The Saint Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) is an IRS 501c(6) designated not-for-profit professional association dedicated to education and communication among computer users. SLUUG members include many Linux and UNIX professionals, Networking experts, System experts, hobbyists, and students. Also, many who are interested in Unix, Unix-like Operating Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS) applications, products, projects and services. We have met continuously since we incorporated in July 1992. All of our meetings are free and open to the public. There is no individual membership fee.
We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM, Central Time, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen sharing and video camera . Then we start at 6:30 PM with our BASE introductory level session ( often focused on personal computing ); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, smoke and mirrors, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space. Sometime after 7:00 PM we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment. Sometime after 7:15 PM, we may take a short break before our MAIN topic ( often focused on enterprise computing ). NEW In what order or sequence are the meeting events held? SLUUG_Meeting
Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small.
What are they? Why do you need or want them? Can I just take a Linux box and turn it into a router/firewall? Or should I buy one new off the shelf? Where does it go in you network?
Recommended watching ahead, the following suggested: Video
Then something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful.
btrfs 100 ~ Intro/Fundamentals (for general Linux admins) btrfs 200 ~ Intermediate/Practical Ops (for sysadmins using Snapper, subvolumes, RAID. These will prepare you for the upcoming btrfs 500 session that will be upcoming at a future meeting (in a week, or a month). btrfs 500 ~ Deep Internals/Engineering Analysis (for kernel-savy, filesystem experts). What it is: Btrfs (B-Tree FileSystem) is a modern, copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux that focuses on fault tolerance, easy administration, and advanced feature like snapshots, built-in volume management, data checksums for self-healing, and transparent data compression. It supports multiple disks and RAID 0,1,10 configurations, and includes features like online resizing and defragmentation. Key features: copy-on-write (COW) Snapshots Self-healing Volume management Data compression
As directed by SLUUG By-Laws, a required annual meeting was last held 12 February 2025.
Attending any two SLUUG sponsored meetings in calendar year 2024 qualifies you as a voting member. Ballots for February 2025 elections are now available for secret balloting. An absentee ballot could be printed for mailing to us. You might be able to use a LibreOffice Writer ballot file that could be printed and mailed to us.
Your ballot must reach us for counting by our BOARD well before 3 March 2025 (the next STEERCOM meeting).
Attending any two SLUUG sponsored meetings in calendar year 2023 qualified members to vote. Mail in balloting was held thru out February 2024. That resulted in Ken Johnson and Sean Twiehaus being elected to our Board of Governors. James Conroy continued as Chairman of the Saint Louis Linux Users Group.
As directed by SLUUG By-Laws, the next required annual meeting will be held 11 February 2026.
Contact SLUUG if you have a presentation you would like to have considered for selection.
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