Bob Smith and Bill Pierce, Linux Appliance Design

Join us as Bob Smith and Bill Pierce, two of the authors of No Starch's book Linux Appliance Design describe the components used in the book's sample appliance. The talk will focus on what each appliance component does, why you might want the component in your appliance, how the component ties to the other components, and how to install and configure the component.

A partial list of the components to be covered includes:

• Appliance architecture
• Run-Time-Access: How to talk to a running daemon
• Two ways to use logging to respond to appliance events
• A sample front panel interface
• How to use AJAX to build an event triggered web interface
• Framebuffer and LIRC interfaces
• A command line interface
• An SNMP interface

You can preview the book's table of contents and examine the underlying technologies at the book's Web site.

Copies of Linux Appliance Design will be given out as door prizes, and also available for purchase for $30 per copy (half price).

Bob Smith and Bill Pierce have experience in embedded systems, commercial Linux appliances, and network management systems. Bob has contributed several articles to The Linux Gazette and frequents comp.os.linux.embedded. Bill built the bootable CD that comes with book and did the framebuffer and LIRC chapters.

Note: The meeting will be in Bayshore Technology Park, Suite 108 - Boardroom I. The meeting is hosted by Qualys, whose offices are located in the Bayshore Technology Park. The meeting room is not, however, in the Qualys office itself.

Free Stuff & Discounts

We will be having a door prize drawing to give away free stuff at the meeting, such as books and T-shirts. Plus all PenLUG members can receive a 30% off discount code from O'Reilly!

Free books are supplied by O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, and/or Apress (while supplies last). If you win one, please add your book reviews to our LinuxBookReviews page.

If your company would like to contribute free or discount stuff to give out at PenLUG meetings, please mail officers@penlug.org to let us know.
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