Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group

Serving the Linux community in the Ottawa area for 16 years.

Upcoming Meetings and Events

June Meeting: Too much RAM breaks Internet! News at 7!

Date: June 6, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters

Meeting format:
6:00 to 7:00pm - help for Linux users, especially new users
7:00pm to 8:30pm - General Meeting
8:30pm to 9:00pm - Special Interest Groups

Internet broke? Again?

Speaker: Michael Richardson

As networks have gotten faster, the equipment to operate them has been upgraded. Moore's Law has worked in our favour: giving us sweeter experiences. But like sugar, too much leads to an illness: bufferbloat. The faster and newer your equipment, the worse it likely is.

This talk will explain what bufferbloat is, how you can detect it, what the industry is doing (or not doing) about it, and how you can sometimes work around it.

keywords: codel, fq_codel, bufferbloat.net, torrent, powerboost, latency, hidden buffers

Past Meetings

May Meeting: OpenStack Cloud Software

Date: May 2, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters

Meeting format: 6:00 to 7:00pm - help for Linux users, including new users
7:00pm to 8:30pm - General Meeting
8:30pm to 9:00pm - Special Interest Groups

Intro to OpenStack

Speaker: Cody Somerville

OpenStack is open source software for building private and public clouds. Originally launched by RackSpace in collaboration with NASA in July 2010, OpenStack has since won support across the IT industry from users, developers, cloud providers, and vendors from around the world.

Learn what cloud computing is, how it is revolutionizing the way we innovate, and how-to deploy your own OpenStack cloud in minutes.

Cody will demonstrate how to deploy the OpenStack development environment in a virtual machine. If you'd like to follow along on your own computer, have a clean install of Ubuntu Server 12.04 or Fedora 16 in a VM ready in advance.

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