[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes for Sunday May 5, 2019

[Bobbie Sellers]

*Hola* LUGers,

     Well this was a well-attended and productive meeting. Made for a 
happy *Cinco de Mayo*
for this *amiga*.
     I got to the Cafe Enchante just as the occupants of the large table 
were leaving and setup
without problems.

     Joseph P. showed up first before 11 AM.  He was followed shortly by
     John S. who brought along his NUC (Intel's Next Unit of Computing 
which is a very compact
form factor device featuring various processors and models) and a 
monitor to use with it as well
as external CD/DVD R/W drive.

     Maestro followed shortly.
     Ken and Sunni came in with his tools.  I did not get much chance to 
talk to him.
He was busy assisting other members before his departure.

     Around Noon Jim Stockford came in with two boxes of books 
previously mentioned in
the mailing list.  Several attendees picked up various items. I grabbed 
a volume on Scribus...
   Jim seemed to be intently reading the Linux Pro magazines including 
the new special issue,
Linux Shell Handbook which he remarked is very good.  This was obtained 
from the
Fog City News on Market Street below First Street, about the second door 
from the
intersection on the South side of the Street.

     Someone brought in a User named Cody who accepted a bookmark with 
the relevant
information to contact and subscribe to the Mailing List.  He could not 
stick around.

     12:30 Aaron showed up and started to set up.

     Now I was very busy at the beginning of the meeting making Flash 
Drives.
     I did the Fedora 30 Live version of Workstation and of the KDE 
spin,  FatDog 64 801,
KaOS 19.04 and eventually a MX 18.02.  I already had the Ubuntu Mate 
19.04 and
the Ubuntu Studio 19.04 on Flash Drives.  These were all made using 
ddCopy on
PCLinuxOS64.  All of the drives worked with John S.'s NUC.

     Now Joseph P.  had a look at the Linux Pro magazines and then 
kibitzed and made
suggestion as John S. tried out the stuff I had on Flash Drives 
including PCLinuxOS64.
All of the FDs worked but Fat Dog is still using a WiFi configuration 
tool that is best
suited to more experienced users than myself or John.  At least this 
version detected
the WiFi card and was able to spot Cafe Enchante in a scan. Perhaps with 
some time
  I might be able to get the configuration tool to work.
By the way Cafe Enchante has *changed the WiFi password* to notredame.


     John S. finally decided to install PCLinux on the NUC and did so 
with a very little
help from me.   I used *Partition Magic* to reduce the size of the 
Windows partition
and away we went. showed him how to use Synaptic for updates and by that 
time
he was ready to pack up and leave. Apparently Windows was bothered by the
changes to its extent and promised John an hour or more of work to keep the
install functional.

     Aaron brought along a lot of Flash Drives and donated 3 USB 2.0 FDs 
to the LUG via
me to make fresh installs of NomadBSD and Knoppix.  He is going to try 
to set up a
32 bit Nomad BSD on his older machine.

     Other members have donated about $50.00 which keeps up the number 
of USB drives
for future work.
     Right now we have 8 high quality 16 GB 3.0 USB drives for setting 
up with portable
distros like Knoppix, Parrot and Nomad.  Other systems can be setup as 
well but I copied
the directions for Parrot.   If you do not have USB 3.0 ports on your 
computer a 2.0 FD
will do as well for installations.
     I also have plenty of DVDs and CDs on hand for those who prefer the 
optical media.
Optical media  should be requested at least 48 hours before the meeting 
due to the time
involvedin writing them.

     One member in particular is very happy with MX Linux & you can get 
the manual
at <https://mxlinux.org/manuals/> and it is a nice distribution with 
XFCE version 4.+.+
This is based on work done previously on Mepis and AntiX.  It is 
mid-weight as opposed
to a light-weight like Puppy or its derivatives, or a heavy-weight like 
Mageia or Ubuntu
Studio, Knoppix,  or Fedora Astronomy.  This can be setup as a USB for 
either 32 or 64 bit
kernels or both with a persistent partition for changes.
<https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/create-a-live-usb-w-persist-from-a-windows-desktop/>
Even though it says "windows desktop" it appear that the procedure can 
be easily adapted
to Linux and I will be trying to produce a prototype on one of the 
donated FDs.

     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.

     About 12:55 pm I started packing up and by 1:10 left with another 
Member
and got a ride back to my neighborhood with Jim Stockford.

     Next meeting will be on Monday May 20th, at the Cafe Enchante from 
6-8 PM.
Hopefully I will have a notice of that meeting out by May 13.

     Bobbie Sellers
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