March 2024 Meeting

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, April 9th at 6:30pm.

We are also in-person at the North Bellevue Community Center. The address is: 

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

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

Bob and Jerry will be hosting the meeting this month. Thank you Bob and Jerry. The meeting 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.

Here are some events for your calendar:

We had very good discussion at the last meeting. We discussed these and other topics

I mentioned some Chromebook firmware updates to allow any OS to be installed on selected hardware, and a favorite security and AI blogger:

Rohr ran an LLM on a raspberry pi and he used podman for some of his work. He also mentioned a documentation reader application DWWW, the down loadable archive of internet sites like wikipedia for offline access:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewXANEIC8pY
  • https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/dwww.1.html
  • https://kiwix.org/en/

Ethan worked with cockpit and sway:

Alex worked with Alpine Linux, was using the .local domain, and was very happy with sshfs:

  • https://www.alpinelinux.org/
  • https://www.interserver.net/tips/kb/local-domain-names-ubuntu/
  • https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/why-using-local-as-your-domain-name-extension-is-a-bad-idea-4828
  • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

Randy lead a discussion that touched on teraform, podman, cloud init, flatpak, gnu cash, a diet app, a universal blood monitor app, and a cpap tracker:

  • https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform
  • https://podman.io/
  • https://cloud-init.io/
  • https://flatpak.org/
  • https://www.gnucash.org/
  • https://cronometer.com/
  • https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.lazyt.ubpm
  • https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/

I hope everyone can attend this meeting.