[sf-lug] August 2024 SF-LUG Mtg

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

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SF-LUG Meeting notice for August 2024
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San Francisco Linux Users' Group's next meeting is this
upcoming Sunday August 4th, from 11:00 AM till 1:00 PM

Quoting the current SF-LUG webpage www.sf-lug.org
(current as of this writing) :
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* virtual remains:
https://meet.jit.si/sf-lug.org
Browser: one will need sufficiently recent version of, e.g.
Chromium, Chrome, or possibly Firefox - in any case one that well
supports WebRTC.
Dial-in (audio alternative or audio only): +1.512.647.1431
PIN: 524 338 639#
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OTOH, directly quoting Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> from this
June's posting http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2024q2/016014.html
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That's a bit ludicrous.  It's 2024.  You'd have to search really _hard_
to find a sufficiently ancient graphical Web browser that doesn't work
with Jitsi Meet.  Probably MSIE.

Just say "Web browser", for heaven's sake.  Alternatively, there are
bespoke Jitsi Meet clients for desktop and smartphone OSes.

And yes, Jitsi Project does have a painfully exact "supported browsers"
list.
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/supported-browsers/
Even there, context matters:  These are versions _guaranteed_ to have
not a trace of problems, i.e., specifically tested and vetted.  That
doesn't mean, say, Firefox 67, a 2019 piece of software, wouldn't work.
It would.  Practically anything from the last 20 years would.
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A few brief notes:
- Interesting (IMHO) and perhaps-relevant article in the latest DistroWatch
Questions and Answers section entitled 'Can problems like CrowdStrike
bring down Linux systems?';
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20240729#qa
- Distro-creator and BDFL Clement "Clem" Lefebvre announced the new
release of Ubuntu v24.04 "Noble" -based Linux Mint v22 "Wilma" the end of
last week; https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4731
- FWIW, was successfully able to upgrade Mint v21.3 to v22 using the
'mintupgrade' instructions provided w/in Clem's 'How to upgrade to Linux
Mint 22'; https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4732


-Aaron