[sf-lug] Meeting of 5/3

[aaronco36]

Quoting John Strazzarino <jstrazza at yahoo.com> from [1]:
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Meeting started a bit early so people could get their zoom working.  I 
personally used a demo version Pop!_OS and a usb stick and it worked just 
fine.  I showed the group how the interface looked via screen sharing. 
It worked well.  Most zoomers seemed to be Using ubuntu or a variation of 
it.
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OTOH, I rather got the impression that most "zoomers" at yesterday's 
meeting seemed to be using _Debian_ or variations of the same rather than 
of Ubuntu; Ubuntu of course ultimately derived from Debian, its parent 
distro. I used a Devuan box (systemd-disabled Debian derivative), Alex K 
used a "Debian(10) /w Fluxbox system"[2], and Michael P, IIRC, used a 
native install or VM of Debian Stable.

As Rick M noted in one of his recent postings [3], there was also some 
brief discussion on Linux advocacy for various matters such as recommended 
distros for n00Bs versus for those more advanced, for or against systemd, 
and probably for one or two other technical matters which I cannot recall 
at present.
Fortunately, no advocacy discussion of Emacs versus vi or vi versus Vim -- 
as has certainly been previously discussed on the mailing-list over the 
years by passionate advocates on one side or the other ;-)


Quoting John Strazzarino <jstrazza at yahoo.com> from [1]:
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Lot of talk about jitsi which Is another Type of meeting software.  While 
in this meeting I got into jitsi and it seemed to have similar 
functionality to zoom.  There was a raspberry pi jitsi meeting but it 
doesn't seem to like Firefox, chrome being preferred.
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Just as for Alex K [2] in his using Zoom for Debian, had no difficulty at 
all installing the zoom client .deb file using 'apt install zoom*.deb' as 
opposed to the intially-recommended 'dpkg -i zoom*.deb' command.
Did have some video problems using jit.si in Firefox when attempting to 
join BerkeleyLUG's jit.si meetup simultaneously with the SF-LUG Zoom 
session.  Eventually resolved this difficulty, as I just posted separately 
on the BerkeleyLUG mailing-list.

-A

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REFERENCES
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q2/014784.html
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q2/014774.html
[3]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q2/014791.html
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