From twm at freecog.net Sun Jul 9 12:42:58 2017 From: twm at freecog.net (Tom Most) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 12:42:58 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/Announce] NBLUG July 11th - Metrics and Monitoring with collectd, InfluxDB, and Grafana Message-ID: <97df3ae2-3098-43a1-82b4-8f9c8e3102f5@freecog.net> Topic: Metrics and Monitoring with collectd, InfluxDB, and Grafana When: Tuesday July 11th, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM Speaker: Tom Most Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) Have you ever wondered what is clogging your Internet connection? Or if you ever use (or get) the bandwidth you pay for? The best way to know is to measure. This presentation will discuss how to retrieve data from sources ranging from Linux hosts to network and IoT devices using collectd, then storing and graphing the data using InfluxDB and Grafana. The intended audience is technically-inclined home users and system administrators. From allan at nblug.org Thu Sep 7 08:59:43 2017 From: allan at nblug.org (Allan Cecil) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:59:43 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/Announce] September 12th - Linux on the Laptop 2017: A System76 Out-Of-Box experience Message-ID: Topic: Linux on the Laptop 2017: A System76 Out-Of-Box experience When: Tuesday September 12th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: Allan Cecil Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) Description: You've probably heard of the mythical "Year of the Linux Desktop" for quite some time by now with the year seemingly always just around the corner. With Linux just now crossing the 3% install base threshold we may not be "there" yet but that's not to say there aren't some great companies out there making Linux-specific hardware. Case in point is the topic of this talk - System76 (http://system76.com) ships laptops in a range of sizes and configurations with Linux preloaded. In this talk, I'll demonstrate a new System76 Oryx Pro laptop and show off the current Out-Of-Box experience as well as their plans for their own distribution named Pop!_OS which is now in development. I'll talk about what works well with their current software loadout and areas that still need improvement. I'll also give an overview of the current state of driver support and touch on how that support dictated the hardware build of the laptop. I'll leave plenty of time at the end for everyone to get some hands-on time as some things (such as what the keyboard and button layout feels like) can't be demonstrated well from a projector. From allan at nblug.org Tue Sep 12 18:05:31 2017 From: allan at nblug.org (Allan Cecil) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:05:31 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/Announce] Tonight - Linux on the Laptop 2017: A System76 Out-Of-Box experience In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <821ca596-c6a3-1394-5638-ff52dca6672e@nblug.org> This is a reminder about tonight's talk. I will be streaming the talk at http://twitch.tv/dwangoAC for those who can't make it in person. See you there physically or virtually, A.C. ****** On 09/07/2017 08:59 AM, Allan Cecil wrote: > Topic: Linux on the Laptop 2017: A System76 Out-Of-Box experience > When: Tuesday September 12th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM > Speaker: Allan Cecil > > Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room > past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) > > Description: > You've probably heard of the mythical "Year of the Linux Desktop" for quite some time by now with the year seemingly always just around the corner. With Linux just now crossing the 3% install base threshold we may not be "there" yet but that's not to say there aren't some great companies out there making Linux-specific hardware. Case in point is the topic of this talk - System76 (http://system76.com) ships laptops in a range of sizes and configurations with Linux preloaded. > > In this talk, I'll demonstrate a new System76 Oryx Pro laptop and show off the current Out-Of-Box experience as well as their plans for their own distribution named Pop!_OS which is now in development. I'll talk about what works well with their current software loadout and areas that still need improvement. I'll also give an overview of the current state of driver support and touch on how that support dictated the hardware build of the laptop. I'll leave plenty of time at the end for everyone to get some hands-on time as some things (such as what the keyboard and button layout feels like) can't be demonstrated well from a projector. > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > announce at nblug.org > http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce >