On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > The August meeting is a couple weeks out, and I'll be giving the > lecture. I have two topics prepared enough to do for this, please let > me know which you'd prefer: > > Topic 1: Git and distributed source code management. Git is one of the > fastest growing source code management systems, which was originally > written for the Linux kernel. It's now being used in all kinds of open > source projects. > > Topic 2: Puppet, a systems management policy engine. Sound confusing? > The basics is that you write a policy for what the state of your machine > (typically a Linux server) should be in, and puppet drives it to that > state. If you've heard of cfengine, this is cfengine done in ruby, with > policy files that look like config syntax, instead of lisp. I did a > final project for college which was a puppet policy for our OpenSim > environment, which I'm actively using. >
I vote for Topic 1: Git and Distributed SCM. -Ben _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 1 - Linux High Performance Computing Aug 5 - TBD Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV
