[sf-lug] SF-LUG August 2025 Mtg, Linux installfests, other..

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

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SF-LUG August 2025 Meeting notice - for 2025-08-03 mtg
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San Francisco Linux Users' Group's next meeting is this upcoming Sunday,
August 3rd, from 11:00 AM till 1:00 PM
( Unfortunately, am myself UNable to attend any part of the August 2025
mtg :-[ )

Quoting the still 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, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> still has his highly relevant
comments available for review within his June 2024 posting [1] on the
actual Jitsi Meet "requirements".

If any of you reading this possibly wish to start meeting in-person again
-- and are physically able to do so -- at SF's Cafe Enchante, please feel
free to respond on this mailing-list and inform others similarly
interested before this Sunday's meeting :-]

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East Bay Linux Installfests
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1. John S posted a request for volunteers at the Berkeley Unified School
District's (BUSD's) Family Engagement Event on August 9th -- held on the
following Saturday after the August meeting -- for Converting Chromebooks
to Linux, see [2] and [3].

2. As previously posted w/in May 29th's SF-LUG Mtg notice[4], the Alameda
Free Library will be hosting a Linux installfest on August 30th; exactly
three wks after the BUSD's Converting Chromebooks to Linux event.
The [conspire] mailing-list posting 'Save the Date: Alameda Linux
Installfest' at [5] elaborates upon the Alameda Free Library's Linux
installfest.

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** The next major release of the next stable version of Debian GNU/Linux
v13, codenamed 'trixie', is estimated to be August 9th. See further
details of this major distro's release in the 'trixie release planning'
posting
of [6].
Yep, that's the exact same day as BUSD's Family Engagement Event listed
above.

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Bobbie S forwarded a couple of items of interest
1) There is a new Linux Magazine available and preview notes are within
the Linux Magazine Preview Issue 297 August 2025 here [7]

2) 2025-07-26  NEW * Distribution Release: Slackel 8.0 "Openbox"
Dimitris Tzemos has announced the release of Slackel 8.0 "Openbox", a
Slackware--based Linux distribution. The new version ships several key
package upgrades and some custom utilities including new tools to produce
Live USB Slackel in 32 and 64 bit.
More extensive details are within Dimitris Tzemos's the Slackel 8.0
"Openbox" forum  announcement at [8].
Has 32 bit and 64 bit ISO versions and uses SysV Init Software;
slackellive-openbox-8.0.iso (3,324 MB), slackellive64-openbox-8.0.iso
(3,433 MB),

Distrowatch's Slackel release announcement is at [9].

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-Aaron


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REFERENCES
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2024q2/016014.html
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q3/016114.html
[3]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q3/016115.html
[4]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q2/016110.html
[5]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2025-May/013003.html
[6]https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html
[7]https://mailchi.mp/linux-magazine.com/linux-magazine-preview-issue-297-august-2025
[8]https://slackel.sourceforge.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=815
[9]https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12510
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