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Saint Louis Unix Users Group

The Saint Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) is an IRS 501c(6) designated not-for-profit professional association dedicated to education and communication among computer users. SLUUG members include many Linux and UNIX professionals, Networking experts, System experts, hobbyists, and students. Also, many who are interested in Unix, Unix-like Operating Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS) applications, products, projects and services.

We have met continuously since we incorporated in July 1992. All of our meetings are free and open to the public. There is no individual membership fee.

Monthly Technical Presentations

Connection instructions will first be sent to our mailing lists and then linked here .

We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM, Central Time, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen sharing and video camera .

Then we start at 6:30 PM with our BASE introductory level session ( often focused on personal computing ); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, smoke and mirrors, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space.

Sometime after 7:00 PM we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

Sometime after 7:15 PM, we may take a short break before our MAIN topic ( often focused on enterprise computing ),


Where!

  • Online Sessions only.
  • NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice.
  • These sessions will use ZOOM remote video service.

When!

Wednesday, March 13th, 2024

From 6:30PM till 9:00PM Central Daylight Time (CDT) UTC-05:00

We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM CDT, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing.

Next scheduled meeting dates

What!

Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small.

BASE Topic: Cloning BOCK and Bringing Online

Presenter: Lee_Lammert

Last month we outlined some of the work we planned for updating BOCK ( our web and mail server ).

The tutorial or basic session this month, will again be a quick update of the work planned on our web/mail server, Bock. We need to upgrade thru 2 major releases of the Debian OS. What need be considered and planned in OUR particular case. But also, what does the discipline of doing this planning show all of our members how to plan such as effort on their own systems? IE systems that may be MULTI-USER? ...systems that should have high availability and high uptime? IE you can NOT just "be down" until this "kinda works"!

This will be about the next phase in our transition from Debian 10 to Debian 11 base line.

Consider viewing ahead:

Why ~ Debian end of life dates
SLUUG Upgrade Overview ~ Debian OS Upgrade Project Slides
SLUUG February session Upgrade Overview ~ Debian OS Upgrade Project Video
SLUUG Wiki Documentation ~ Debian OS Upgrade Project Upgrade

SLUUG Annual Meeting and Elections

As required by SLUUG By-Laws, a required annual meeting was held 14 February 2024.

Attending any two SLUUG sponsored meetings in calendar year 2023 qualified members to vote. Mail in balloting was held thru out February. That resulted in Ken Johnson and Sean Twiehaus being elected to our Board of Governors. James Conroy continues as Chairman of the Saint Louis Linux Users Group.


Something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful.

MAIN Topic: Computer History From 1968 On

Presenter: Scott Granneman

Broken down by decades.

Before, during, later, and then now. Mostly telephones were analog, had rotary dials, phone booths took quarters, long distance calls were expensive. Party lines were common. Computers ran on punch cards and reel-to-reel tape. A five megabyte hard drive was the size of today's dishwasher. Mini-computers were the size of a deep freeze. Things changed.

In January, Ed Howland told us about the "History of The Unix Shell". So, why talk about all that old stuff? Well, all historians will point out that you want to know the history to understand "how we got here." What were the problems that we were trying to solve? We are living with the solutions...and the new problems caused by those solutions, so we should understand what was being attempted.

So, Scott will give us the decade by decade description of the important events and inventions in computing. And you can understand what they have influenced in your problems today.


Possible Future Topics


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