These days most modern computers support PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) booting--booting from the network. Booting from the network allows you to do all sorts of interesting things including setting up thin clients, automate kickstart environments and more. In this talk Kyle Rankin will discuss how to set up a PXE boot server and will cover thin clients, kickstarting computers completely over the network, PXE booting rescue discs, and how to throw it all in a menu system that lets you choose what to boot.

Presentation materials are available at http://greenfly.org/talks/pxe/pxe-magic.html

Allan will discuss how to mod the XBOX so you can run Linux from it, as well as how to use the newly-modded XBOX as a MythTV front-end.

Slides available at /presentations/linuxonxbox/linuxonxbox.html

Speakers TBD, but the presentation will be a round table discussion of some of the current popular Linux distributions.

If you're interested in talking about your favorite distribution for a few minutes, please contact speakers@nblug.org.

Matthew Smith will be giving a talk about advanced usage of Linux on the WRT54G.

Short description of talk:

Topic 1: Using the WRT54G to make a cheap network bridge.

Topic 2: Using the WRT54G to monitor and control the physical world. I'll
talk about how you can monitor input pins and turn on/off output pins. With
a simple circuit (which I'll show) you can control anything you want.

Extra Links

Openwrt site:

http://www.openwrt.org

WRT54G compatibility information:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware

DD-WRT:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/

Doing the serial mod (includes where to buy the pcboard):

http://www.rwhitby.net/wrt54gs/serial.html