June 2024 Meeting

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 13th at 6:30pm.

The in-person location is at the North Bellevue Community Center:

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

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

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.

Dave Compton is giving a presentation on implementing a home lab he set up using a new book, Steadfast Self Hosting. This book is by our own Adam Monsen, from SeaGL.

I am looking forward to this presentation and I hope to have Adam give a presentation next month.

Here are the links from the July Zoom meeting chat:

Image storage:

• https://immich.app/
• https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Photos/b?node=13234696011
• https://www.photoprism.app/

UW surplus:

• https://facilities.uw.edu/uw-surplus/store

LibrePlanet:

• https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page
• https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/tag/libreplanet-2024-video/

AI: llamafiles are cool because they don't require an environment, they can just run by themselves:

• https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGUF
• https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Emacs:

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eglot.html

More surplus information:

• https://serverpartdeals.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks
• https://www.goharddrive.com/

UEFI security problem and alternative BIOS options:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3Q-CkXfVw
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/minimum-platform-architecture-open-source-uefi-firmware-for-intel-based-platforms.html
• https://www.wimsbios.com/
• https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortdate/bios_cmos.html
• https://libreboot.org/docs/install/
• https://biosites.com/
• https://www.coreboot.org/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683536/current/compiling-the-uefi-in-the-linux-environment.html

More photo software:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminar_Neo

And software options:

• https://alternativeto.net/software/quickbooks/?platform=linux
• https://alternativeto.net/platform/linux/
• https://www.capterra.com/

E-ink displays:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink
• https://www.makerguides.com/interfacing-arduino-to-an-e-ink-display/

A link to our parent group:

• https://www.kegs.org/

COBOL:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL

We cover a wide range of topics. I hope you can attend our meeting Tuesday.