[sf-lug] SF-LUG meets on Sunday August 7, 2016

[Bobbie Sellers]

HI  LUGers,

   SF-LUG meets every first Sunday from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M.
and every third Monday from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M.
at the Cafe Enchante, 26th and Geary Boulevard.

     These meetings are usually lightly attended with a high for the
year so far of 7 members.   If you have a problem come along
and maybe we can help but if not we can usually find someone
who can.
     One member who has a Dell E6420 is having some problems
and may show up with his multi-booting machine.

     While there are lots of alpha and beta releases of more notable
distributions out I have not bothered to download any of those.
I have installed the latest RC of Open Mandriva which comes with the
incomplete KDE's Plasma 5.7 and the preview version of PCLinuxOS
2016.07 which is similarly afflicted.  These are on the hard drive
of the Dell E6420 waiting to be demonstrated.
     The Open Mandriva crew now has an automated compiling server for
faster release of tools.  The results would be more impressive without
KDE's Plasma 5.
     It may be of some interest that the PCLOS has stuck with SystemV
init and that the other 2,  Open Mandriva and Mageia 6 have moved
to systemd.  Thus the new slogan of PCLOS for the next release,
"Radically Simple" which I can only applaud, not because it rejects
systemd but because the folder tree is a lot less complicated without
it.

     Today, July 29, I snagged a copy of Linux Pro magazine for August 2016.
The DVD of the month has Clonezilla 64 bit and Linux Mint 17.3 32 bit
We have Linux Mint in our distribution library as well as the latest 
versions
of Clonezilla which can be a very handy backup tool.
     As well there is a long lead article on the file systems, the 
capabilities and
histories of each. an article describing a Debian 8 system called Maru on a
Nexus 5 tablet and
a lot of other information, some slightly out of date news and the like.
     This issue features lots of reviews of new or previously unnoticed 
applications
and utilities, Remote desktop apps & applications,  The use of Snapper with
BTFS to recover files, recovery with Relax and Recover, Klaus Knopper
explaining some fine points of the use of his product, System adminstration,
interfacing your home with Home Automation, Sand boxing with Firejail,
Book keeping with YABS, and a review of Krita 3.0.
     In this weeks Distrowatch weekly another Linux phablet is reviewed
that is, Ubuntu Phone - The Meizu Pro 5. The URL below should take you
to the review.
  <http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160801#ubuntuphone>

     So I hope to see a few people at the next meeting, despite my
self-sufficient attitude it is nice to have other Linux users at hand.

      Bobbie Sellers