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PENINSULA LINUX USERS' GROUP
of the San Francisco Bay Area

The Peninsula Linux Users' Group (PenLUG) is a Linux group for the San Mateo County and surrounding areas, based in the Redwood Shores / Belmont area. If you are interested in participating, please subscribe to our members mailing list. Or if you just want to hear what's going on, join our announce list. Our members have also contributed some LinuxHints; you're welcome to add your own.

For more information about the group, or to find out about speaking at one of our meetings, contact info@penlug.org. Thank you!


SCHEDULE CHANGE!

Starting March 2010, we are moving to a different night. We will be meeting on the fourth Wednesday of each month, instead of Thursdays. For November and December 2010 we will be meeting on the second Wednesday instead, to avoid conflicts due to the holidays.

Sponsors

Our meeting sponsor and host for meetings is NewlineNoosh. Our meetings have been held at Bayshore Technology Park, where their offices are located, since April 2007.

We need help finding and scheduling speakers! If you want to help, see our HowToScheduleSpeakers page.


PenLUG Meeting Schedule:

PenLUG meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month, except during the months of November and December, when we meet on the second Wednesday due to the holidays. Meetings begin at 6pm and continue until approximately 8pm. Note: Starting March 2010, we are moving to Wednesdays, instead of Thursdays.

We meet at the Bayshore Technology Park in Redwood Shores, CA; see Driving Directions (included below) or Transit Directions for details. The meeting is hosted by NewlineNoosh.

Next Meeting

Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Bayshore Technology Park
1300 Island Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065
Suite 106 - Training Room
RSVP: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150121043645464  
or mail rsvp@penlug.org

Note we are now meeting on Wednesdays! Effectively this month, we will be moving to the fourth Wednesday of each month (except in November and December, when we will meet on the second Wednesday to avoid holiday conflicts). The meeting is hosted by NewlineNoosh. There is no sponsor for food/drinks, so please bring a potluck item to share.

Agenda:

  • 6:00 PM Potluck snacks
  • 6:15 PM Free book giveaways or other prizes
  • 6:30 PM Presentation begins
  • 8:00 PM Meeting ends

Featherweight Linux

Slow is the new black! The "netbook" craze, with machines like the Asus Eee, has raised a lot of interest in small and relatively slow hardware. Even if you don't have a shiny new netbook, what about that older laptop sitting in your closet ... that one that you stopped using because it was too slow? Maybe you've wondered if there's a way to bring that old hardware back to life?

This talk will cover ways of configuring a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu to run efficiently on slow CPU, low memory machines. You'll see how you can get big performance gains from areas such as:

  • speeding up the boot process
  • options for lightweight window managers
  • performance tools that can help you find bottlenecks
  • tuning your kernel
  • Finding lightweight alternatives to big applications

Akkana Peck

Akkana Peck is a freelance programmer and writer who has been involved with open source for roughly two decades, contributing code to Mozilla/Firefox, GIMP and a variety of other projects. She's also the author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional" and has written an assortment of tutorials for Linux Planet and other sites, including her own site.

RSVP

  • Although it is not required, we like to have an idea of how many people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp@penlug.org if you are planning to attend.

This Year's PenLUG meetings:

If you or someone you know would like to present at an upcoming PenLUG meeting (any date marked "TBD" is available), see the HowToScheduleSpeakers page for instructions on what to do.

Previous Years: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

There is also a Video archive of some past meetings.

Contributing to PenLUG Web site

Want to contribute to the PenLUG Web site? Send mail to registration@penlug.org to request a user account, and then you can click the "Edit" button at the bottom of any page! Due to abuse by wiki-spammers the usual TWikiRegistration form is disabled. Sorry!

PenLUG Knowledge Base

Here are a few of the articles you can find about Linux on this site:

PenLUG Web site updates - RSS feed

[XML/RSS]

Use with your favorite RSS aggregator. For example Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox have built-in RSS support, or use Bloglines for a Web-based one.

Driving Directions to PenLUG meetings

Bayshore Technology Park
1300 Island Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065

NOTE: See the meeting details page for the meeting in question to determine the specific room for the meeting. 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.

Interactive map at Google Maps | Transit Directions

If you encounter difficulty finding us, call Bill Ward at 650 279-9904 (cell).

  • From US-101 (either direction):
    1. Exit the freeway at Ralston Ave/Marine Parkway
      • If coming north (e.g. from San Jose), turn right at the end of the offramp.
      • If coming south (e.g. from San Francisco), turn left at the end of the offramp.
    2. Continue on Marine Parkway past the Oracle buildings
    3. Turn left onto Island Drive
    4. Park at 1300 Island Drive

  • From I-280 (either direction):
    1. Take highway 92 eastbound.
    2. Take the Ralston Ave / Belmont exit off 92, and drive through Belmont on Ralston.
    3. Cross over US-101, where Ralston becomes Marine Parkway
    4. Continue on Marine Parkway past the Oracle buildings
    5. Turn left onto Island Drive
    6. Park at 1300 Island Drive

  • From the east bay:
    • Take highway 92 (San Mateo Bridge) to San Mateo, then take 101 south and continue as above.

  • From Half Moon Bay:
    • Take highway 92. After passing the 280 interchange, take the Ralston Ave exit and continue using the I-280 instructions above.

  • Carpooling & Transit: email carpool@penlug.org to find a carpool buddy. For best results, email us several days before the meeting; also, have a fallback plan for driving. Consult Qualys Transit Directions for bus and train options.

-- BillWard - 08 Apr 2007


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