The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
September 21, 2015
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
Cross compiling to 6502 8-bit systems with 'cc65'
presented by Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software
cc65 is a complete cross development package for 6502 & 65C02 systems,
including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian
and several other tools. cc65 has C and runtime library support for
Commodores (VIC20, C16, Plus/4, 64, 128 and more), Apple (II+ and later),
Atari 8-bits (400/800/XL/XE computers and 5200 game console),
Nintendo Entertainment System game console, and Atari Lynx handheld
game system.
cc65 started out as a C compiler adapted for the Atari 8-bit line of
computers in the late 1980s. In 1999 it was adapted to run on modern
systems, with the original goal of creating a C compiler for Commodore
computers. Today it is open source (zlib license) and officially
supports Linux, Windows, MSDOS and OS/2, but is highly portable.
In this talk, Bill will discuss the cc65 basics that he's learned
(slowly, in the two years since LUGOD's "Vintage Computers and Linux
roundtable" meeting), specifically related to using cc65 to produce
software on the powerful Atari computer series.
Topics will include: disk image creation and testing via an emulator,
memory management, redefined character sets (fonts and tile graphics),
direct access to hardware registers (custom chipset),
Vertical Blank Interrupts (VBI) and Display List Interrupts (DLI) in
C for graphics and other uses, and more.
About the speaker:
Bill Kendrick has owned Atari 8-bit computers since his childhood,
and still occasionally writes software (mostly games) for the system,
usually in TurboBASIC XL (an ehnancement over Atari's own BASIC)
or Action!, a high-level language with a one-pass compiler.
This meeting will be held at:
Explorit Nature Center
3141 5th Street
Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/#next
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/on.php
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About LUGOD:
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The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
and Free Software.
Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis
join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/
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Bill Kendrick
pr(a)lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/
(Your address: balug-talk-balug.org(a)lists.balug.org )
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
August 17, 2015
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
The Dark Art of Container Monitoring
presented by Gianluca Borello, Sr. Engineer, sysdig cloud
Containers are revolutionizing the way we deploy and maintain our
infrastructures, but monitoring and troubleshooting in a containerized
environment can still be painful and impractical. Understanding
even basic resource usage is difficult - let alone tracking network
connections or malicious activity. This talk will cover the current
state of the art for container monitoring and visibility, including
pros / cons and live demonstrations of each method. Special emphasis will
be put on sysdig, an open source troubleshooting tool the presenter
has helped develop. Sysdig offers unprecedented container visibility
without the need to break the 'sanctity' of the container.
About Sysdig:
Sysdig is the container visibility company, dedicated to making
containers viable and mainstream by offering production-quality
visibility into containerized applications, without sacrificing any
of the benefits that make containers great. Sysdig is creating a new
generation of 'container-native' performance management solutions,
designed specifically to deliver monitoring in a microservices-friendly
architecture. Founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, the company's open
source sysdig technology has attracted a community of hundreds of
thousands of developers, administrators and other IT professionals
looking for deep visibility into systems and containers.
Sysdig's commercial product, Sysdig Cloud, is the first and only
comprehensive, container-native monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting
platform.
About the speaker:
Gianluca Borello is a Senior Engineer at Sysdig Cloud, where he wears
many hats. He's a core developer of the sysdig troubleshooting tool,
and spends his days dealing with backend development, performance
analysis and cloud infrastructures management. Prior to Sysdig,
he worked at Riverbed and CACE Technologies, the company behind
Wireshark. He's passionate about Linux, open source technologies and
distributed systems at scale. He holds a MS in Computer Engineering
from Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library
Mary L. Stephens Davis Branche
315 East 14th Street
Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/library/
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About LUGOD:
------------
The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
and Free Software.
Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis
join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/
--
Bill Kendrick
pr(a)lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/
(Your address: balug-talk-balug.org(a)lists.balug.org )