Forest Cr. Cary, NC 27513

Robert Napier 9408 Erinsbrook Drive Raleigh, NC 27613

Fifth: No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to its members, trustees, officers or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in futherance of the purposes set forth in Article Third hereof. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, the corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (a) by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or (b) by a corporation, contributions to which are deductible under section 170(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these articles, this corporation shall not, except to an insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of the purposes of this corporation.

Sixth: Upon dissolution of this corporation, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government for a public purpose. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by a Court of Competent Jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.

Seventh: Said corporation shall have a membership of professionally and/or personally interested North Carolina residents promoting the practice of and education therein of Linux and the open source movement.

Eighth: There shall be a Steering Committee comprised of at least three members.

Ninth: An amendment to the articles may be proposed by the steering committee or by one-tenth of the membership presented as a petition to the Chair. The declaration of an amendment must be made formally and filed with the Chair. The amendment is considered at a general meeting within one month of its receipt by the Chair. The Public Relations Officer sends a notice that voting on an amendment will occur along with the text of the proposed amendment to every member no more than sixty days nor less than ten days before the meeting at which the amendment is considered. The amendment is adopted if two-thirds or more of the members present vote for adoption. The amendment must be filed by the Chair with the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State no later than 30 days from when it was approved.