[sf-lug] Meeting notes for SF-LUG, November 6, 2022 + some news.

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,

	Well I did the time change late yesterday and then could
not get to sleep until quite late.
	I finally got up about 6:45 AM and went out to the nearest
store around 9:45.  Got back about 10:30.  10:45 I logged onto the 
Jit.si server ahead of time then did light housekeeping on the
computer.
	
	Ken showed up about 11 AM and shortly we were joined by
Victor from the South Bay and Aaron C.  Tom from a cafe in the
East Bay was next to log-in and Ron from BC.

	I had a little problem with my microphone but finally
got it resolved which involved reloading my Firefox Jit.si display.

	I shared my sad tale of misadventure with Ventoy with the
people at the meeting. A comedy of errors which will take me about
a year or more to finish processing.  But Ventoy is a tool to permit 
writing multiple live Iso files to the same media as in a USB Flash 
Drive. Unfortunately I, inadvertently being tired and sleepy, at
the end of a fairly long day selected my 3 Terabyte backup drive
instead of a 16 GB Flash Drive.  I did not figure that out until
the deed was done.
	I bought a 4 Terabyte LaCie drive from Amazon.  I used
qPhotoRec to recover 5 million files in 10,000 directories.
The moral is to be very careful and if tired disconnect large USB 
external drives before using Ventoy.  Ventor works by the way but
at low resolution with pale colors.  The ISO files used will
inherit the low resolution and pale colors.

	The LaCie 4 TB drive from Amazon was $160.00 and came
with a cable and with the help of Tom and Ken we determined that
the drive end of the cable is a USB Micro-B and the other end
was USB C.  I bought a adaptor from USB-C to USB-A from Central
Computing for $6+tx.  It took a good while for qPhotoRec to
recover those files or fragments so be prepared to let it run
from morning to night or night to morning.

	Tom had bought a new router and Ken had previously found one
by the wayside.
	
	Ken helped Victor with debugging a BASH script.

	About Noon in BC Ron reported it had started snowing and
he left us to make sure.  He also filled up his bird feeder. A bit
later the snow became rain and snow.
	Back with us in the very Early Afternoon Ron began discussing
a problem with reading compressed files with spaces included involving
Python.
	Ken suggested the use of a specific debugging took for fixing
the open source Python tool that Ron was referencing. GNU DDD is a 
graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, 
Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger bashdb, the GNU 
Make debugger remake, or the Python debugger pydb.

	Victor had other fish to fry and left before Noon.
	
	Aaron has been trying to identify the location of some family
photos from childhood using the Open Source Maps tool as well as
Google Earth.

	Tom commented when appropriate on matters open to discussion
and about 1230 he left for other points
	
	Some little discussion went on but about 12:59 I left
Ron and Aaron to continue discussions if they wished.

	As always people who came to the meeting are free to
comment on my inadequate remarks.

	The next meeting will be on Sunday December 4th via
Jit.si unless someone comes up with another meeting place.

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	A very little news:
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	The Distrowatch Weekly Newsletter has a review
of Static Linux a recovery tool.  You can see that at
<https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20221107#static>

	Linux Pro Magazine Preview Issue #265
<https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2022/265?utm_source=LMI+preview&utm_campaign=Issue+265+%2F+December+2022_2022-11-02&utm_medium=email>

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		Latey at Distrowatch.com
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2022-11-01 	Distribution Release: Nitrux 20221101
  	The Nitrux developers have published a new release which features 
updates to KDE Plasma, the Firefox browser and includes NVIDIA's 
proprietary video driver.
Nitrux 2.5.0 is available to download download use release dater
Niturx does not use systemd.  Further information at the
following URLs
<https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-2-5-0/#notes>

<https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-2-5-0/>

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2022-11-01 	NEW • Distribution Release: TrueNAS 13.0-U3 "CORE"
	Will Soteros has announced the availability of a third update of 
TrueNAS CORE 13, version 13.0-U3. Formerly known as FreeNAS, TrueNAS 
CORE is a FreeBSD-based, open-source and community-supported software 
designed for NAS (Network-Attached Storage) computers. It uses the 
self-healing OpenZFS filesystem and is extensible by a variety of free 
plugins:
Raed the release notes at the following URL:
<https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-13-0-u3-increases-maturity-and-includes-ix-storj-service/>

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2022-11-04 	NEW • Distribution Release: GParted Live 1.4.0-6
  	Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 1.4.0-6, an 
updated build of the project's Debian-based specialist live CD designed 
for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks. This release updates the 
Linux kernel to version 6.0.6 and expands the included software with 
various useful items, such as Nmap or Samba client:
Versions for 64, i686 and i686 PAE.
	Further information at Distrowatch and release notes
at <https://gparted.org/news.php?item=246>

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2022-11-04 	NEW • Distribution Release: GParted Live 1.4.0-6
  	Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 1.4.0-6, an 
updated build of the project's Debian-based specialist live CD designed 
for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks. This release updates the 
Linux kernel to version 6.0.6 and expands the included software with 
various useful items, such as Nmap or Samba client:
Versions for 64, i686 and i686 PAE.
	Further information at Distrowatch and release notes
at <https://gparted.org/news.php?item=246>

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	Happy Thanksgiving or Native American Day

	Bobbie Sellers