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

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 08/05/2016 08:44 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi LUGers,
>
>     Just a note that Ubuntu has released version 14.04.05.

             Should have been Ubuntu <http://distrowatch.com/ubuntu> 
14.04.5.
     You can check it at <http://distrowatch.com/> and there are several 
variants
of Ubuntu there in the same announcement.

             bliss
>
>     The Linux Mint crew has been busy too and added Linux Mint 18 xfce 
> this
> week.
>     I have both versions of Linux Mint 18 both Mate and XFCE in 32 and
> 64 bit versions.  If anyone wants a copy please let me know or if anyone
> is wild for Ubuntu 14.04.05. let me know and don't forget to specify
> 32 or 64 bit versions.
>
>     Thanks to John S. for letting us know he will be at the meeting on 
> Sunday.
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
> On 08/01/2016 11:12 AM, Bobbie Sellers 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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