[sf-lug] Today's meeting Sunday 2 March 2014 --XPUD and more

[jim]

John's notes re last Sunday:

"""

Universal USB installer is a piece of software that will allow you to 
copy your Linux .ISO files to a thumb drive.  It works well.

YUMI version 2.0.0 will copy several Linux .ISO files to a thumb drive.  
It will also located and download the files for you.  It creates a 
multi-boot thumb drive and also works well.

Xpud is an older linux distro which is good for coffee shops.  It boots 
quickly and find any SSIDs which are broadcast and allows you to quickly 
attach to them.  The most current version of Xpud is 0.9.2 and the 
developer has stopped working on this distro (darn). This distro also 
includes links to Firefox (older version), YouTube, an instant messenger 
called meebo.  It is quite nice, again, too bad development has stopped.

As a side note, I have some Sandisk thumb drives that the above software 
doesn't want to acknowledge.  The Sandisk drives have a 'U3' partition 
and then a regular partition.  However, those drives don't seems to be 
acknowledged in Linux.   Not sure on that one....

"""

     The XPUD distro is DSL small and optimized for cafe
wifi use.
http://www.xpud.org/
     As it boots up, it detects only access points that are
broadcasting, it presents an initial wifi config choice for
connecting to valid SSIDs.
     It presents a menu for browsing and a few other
features common to cafe use.

     YUMI is a "Multiboot USB Creator.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/



On 03/02/2014 04:50 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi LUGgers,
>
>         10:35 A.M. I arrived followed shortly John Strazziano,
> then Ken Shaeffer and wife,  Maestro, Yong, Jason, Mickey,
> Daniel, Jim, Mikki,  Bob and Eric  finally.
>
>     John had a couple of laptop computers he was trying to dispose
> of but he kept one.
>     We tried several distributions on those.
>
>      Daniel wanted to install Fedora but it would not give good
> results on the Dell machine so finally PC LOS in 32 bit version worked 
> fine and he will install it when he has some time.
> This could boot 64 bit versions of some systems but not the
> ones we wanted to use originally.
>
>     Ken was just helping everyone but especially
> Yong and Mickie.
>
>     Maestro wanted a 32 bit version of Fedora 20 and after some
> experimentation yesterday I bought along the Jam spins which
> seemed more adaptable.  Then he spent a lot of time working with
> Mikki finding drivers on line for it using my Compaq.  I was running
> back and forth trying to help Daniel with the new install then
> showing him a few details of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
>
>     We had an accident in that one member knocked over
> another's decaf soy latte but the damage was soon repaired
> and if the proper cap had been kept on the cup the spill might
> not have been as disastrous.  A fresh decaf, et al and we were
> good to go.
>
>     Jason had a friend's laptop computer on which Windows
> was to be deprecated totally and then with a magazine disk,
> which I supplied, he installed Mint!  It was a fine light machine
> with excellent response.
>     Jason also has some 3 GiB external drives he wishes to sell or 
> trade for other equipment.  He has lots of 8 GiB SD and Micro SD cards 
> as well for similar trade or sale.
>
>     Mikki McGee was having a problem with the WiFi on her ASUS Eee  
> PC.   Maestro, Jim and Ken all worked on it
>
>     Jim was showing off his new Zareason machine which he has made 
> some changes to lately as he mentions in his own post.
>
>     We were having a lot of fun until about 1:30 PM when we broke
> up and the last members of the group packed up their gear. Jim brought 
> his car around and with as many people as we could cram
> in stopped first at the FrankenArt studio where hot dogs were had
> by at least 3 of the riders.  Jim dropped off Jason near Post and
> Hyde then dropped me a couple of blocks along.
>
>     If anyone is interested next meeting will be the 17th of this
> month and I will have at least Kali-linux on hand.  I am planning
> on getting Kubuntu which is KDE running over the Ubuntu system
> instead of Unity.  More information about those ISOs will be
> posted with the next meeting announcement.
>     I must say that without the assistance of John in helping
> set up a 3 table area for us it would have been much harder
> to get 11 members together.  The Cafe Enchante was extremely
> crowded and busy today.
>
>     If I left anything out of these notes about the meeting please
> inform me or the LUG asap.
>
>     Thanks for your attention!
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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