New Linux Users Group (NEWLINUX)
www.newlinux.org
__26_August_2025__
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM ( Central Daylight Time, USA )
**We will open the remote session by about 6:00 PM CDT**
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The NewLinux Linux Users Group is for all new beginner level users.
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 ZOOM remote video service 26 August 2025.
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Omnitec Corporation is sponsoring this scheduled ZOOM meeting.
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Topic: Whatever the New Linux User Wants to Know (NEWLINUX)
Time: Aug 26, 2025 18:00 Central Time (US and Canada)
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St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX)
www.stllinux.org
__21_August_2025__
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM ( Central Daylight Time, USA )
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TOPIC: Its Only Logical: Logical Volume Manager ( LVM )
Presenter: Steven Lembark
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The Saint Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX) is a non-profit, volunteer
group that provides education, information and support for Linux users.
You are invited to attend this next ONLINE session, in lieu of any
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 21 August 2025.
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Omnitec Corporation is sponsoring this scheduled ZOOM meeting.
www.omnitec.net
TOPIC: Its Only Logical: Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Steven Lembark
Time: August 21, 2025 18:00 Central Time (US and Canada)
LVM saves quite a few problems, from dealing with UUID's on disks,
cleaning up your /etc/fstab, managing space on live systems. Problem
is that most people never really learn just how simple it is to use
LVM. This talk describes the basics of LVM use on linux (and hpux,
for that matter) along with features like mirroring and thin pools.
If you are still using partitions, you are only making pain for
yourself. This is a great (yet technical) talk for relatively new
users....ie important for running your own system.
Slide deck in progress:
> https://speakerdeck.com/lembark/its-only-logical-lvm-for-linux
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St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG)
https://www.sluug.org/
__13_August_2025__
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM (Central Daylight Time, USA).
**We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM**
**Join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing**
**** Microphone Or Webcam Are Not Required to Join ****
This session can use the following link:
> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83731748711?pwd=h7RYCSysNp9OeQJtJTdYgA26M5yboy.1
BASE Various Tricks by Lee Lammert, Stan Reichardt and others
MAIN Local LLMs for Local AI by Andrew Denner, CIALUG
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 any
regular physical face-to-face meeting. Further instructions below.
* ONLINE Sessions
* ONLINE session will use ZOOM remote video service 13 August 2025.
* NO PHYSICAL MEETING ( until further notice )
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6:00pm Join early to start testing. During this period others may be
able to help you test.
You may 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. Wired Ethernet is much 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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OmniTec Corporation is sponsoring this scheduled ZOOM meeting.
https://omnitec.net/
The Saint Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) Meeting
On the Second Wednesday of every month
Topic: Saint Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG)
Time: August 13, 2024 18:30 Central Time (US and Canada)
**We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM**
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 837 3174 8711
Passcode: 796193
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6:00pm Zoom room opens. Test your mic, camera, chat with people...
*~6:30pmBASE* Topic: Various tricks
"Keyboard Karaoke" telling us about some useful, neat tools.
Short talks planned on vim's "spell-checker" private-dictionary. Also the
"fc" command lists, edits, & executes previous commands from the history
lists.
Presenters: Lee, Stan, & any volunteers.
~7:00pm announcement
~7:15pm
*MAIN* Topic: *Local LLMs for Local AI*
Presenter: Andrew Denner
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sluug.org/bio/Andrew_Denner&sa=D&s…>
Local for fun and (hopefully saving) profit.
Learn how to get the most out of local LLMs (Large Language Models) with
Ollama, uv, and VS
Code—fast setups, useful tasks, and a workflow that feels good. From
experiments to real savings, we'll explore how to make local AI truly work
for you.
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Editor's note:
Below is from *Ollama vs GPT: Comparing AI Models for Secure Deployment*
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bluecrystal.com.au/news/tech/ollam…>...and
other Google searches.
Ollama is *a locally deployed AI model runner, designed to allow users to
download and execute large language models (LLMs) directly on their
personal computer, such as Linux, MacBook, or MS-Win machine*.
Ollama sources public datasets like CommonCrawl, C4, and The Pile, making
it transparent and auditable for open-source usage. * OpenAI's GPT* models
are trained on a broader set of proprietary and public internet text up to
2021, which may contribute to GPT's versatility but limits visibility into
dataset specifics.Yes, Ollama models are free. Ollama focuses on providing
access to open-source large language models (LLMs) that are free to
download and use locally on your computer. Ollama and Llama are related
but distinct concepts in the realm of large language models (LLMs). Ollama
is a platform for running LLMs locally, while Llama is a family of
open-source LLMs developed by Meta.
The name stands for *Omni-Layer Learning Language Acquisition Model*.
UV is a high-performance "Python package manager" developed by Astral, the
team behind the Ruff linter. UV is written in Rust.
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http://www.sluug.org/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sluug.org/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd…>
The *URL* link to connection instructions for this meetng is posted earlier
on the day of the meetng, at the above home page. It is the link
called "*linked
here*".
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- *ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY* until further notice.
- *ONLINE* sessions will use a remote video meeting service.
- *HOW TO CONNECT *instructions will be on the *https://www.sluug.org/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sluug.org/&sa=D&source=calendar&us…>*
web
page and on our mailing lists. Note that your browser cache may need to be
refreshed each time you check the web page for the instructions.
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- We will open the remote session at about *6:00 PM*, so that you can join
early to test sharing your microphone, screen and video camera.
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Meetings are every 2nd Wednesday of the month *from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.*
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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,
retirees, students, plus many others who are interested in Unix, Unix-like
Operating Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
applications, products, projects and services.
*SLUUG* is your forum for exchanging information about OPEN standards, OPEN
systems, OPEN source, products, services and architectures.
We usually start the general meeting with our *BASE* introductory level
session (often focused on personal computing), which may include either
simple tutorials, displays of newly discovered web sites, command line
wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, amazing graphical packages,
major resolution of long standing anomalies, blinking lights, or quantum
shifts in both time and space. Then we will have our usually quick welcome,
introduction, administrative announcements, and a Call For Help - Questions
and Answers Period. After all that, we may take a break before our *MAIN*
event.
Saint Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC)
www.slacc.orgslacc.sluug.org
___7_August_2025__
6:30 ~ 9:00 PM ( Central Standard Time, USA )
**We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM**
**Join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing**
**** Microphone Or Webcam Are Not Required to Join ****
This ZOOM session will use the following link:
> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85726141167?pwd=0oMhaeMbabtxvnd9iK0giTKEFQXqBL.1
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 ZOOM remote video service 7 August 2025.
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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. We suggest
that you clear browser cache and cookies before starting any session.
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RECOMMENDED CLIENT TESTING:
We will open the remote session by about 6:00 PM, Central Standard Time.
Join early to test your controls, hearing (sound), video screen sharing
and microphone (speaking). You might be muted on entry.
During this half hour test period others may be able to help you.
Joining without ear buds, earphones or headset can result in a feedback
loop with a builtin laptop microphone. Using at least earbuds is highly
recommended. Wired Ethernet is always better than WiFi connectivity.
If you do not take the time and make the effort to get your connection
working correctly, you may be very disruptive. Annoying disruptions
may cause you to be kicked off the session.
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.
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WHEN YOU ENTER THIS ONLINE SESSION:
6:00 PM Join early.
Please set your identity to show first name and last name. Instead of
full last name you could just follow first name with an initial. We
do prefer that you use your full last name.
Please hold you questions until after start of the meeting.
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6:30 PM 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. Disconnecting and reconnecting usually
fixes issues from an initial problem session.
All may be muted at this point. You will 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 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 usually hold a Hardware and Software Configuration Workshop when
nothing else more interesting comes up, or when there is no other
event or activity scheduled. This is an open free format workshop.
In this workshop we usually assess, 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.
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OmniTec Corporation is sponsoring this scheduled ZOOM meeting.
https://omnitec.net/
The Saint Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) Meeting
Usually On the First Thursday of every month
Topic: Hardware and Software Configuration. Vendor Agnostic.
Time: August 7, 2025 18:00 Central Time (US and Canada)
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