[sf-lug] pfSense, Void Linux, Salutations, and Other Meeting Notes (was Re: SF-LUG meets Sunday January 1. 2017 - Happy New Year!)

[Antonio Malcolm]

Thanks for the kind intro, Bobbie!

I recently moved the Linux install, with the pfSense VM, from a Shuttle 
XPC to a Supermicro mid-tower (moved the physical disk over).


All that was required, to get it up and running again, was 
checking/updating the bridged network configs, in the VirtualBox VM 
settings, and making sure the VB-assigned MAC addresses match the WAN 
and LAN in pfSense- for the most part, pfSense detects this well enough 
on its own, as it does during install. It's been quite the resilient setup.


pfSense as a VM has now worked fairly well, across three machines and 
two different host OSs (first host was OS X, on a Mac Mini Server, with 
a Thunderbolt to gigabit adapter, as the second NIC).

I'm interested in hearing your experiences wth setting this up.


For folks interested in giviing Void a spin, you can have a look here:

http://www.voidlinux.eu/


If you want to give it a spin, in VirtualBox, a Vagrant box can be had, 
here:

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/antonio-malcolm/boxes/base-void-x86_64


(There are also two LAMP boxes, however Void moved to GCC 6, soon after 
they were built- the base box, linked above, was updated soon after that 
update. While the LAMP boxes work well enough, I'll soon be rebuilding 
those against the updated base.)

For folks who enjoy Openbox pipemenus, and/or tinkering with ACPI 
handlers, Corgi Scripts can be had here:
https://github.com/antonio-malcolm/corgi-scripts


Happy New Year!
~Antonio


On 12/26/2016 02:35 PM, 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.
>
>     Well you may remember the mention of pfSense and the idea
> of running it in a virtual machine.  I may or may not have it
> workingby the next meeting but I do have booting CDs of the
>  i386and the x86_64 versions.
> These are Community Editions Release 2.3.2. by the way.
>
>     I am also trying to download OpenMandrivaLx3.01 but the
> torrent link is not working nor was the first download
> successful as it could not match the online checksums.
> I have had this sort of problem before with downloads
> from the SourceForge.  I may get a download and have
> no time to write it to DVD if this problem goes on much
> longer.
>
>     If anyone wants a particular iso file let me know
> ASAP via the mailing list please.
>
>     Well I hope some of you all will have nothing better
> to do on New Years Day around noon than come to the
> SF-LUG meeting at the Cafe Enchante.
>
>     Happy New Year!
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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