June 2021 Meeting

Kevin, our zoom host, has been busy supporting a new release of the open source and commercially supported windows AD replacement distribution. Thanks Kevin for the support:

• https://www.univention.com/

Bob has been learning how to use OBS for his church services:

• https://obsproject.com/

Tom suggested getting an external DAC for better sounding music. For example:

• https://www.google.com/search?q=Best+DAC+for+Linux

Bill continues his Raspberry PI work and has been trying out Manjaro for arch:

• https://manjaro.org/
• https://manjaro.org/index_2021.html
• https://raspberrytips.com/install-manjaro-raspberry-pi/

We discussed snapshot features of newer filesystems including zfs and brtfs and tools to use them to handle upgrade problems:

• https://zfsonlinux.org/
• https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
• https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift
• https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Related topics included f2fs filesystems, syncthing, and topgrade which tries to be a single command to upgrade and typical distribution:

• https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/filesystems/f2fs.html
• https://syncthing.net/
• https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade

We spent a little time on cloud tools including the Microsoft Azure server management tool and Amazon ECS Anywhere:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/servers/overview
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/getting-started-with-amazon-ecs-anywhere-now-generally-available/

As some point we mentioned the programming language popularity race with python a favorite:

• https://linuxhint.com/10_best_programming_languages_2021/

If you find these notes interesting, please drop me a note. If they are not interesting, please tell me how to improve them. Thank you.

Hope to see you Tuesday.