[sf-lug] SF-LUG met on Sun 2016-05-01 (Several distros on MayDay)

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 05/02/2016 08:27 AM, GoOSSBears wrote:
> Bobbie S and/or others could certainly do a much better
> writeup of yesterday's SF-LUG meetup[01] than myself,
> as I did arrive late at Cafe Enchante (at ~12Noon.)

     I am still working on my report, Taking my time because I have to.

     Bobbie
>
> Previously, Bobbie S mostly wrote at [01]
> ~~~ mostly quoting ~~~
> Quirky 8.0 (Puppy) Xerus64 using Ubuntu repositories.
> ...
> ...
> (whole list of 'buntu distros)
> ...
> ...
> I have a few other distributions with me as well including late
> versions of the Mandriva derived forks I use regularly Mageia 5 and PCLinuxOS 2016.03
> Mageia by the way is out of France where Mandriva was publshed originally.
> PCLOS is a USA effort that started before Mandriva failed. PCLinuxOS 201.03
> I am using at the moment with KDE's Plasma version 4.14.18. Also Knoppix.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Bobbie S also graciously provided me a copy of the
> GParted LiveCD v0.26.0-1 i686 PAE ;
> 0.26.0-1 gparted-live-0.26.0-1-i686.iso[02]
>
> I myself spent the little time I was at Cafe Enchante
> running SHA256 "checksums" on the newly-released
> Devuan[03] Jessie 1.0.0 distro ISO beta versions I
> previously downloaded from [04].
>
> Also had to spend a bit of time trying to resolve
> an error message[05] in the Tint2 lightweight
> panel/taskbar[06] under CrunchBang's[07] Openbox
> WM[08].
> As I would rather prefer to use a more updated
> Debian Wheezy distro than CrunchBang (see [07]),
> I might replace CB with a much more recently
> updated Wheezy[09] of either the LXDE or XFCE
> DE varieties, and then install the Openbox
> WM[08] on top of that replacement install.
> Before completely replacing the discontinued
> CB on my laptops, it makes the most sense to
> me to first non-destructively test out the
> hardware (display adapter, internal WiFi
> adapter...etc) by using a similar-versioned
> Wheezy liveCD[10].
> MANDATORY backup next of course ;-) (see within [11])
>
> As an FYI, that hotsauce shop I mentioned at the
> meetup for we interested chileheads is online
> at [12] and their only storefront is in Berkeley[13].
> Carefully note: I must duly warn any of you of even
> _thinking_ about purchasing the intense Carolina
> Reaper chile pepper[14]!!
>
> Best,
> -A
>
> References:
> ===============
> [01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q2/011936.html
> [02]https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/
> [03]https://beta.devuan.org/
> [04]https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_beta/
> [05]http://pastebin.com/mUcASFgB
> [06]https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2
> [07]http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=crunchbang
> [08]https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox
> [09]http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/7.10.0/i386/iso-cd/
> [10]http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/7.10.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/
> [11]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q2/011954.html
> [12]http://heathotsauce.com/
> [13]http://heathotsauce.com/pages/our-berkeley-storefront
> [14]http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/hottest-chili
>
>
> --
> Go Open Source Software Bears!
>
>
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