[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes for Sunday June 4, 2017

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,

     Well this was not the least interesting meeting of the year.
     I arrived at about 10:45 AM to the Cafe Enchante.
     Tom had preceded me and had the larger table, where I
joined him and set up my Dell E6420 Latitude.
     Shortly we were joined by Eric and Seth.
     I am having a bit of trouble with names but one is a professional
who uses all OSes in his work and does well with Debian.  He
brought along his Dell E7420 I believe and was resounding in
his praise of the durability and serviceability of the Dell Latitude
machines which are widely used at his workplace.

     The other young gentleman sat down next to me with his
Lenova Thinkpad 10 tablet with Keyboard.  He wants to install
a working Linux based distribution on this handy little box.
It has an Intel Atom 4-core-processor, Z3795 with 4 GiB of RAM
and a SSD of about 150 GiB.  It came with Windows 8 but
that has been erased.  It has a embedded install of Debian
to provide a UEFI/BIOS interface.  I had not seen that
particular interface before.  He had tried to install a
late version of Debian but was having no luck.
     We tried PC-LOS but it could not finish its installation.
     Knoppix would run but we had no time left to try to install
it from my Flash Drive.  Knoppix, you know, installs to a
fairly standard Debian.

     Mike showed up and was apparently just glad to see some
more computerists.  I was glad to see everyone who showed
up.

     Around Noon Aaron showed up and asked his question
about the best distribution to run on a Raspberry Pi.
I gave him a poor answer especially as noted in  earlier
posts.

     Well as to my doings I was happy to see Tom, the
two new attending members Seth and Eric, Michael
and Aaron.

Jim and Ken S. were both otherwise occupied today
with ceremonies relating to additions to their families.

     Now I had made a easy mistake with very bad
consequences on the Dell test machine.
     I allowed an installation disk to book in MBR
mode and it borked my my Grub2 install on the disk.
      I think it was the Devuan 1.0.0 that I allowed to
  boot in the wrong mode.
     I was able to use SuperGrub2 disk to boot to
most of the working installs.  So I showed the new
Peppermint 8.  I don't much care for the interface
but I like it better than the Gnome 3 on the Devuan.

     So at some point after our install failures I booted
from Peppermint back to the PCLOS I prefer to use
as the main OS on the disk and write a PCLOS
2016.03 disk which I gave to the tablet owner.
I also gave a copy of the latest System Rescue CD
to Tom 5.0.1.

     I am going to have a good deal of work I believe
to repair my Dell's Grub2 but with any luck I will
have added at least one release of Bodhi 4.2.0 by
the next meeting at the Cafe Enchante by June 19th.

     Expect to see a notice of the next meeting by
the 12th of June.

     And anyone who attended the meeting is free to
supply corrections to the misinformation I may have
  inadvertently given about this meeting.

     Well wasn't it a nice day.

     Bobbie Sellers