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Hi LUGers,<br>
<br>
Well I got up from my sick bed and pulled on a anti-viral mask
and<br>
went to the meeting last Sunday.<br>
I got there about 10:40 am and had no problems setting up the<br>
Dell E6520. I did some updates while I was waiting for other<br>
Members to arrive.<br>
John S. showed up first .<br>
<br>
Maestro appeared.<br>
<br>
Michael showed up to enjoy his breakfast and read some
magazines.<br>
<br>
Joseph P. showed up finally.<br>
<br>
So I had brought along Fedora 30 as
Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-30_Beta-1.8.iso<br>
I had tested it on my machine but John S was unable to boot it on
his laptop.<br>
Before the end of the meeting I had done so just to show the
attendees<br>
what it looked like.<br>
<br>
AntiX 17.4 as antiX-17.4.1_x64-full.iso which had worked on my
Dell at<br>
home was booted up by a member. That member reported that it uses<br>
ICE Window Manager but does not have a true Desktop Environment.<br>
He also found as did I that the WiFi card, working fine with other
distributions<br>
is not detected by Anti-X. He was running on a good Lenova and I
of course<br>
on my Dell.<br>
<br>
John S. tried a couple of other distros including Puppy 8.0 as<br>
bionicpup64-8.0-uefi.iso. At first he had problems with the<br>
Puppy but finally got it booted and into usable shape which<br>
did not seem to take him a long time. He was able find his<br>
WiFi and set it up which I had not been able to do. John S.'s<br>
laptop is a late model with UHD and the display is usually<br>
at the limit of readability and it had started out that way.<br>
But well before the end of the meeting Puppy was playing<br>
nicely with perhaps a reduced resolution display.<br>
<br>
I tried out MX-18.1 and while it booted it was like AntiX in<br>
ignoring my WiFi card. New version of MX out this week and<br>
will download it while i rest.<br>
<br>
I also tried out the latest version of EasyOS which seems more<br>
confusing than ever. I was trying to get it online and thought I
had<br>
done so repeatedly but found that the system was not allowing<br>
me access. When I have time I will check out the Firewall settings.<br>
<br>
Michael the Slackware user is a little out of joint as Slackware
is<br>
going away. He did have to leave early to get to a shop.<br>
<br>
About 12:45 I started packing up my materials and by 12:55 those<br>
remaining had gotten outside the door.<br>
<br>
Anyone attending the meeting is free to correct my omissions or<br>
incomprehension of the activities and asked to do so asap so that
the<br>
membership not in attendance will not be mis-informed any longer<br>
than necessary.<br>
<br>
The next meeting will be on Monday 15 April 2019 at the Cafe<br>
Enchante from 6-8 PM.<br>
<br>
Bobbie Sellers<br>
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