[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes for Sunday 2 Sepember 2018

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,

     This afternoon I got my net connection back!  11 PM 8/20 to 9/8 4:15 PM

     I had hoped to have this out earlier this week.

     Well I came early so I had some time to work on my lack of internet 
stuff,
while I had a connection available.  Downloaded the latest 32 bit 
version of 4MLinux
which is 26.0.   I also got stacks of legitimate email and a double 
stack of Spam
from China.  And I ordered some manga which will not be showing up soon.

     Tom showed up by 11 AM.  I was able to give him the latest release
of GPartEd which is 0.32.0-1 in 64 bit version.
     John L. showed up next. He was involved with serious discussion with
the members at that end of the table.

     Ken S. and his wife came in then.  Ken has managed to get a Intel 
Compute
Stick® to display on his netbook and the details were too much for me to
apprehend so I have suggested that he might write an article for the list.

     Ken was closely followed by Maestro who has been posting a lot lately.

     11:30 AM Aaron C. came in.  I gave him a copy of GPartEd 0.32.0-1 in
32 bit version. He enjoyed the discussion in the lively meeting and a good
sized salad for lunch. He and I discussed the kernel version numbers and
later he asked Ken and Jim S. about the topic.

     Around Noon Michael and Jim S showed up.   Jim and Michael
participated in the discussion and we talked some more about kernel
version numbers.  Aaron is using a distribution where the correct
version has to be chosen, my procedure is far more simple as suits a
simple person like myself.  He has to pick out of a confusing list of
parts of the kernel. And the numbers are not the same as the main
list of kernels it seems.
     On my PCLInuxOS64 I use the Synaptic package manager, I click
on an icon to reload data and download several files then am shown
a nice list of updates which I generally take without demur. Then in
  the Search window I type 'kernel' and get to see a list of what is
available.  I am presently using Linux 4.18.05 very happily.

     Michael, Jim S, and I were involved in discussion of the possible
  complications of writing a distribution.  Now this is done by some
adventurous online acquaintances of mine using a base of PCLinuxOS64.
If you do a whole new distro you will have problems setting up repositories
and updates from online.  Starting with a known and successful distribution
  the maintainers of the original distribution will have those 
repositories in
place and will be doing updates which can be used on your distribution.
Example: DarkStar is out.  based on PCLinuxOS64 and able to use the
updates from the original maintainer.

     The meeting broke up at a bit after 1300.   Jim Stockford gave 
Aaron a ride
to his next destination and myself a ride home.

  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.

     Good News.

     Steam has a 1000 (or more by now) Windows games running on Linux.
Forbes | August 27, 2018

Steam For Linux Adds 1000 Perfectly Playable Windows Games In Under A Week

Six days ago there were less than 5000 games available to install and 
play on

Steam for Linux. Following Valve's incredible Steam Play update, which adds

streamlined compatibility layers for Windows-o

     Read the story at the URL below for more details.
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/08/27/steam-for-linux-adds-1000-perfectly-playable-windows-games-in-under-a-week/#682f594255ae>

     Intel's Whiskey Lake Brings In-Silicon Meltdown and Foreshadow Fixes
Read the fine article!
<https://www.tomshardware.com/news/whiskey-lake-mitigations-in-silicon-intel,37723.html>


     Bad News:
     Security experts say that Hyper-threading should be turned off in 
the BIOS
to avoid more of the hardware exploits made possible by Intel's bad design.
<https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/openbsd-disables-intel-hyper-threading-spectre,news-58705.html>


     The next meeting at the Cafe Enchante will be on Monday, September 17
from 6-8 PM.   Hope that you can make it.

     Bobbie Sellers











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