Perth Linux Users' Group

What is PLUG?

PLUG is the Perth Linux Users' Group, an association of people interested in Linux. We aim to promote Linux and support the users of Linux in Perth, Western Australia.

Linux is a free computer operating system. It runs on a large variety of computer hardware, and can be used for many purposes including desktop machines, small embedded systems and Internet servers. You can find more information about Linux itself on the Linux International and the Linux Australia web sites. The Linux Documentation Project is also a good place to find general information about Linux.

• More about PLUG
• Getting Linux in Perth

Mailing list

One of the main forms of communication between PLUG members is our e-mail list. The list is a good way to get help if you're new to Linux, and also a good place for general discussion—both technical and social—regarding Linux and related topics.

• More about the mailing list (including how to subscribe and unsubscribe)
• Mailing list archives (including a search facility)
• PLUG news server (alternate way of accessing the mailing list)

PLUG events

Next event — November PLUG Seminar

Title: "A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO, FreeNAS and OpenArena" When: Tuesday, 11th November 2008, 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
Where: 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont
Presenter: Adrian Woodley

As most of you will be aware, Intrepid Ibex, the newest update to Ubuntu, was released last week. Overall there are only minor improvements on Hardy Heron, Intrepid does come with some new versions of some interesting systems.

One of these in particular is Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is a GUI front end for several hypervisors. Currently it supports Xen, QEMU and KVM. While possibly not suitable for large scale or server environments, Virt-Manager does make playing with virtual machines incredibly easy. I'll be focusing on using Virt-Manager with KVM and VirtIO.

Having the flexibility of a virtual environment to play in has allowed me to try out a heap of software, systems and distributions which otherwise would have been painful and time consuming. I intend to demonstrate a couple that I've come across in the past week, including FreeNAS and Nexenta.

On an entirely different tack, I've been having a play with some games which are packaged and available in Ubuntu, namely Open Arena, Alien Arena and Tremulous. If all goes well, we should be able to have a play of these on the big-screen.

Lastly, I'd like to hold a bit of a discussion on an idea I've been thinking about lately; Distributed Network Monitoring. I'll elaborate more on my idea during the presentation and will be looking for some feed back on its usefulness and viability.

Adrian is a Systems Engineer at iiNet. At iiNet he deals with the email network, ADSL network and security. Following this presentation, Adrian will regain his title of "Most Prolific PLUG Presenter", having previously presented "Samba Networking", "Everything you ever wanted to know about VoIP, SIP and Asterisk, but didn't know who to phone", "Virtual Email Hosting" and "Network Monitoring".

• More information about this event

Other upcoming events

See the events page for details.