September 2021 Meeting

We will start the meeting with a presentation, by Randy, about the linux network commands. Thank you Randy.

We will also discuss our evolving relationship with our host organization, KEGS,

Here are notes from our September meeting:

Bill was still working with Manjaro on a Raspberry Pi:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4vfRLbYmU

Some old windows based servers are coming to end of life and we discussed using different linux distributions as replacements. Almost all the major distributions can be used. This is the one from our zoom sponsor:

• https://www.univention.com/products/ucs/

This brought up a question about Qnap and FreeNAS:

• https://www.trustradius.com/compare-products/freenas-vs-qnap-nas

Both MX Linux and Linux Mint were mentioned:

• https://mxlinux.org/
• https://linuxmint.com/

The Open Source Summit was in Seattle at the end of September:

• https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/

There were many good comments about syncthing and teleport:

• https://syncthing.net/
• https://goteleport.com/docs/installation/

Tom shared about some nice linux music tools:

• http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/
• https://lmms.io/

We discussed a VR headset and mentioned several good science fictions books:

• https://store.steampowered.com/valveindex
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line

We started the meeting with a presentation by John Blommers about building an encrypted BTRFS filesystem. Thank you John.