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

[John]

I plan on being at the meeting.

See you then

John

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> On Aug 1, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 a lot of other information, some slightly out of date news and the like.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
> 
> 
> 
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