[sf-lug] SF-LUG meets Monday July 17, 2017

[Ken Shaffer]

Hi Mikki,
Look under the Gimp menu  File/Export to find all sorts of formats for
writing files.
Ken

On 7/16/17, Mikki <mikkimc at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi, Bobbie;
>
> Well, I am apparently clear of 'pressing things' for Monday.  SO FAR, SO
> GOOD. I intend to make the meeting, with some questions and such.
>
> I am still interested still in Ubuntu 14.04 - i 386,  a self running CD one,
> to see what is there.  I wish to use GIMP and save in (X.jpg) format, and so
> far the new one in U 16  won't let me.  It only offers some proprietary GIMP
> format no one else can open. Too precious for words.
>
> I am interested in mounting this on a separate hard drive, which will
> perhaps be an external hard drive, in practice.  I am not sure how to do
> this.  The machine is running very slow on U-16.04. or soemthing like that.
> And this distro has become too 'precious' for words.
>
>
> Bless All
>
> Mikki
>
>
>
> --Original Message-----
>>
>> From: Bobbie Sellers
>> Sent: Jul 15, 2017 4:31 PM
>> To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
>> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] SF-LUG meets Monday July 17, 2017
>>
>> Hi LUGers,
>>
>>     Just a note Fedora 26 is out and I got the KDE version.
>>     If anyone wants the Workstation or other versions let me know asap.
>>
>>     Linux Pro #200 is out.  The disk of the month is an archive
>> of Linux Voice.  Some interesting older news on various topics
>> and some article of interest.
>>
>>         bliss "running light (as well as fast)" on PCLinuxOS64-2016.03
>> GNU/Linux 4.11.10-pclos1 #1 SMP Thu Jul 13
>>
>>     Bobbie Sellers
>>
>>
>> On 07/10/2017 03:19 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi LUGers,
>>>
>>>   SF-LUG meets every third Monday from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M.
>>> and  every first Sunday from 11 A.M. to 1 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.
>>>
>>> Linux Pro magazine -  not out yet, will keep looking
>>>
>>>   New distributions:
>>> 4MLinux-22.0  as compact as ever.
>>>
>>> pclinuxos64-MATE-2017.07.iso  very nice looking and functional Desktop
>>> Environment.
>>> pclinuxos64-kde5-2017.07.iso nice looking but latest of Plasma 4.14.18 is
>>> still much better.
>>>
>>> Linux Mint 18.2 in KDE, Mate
>>>
>>> In addition though I won't collect a copy for you,  TAILS 3.0 is out.
>>>
>>> If it is on schedule might have a Fedora release before the meeting.
>>>
>>> I reinstalled the DebianEdu/SholeLinux version 9 and managed to add
>>> myself
>>> as a user so that I no longer have to boot-up as root.   This is a very
>>> complete
>>> release though it is not as easy for me to use as PCLinuxOS64 2016.03.
>>>     This is the 5.4 GiB iso file which I have written to a USB Flash
>>> Drive.
>>>     It has options on the 64 bit disk for 32 bit installation but I have
>>> nothing to try it out on.
>>>
>>>     The DebianEdu 9 is aimed to be setup as one sort or another of a
>>> server
>>> or as a Workstation or simpler client. So this is aimed right at computer
>>> labs
>>> in a school or workshop setting.  I chose Roaming Workstation.
>>>     I have my problems with the installation procedure and thought I must
>>>
>>> have fouled up the install but I had not.  The installation program does
>>> not allow for the creation of users but root only.  Users can be added
>>> via
>>> the root shell command "adduser" then following the prompts.  You do
>>> not have to give the command much information but i can see how
>>> being given student users e-mail and phone numbers might be useful
>>> to contact them.  I just hit return and still got my user account then
>>> used "Change Users" to get to the new account and configure the KDE
>>> desktop..
>>>
>>>     Well I hope to see some of us next Monday at the Cafe Enchante.
>>>     If I have mentioned any distribution that you would like to see at
>>> the next meeting please contact me asap.
>>>
>>>     Bobbie Sellers
>>
>>
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