[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes

[aaronco36]

(Forwarded message from Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com>)

At the meeting, Jim and I had problems getting Antix 19 (x64) installer to 
run on an Intel Compute Stick (ICS). It would run for a bit then hang up. 
The clue was when booting Antix 19 off a micro SD, the "free" command 
indicated that swap size was 0. Finishing the install at home, I just 
plugged in a USB with a 2G swap partition, and the installer ran just 
fine. But wait, now there were two swap partitions, there was one on the 
ICS internal memory that wasn't picked up before! The ICS' swap UUID was 
the one used in a previous install on the ICS' /etc/fstab for swap, so no 
idea why it wasn't seen. A reboot of the install without the USB swap now 
picked up the ICS swap, and so I ran the install (in about 10-15 minutes). 
No idea how a USB swap fixed the problem with the swap partiion on the 
ICS, but things run just fine now.
Ken


On 1/6/20, aaronco36 <aaronco36 at sdf.org> wrote:
> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote in [1]
>> Aaron showed up with his 32 bit Dell laptop.
> ..
>> AntiX-19.1 is also a quick booter and i even
>> managed to get the WiFi working.  Maybe some
>> background changes but it is fast and light.
>
> That "32 bit Dell laptop" is a Latitude D620 with 4GB of RAM of which
> ~3.4GB is usable. It also has AntiX-19.1 installed (32 bit Full version),
> and is currently the host OS for the *non*-systemd version 9.0 of Linux
> From Scratch [2].
>
>
> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> also wrote in [1]
>> At one point a friend of Aaron's visited us and had questions
>> about the use of certain network matters and Jim answered his
>> questions thoroughly.
>
> IIRC, David G instead had several questions relating to a startup
> partnership he is initiating.
> Jim S is entirely welcome to correct this if I'm badly mistaken, but David
> G's conceived product is apparently (from what I could glean from him and
> Jim) a JSON[3]<--->databases app primarily designed for various MS
> Windows-related (e.g., MS Excel) API's.
> As such, the app doesn't seem to extensively involve Free/Open Source
> Software at the current time.
>
> During his brief discussion with David G, Jim did bring up
> Representational State Transfer (REST) [4][5], which was a new and
> interesting concept for me :-)
>
> -A
>
>
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> References
> ====================================
> [1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q1/014497.html
> [2]http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/
> [3]https://www.json.org/json-en.html
> [4]https://api2cart.com/api-technology/rest-dummies-short-intro-representational-state-transfer/
> [5]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10418105/what-does-representational-state-mean-in-rest
> ====================================
>
> aaronco36 at sdf.org
>