Ideas for the next WLUG meeting
by Joshua Stone
Hey everyone,
I'd just like to say I had a fun time at Thursday's meeting! I'm
already looking forward to the next meeting as I'm sure there are
plenty of interesting topics we could discuss.
As mentioned before, I think we could examine technologies that'd be
beneficial to Linux on the desktop, like comparing packaging
technologies including Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage.
I think we could also look into the future of containers on the desktop
as a whole with projects like Flatpak, toolbox, podman, and Silverblue.
My workflow over the past few years has been using these upcoming
technologies as daily drivers as they lead to saner development. For
example, my laptop runs Silverblue (
https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/) which is a Fedora
variant designed around immutability where a new system image is
committed as the new /sysroot without affecting the state of the
running system. This is reminiscent of Android A/B updates, although
the update backend -- ostree -- has elements of a version control
system like git.
Toolbox (
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/) is
also interesting as it lets you switch into an unprivileged development
environment that can be built up and torn down without affecting the
host as tools are installed inside a container. For example, I can
build and install duc inside a toolbox without actually installing to
the host /usr:
[jstone@jstone-laptop ~]$ toolbox create --release 31 --container duc-
test
[jstone@jstone-laptop ~]$ toolbox enter --container duc-test
⬢[jstone@toolbox ~]$ git clone https://github.com/zevv/duc
⬢[jstone@toolbox ~]$ cd duc
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ sudo dnf --assumeyes install gcc make autoconf
automake pango-devel cairo-devel tokyocabinet-devel ncurses-devel
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ autoreconf --install
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ ./configure
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ make
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ sudo make install # no password needed
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ mkdir ~/.cache/duc
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ tcbmgr create ~/.cache/duc/duc.db
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ duc index ~
⬢[jstone@toolbox duc]$ duc gui
Finally, I've been installing most of my apps as Flatpaks, which uses
the same file storage backend as Silverblue to manage apps and shared
runtimes. This app distribution technology allows you to decouple apps
and operating systems as everything is built and run inside a sandbox,
making upgrades easier. Compare needing only one version of an app to
package as a flatpak, versus packaging for different versions of
distros:
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.clementine_player.Clementine
https://www.clementine-player.org/downloads
I'd be glad to hear what everyone has to say!
-Josh
3 weeks, 3 days
Reminder: Meeting today! Nov 14th, 2019
by Tim Keller
We've got a meeting today! If people are interested I could go into detail
about the new 355tb zfs on linux system i just deployed and the issues I
ran into and the bug/behavior reports I've put I to the Zol team.
Date & Time: November 14th, 2019 @ 7pm.
Location: WPI Campus Center Room rm 128 (Taylor room) It's the bottom of
the stairs in the student center.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for
dinner.
Later,
Tim.
4 weeks, 1 day
WLUG Meeting Next Thursday! (Nov. 14th, 2019) Topic: TBD
by Tim Keller
Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting next Thursday! I don't have a topic yet so if you're
got a topic that you'd like to talk about, let me know! Otherwise, we'll
figure something out
Date & Time: November 14th, 2019 @ 7pm.
Location: WPI Campus Center Room rm 128 (Taylor room) It's the bottom of
the stairs in the student center.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for
dinner.
Later,
Tim.
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1 month
word perfect
by donald vitkus
can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux
any ideas
1 month
