The Presentation: We all heckled, enjoyed, and disagreed with The Linux Tier List, where Chris Titus shared his opinions on various Linux distros.  We even learned a bit in the process. The Discussion: Dennis talked about his frustration with the… Read more2023-09-09 Meeting

Carl gave a quick intro to virtualization. The qemu set of programs allow a virtual machine to be created using almost any type of virtual hardware.  So it is easy to create anything from a virtual i386 with a meg… Read more2023-08-12 Meeting

Carl unfortunately wasn’t able to attend or to present a demo of qemu and libvirt.  He will do this at the August meeting. Rich provided this quick summary of the meeting: Conversation for the whole time was as usual as… Read more2023-07-08 Meeting

We had another wide open discussion including various topics: An written by ChatGPT about TPM chips. A shot of Donald Trump’s bathroom. A website Pat recommends about privacy related info. The ultimate mesh network, helium, and its explorer. Richard started… Read more2023-06-10 Meeting

We pretty much spent most of the time chatting about all the usual stuff.  Projects that we’re working on, iced coffee vs energy drinks, coworkers with a different way of doing things, AI taking over the world, rustdesk, favorite distros,… Read more2023-05-13 Meeting

ChatGPT was the topic of the month and we had a very animated discussion. At the mention of “Night Agent,” Gib prompted ChatGPT to provide a description of the TV shoe. He then followed up seeking information about some of… Read more2023-04-08 Meeting

Open Discussion: Today we talked about several things, including recent power outages and creating screenshots.  There were three we spent more time on: fixing tables in mysql when the root account password is unknown. service mysql stop mysqld_safe –skip grant-tables… Read more2023-03-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: We had three new people join the group, and they introduced themselves and talked about their experiences with Linux.  We introduced ourselves and talked about favorite distros and reasons why a person may like “distro hopping.”  All was… Read more2023-02-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: Since we didn’t have a presenter for CoolEdit we talked about it.  Fortunately Michael attended and was able to give us a live demo of the program.  In further discussion we noticed that it was more difficult than… Read more2023-01-14 Meeting

Open Discussion: The entire meeting consisted of an open discussion covering various topics, including: Options for using one keyboard and mouse for multiple computers, using a kvm switch or the program barrier. How CentOS, RedHat and Alma Linux are all… Read more2022-12-10 Meeting