[sf-lug] Debian books/documentation, SF-LUG list, ... Re: Report of SF-LUG meeting today, Sunday, May 03, 2015

[Michael Paoli]

Debian ...
Oh, and question was asked about Debian books.  Yes, there absolutely
are Debian books - quite a number of them.  But not being some
multi-billion dollar for-profit company, they don't get marketed/hyped
so much, and many of them are also available totally for free (for
download, anyway - cost at least a bit for printed books).
Have a peek here:
https://www.debian.org/doc/books
Also lots more excellent Debian documentation to be found under/via:
https://www.debian.org/doc/
And if one's specifically looking for asistance, there's also:
https://www.debian.org/support
And there's of course also great local resouce: Bay Area Debian:
http://bad.debian.net/
which does also meet this month - see also:
http://bad.debian.net/pipermail/bad/2015-April/003680.html

And SF-LUG list - yes, I did check for Eric if he was alraedy
subscribed, and no, he's not ... at least as of latest daily
backup data I checked.  But I've got no special privileges/access
to the list nor its administration ... well, other than I* happen
to be one that's also got access to its daily roster "export"/backup.
*Well, the details are slightly more complex, but has been covered on
this list before (encrypted copy of list is made publicly available,
and those with root on the sf-lug.org/sf-lug.com host have access to
that key, and thus its data).  But I think also, if I recall correctly
(and didn't think to check it at the time), I think *anyone* who's
subscribed to the list, can see (nearly) all subscribers on the
list ... well, I think it's all those that haven't selected the "hide"
option to not show their subscription to others on the list - but other
than that I think all on list can view the list of subscribers).
Anyway, I think when I checked, I noted that one additional subscriber
joined the list on or about 2015-05-01 (subscriber count went up by one
on that day's backup), but Eric wasn't on that latest backup list of
subscribers (the backup happens daily, but it only updates the RCS, etc.
if there's actually a change, and that was the last day on which the list
of subscribers had changed in the daily backup copy ... at least as of
yesterday's meeting).

references/excerpts:

> From: "Bobbie Sellers" <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> Subject: [sf-lug] Report of SF-LUG meeting today, Sunday, May 03, 2015
> Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 15:32:48 -0700

> Erik A.  Is a new user with Debian on his Dell Inspiron 7356
> (number may be wrong as I did not write it down),  which
> is a pretty hot machine with some quirks under Debian.
> No optical drive but a 4 core i5.
> I got him a copy of Knoppix 7.5 as he was having problems
> with Debian.   I am not sure which version of Debian it
> used.
>     Erik had already tried to sign up for the mailing list
> but somehow had a problem.  Michael P.  helped him with
> that detail.