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Hi LUGers,<br>
<br>
Well it was a small but pleasant meeting.<br>
<br>
I was a bit later than usual but by 10:45 I had set up<br>
pretty well as can be seen from the photo, thanks to<br>
John S. We had the large table and pretty much filled it<br>
up.<br>
So John S. and Maestro were the next to show up.<br>
Ken and his wife Sunni came in.<br>
<br>
I had a few chores to finish on the Dell E6520 as I had replaced<br>
the SSD drive of 120 GB with a 500 GB hard drive with a fresh
install<br>
of PCLinuxOS 64.<br>
<br>
I dug out all the later Flash Drives with MX Linux 18.2,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://mxlinux.org/manuals/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><https://mxlinux.org/manuals/></a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://mxlinux.org/wiki/helpfiles/" moz-do-not-send="true"><https://mxlinux.org/wiki/helpfiles/></a>,<br>
robolinux64-xfce-v10.5 which resisted booting on John S.'s late
model Asus,<br>
but did well on my Dell. RoboLinux has some special tools to
create<br>
Virtual Machines from various versions of Windows, precisely XP, 7
and<br>
10. Vista and 8.1 were inexplicably left out. One can only
imagine<br>
why. I may add this as an install for the 6520.<br>
kali-linux-light-2019.2-amd64.iso and
kali-linux-2019.2-amd64.iso<br>
also booted up nicely on the Dell.<br>
Parrot-kde-security-4.6_amd64.iso and Parrot-kde-home-4.6_amd64.iso<br>
look very respectable.<br>
<br>
John got a copy of his PCLinuxOS64 2019.05 now with update
notification.<br>
Of course this is a neat little tool that offers you when you
respond a chance<br>
to view the updates, do the updates or leave them for later. If
you decide<br>
to do the updates you are offered the choice of either doing them
via apt-get<br>
or Synaptic. If you chose apt-get then a small terminal window is
opened<br>
and apt-get runs in it. I had 92 regular updates and it took 10
minutes to<br>
finish.<br>
If you open in Synaptic it already knows about the updates and
you can<br>
proceed as usual with that useful graphic tool.<br>
<br>
Now John wanted a demonstration of Synaptic and I gave it
downloading<br>
and installing an extra kernel. The sequence goes startup Synaptic
with root<br>
password required, then when it has finished loading, Reload to get
the latest<br>
list of packages that you will be needing to correct functional or
security issues<br>
missed in the previous releases of those packages. Then you can
search for<br>
new kernels by using the search window, just typing in "kernel"
without the<br>
quotation marks, using the "Look in:" to "name", hit "search" and
find a list<br>
of installed and available kernels. PCLinuxOS keeps us up to date
if we<br>
need that, and also has 2 Long Term Support kernels. Presently I
booted<br>
up using Linux kernel 5.1.6. And while you can keep as many
kernels as you<br>
have space for, I keep only 3 available for booting on GRUB2. One
is the<br>
latest kernel which I try out before I recommend it to the people I
assist<br>
with such matters. After the "Zombieland" re-coding I was testing 6
new<br>
and updated kernels a week and that takes time. Understand when<br>
I say testing, I am referring to checking simple stuff like the
ability to boot,<br>
logins, the interfaces to my common tools work. I have reported one
previous<br>
problem and the next version of the kernel corrected that. Synaptic
can<br>
also be used to remove old kernels.<br>
<br>
Synaptic is very useful if not for the routine updating for
finding packages<br>
you might want to use such as Red Shift which is in two packages,
one for<br>
the actual tool and one for the gui to use it easily. This turns
down the<br>
blue in the screen as the day light outside wanes and makes the
screen<br>
warmer. I am finding it a lot easier to get myself to leave the
computer and<br>
get to rest since I started using Red Shift.<br>
<br>
No one seemed interested in the latest milestone version 1.0.0-1
of GPartEd.<br>
I have several copied on CDs in versions for i686, i686-pae, and
amd64.<br>
<br>
Ken was assisting another user with a sound problem in which the
speakers<br>
were cutting out. I came up with one of my stupid practical
suggestions which<br>
would have involved opening the laptop but Ken figured out shortly
that it was<br>
a software problem and it was fixed before the end of the meeting.<br>
Bravo Ken. Hi Sunni!<br>
<br>
About 12:45 I started packing up and everyone got away before
me.<br>
At Geary and 25th we enjoyed a squishy marine layer.<br>
In case you wondered Jim Stockford was away this weekend.<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>
Next meeting will be on Monday May 17, 2019 from 6-8 PM.<br>
Usual notice will be posted on or about May 13.<br>
<br>
Bobbie Sellers<br>
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