[sf-lug] SF-LUG meets July 7, 2019

[John Strazzarino]

I’ll be at the meeting with my NUC so we can get it back into shape.

John

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> On Jul 1, 2019, at 9:53 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. 
> 
> 
>     Distributions added to the library.  
> 
>    SUSE and Red Hat have later Enterprise releases available
> as reported at Distrowatch.  <www.distrowatch.com>
> 
> Distributions listed below have been check-summed and 
> probably written to disk or to Flash Drive.
> 
>     Kodachi 6.1 (kodachi-6.1-64.iso)
> 
>     Mageia 7 finally released!
>     Will have Live and Install versions for x86_64 and i586
> Versions for ARM are available and if anyone want to try 
> those let me know.
>     Mageia-7-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso
>     Mageia-7-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso 
> and two install only versions.
>     Mageia-7-x86_64.iso   
>     Mageia-7-i586.iso
> The live versions are <3 GB and the Install only versions
> are > 4 GB.  In case you are unfamiliar the Install only
> versions, like the Mandriva this is descended from, are
> larger due to inclusion of 4 Desktop Environments
> KDE's Plasma 5, XFCE, Gnome, and Cinnamon.
> 
>     I may do an installation of Mageia 7 on the test machine as 
> Zorin seems a waste of time for me but it would make a great
> distribution for a Windows user trying to get out from under
> Microsoft's thumb.  Since that installation I have had boot
> problems with PCLinuxOS64.
> 
>     Microsoft's thumb is dumb by the way and the latest dumb
> thing we have learned about is this discontinuance without 
> notice to the 800 million unfortunate users of the Registry
> backup.    Full details at:
> <https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/06/29/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-registry-warning-upgrade-windows/#2ce2431671ef>
>     The tool for the backup seems to be working but creates files 
> of 0 bytes length.  This was deliberate on MS's part and so was 
> the failure of the company to inform users and the alleged intent 
> was to save 100 MB of space with each backup.
> 
>     Well I hope a few of us show up at the Meeting on the 7th of July
> at the Cafe Enchante.
> 
>     Bobbie Sellers
>     
>    
>   
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