Archive for March, 2007

March Mingle Madness

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Wow! The San Diego user groups get together for a (mostly) socializing event every year called the March Mingle. GroundWork has been a regular sponsor of this event and it grew from 250 to 400 attendees this year. http://www.marchmingle.com/ San Diego has a strong *nix community due to all ...

Slackware Build by University of Utah High Performance Computing Center

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

The guys at the University of Utah's Center for High Performance Computing have posted directions for a Slackware Build of GWMOS here. Search this wiki, there is more info on our product.

Quote of the SIG

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

We hosted the BayLISA Monitoring SIG here at GroundWork last night: Craig Thomas presented on COSMOS, the Eclipse project to standardize System and Network Management interfaces. The quote of the evening (at least, from my perspective as the de facto host): "I was planning on leaving early but it was ...

Red Hat Supports GroundWork

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

I just got back from Red Hat's worldwide launch of RHEL 5. They rented a theatre in downtown SF's Metreon for the introduction and flew out the big honchos from North Carolina for the launch and lunch. Red Hat also announced a new online marketplace called Red Hat Exchange or RHX ...