Linux Related Presentation Ideas Needed 1
Last night I did a little presentation on Using VirtualBox on a Desktop. I’d give myself a D+ for a grade on the presentation. Fortunately, it was a small and highly interactive crowd. I tried to cover too much stuff. Also, I showed how to do this on a Windows host OS with a Linux client OS to a Linux-specific crowd. Initially, I’d planned to show an install on a Linux host OS too. The physical machine had a really slow disk controller, so I wasn’t able to create a virtual disk to install the OS into. I tried it a few weeks ago on the test machine and it took 45 minutes to create a 10GB .VDI file. On my home machines, doing this is just a few minutes.
The good thing was that I covered some of the key performance choices in virtualization – multiple times. The good news is that the newer VirtualBox releases choose most of these settings automatically. I should probably create a blog entry for each of the different client OSes that covers performance choices. Anyway …
New Topics
So now I’m looking for other topics to be presented at the local LUG – Linux Users Group. We have a mix of experts and complete beginners in this group. Some ideas.
- Installation of Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora
- Linux Distributions – Pick One
- Picking Linux Hardware
- Beginning with Virtualization
- Simple Desktop Security Techniques
- Logwatch for Watching All Those System Logs
- OpenSSH Keys for Security and Convienence
- Linux Backup AND Recovery – The Round Trip
- Uses for “The Cloud” and Some Concerns
- How to Avoid “RPM Hell”
- IT Infrastructure Design and Architecture (real world designs)
- Linux IT Infrastructure (NTP, DNS, DHCP, Firewall, Proxy, Authentication)
- NAS/SAN Storage with Linux
- White Hat Security – with DC404 http://dc404.kaos.to/ visitor
- Picking Linux Software – License, DB, Language, Ease of Use
- Linux and Laptops – Things to know
- Gaming on Linux
- Choosing File Formats for Compatibility
- Simple Linux System Monitoring
- Version Control Systems (git, cvs, rcs, sccs, svn, bzr)
- Interoperability in an MS-Windows World
- Zimbra: Enterprise Communications Server
- Alfresco: Enterprise Document Management
- Content Management
- Blogging Software Overview
- Email Clients – Lots of Choices (thunderbird, clam, enlightenment)
- Gnome vs KDE vs OpenBox or FVWM, and Others …
- Cross Platform Software Development
- Home Media Server and Storage Techniques
- Security For Virtual Environments
- Backing Up Virtual Environments
- Running a PBX
- Turn a $20 Home Router into a $500 Powerful Router with FLOSS
- What is a Shell? The Basics
- Bash Scripting – Part 1 … 10.
- WINE – Running Windows Software
- Setting Up a Web Server and Reverse Proxy
- Desktop Setup Essentials (Install, Time, Authentication, Networking, Printing, Accessing Remote systems, allowing access to your system)
- X/Windows Tricks
- Remote Access to Linux – Network, Security, Shell, and GUI
- Remote Access Survey – ssh, ssh -X, rdesktop, VNC, NX
- Portable Devices and Linux
- FreeSwitch PBX
- Simple Web CGI Scripting
- Regular Expressions … er … ROC[kK]!
I’m not qualified to present on most of these topics, but that hasn’t stopped me previously. ;) What would you be interested in learning? Please leave a comment.
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How about one of these:
- Home Media Server and Storage Techniques
- Security For Virtual Environments
- Backing Up Virtual Environments
- NAS/SAN Storage with Linux