[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting of September 4, 2016

[maestro]

[quoting B.S.]:

>> Ken, after he had his lunch got busy to talking to Maestro.
about the problem that he was having as Audacity was
set as the default desktop.

ahhh...No.
Audacity is an audio program, not a DE.
Ken was attempting to help sort out why the software was causing a file
conflict(s)
with Mate (a DE).
Neither of us could solve said issue(s) within the parameters of meeting
time.
Thus i won't go into all that we did or tried.

please DO ask what folks are doing if you don't understand, didn't catch
all of it,
have interest in, or simply need for your 'dispatches' as i know you don't
want to
be like mainstream media in ANY way and mislead or mis-report details.

cheering your diligence...


message ends.
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com
> wrote:

> SF-LUG meeting of Sunday, September 04, 2016
>
>   I arrived at the Cafe Enchante about 10:45 AM.
> Maestro was waiting and the place was full of
> people.
>
>   Just as we were moving into the space where the
> wired connection computers were formerly located,
> the big table by the front window became available
> and we moved there, sharing the table with a lady
> who moved over at about the same time.  She was
> using a Mac laptop and was still there when we
> left.
>
>   I was distressed when I opened my bag and found it
> difficult to find the work I had done making fresh copies
> of Kali Linux 2016.2.   But they has slipped out of touch
> in between papers and other cunning places where I
> could not find all these disks, (about 5 or 6) until after
> Jim showed up.  Maestro got a copy of the late version
> of System Rescue CD 4.8.1.
>
>   I showed off my installation of Salix_14.2-amd64 on the
> Dell which is an easy way to install Slackware and which
> uses the Slackware repositories and package manager
> gslapt (sic).  I don't much care for the xfce4 desktop.
> which it installs by default, but certainly it is a simple
> installation using a text installer.  I had already created
> a couple of partitions for root and home and it slid
> right off the DVD and worked just fine,  Also though
> I am negative about the sudo system it uses to accomplish
> root level tasks.
>
>   11:15 AM Ken Shaffer and his wife showed up and Ken
> after he had his lunch got busy to talking to Maestro.
> about the problem that he was having as Audacity was
> set as the default desktop.   They worked on this for
> at least an hour.
>     We also discussed using non-native package managers
> on systems where other package managers were installed
>  and I raised the question of the new Snap packaging from
> Canonical.
>   But they then got busy with the problem while I looked
> for an article I had seen on Snaps which was quite
> elementary.  I found an article at
> <http://www.prettydesk.com/blog/snappy-vs-flatpak>
> which went into greater detail about Snap and Flatpak
> (Red Hat's latest entry in the race to replace Debs
> and RPMs.
>     Neither one is completely satisfactory at their current
> stage of development  Canonical has spent a lot
> of resources on Snap development and Flatpak is more
> like, some people at RH are working on it.  Right now
> both formats have problems which you can read about
> at the site.
>
>   11:40 AM Daniel showed up to get his copy of Kali Linux
> 2016.2 and began to try to get it to run live and finally settled
> for installing it. but we left him there at 1 PM as we left
> after giving much advice.
>
>   12:40 Jim Stockford showed up and helped Daniel and had
> to have the problem Maestro was experiencing explained.
>
>   1 PM Jim gave me a ride home
>
>     Well as usual I may have missed a few things in my
> summary but all who attended are free to correct any
> omissions or misapprehensions on my part.
>
>     The next meeting at the Cafe Enchante is on
> Monday September 19th from 6-8 PM.
>
>     As always Thanks for your attention,
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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