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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 ),

  • NEW In what order or sequence are the meeting events held? SLUUG_Meeting

    • Where!

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

    When!

    Wednesday, December 11th, 2024

    From 6:30PM till 9:00PM Central Standard Time (CST) UTC-05

    We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM CST, 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: Vulernability scanning the easy way!

    Presenter: Lee_Lammert

    It used to take an entire, dedicated system to run a Vulerability scanner, .. but it is now possible with only one hot requiement - Docker!

    The Docker system has undergone a number of upgrades in the past few years, with the UI now much simpler to use and monthly maintenance [i.e. sync'ing the databases] is quick and easy.

    Tune in to the tutorial this month to see how automated scans can check an entire network for malicious network responses, as well as the entire suite of 180K vulnerability tests.

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

    MAIN Topic: DistroBox, I like turtles

    Presenter: Tom Clark H.

    You like Linux distros! Have you ever wanted an easy way to have a distro in your distro with seamless integration with your distro? On an old though stable distro yet crave the newest releases of your favorite tools "natively"? Tired of having to create virtual machines for conflicting development environments?

    Enter Distrobox! Or was it distrobox enter... anyways... is it turtles all the way down? Come and find out!"

    Bio: "Tom is a freelance software developer who loves to tinker with things, many of them not even programming.

    Editor-

    Distrobox is a wrapper around Docker or Podman that give access to any Linux distro from any other Linux distro.

    It is a tool for providing containerized runtimes of several different Linux distributions. It is a software tool that allows you to run any Linux distribution inside the terminal.

    Distrobox is a container wrapping layer that allows the user to install containerized versions of Linux that are different to the host.

    Possible Future Topics

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