From malmrose at gmail.com Thu Jun 2 17:13:38 2016 From: malmrose at gmail.com (Malmrose) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 11:13:38 -0600 Subject: [Techtalk] recommendation Message-ID: Can anyone recommend a flavor of Ubuntu for a friend who has an i5, 2.5 ghz laptop he uses for presentations only. UbuntuMate, Lubuntu, other? Cathy Malmrose From rddalceno at gmail.com Thu Jun 2 19:11:30 2016 From: rddalceno at gmail.com (Ricardo Dalceno) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:11:30 -0300 Subject: [Techtalk] recommendation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: IMHO, anything using XFCE should work fine for your friend. 2016-06-02 14:13 GMT-03:00 Malmrose : > Can anyone recommend a flavor of Ubuntu for a friend who has an i5, 2.5 ghz > laptop he uses for presentations only. UbuntuMate, Lubuntu, other? > > Cathy Malmrose > _______________________________________________ > Techtalk mailing list > Techtalk at linuxchix.org > http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > -- Ricardo D. Dalceno "All the world is a stage" From akkana at shallowsky.com Thu Jun 2 22:15:39 2016 From: akkana at shallowsky.com (Akkana Peck) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:15:39 -0600 Subject: [Techtalk] recommendation In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <20160602221539.GF868@shallowsky.com> Cathy Malmrose writes: > Can anyone recommend a flavor of Ubuntu for a friend who has an i5, 2.5 ghz > laptop he uses for presentations only. UbuntuMate, Lubuntu, other? What's the goal? Is regular Ubuntu too slow on his machine? (I'd be surprised since those specs are the same as my fastest machine ... but I've been running the lightweight Openbox window manager for so long maybe I've lost touch with what regular desktops require these days.) Is there some other issue, like it's too hard to start whatever presentation program he uses? There are dozens of good window managers and desktops, so there really is no one right answer. The nice thing is that it doesn't matter what variant of Ubuntu he installs -- he can install any variant, then try several different desktops and decide which one he likes best. If his only use is presentations, then the biggest factor might be how to set the resolution and control how the laptop displays to its external VGA/HDMI ports. The various desktops all have different ways of doing that, some easier than others; or you can skip desktops entirely and just use xrandr (that's what I do). He may also want to check on how easy it is to turn off desktop notifications, automatic updates and screensavers -- some desktops are forever popping up notifications in your face, and you don't want that happening in front of an audience. I went to a talk last year where the presenter's Windows computer decided to do an upgrade -- including a series of reboots -- right in the middle of his presentation. He eventually gave up on slides and finished his talk sans computer while we all watched the progress of his upgrade on the screen behind him. I've never seen anything that bad from a Linux presentation, but I have seen popups on Linux presenters' machines about people wanting to chat, software wanting to be upgraded, and so forth. ...Akkana From a.mani.cms at gmail.com Tue Jun 28 16:41:48 2016 From: a.mani.cms at gmail.com (A. Mani) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:11:48 +0530 Subject: [Techtalk] WWFS'2016 + Fedora Women's Day, Kolkata (Please Share) Message-ID: Hello, The aim of WWFS'2016 is to encourage the participation of women in free software (FLOSS) projects in various capacities, to empower them, to deliberate on related gender issues and introduce cutting edge free software. Fedora Women's Day celebrations will be part of the workshop on the first day of the workshop. You can find posters (printable/e-posters) of the event at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WWFS-FWD'2016 Date: 15th, 16th July'2016 Place: NSEC, Kolkata How to Participate: Interested women may please send their details (name, address, affiliation, occupation, FOSS experience, age ) in a email with subject "WWFS Participation" to wwfs.fwd at gmail.com . Seats are limited, so please hurry! Certificates will be given to all participants. Registration Fee: Rs.300/= only Lunch and High Tea will be provided _________________________________ PS Response to call for speakers was good Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofessor at ekiga.net From poppy at netcorps.org Tue Jun 28 23:26:29 2016 From: poppy at netcorps.org (Poppy Lochridge) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:26:29 +0000 Subject: [Techtalk] Advice on LVM Message-ID: Hi all, My employer may be rescuing a project for a local nonprofit. Previous consultant set up a CentOS system running apache and ownCloud. Three logical volumes: one swap, one mounted as the ownCloud data folder, one root. Staff are SUPER unhappy with the performance of accessing 1TB of data via WebDAV, and we're looking at moving their data out to another folder which can be shared SMB with their workstations and added back into ownCloud via External Storage for cloud-based access outside of the office. None of the existing logical volumes have enough capacity to move the data to - all of the capacity has been assigned to the ownCloud data volume, and I don't want to create an External Storage folder there as that seems confusing for the users and future admins. I think I'm seeing 2 possible options: (1) Resize the volumes to create space in the root volume for the External Storage folder, or (2) Change the mount point on the ownCloud data volume so that it mounts further up the folder tree, enabling us to create the External Storage folder in that volume without resizing. I know this is pretty sketchy information - if there's anything critical that I'm missing, please tell me. What I'm looking for is some advice on options (1) and (2). Are either of them likely to erase data, are either of them impossible, what's the most effective way to get from point A to point B? Thanks in advance - I'm a 'chix from a long-time-ago who's not been around in a decade or more. --Poppy Poppy Lochridge Technology Consultant NetCorps 1245 Pearl Street Eugene, OR 97401 541-465-1127 x104 poppy at netcorps.org http://www.netcorps.org From lisakachold at obnosis.com Wed Jun 29 01:26:26 2016 From: lisakachold at obnosis.com (Lisa Kachold) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:26:26 -0700 Subject: [Techtalk] Advice on LVM In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: > Hi Poppy, > > Historically, women have not been heavily involved in specification for > DISK/DATA, but must just step up and fix things with the types of quick > short term choices similar to those you initially suggested herein. > > It appears that the "data requirements" were insufficiently addressed by > the former decisions with implementation of ownCloud. > > Clearly any professional would point you toward adding on another NAS/SAN > or data appliance. > > Depending on the full stack implementation and ultimate requirements for > ALL data, you naturally would want to evaluate the full needs, adjacent > systems, and pepper in some knowledge of existing choices in place, managed > by the Linux Admin industry wide. All of such considerations are too > lengthy for a quick "need disk" email, of course, but let's just brainstorm > solutions quickly? > > Adding data on at the level required is probably not going be feasible for > their needs without additional appliance. Great tools exist provided you > have rackspace: > FreeNAS > > > A shared access NAS disk structure can be rearranged trivially, can be > exported/mounted via NFS4 or iSCSI or even some of both and will work with > SMB, but with REAL fully integrated, centrally managed file system access > controls (as discussed in the next SMB discussion section). > > At the server layer, iSCSI NAS disk is loaded at a very low/high stack as > a device and requires very low network load, unlike SMB which relies on UDP > packets (non-controlled and limited to local networks), NFS4 exported > shares can be very network dependent, depending on switches and capacity, > and could add noticable lag due to latency and collisions, should you > attempt to present what is available on the NAS presented to ownClown > directly to the higher levels of the application layer via web systems. > > Your "workstation SMB access" problems would point to the replacing SMB > with the addition of a NAS integrated via Kerberos or AD access controls. > > It also appears that the SMB file access limitations are also no longer > scaling to the full data needs. Any NAS would provide the ability for such > controls to exist outside of your management of SMB in whatever central > Windows, Linux, OS X application is maintaining access in the current > model? Free kerberos or winbind to Active Directory tools exist for any > NAS or linux system and would be something I would propose as a solution to > the SMB problems. > https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/DomApps.html > LikeWiseOpen > > > The building of a NAS in the opensource venue, can be sidestepped with the > purchase of an "out of the box" toaster with these capacities: > A/D, NFS4 and/or iSCSI and a great number of very inexpensive commercial > linux firmware based solutions exist that would sit inconspiculously on top > of the existing server hardware, where a FreeNAS would require server space. > > The LikeWiseOpen piece would install on ownCloud as a daemon and integrate > with A/D or Apple Server Kerberos or whatever is managing access for each > developer when they login each day, just as would the NAS allowing it all > to tie together in what I like to call the "ULTIMATE LINUX SOLUTION" - > which we working at the lowest layers of the OSI stack have a unique > ability to recommend. > > I hope this helps? > > (503) 754-4452 > (623) 238-8447 > > IT Clowns Limited, INC is a 501(3)c Non-Profit > it-clowns.com > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Poppy Lochridge > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My employer may be rescuing a project for a local nonprofit. >> >> Previous consultant set up a CentOS system running apache and ownCloud. >> Three logical volumes: one swap, one mounted as the ownCloud data folder, >> one root. >> >> Staff are SUPER unhappy with the performance of accessing 1TB of data via >> WebDAV, and we're looking at moving their data out to another folder which >> can be shared SMB with their workstations and added back into ownCloud via >> External Storage for cloud-based access outside of the office. >> >> None of the existing logical volumes have enough capacity to move the >> data to - all of the capacity has been assigned to the ownCloud data >> volume, and I don't want to create an External Storage folder there as that >> seems confusing for the users and future admins. >> >> I think I'm seeing 2 possible options: >> >> (1) Resize the volumes to create space in the root volume for the >> External Storage folder, or >> >> (2) Change the mount point on the ownCloud data volume so that it >> mounts further up the folder tree, enabling us to create the External >> Storage folder in that volume without resizing. >> >> I know this is pretty sketchy information - if there's anything critical >> that I'm missing, please tell me. >> What I'm looking for is some advice on options (1) and (2). Are either of >> them likely to erase data, are either of them impossible, what's the most >> effective way to get from point A to point B? >> >> Thanks in advance - I'm a 'chix from a long-time-ago who's not been >> around in a decade or more. >> >> --Poppy >> >> >> Poppy Lochridge >> Technology Consultant >> NetCorps >> 1245 Pearl Street >> Eugene, OR 97401 >> 541-465-1127 x104 >> >> poppy at netcorps.org >> http://www.netcorps.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Techtalk mailing list >> Techtalk at linuxchix.org >> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk >> > >