[sf-lug] SF-LUG Meeting of Sunday January 3, 2016

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,
	Wow we had a great and well-attended meeting.

	I got there about 10:35 AM.
	My notebook failed to recover from its hibernation
but after a hard reset I had no further problems with it.

	Maestro showed up by 1100 and he was having a problem with his
older laptop.
	Then John S. showed up to try out distros on a nice HP 5600 notebook

	Ken Schaefer and his wife arrived next full of good cheer and
New Year's greetings.
	Ken went right on to help Maestro.  The problem had to do with
an update to GRUB,  Halfway through the meeting I let Ken use my 
notebook to access online help files.

	Arron came in with his Netbook which living in the neighborhood
he brought in a large shopping bag.  Later he enjoyed looking at my
Linux Pro magazines.

	Daniel G. showed apparently for the company.

	Jackie came in with a problem that her system was reporting and
we were able to help her with that then started an update to Ubuntu 
14.04 LTS (might be 14.10)

	Eric came in next apparently for the company and seem to enjoy
talking to Jim Stockford who showed up about 12:10 PM.  He also inquired
about the Noisebridge meeting.

	John S. tried out a lot of new distros on his old notebook and
was able to boot 4MLinux Rescuekit 15 which worked very well.  He also
was not able to boot SparkyLinux 4.3 which had worked ok on my machine.
Rescuekit may be aimed at users of older machines with older drivers.
SparkyLinux may be aimed at users of newer machines with a limited
number of drivers. Rescuekit has never booted on my notebook.

	The meeting went on for a while after we packed up our
computers by 1:00 PM. Parking was bad and while John S, had parked
on 22nd Jim had found a place on Geary before 32nd. Jim gave me
a ride home.

	The next SF-LUG meeting will be on Monday January 18. 2016.
	You can expect my usual note to appear about January 11th
to remind you all of the next meeting.

	Oh and there is some interesting stuff at
<http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160104>
	I refer to Ulix or "Literate Unix" especially
imagining code you can read like a novel.  Remembering
that some novels are too bad to be read.

	Bobbie Sellers.