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Hi LUGers,<br>
<br>
SF-LUG meets every first Sunday from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. <br>
and every third Monday from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M. <br>
at the Cafe Enchante, 26th and Geary Boulevard. <br>
<br>
These meetings are usually lightly attended with a high for the
<br>
year so far of 7 members. If you have a problem come along <br>
and maybe we can help but if not we can usually find someone <br>
who can. <br>
<br>
A mini review of PartEd Magic!<br>
A friend of mine bought a new laptop, and he did not want<br>
to run Windows neither did I want him to run Windows so<br>
after he bought it last week I came home and<br>
bought a copy of PartEd Magic, $11 and well worth it.<br>
I tried it out on the machine I bring to the meetings and it<br>
performed very well.<br>
Monday, 25 March I did the installation<br>
and I was able to to boot up into the Firmware and set<br>
the Secure Boot to off, rebooted to the PartEd Magic <br>
via the F12 screen of boot choice and quickly reduced <br>
the size of the SSD partition left to Windows 10. <br>
Then I was able to install the latest PCLinuxOS64. <br>
The hardest part was doing the updates after the<br>
PCLinux was installed. <br>
The best thing about the install was that I did not <br>
have to look at the confusing Windows 10 interfaces <br>
to find the MS partition manager.<br>
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Added to the distribution library:<br>
<br>
pclinuxos64-kde5-2019.03.iso 1.8 GN<br>
pclinuxos64-MATE-2019.03.iso 1.7 GB<br>
Both are on Flash Drives.<br>
<br>
We have a new Puppy 8.0, 346 MB<br>
bionicpup64-8.0-uefi.iso <br>
It uses not systemd, but sysvinit 2.86-x86_64_bionic <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/puppy-linux-80-released"><http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/puppy-linux-80-released></a><br>
<br>
A new version of GPartEd.<br>
gparted-live-0.33.0-2-amd64.iso 330 MB <br>
So far the other versions are lacking updates.<br>
<br>
Linux_Lite 4.8 is out and will be on a USB key by<br>
meeting time. Based in Ubuntu's LTS releases.<br>
<br>
Sabayon_Linux_19.03_amd64_KDE.iso along with<br>
other Desktop Environments.<br>
Sabayon according to the Distrowatch Weekly <br>
newsletter is working on liberating Gnome from<br>
systemd dependency!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190401"><https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190401></a><br>
<br>
Ubuntu Beta 19.04 is out and so are the variants with other <br>
Desktop Environments. Only if someone asks for a specific Beta<br>
will i download any of these.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://distrowatch.com/10502"> NuTyX 11.0</a> is out
and if you look at the following URL you can read<br>
about how to deal with the rather unusual installation.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://nutyx.org/en/downloads"><http://nutyx.org/en/downloads></a><br>
I have downloaded both the Fixed version over 5 GB and <br>
the Rolling Release version at 383 MB.<br>
I will be happy to get all the information I have about<br>
this eccentric distribution and even write the iso to media<br>
for anyone who wants it.<br>
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Most of the people who bother to read these notices of the<br>
next meeting are aware I am presently getting a new set of<br>
Flash Drives to bring to meeting and these drives have room<br>
on the sides to write the distro name, version, etc. <br>
So what do I do with the old sleek black drives? The blacK ink<br>
in multi-color printers is usually designated K so I decided to put<br>
Knoppix on the black drives I had already bought over the months <br>
of the last year or so. These are set up with Knoppix 8.2 and each
<br>
drive is created using the Knoppix tool so that you have room for
your<br>
own preferences and some data.<br>
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<br>
On Saturday March 30 I was able at the Fog City News to get a<br>
copy of Linux Pro magazine issue #221 for April 2019.<br>
<br>
Distros of the Month; both 64 bit: MX-Linux and System Rescue
CD.<br>
<br>
Topics on the front cover: Rabbit MQ:Multi-protocol messaging for
IoT.<br>
Monitoring Perfomance: hunting for bottlenecks that slow down your<br>
system using "perf" built into the kernel and Netdata<br>
IoT Tricks: Use an Android smartphone to a Rasp Pi display<br>
Proton Cross-Platform gaming with Steam's Wine Fork.<br>
Silhouettes:Image processing with Go<br>
Better Voting Machines:Is Open Hardware the answer?<br>
Gnome Boxes: Easy virtualization with this handy KVM front end<br>
dependent on Gnome Environment/<br>
<br>
Linux Voice:<br>
maddog: Takes a look back at the cost of computing.<br>
Pixelitor: Open Source image processing tool<br>
Network Configuration with the versatile tool "ip"<br>
<br>
FOSS Picks: <br>
Muse Score 3.0(musical)<br>
hexyl a hex file viewer<br>
weborf sets up a simple http server<br>
<br>
From the inside:<br>
Camomile audio plugin generator<br>
EP-MK1 - Electric Piano emulation<br>
Chono time tracker<br>
lsix - CLI tool to display images<br>
MarbleMarcher - game<br>
qengine - a Quake engine<br>
Olive - a video editing tool<br>
<br>
Tutorials:<br>
Bash Flow Control<br>
Embedding Elements in Video Chips<br>
Natron more video editing<br>
<br>
And MORE!<br>
<br>
Of special note to Sys Amins: Charley's Column in<br>
which Sudoers are modified and offers increase in<br>
number of attempts to enter passwords and an <br>
humorous insult file to motivate the sudoer to<br>
get that password correctly entered.<br>
Precise directions for altering and adding these<br>
modifications.<br>
<br>
The Kitchen Sync is about using Unisom to <br>
do file syncing, Backups and mergine by perfecting<br>
preferences files.<br>
<br>
Kraft helps small companies keep up on all<br>
sorts of business documents under the article<br>
title: Essential Craft.<br>
<br>
Hope you can make it to the meeting!<br>
REMEMBER this notice is not a joke!<br>
<br>
Bobbie Sellers <br>
<br>
/This is a joke!<br>
<br>
It's not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament<br>
to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they<br>
met too much resistance. <br>
<br>
/end joke.... <br>
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