New Linux Users Group (NEWLUG)
https://newlug.sluug.org/
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM (Central Time, USA)
**We will open the remote session by about 6:00 PM**
**Join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing**
**** MICROPHONE OR WEBCAM ARE NOT REQUIRED TO JOIN ****
**** USE OF ICEWEASLE, SAFARI or FIREFOX BROWSER NOT RECOMMENDED ****
This session will use the following passcode and link:
Passcode: LinuxPlanningFor2025
https://meet.jit.si/NewLinuxForBeginners#config.videoQuality.preferredCodec='VP8'
Do NOT separate words, use the no spaces CamelCase format.
To join by phone instead, tap this: +1.512.647.1431,,1368160461#
Looking for a different dial-in number?
See meeting dial-in numbers:
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If also dialing-in through a room phone, join without connecting
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This is a Linux Users Group for the new beginner level Linux user.
One-on-one help available for anyone curious about or new to Linux.
You are invited to attend this next ONLINE session, in lieu of any
regular physical face-to-face meeting. Further instructions below.
* ONLINE Sessions
* NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice.
* ONLINE session will use remote video service 22 February 2022.
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You do not have to have a microphone and webcamera to participate. You
can just chat, listen and watch using a Chrome based browser.
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RECOMMENDED CLIENT USE:
Instead of using a browser, it has been recommended to use the official
Jitsi appimage clients. Reportedly using the client consistently has
better results, with fewer connectivity, sound or video issues.
Appimage MS Windows, macOS and Linux client releases...
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/
Mobile app clients for Apple or Android...
https://jitsi.org/downloads
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JOINING THIS ONLINE SESSION:
6:00pm Begin testing of controls, hearing, screen sharing and speaking
with the following site:
> https://test.webrtc.org
During this half hour period, others may be able to help you.
Joining without ear buds, earphones or headset may result in a feedback
loop with a builtin laptop microphone. Using at-least earbuds is highly
recommended. Using Ethernet is better than WiFi connectivity.
**** USE OF ICEWEASLE, SAFARI or FIREFOX BROWSER NOT RECOMMENDED ****
Joining our session using any Firefox based browser is NOT recommended.
Previously known Firefox compatibility bugs caused problems for others
already in Jitsi sessions. You might not have problems; but, your use
of Firefox would cause others to have problems.
**** USE OF ICEWEASLE, SAFARI or FIREFOX BROWSER NOT RECOMMENDED ****
If you do not make the effort and take the time to get your connection
working correctly, you may be very disruptive. Try dropping your
connection and rejoin. That sometimes fixes issues. But, do so slowly,
as granting access to your microphone and camera too quickly is the
current main problem. Also, there are often sound settings in different
browsers that may need to be changed.
======================================================================
WHEN YOU ENTER THIS ONLINE SESSION:
Do NOT remain showing as Fellow Jitster. Set your identity to show
first name and last name. We do prefer that you use your full last
name. Instead of full last name you could just follow first name with
an initial.
Going into the chat room may allow you to set your name there. Or, at
three vertical dots (more actions) in lower right hand corner, select
Settings, then under Profile "Set your display name" (you can ignore
the "Set your gravatar email block").
Meeting will be recorded for attendance tracking and quality control.
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START OF MEETING:
6:30pm The meeting starts.
Assistance with controls, hearing, screen sharing and speaking ends.
Anybody joining after 6:30pm that experiences issues with controls,
hearing, screen sharing or speaking should only use chat room to ask
questions or make comments.
Annoying disruptions may cause you to be kicked off the session.
You might be muted on entry, so join early if you want to test your
camera or microphone. Use letter V on keyboard to toggle your camera.
Use letter M on keyboard to toggle (mute or unmute) your audio. You do
not need a camera, nor microphone to watch and listen with your browser.
All might be muted at this point. You may have to unmute yourself
in order to speak. You can ask questions and make comments in chat room.
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ORDER OF EVENTS:
First some simple introductions, administrative minutia, announcements,
and then you can Call For Help during our Questions and Answers period.
Sometimes we will watch a video or have a slide show presentation,
after which there will be general discussions that usually lead to
additional topics.
Sometimes, there can be a live demonstration of a Linux distribution
(distro) installation, updating, changes, features and applications.
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TOPICS:
Whatever the newest user needs to know.
The newest user at the meeting may select general and specific topics.
We won't pick just one ahead of time. We will accept suggestions and
requests, as the course of the meeting will be entirely up to those
that attend. Join us to share our knowledge, learning experiences,
problem solving, techniques and troubleshooting.
We can mostly explore the traditional Graphical User Interface (GUI),
as it is easy to use, often familiar, and friendly to use. We will NOT
focus on the Command Line Interface (CLI) as it is seldom required and
generally optional for day to day use. However, it has many benefits.
We have access to many formal slide show presentations; but, we use
them only to present information and encourage discussion. We encourage
and prefer lively interaction and user questions. We always want user
questions to be asked. We never think that any question is too dumb.
A selected topic will NOT restrict the course of our meetings. These
topics are tentative. They are only suggestions.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
> https://www.sluug.org/https://newlug.sluug.org/
-- EOF -
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--
-- stan r.
-- http://newlinux.org/ For anyone new to Linux, the newcomers.
-- I know about TCP/IP; but, understand less of it each day.
-- Save the earth..... It's the only planet with dark chocolate!
St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX)
https://www.stllinux.org/
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM (Central Time, USA)
**We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM**
**Join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing**
TOPIC: SuSE Liberty, Rancher, and Harvester
By Michael Carrington
Join Zoom Meeting with this direct link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83757403380?pwd=dU9rK1hGQ1ZJeUIrSEFCbXNaTEtCQT09
The Saint Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX) is a non-profit, volunteer
group that provides education, information and/or support for Linux users.
You are invited to attend this next ONLINE session, in lieu of our
regular physical face-to-face meeting. Instructions are below.
* ONLINE Sessions
* NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice.
* ONLINE session will use ZOOM remote video service 17 February 2022.
--- invite start ---
Omnitec Corporation is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Saint Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX)
Time: Feb 17, 2022 18:00 Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 837 5740 3380
Passcode: 522323
One tap mobile
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Meeting ID: 837 5740 3380
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbq1UWUlrS
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TOPIC: SuSE Liberty, Rancher, and Harvester
By Michael Carrington
What's New, and more!
CentOS was one of the most acclaimed distros for servers, and one that
many companies adopted, a binary fork of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
from Red Hat (now owned by IBM), maintained by the community and free.
But nevertheless, in an unexpected turn (by RedHat), everything was
turned upside down, leaving a large gap that is now to be filled.
(The CentOS that we knew is no more.) Liberty Linux from SuSE, is
another of the alternatives that join projects like AlmaLinux, Rocky
Linux, etc., etc.
SuSE Liberty Linux as a "replacement" for CentOS.
SuSE Liberty Linux is a product that is being developed by SuSE with its
own Open Build Service tool, from the binary packages Official Red Hat
RPMs (SRPMs). In the case of the kernel, the RHEL kernel will not be
used, rather it is based on the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
kernel, but compiled using a configuration to maintain compatibility
for RHEL/CentOS.
SuSE Rancher is a container management platform that provides full
management of all your Kubernetes distributions, whether you're managing
one or one ... SuSE Rancher addresses the needs of DevOps teams deploying
apps.
SuSE Rancher differs from Kubernetes:
a) Kubernetes is a technology for managing containers organized under
a cluster of virtual or physical machines.
b) Rancher is a technology for managing Kubernetes clusters en masse.
SuSE Harvester is an Open, interoperable hyperconverged infrastructure
(HCI).
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) doesn't need to be expensive or
complex and with Harvester it's not. Harvester presents organizations
with a modern HCI solution that is feature-full and purpose built for
cloud-native environments. Consolidate your virtual machine workloads
and Kubernetes clusters with Harvester.
Designed by the SuSE Rancher engineering team, Harvester is built on
Kubernetes and utilizes the latest cloud-native solutions.
Harvester has two modes of operation:
1. HCI, where it can attach to another cluster as a VM hosting node or
2. a Helm application deployed into an existing Kubernetes cluster.
Read ahead:
https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/suse-alternative-centos-liberty-linux.html
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
> https://www.sluug.org/https://www.stllinux.org/
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St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG)
https://www.sluug.org/
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM (Central Time, USA)
**We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM**
**Join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing**
BASE: Dot Files by Ed Howland
MAIN: What's New in Solaris 11.4 By Bob Netherton, Oracle
This session can use the following link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89524105811?pwd=VTVESVNMOEV6eW5oaWZjYW5VWTRtUT09
We are a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to education
and communication among computer users. Networking experts, System
experts, hobbyists, students, plus many who are interested in Unix,
Unix-like Operating Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source
Software (FOSS) applications, products, projects, and services.
You are invited to attend this next ONLINE session, in lieu of our
regular physical face-to-face meeting. Further instructions below.
* ONLINE Sessions
* NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice.
* ONLINE session will use remote video service 9 February 2022.
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6:00pm Join early to start testing. During this period others may be
able to help you.
You will be muted on entry, so join early if you want to start testing
of controls, hearing, screen sharing and speaking. You can use use Alt+A
to unmute or mute your audio. Space bar too.
Your best experience might be with a Chromium based web browser.
Joining without ear buds, earphones or headset may result in a feedback
loop with a builtin laptop microphone. Using at-least earbuds is highly
recommended. Ethernet is better than WiFi connectivity.
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IMPORTANT TO US:
We prefer that you set your identity to show first name and last name.
Instead of full last name you could just follow your first name with
an initial.
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Omnitrec Corporation is sponsoring this scheduled Zoom meeting.
SLUUG Main General Meeting
Time: Feb 9, 2022 18:00 Central Time (US and Canada)
Every month on the Second Wednesday
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89524105811?pwd=VTVESVNMOEV6eW5oaWZjYW5VWTRtUT09
Or, sign in using:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 895 2410 5811
Passcode: 580959
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,89524105811# US (Chicago)
+16465588656,,89524105811# US (New York)
Dial by your location
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
Meeting ID: 895 2410 5811
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kcxPvnMTqO
We hold an annual meeting during February as required by our charter
and provide ballots for electing our board and recommending officers.
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,
students, plus many who are interested in Unix, Unix-like Operating
Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
applications, products, projects and services.
The SLUUG annual meeting will start remotely 6:30 PM (CST) 9 February.
We highly recommend any issues be discussed prior and coordinated with
the Steering Committee members in advance to expedite consideration.
SLUUG advertises, advises, aids, announces, assists, promotes, sponsors,
and otherwise provides support to Unix related; yet independent,
associated local groups. We provide mailing list access, and web site
presence. We arrange for remote meeting sessions, physical meeting
places and pay meeting room fees at county libraries.
The St. Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) is an informal group, with
no formal appointed, chaired or elected officials. SLACC has strictly
voluntary hosts and participants.
> https://slacc.sluug.org/
The St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) is an informal group that
usually has a Linux specific presentation. Votes for its Chairperson
are collected on the annual ballot.
> https://www.stllinux.org/
The Newcomer Linux Users Group (NEWLUG) is an informal group with
its own permanent Chairperson.
> https://newlug.sluug.org/
These informally associated groups are considered to be associated as
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of SLUUG. They have important indirect
interest in the Board membership, which chooses to aid, promote and
support them now and in the future.
Attendance at any SLUUG sponsored meetings, and all of these associated
meetings and remote sessions is considered to count toward voting
eligibility. Displaying your name during the remote sessions enabled
your attendance to be recorded. If you attended any two meetings or
sessions during the last calendar year, you may vote by absentee ballot.
> ANNUAL ELECTIONS
> As required by our By-Laws.
> Attending two sessions in year 2021 qualified you to vote.
> An absentee secret ballot can be printed and mailed.
> An absentee public ballot can be printed and emailed.
> Ballot (with instructions) now available for February election.
> https://www.sluug.org/ballot2022.pdf
All ballots must be received prior to the 28 February meeting of
the SLUUG Steering Committee to be counted.
--
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--
-- stan r.
-- Vote early, vote often.
NEXT WEDNESDAY is the monthly general meeting of SLUUG.
This month is also the annual election to our Board Of Directors.
2 GREAT TALKS this month!! Please spread the word!
Bob Netherton used to be a frequently loved speaker from Sun Microsystems
but we haven’t heard from him for years! This Wed, now an Oracle employee he will tell us what he and the
other developers of the Solaris OS have been up to.
Before that, Ed Howland will expose those hidden .Dot files in the basic/tutorial. .Dot files are frequently used
for configuration files, logs, system stuff,… that the less techie-user would not find interesting…usually…but
sometimes you need to get to them!!
Wed 9 Feb 2022 6:30 (“Doors” open ~6pm to make sure your mic & video work.)
==========================================================
BASE/tutorial: .Dot Files by Ed Howland
Per Wikipedia... "Dot file" redirects to the topic Hidden file and hidden directory
• What are dotfiles? If, as you say, they are invisible, then how do I view them?
• Why to dotfiles exist? Where did they originally come from? What are they used for?
• Why are they splattered all over my clean pristine home directory and other folders?
• Is there some strategy for managing them well?
All these questions and perhaps many more will be attempted to be answered by this talk. If you have any expertise on managing dotfiles, please email your comments, ideas, suggestions, or tips to Ed by mailto:ed.howland@gmail.com before this meeting, and they will be credited to yourself there.
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MAIN: What's New in Solaris 11.4! by Bob Netherton of Oracle Corp
What's New in Solaris 11.4
Serving customers into 2031 and beyond
Paraphrasing Mark Twain a bit, rumors of the demise of Solaris have been greatly exaggerated. For many of our customers, SPARC and Solaris continue to be critical technologies and this talk will be focused on how Oracle has supported and will continue to support those customers into the next decade. This will be a technical discussion covering:
1. Solaris Support Repository Updates (SRUs) - what they are and why they matter
2. New features in ZFS, including vdev device removal (has it really been 16 years)
3. Solaris Analytics for fans of Grafana (Solaris Web Dashboard) and Prometheus (Solaris Stat Store)
4. Platform support
5. Security and Compliance Reporting tools
6. Solaris in the Oracle Cloud
(Editor: "Cheat" and read ahead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris
Bob Netherton is a Master Principal Sales Consultant in the Oracle North American Engineered Systems Infrastructure Specialist Team. He has been with Oracle for 30 years, including the first 18 with Sun Microsystems. Bob holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Missouri - St. Louis and has co-authored of two books on Solaris Virtualization. In his free time, Bob in an avid music collector, follows the Blues and Cardinals, enjoys amateur radio (K5RLN) and plays board games. Probably too many board games :-)
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Mtngs are every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
Saint Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC)
https://slacc.sluug.org/
6:00 ~ 9:00 PM (Central Time, USA)
This session will use the following link:
https://meet.jit.si/SaintLouisAreaComputerClub#config.videoQuality.preferre…'VP8'
Do NOT separate words, use the no spaces CamelCase format.
To join by phone instead, tap this: +1.512.647.1431,,1368160461#
Looking for a different dial-in number?
See meeting dial-in numbers:
https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=SaintLouisAreaComputerClub
If also dialing-in through a room phone, join without connecting audio:
https://meet.jit.si/SaintLouisAreaComputerClub#config.startSilent=true
The extant Saint Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) is the oldest,
longest enduring, continuously meeting personal computer organization
active in the Greater St. Louis Area.
You are invited to attend this next ONLINE session, in lieu of any
regular physical face-to-face meeting. Further instructions below.
* ONLINE Sessions
* NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice.
* ONLINE session will use JITSI remote video service 3 February 2022.
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
You do not have to have a microphone and webcamera to participate. You
can just chat, listen and watch using a Chrome based browser.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
RECOMMENDED CLIENT TESTING:
We will open the remote session by about 6:00 PM. Join early to test
your microphone, screen and video sharing.
Instead of using a browser, it has been recommended to use the official
Jitsi appimage clients. Reportedly using the client consistently has
better results, with fewer connectivity, sound or video issues.
Appimage MS Windows, macOS and Linux client releases...
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/
Mobile app clients for Apple or Android...
https://jitsi.org/downloads
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
JOINING THIS ONLINE SESSION:
6:00pm Start testing of controls, hearing, screen sharing and speaking
with the following site:
https://test.webrtc.org
During this half hour test period others may be able to help you.
Currently known Firefox compatibility bugs may cause problems for others
already in Jitsi sessions.
Joining without ear buds, earphones or headset may result in a feedback
loop with a builtin laptop microphone. Using at-least earbuds is highly
recommended. Ethernet is better than WiFi connectivity.
If you do not make the effort and take the time to get your connection
working correctly, you may be very disruptive. Try dropping your
connection and rejoin. That sometimes fixes issues. But, do so slowly,
as granting access to your microphone and camera too quickly is the
current main problem. Also, there are often sound settings in different
browsers that may need to be changed.
======================================================================
WHEN YOU ENTER THIS ONLINE SESSION:
6:00pm Join early.
Do NOT remain showing as Fellow Jitster. Set your identity to show
first name and last name. We do prefer that you use your full last
name. Instead of full last name you could just follow first name with
an initial.
Going into the chat room may allow you to set your name there. Or, at
three vertical dots (more actions) displayed in lower right hand corner,
select Settings, then under Profile "Set your display name". You can
ignore the "Set your gravatar email block".
The meeting will be recorded for quality control.
Assistance with controls, hearing, screen sharing and speaking ends.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
6:30pm Start of meeting.
Anybody joining after 6:30pm that experiences issues with controls,
hearing, screen sharing or speaking should only use chat room to ask
questions or make comments.
Annoying disruptions may cause you to be kicked off the session.
You might be muted on entry, so join early if you want to test your
camera or microphone. Use letter V on keyboard to toggle your camera.
Use letter M on keyboard to toggle (mute or unmute) your audio. You do
not need a camera, nor microphone to watch and listen with your browser.
All might be muted at this point. You may have to unmute yourself
in order to speak. You can ask questions and make comments in chat room.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
ORDER OF EVENTS:
First some simple introductions, administrative minutia, announcements,
and then you can Call For Help during our Questions and Answers period.
Sometimes we may watch a video or have a slide show presentation,
after which there will be general discussions that usually lead to
additional topics.
Sometimes, there can be a live demonstration of a Linux distribution
(distro) installation, updating, changes, features and applications.
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TOPICS:
We often hold a Linux Workshop when nothing else more interesting comes
up, or when there is no other event or activity scheduled.
The workshop is where we usually configure, examine, fix, install,
repair, and troubleshoot difficult hardware and software configuration
problems for Linux newcomers. Problems with other operating systems and
hardware are also frequently fixed.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
> https://www.sluug.org/https://slacc.sluug.org/
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