[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes for Monday, 18 June 2018

[aaronco36]

Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever> at dslextreme.com wrote in [1]:

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Aaron has installed ArchLabs Linux on his netbook and it makes a very nice 
appearance with plenty of tools.  i offered him whatever I had at hand but 
sadly none of the distributions particularly interested him.

We discussed several matters regarding the x86 cpu line and its latest 
discovered problems.

At 7:45 I began to pack up my equipment and Aaron and I caught the same 
bus back to downtown San Francisco.

Anyone attending the meeting is free to correct my omissions or 
incomprehension of the activities and asked to do so asap so that the 
membership not in attendance will not be mis-informed any longer than 
necessary.
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On that last part, the only "anyone attending the meeting" (other than 
Bobbie S) was of course myself! :-D

Here are just a very few minor "omissions or incomprehension of the 
activities".

1. The distro I installed on my netbook and showed to Bobbie S was 
actually the latest 32bit version of the systemd-containing BunsenLabs 
Linux [2] with its Openbox Window Manager. Haven't _yet_ removed just the 
systemd init on this BL installation ;-). While having/removing or _not_ 
having/removing systemd and its "hooks" may be people's own personal 
preferences, it still is good to review the differing perspective(s) about 
systemd in the thread elaborated upon by Michael P about one month ago 
entitled "systemd 8-O ... ; -) Re: SF-LUG meeting notes + abt some 
lightweight distros" (starting reference [3] followed by other 
thread-ordered postings for this title and related variants listed within 
reference [4].)

2. Another distro Bobbie S initially offered me on DVD was Q4OS v2.5 (see 
ref. [5]) with its Trinity GUI/desktop which she generally has some good 
things to say about.  When I looked further into the package listings at 
that DistroWatch description page of [5], I unfortunately saw that Q4OS 
does indeed have systemd installed by default :-\.

3. An excellent web-resource for optimizing and speeding-up recent 
versions of the popular Ubuntu-based and systemd-containing Linux Mint and 
*buntus is the Easy Linux tips project shown in reference [6].  I 
mentioned to Bobbie S that I would provide the link here to this very 
useful optimizing and speeding-up site, and so here it is (again, 
reference [6].) FWIW, I found that the majority of useful optimization and 
speeding-up hints for Mint and the *buntu's were listed on the left side 
of this website.

That's all I've immediately got as far as the SF-LUG meetings "omissions 
or incomprehension of the activities".

Best last official day of Spring to all,
-A


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References
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q2/013282.html
[2]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bunsenlabs
[3]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q2/013251.html
[4]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q2/thread.html#13251
[5]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=q4os
[6]https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/

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