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The St. Louis GNU/Linux Users Group holds its meetings on the third Thursday of every month.
Meetings are free and open to everyone.

Next Meeting: Thursday, August 19, 2010
6:45pm - 9:00pm

NEW Location:

IT Enterprises, 4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134

NEW Location - We no longer meet at the Library!!


Topic:

dpkg vs. rpm

Speaker: Jeff Muse

Bio: Jeff has been active in the group for years. He is a senior system administrator at a global information services company.

Background/Details/Abstract/Outline/Summary:

Linux users who are primarily used to working in a dpkg environment often have trouble switching to RPM-based distributions, and vice versa. Jeff will discuss the differences and similarities between between the two packaging systems, including common utilities such as apt-get and yum.


Basics: The room is open and available from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. The Basics segment will be followed at 6:45 PM by the usual introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic at about 7:00 PM. -->

At 6:45 PM we start with introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic sometime around 7:00 PM.


NOTE: As of 20 May 2010 we meet at IT Enterprises. We no longer meet at the Library!!

Upcoming Meetings:
  • 19 August 2010 - dpkg vs. rpm - Jeff Muse
  • 16 September 2010 - Topic yet To Be Determined (TBD)

Previous Meetings: See Meeting Notes

Contact the LUG if you have a presentation you would like to have considered for selection.
Last updated August 5, 2010