[sf-lug] Meeting notes 1.1

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> from her last
posting:
> 11:14 Aaron C. came along.  Has been compiling GNU Emacs from
> source for version 28.21.04.  Has been using Joe's Own editor
> which runs in terminal.
>   Also recommends Bluefish as editor for Python but is aimed at the
> developers and Web developers.  He has been testing the development
> version of Debian's forthcoming offering Bookworm via Virtual Box
> tunning in Debian Bullseye.  As well he has been testing Lilidog,
> Crunchband ++,

Did indeed compile from source Emacs-28.2 ; really just came down to the
fairly typical steps of downloading, tar-unzipping, './configure' , 'make'
, 'sudo make install'

Joe's Own Editor joe is also a nice, simple terminal editor
https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
'$ jmacs' is a bit like Emacs with the latter's keybindings
'$ jpico'  " " " " pico " " " "

Ron from BC has used the simple 'nano' editor at the terminal/commandline
Going further on SI-prefix fractionally minimal powers of 1000, a
hughbarney has also developed the femto and atto editors (see
github.com/hughbarney/femto and github.com/hughbarney/atto respectively)

Bluefish is also a nice, simpler GUI Py editor (mostly intended for
Frontend Web Development) ; https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html
"Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and
webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and
programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup
languages."

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Key Debian Developers Announce list announcement 'bookworm release planned
on 2023-06-10 and the last weeks up to the release'
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html

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Minimally-arbitrary Linux distro difficulty-levels, IMHO *) :
===========================================================
Difficulty-level 1 {Zorin, *buntus, Linux Mint, ...}

Difficulty-level 2 {PCLinuxOS, Linux Mint Debian Edition(LMDE), MX Linux...}

Difficulty-level 3 {Debian, Devuan, RHL-baseds Fedora and Alma Linux,
OpenSuse, Manjaro, antiX, ...}

Difficulty-level 4 {various "niche" and cutting-edge distros, VoidLinux,
Arch Linux, Rocky Linux and some other similar server-setup distros, ... }

Difficulty-level 5 {Multi-boot setups including of Linux From Scratch,
Beyond Linux From Scratch, Slackware Linux, NixOS, Guix, ....}

As with so many other widely-varying opinions of the "best"(?) Linux
distro(s) and their difficulty-levels, definitely YMMV!

*) Difficulty-level considerations based on _at least_ Ease of
Installation, Ease of post-install setup and configuration, Degree of the
learning-curve for regular and effective usage, Availability of offline as
well as online support _when_ things go wrong, Ease of upgrading the Linux
kernel and adding packages, ... etc.



Quoting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> from her last
posting:
> So was Aaron listening to educational podcasts and he related finding
> some errors in Websites where a person was loading all the resources
> before you got to the useful parts of the site.

Nope, wasn't me, sorry :-)

-A