[sf-lug] SF-LUG September 2025 Mtg

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

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SF-LUG September 2025 Meeting notice - for 2025-09-07 mtg
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San Francisco Linux Users' Group's next meeting is this upcoming Sunday,
September 7th, from 11:00 AM till 1:00 PM

Quoting the still current SF-LUG webpage www.sf-lug.org [1]
(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 [2] on the
actual Jitsi Meet "requirements".

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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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Project for self recently carried out so far has been to mimic the native
MacOS X 11.6 El Capitan [3] installed on an old Apple MacBook Air laptop
for an amd64-based Dell laptop.
Even as I write this, am using the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS [4] installed onto
an SSD on the laptop -- IMHO, its configured COSMIC desktop looks and
feels "somewhat" similar to MacOS X 11.6 , though installation and a
more-thorough configuration have been a real pain to do :-|

Next possible mini-project before and during this Sunday's mtg is to
additionally install elementary OS [5] on a second SSD for the same Dell
laptop, and compare that install with both the native MacOS X 11.6 install
as well as the Pop!_OS install on the first SSD for that Dell laptop.
According to available distro reviews at [6],[7] and [8], while
elementary OS _does_ have its unique Pantheon desktop, at the same time,
other aspects of elementary OS have received decidedly mixed non-Apple
blessings; e.g., OS installation and its system of package management :-\


-Aaron


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REFERENCES
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[1]https://www.sf-lug.org/
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q3/016114.html
[3]https://support.apple.com/en-us/111989
[4]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=popos
[5]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=elementary
[6]https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/elementary-os-8-where-privacy-meets-design-simplicity-better-linux-experience
[7]https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250106#elementary
[8]https://fossforce.com/2024/12/elementary-os-8-beauty-and-the-flatpak-beast-with-screenshots/
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