[Announce] Next meeting – Tuesday, October 9, 2012

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**Aludra Fuse-based Filesystem**

Scott Balneaves, system administrator for Legalaid Manitoba, Canada has been working on a project to create a Linux filesystem backed by a postgresql database.  The idea is, users can store their Openoffice documents in a filesystem hierarchy, but behind the scenes, the documents are actually being written to a database.  Scott is using the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) feature of Linux to create a translation layer that converts the filesystem calls into sql instructions.

**Raspberry Pi**

Remember the “good ol’ days” programming on your Atari 800 or Commodore 64 micro-computer? Those simpler computers were lots of fun, but developing on today’s machines requires a substantial investment. Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer tha hearkens back to the dawn of the micro-computer age. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. This ARM-based PC can do many of the things that a desktop PC can do, like spreadsheets, word-processing, games, and High-Definition video. Brian Hill, a system administrator working for Nexcess, will discuss the Raspberry Pi platform and show us this inexpensive and interesting platform.

And we’ll also have our normal MUG meeting features: Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events, and much much more.

Hope to see you there!

URL: http://www.mug.org/2012/09/next-meeting-tuesday-october-9-2012/