October 2023 Meeting

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 19+ years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday at 6:30pm, December 12^th, at the North Bellevue Community Center. The address is:

North Bellevue Community Center 
4063 148th Ave NE 
Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early to help set up the room.

KEGS membership - reminder and new member end-of-year deal. BELUG has been part of KEGS for the past year. If you are a KEGS member, it is almost time to renew your membership. If you are not a KEGS member you have an opportunity to join now and get a prorated membership. Check out the details here.

SeaGL was held on November 3 and 4. I was able to watch some of the discussions and they were all excellent. They streamed the sessions on YouTube and they are many hours long but are a good resource until SeaGL posts separate videos of each session.

Our meeting on Tuesday will follow our normal format with introductions all around, collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations, and finishing with our best answers to the technical questions.

Last month we discussed these and other topics:

Bob Baxter mentioned watching a Linux security presentation from the APCUG organization, which KEGS members can all access.

We discussed the low cost RISC-V Vision5 CPUs that run Linux.

We discussed the Framework laptop and running Linux on a MacBook.

Another person used Linux for music production and mentioned Ubuntu Studio.

David mentioned Terraform again and some network routing using the vyos system, one of many options.

Dallas was interested in using idempiere to help manage a set of data. While we were discussing the software, Randy installed it on one of his systems. I hope we can investigate options for this work.

Another member used podman to build an apache spark system on a local machine for development and testing.

And as mentioned above we discussed SeaGL.

I hope to see you at this Tuesday meeting.