Ubuntu Utah

Omar has stepped up to the plate for presenting in July. The meeting topic will be about Upstart, the Ubuntu System V Init replacement. He's written some Upstart scripts, and his knowledge will be worth tapping into during this meet.

After his discussion on Upstart, we'll be having a "hack night", where we'll get to work hands-on with Upstart, so we can more effectively administer our machines.

This will be a great meeting, and all who can should attend. Upstart is poorly documented, and we as a team could be positioned to be the leader in this regard.

Today the sixth marks my 1 month point. of the five time (I counted recently) I've tried to convert to Linux. This marks the point where I've been able to stay with it longer then all the other attempts combined, and remain happy with my decision. Despite some attempts made to discourage me from with in the Linux community.

I've had my issues here and there, but nothing catastrophically major as to make me blow out Linux and reinstall windows.

Still... I'm working on learning how to use my computer under Linux to it most valuable.

So it's been a few weeks since I've installed Ubuntu Studio to my rig, Made myself many Blender 3D models, GIMPed up a lot of textures and Effects for said 3D models, and even killed stress with a session or two of Prey, Counterstrike source, and Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

I've gotten my girlfriend almost totally acclimated to Linux and it's benefits. I've even fixed a "User Error" that almost cost me twenty minutes of re installation time. And all with out ever being tempted to reinstall Windows XP back onto my rig.

This part of my Linux life, I call "Feeble as a Kitten"

Those on the IRC Server Freenode may notice hat my spelling is a bit, how to say it? OK I'll admit it. I'm dyslexically lazy. I say "On the 8th day God said, Let there be spelling checkers." and for that I'm grateful.

So if you notice that here, Please be kind but let me know do I can.

Alright then. On with my very first ever blog...

I've really been looking forward to this meeting for a couple of weeks. for two reasons really:

Aaron Toponce will be covering the Ubuntu Linux boot process from pressing the power button to when you receive a login prompt at the shell or the GUI. It's critical that you become familiar with the boot process if you wish to be an effective administrator at troubleshooting.

Details are as follows:

Date: June 14, 2008
Time: 6-8pm
Location: UofU MEB building
Room: 2555
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

and so it begins

hey all! I want to give you all a little background on what i'm doing here and what I hope to accomplish.

I want to help and encourage people to explore linux, trust me, give it a chance, just a few weeks and you'll be hooked. you'll never go back.