BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.
The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, March 11th 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 to help set up the room.
The meeting will follow our usual format with introductions all around, collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations, and finishing with our best answers to your technical questions.
In February we discussed these topics:
We talked about maker spaces in the area. Here is a Google search with a good list.
Ethan tested out Some utility software:
https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/
https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-caldav-servers/
https://github.com/pimutils/khal
Someone mentioned a gaming mouse control program:
https://github.com/libratbag/piper
Some Linux distributions that were mentioned:
https://linuxmint.com/
https://ubuntu.com/
https://archlinux.org/
https://distrowatch.com/
Randy ran into HP printer problems and suggested we try Brother printers.
For those people mostly stuck on windows computers we recommended windows subsystem for Linux, WSL:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
We discussed how to track cron job status using:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Procmail
https://www.syslog-ng.com/products/open-source-log-management/
And an alternative cellphone distribution:
We had a few more new people at this meeting, so welcome to BELUG. Thank you for visiting.
We cover a wide range of topics and I hope you can attend our next meeting.