NLLGG Meeting 2008/CentOS community day

Event Information

The Dutch Linux Usergroup (NLLGG) organizes regular meetings, and have invited us to help organizing a CentOS community day at the NLLGG meeting on June 7, 2008.

Goals

• Explain, what enterprise distributions are and how they differ from other distributions.
• Explain what CentOS is, and how CentOS differs from other enterprise distributions.
• Provide a basic tutorial about installing and setting up CentOS, followed by an installparty.
• Provide more in-depth talks about select topics.

Participants

• Who wants to help?

  • DagWieers

  • DanielDeKok

  • TimVerhoeven

If you want to help, drop me DanielDeKok or DagWieers a note or answer the call for participation on the centos-nl mailinglist or on the centos-promo mailing list.

Talks

Title: CentOS Deployment and Management

• Presenter: TimVerhoeven

  • Photo:

  • URLs: http://misterd77.blogspot.com/

  • Abstract speaker: Tim Verhoeven is a system administrator at DNS.be, the registrar for the .be domain. He lives in Leuven, Belgium. He has been contributing to the CentOS project since 2007.
  • Biography: Tim Verhoeven is a system administrator at DNS.be, the registrar for the .be domain, since 2007. He has been working with Linux since for more then 10 year. He currently lives in Leuven, Belgium. He has been contributing to the CentOS project since 2007 as part of the QA and support team. His main interests are Virtualization, Clustering and LAMP applications
• Presentation:
  • Language: Dutch
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: Using a Enterprise distribution in a production environment also means that you need to be able to manage those installations. This presentation is about 2 aspects of this. The first is deployment, using the tools Cobbler and Koan you can automate the installation of systems and using profiles, templates and script inside Cobbler you can already start customizing your system during the installation. The second aspect of the presentation is the Func tool. It allows you to remotely execute commands on different systems at the same time. But since it is written in python and has a public API it could be used to build custom applications on it.
• Slides from my presentation: ...

Title: CentOS and Virtualization

• Presenter: DanielDeKok

  • Photo:

  • URLs: http://people.centos.org/~daniel http://danieldk.org/

  • Biography: Daniel de Kok is a student in computational linguistics and philosophy, with an interest in natural language processing and information retrieval. In a previous live he was employed by Libra Computer Systems to co-develop the Libranet distribution. Since then, he never lost interest in distribution engineering, and is currently a developer for the CentOS project. His primary work areas within the project are package management tools and virtualization support.
• Presentation:
  • Language: Dutch
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: CentOS is a community-built free enterprise-class Linux distribution for desktops, workstations, and servers. It is derrived from the source packages of a prominent North-American enterprise Linux distribution to create an exactly compatible product. Being an enterprise system, the focus of CentOS is on stability, stable APIs/ABIs, and long-term support. As of recently, various opensource virtualization technologies have been added to CentOS. Virtualization is useful in many situations, for instance to increase server utilization, to run legacy applications, and for application testing. CentOS includes support for both paravirtualization (Xen) and hardware-assisted full-virtualization (Xen, KVM), with a generic virtualization library (libvirt) on top of them to make life easier for developers and system administrators. This talk will introduce these technologies and, discusses their use cases.

• Slides from my presentation: nllgg2008-vz.tar.gz

Title: CentOS and the Enterprise Linux market

• Presenter: DagWieers

• Presentation:
  • Language: Dutch
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: CentOS is an Enterprise community distribution, based on the sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS conforms with the upstream redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible with RHEL.

Other benefits of CentOS include a proven and stable enterprise platform, 7 years guaranteed low-risk security updates and low maintenance. These characteristics make CentOS suited for server environments, appliances and desktop systems.

As a community effort, CentOS has a big installation base, a vivid community and extra package repositories that complete the experience.

The CentOS presentation scheduled at LinuxTag will introduce you to the CentOS project, the different supported CentOS releases and a demonstration of CentOS as a desktop, server or appliance solution. At the Open Source pavilion we provide you more information about CentOS and the latest CentOS 5.1 release and for more advance inquiries ask one of our CentOS experts.

• Slides from my presentation: ...

Title: CentOS on the desktop

• Presenter: DagWieers, TimVerhoeven, DanielDeKok

• Presentation:
  • Language: Dutch
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: During this presentation we will do a live installation of CentOS on a laptop.

The presentation will first introduce you to the different things one need to know before installing a Linux operating system. Then we will do an installation together on the big screen and look at the all the different ways to improve your desktop. We will discuss little tips and tricks, show you how to install additional packages, finetune your configuration, perform maintenance tasks and showcase popular applications.

• Slides from my presentation: ...