[sf-lug] SF-LUG meets Sunday, 7 April! No Joke! Not an April Fool joke!

Tue Apr 2 09:41:03 PDT 2019

I’ll be at the meeting on the7th.

Also I received an email that I can order a Pinebook 64 Linux laptop for $99.  It will be shipped sometime in May

John

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 1, 2019, at 8:24 AM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> 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. 
> 
>     A mini review of PartEd Magic!
>   A friend of mine bought a new laptop, and he did not want
>  to run Windows neither did I want him to run Windows so
>  after he bought it last week I came home and
> bought a copy of PartEd Magic, $11 and well worth it.
> I tried it out on the machine I bring to the meetings and it
> performed very well.
>       Monday, 25 March I did the installation
> and I was able to to boot up into the Firmware and set
> the Secure Boot to off, rebooted to the PartEd Magic 
> via the F12 screen of boot choice and quickly reduced 
> the size of the SSD partition left to Windows 10.  
>     Then I was able to install the latest PCLinuxOS64.  
> The hardest part was doing the updates after the
> PCLinux was installed.  
>     The best thing about the install was that I did not 
> have to look at the confusing Windows 10 interfaces 
> to find the MS partition manager.
> 
>         ========================
> 
>     Added to the distribution library:
> 
>  pclinuxos64-kde5-2019.03.iso   1.8 GN
>  pclinuxos64-MATE-2019.03.iso  1.7 GB
> Both are on Flash Drives.
> 
>     We have a new Puppy 8.0, 346 MB
> bionicpup64-8.0-uefi.iso 
> It uses not systemd, but  sysvinit 2.86-x86_64_bionic 
> <http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/puppy-linux-80-released>
> 
>     A new version of GPartEd.
>     gparted-live-0.33.0-2-amd64.iso 330 MB  
>     So far the other versions are lacking updates.
> 
>     Linux_Lite 4.8 is out and will be on a USB key by
> meeting time.  Based in Ubuntu's LTS releases.
> 
>  Sabayon_Linux_19.03_amd64_KDE.iso along with
> other Desktop Environments.
>     Sabayon according to the Distrowatch Weekly 
> newsletter is working on liberating Gnome from
> systemd dependency!
> <https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190401>
> 
>     Ubuntu Beta 19.04 is out and so are the variants with other 
> Desktop Environments.   Only if someone asks for a specific Beta
> will i download any of these.
> 
>      NuTyX 11.0 is out and if you look at the following URL you can read
> about how to deal with the rather unusual installation.
> <http://nutyx.org/en/downloads>
> I have downloaded both the Fixed version over 5 GB and 
> the Rolling Release version at 383 MB.
> I will be happy to get all the information I have about
> this eccentric distribution and even write the iso to media
> for anyone who wants it.
> 
>             =======================
> 
>     Most of the people who bother to read these notices of the
> next meeting are aware I am presently getting a new set of
> Flash Drives to bring to meeting and these drives have room
> on the sides to write the distro name, version, etc.  
>     So what do I do with the old sleek black drives?  The blacK ink
> in multi-color printers is usually designated K so I decided to put
> Knoppix on the black drives I had already bought over the months 
> of the last year or so.  These are set up with Knoppix 8.2 and each 
> drive is created using the Knoppix tool so that you have room for your
> own preferences and some data.
> 
>             =======================
> 
>     On Saturday March 30 I was able at the Fog City News to get a
> copy of Linux Pro magazine issue #221 for April 2019.
> 
>     Distros of the Month; both 64 bit: MX-Linux and System Rescue CD.
> 
> Topics on the front cover:  Rabbit MQ:Multi-protocol messaging for IoT.
> Monitoring Perfomance: hunting for bottlenecks that slow down your
> system using "perf" built into the kernel and Netdata
>     IoT Tricks: Use an Android smartphone to a Rasp Pi display
>     Proton Cross-Platform gaming with Steam's Wine Fork.
>     Silhouettes:Image processing with Go
>     Better Voting Machines:Is Open Hardware the answer?
>     Gnome Boxes: Easy virtualization with this handy KVM front end
> dependent on Gnome Environment/
> 
>     Linux Voice:
>     maddog: Takes a look back at the cost of computing.
>     Pixelitor: Open Source image processing tool
>     Network Configuration with the versatile tool "ip"
> 
>     FOSS Picks: 
>             Muse Score 3.0(musical)
>             hexyl a hex file viewer
>             weborf  sets up a simple http server
> 
> From the inside:
>             Camomile audio plugin generator
>             EP-MK1 - Electric Piano emulation
>             Chono time tracker
>             lsix - CLI tool to display images
>             MarbleMarcher - game
>             qengine - a Quake engine
>             Olive - a video editing tool
> 
>     Tutorials:
>         Bash Flow Control
>         Embedding Elements in Video Chips
>         Natron more video editing
> 
> And MORE!
> 
>     Of special note to Sys Amins: Charley's Column in
> which Sudoers are modified and offers increase in
> number of attempts to enter passwords and an 
> humorous insult file to motivate the sudoer to
> get that password correctly entered.
>     Precise directions for altering and adding these
> modifications.
>     
>     The Kitchen Sync is about using Unisom to 
> do file syncing, Backups and mergine by perfecting
> preferences files.
> 
>     Kraft helps small companies keep up on all
> sorts of business documents under the article
> title: Essential Craft.
> 
>         Hope you can make it to the meeting!
>         REMEMBER this notice is not a joke!
> 
>         Bobbie Sellers  
> 
> /This is a joke!
> 
>  It's not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament
>    to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they
>    met too much resistance. 
> 
>   /end joke....   
> 
>     
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