Kickstart:
 - Summary of its features
 - New features in 7.3
   resolvedeps
   ignoredeps
   %include (cool uses)
 - Instructions for dulug: link
 - Docs for kickstart at Red Hat: link
 - Example file: link
 - Demo

Yum:
 - Theory
 - Implementation
   - what it uses
   - features it has
 - Repository Setup
 - Client Configuration
 - Demo of client
   - use it to install evolution
 - GPG key setup and use
 - Options for notices instead of auto updating
 - Future
   - package groups
   - graphical interfaces
   - mirror support
   - other suggestions?

Linux at Duke:
 - Dulug:
    - Source for new projects (dulog, yum, others?)
    - Mailing list
       - is good for copious and abundant advice and the occasional flamefest
       - good place for student/faculty/staff interaction w/o hierarchy of the University
       - Independent of any Department
       - Path to talk to former dulug/duke students now at IBM, Ximian, etc.
    - Dulug Distro
      - auto updater
      - agressive maintenance and testing
      - 449 systems updated at last count
      - Accepted standard linux install for campus
    - Public Mirrors are commonly known as the fastest/most current around:
         - ximian - hurts Red Carpet Express b/c of speed
         - red hat - synced for a lot of the mirrors
                   - 1TB transferred on first day of 7.3 release.
         - thanks: eci, ola, phy, math, cs

 - Beowulf:
    - Tools being written on campus:
       - rgb - xmlsysd, wulfstat etc
       - dbug list (link)
    - Wide use of linux in beowulf configurations on campus:
        - Physics (112+)
        - Math (16)
        - Biology (10)
        - CSE (rankin's group) (30+?)
        - ISDS (50)
        - Econ (10+)
        - Chem (soon 100+)
        - Others 
    - More than 300 machines acting in beowulf clusters on campus
    - Genomic projects will just increase this number

 - Acpub:
    - 9 system trial of workstations in west duke
    - new test afs server running linux:
     - why:
       - transarc dumped
       - openafs somewhat targeted at /most commonly used on linux
       - ease of updating
       - no longer dependent on a single vendor (sun)
    - news.duke.edu to migrate to linux

 - Future:
    - Expand use as servers for departments
    - Start expanding to more workstations:
      - replace sun workstations in clusters
        - redirect non-linux software from smaller subset of sun machines
          via ssh
        - cheaper than suns
        - less dependence on a single vendor
      - Replace Win2k Systems
        - with vmware can run the same programs
        - less cost
        - easier maintenance
        - more security from viruses (vmware is much like a sandbox)
        - reduced cost as machines serve as unix and windows machines
        - reduced adimistrative costs for patching etc
    - Expand yum repositories for other deparments
    - Customized installation methods
    - More collective/aggregate administration methods
    - DLdocs: Documents of how things should/can be done
      - general repository of good ideas/docs

 - Concerns:
   - monoculture
      - acknowledge (dulug fuct, we're all fuct)
      - yum as antibiotic delivery system
        - borg like - one gets fixed, we're all fixed
   - reliance on a single person (me)
     - reduced with yum
     - maintenance method is being documented/automated with the help of
       my counterpart at ncsu - Jack Neely
     - desire to export what we've learned/done here to other institutions
   - Scaling:
     - so far install.dulug.duke.edu (faucet) is scaling quite well.
       might be necessary in the future to rsync and mirror it to another location
       on campus to level out load.
    

 - Suggestions:
    - more people participating is good
    - answering questions
    - making packages
  - Thanks:
    A&S unixgroup
    #dhg
    
 - Questions?