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Reminder: Meeting This Thursday at 7pm, Location: Hudson Public Library + online!
by Tim Keller 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Have you cooked up a really cool gadget and upon looking at the huge mess of breadboard wires thought, "It sure would be great if I could turn that into a PCB, but alas, that software is expensive and proprietary and only runs on windows." KiCAD is an open source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool that allows you to take your pile o' wires and IC's and turn it into a PCB! Long time member John Stoffel and myself will show you how Thursday night at 7pm at the Hudson Public Library! We'll also have the meeting online at Jitsi and we'll be recording this whole thing for youtube! Afterwards we'll likely head off for dinner and keep up the nerdiness! I hope to see you there or virtually, both work! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder: WLUG Meeting March 10th, 2022! Topic: KiCAD
by Tim Keller 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

We've got a meeting on Thursday March 10th! Date & Time: March 10th, 2022 @ 7pm Location: Hudson Public Library and Jitsi at our usual haunt ( https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA) Topic: KiCAD EDA software Speaker(s): John Stoffel and Tim Keller This is going to be an in person and virtual meeting at the Hudson Public Library! The topic is KiCAD, a FOSS EDA (Electronic Design Automation) CAD tool. KiCAD is a computer aided design software package that enables you to create logical circuit diagrams and convert them into a PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards). This software is being used in the industry and has a vibrant community around it. The speaker for this talk is our own esteemed member John Stoffel with myself lending a hand. John and I will show up some of the features of the software, talk about how he's used it to create his own PCB's and give a quick demo. As always these days the entire meeting will be uploaded to our youtube channel. Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head out for dinner. I hope to see you there (even if only virtually!) Later, Tim.

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Changes to CentOS and its replacements
by Aljerin Butler,Jr. 13 Feb '22

13 Feb '22

At our last WLUG meeting there was some discussion about the changes from CentOS to CentOS Stream, plus replacements for CentOS. I picked off a few articles from my website that might help clear the air about the differences between the old and the new CentOS and how to migrate to one of its replacements. AlmaLinux vs CentOS CentOS Replacements For Your Production Linux Servers AlmaLinux’s ELevate Project Makes the Migration from CentOS 7 Easy Migrate To AlmaLinux 8 From CentOS 8 Using Almalinux-deploy Script

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Video is up on youtube!
by Tim Keller 11 Feb '22

11 Feb '22

Hey Gang, Bill gave a great presentation of fossil and what it can do. The video is up on youtube here: https://youtu.be/Zn_JTg3JDbI Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder! WLUG Meeting tonight! Topic: Fossil!
by Tim Keller 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Hey Everybody, We've got a virtual meeting tonight, Thursday February 10th. Time: 7pm Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Presenter: Bill Cattey Topic: Fossil - Github in a box! Long time member Bill Cattey will be giving a talk/demo about Fossil. From the website: https://www2.fossil-scm.org/ <https://www2.fossil-scm.org/> Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system with many integrated advanced features, including things such as bug tracking, wiki, forum, email alerts, chat and tech notes. Many of us are daily users of various SCM systems, such as git, so it'll be great to see what other innovations in the SCM space are out there. I'll be recording this meeting and posting it on our youtube channel. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Virtual meeting this Thursday (2/10/22) Topic: Fossil - Github in a box!
by Tim Keller 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Hey Everybody, We've got a virtual meeting on Thursday February 10th. Time: 7pm Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Presenter: Bill Cattey Topic: Fossil - Github in a box! Long time member Bill Cattey will be giving a talk/demo about Fossil. From the website: https://www2.fossil-scm.org/ <https://www2.fossil-scm.org/> Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, disturbed software configuration management system with many integrated advanced features, including things such as bug tracking, wiki, forum, email alerts, chat and tech notes. Many of us are daily users of various SCM systems, such as git, so it'll be great to see what other innovations in the SCM space are out there. I'll be recording this meeting and posting it on our youtube channel. Thanks, Tim.

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Re: Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week!
by Robert N. Evans 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

I don't think I would do an in-person meeting. - Bob Evans -----Original Message----- From: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion Sent: Feb 7, 2022 6:14 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion Cc: Tim Keller Subject: [WLUG] Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week! Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting on Thursday! As of right now I don't have anything lined up, but I'm working on it. If someone has something they're interested in talking about, please let me know. We'll definitely talk about the polkit fiasco! That's for sure. The next question is this.. Virtual or physical? What do people think? Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week!
by Tim Keller 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting on Thursday! As of right now I don't have anything lined up, but I'm working on it. If someone has something they're interested in talking about, please let me know. We'll definitely talk about the polkit fiasco! That's for sure. The next question is this.. Virtual or physical? What do people think? Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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"Emacs for fun and pro fit" posted to WLUG youtube channel.
by Tim Keller 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

This is the un-edited raw video, it's fun enough just as it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVy-kMSnaHc The talk starts at: https://youtu.be/cVy-kMSnaHc?t=245 Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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clean Linux install while keeping the same packages installed as before
by Chuck Anderson 16 Jan '22

16 Jan '22

I'm more familiar with Fedora where I do something like this. It should be possible to do the same in Ubuntu with the appropriate apt-get commands. 1. List all packages with their names only (no versions) on both the old system and newly installed system, assuming the new system is booted and the old system is mounted at /mnt/oldroot. Alternatively, do the first command (without the --root parameter) when booted to the old version and save the file somewhere: rpm -qa --qf='%{name}\n' --root=/mnt/oldroot | sort -u > old-pkglist.txt rpm -qa --qf='%{name}\n' | sort -u > new-pkglist.txt 2. Compare the files and save that output: diff -b -U0 {old,new}-pkglist.txt > old-new-diff.txt grep ^- old-new-diff.txt | cut -c2- > missing-from-new.txt grep ^+ old-new-diff.txt | cut -c2- > only-in-new.txt 3. Now go through the list and install what you want. I usually do this step manually rather than using some automated script, since there are many changes I don't necessarily want, such as shared libraries. All I really care about is applications/commands/utilities. I go through the lists, reading the diff in one window and installing stuff I want in another: dnf install a b c d ... and/or this which installs a package and all of its subpackages except development and debug subpackages. This is great when a package has a bunch of plugins I want: dnf --exclude='*devel*' --exclude='*debug*' install foo-\* ... Or you could curate the list, e.g. edit missing-from-new.txt keeping only the lines you care about, then automatically install everything that is in the curated list: cat missing-from-new-curated.txt | xargs dnf -y install > >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:47 PM gmcaplan--- via WLUG > >> <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >> > >> I was hoping to attend, but it looks like I will not be able to. > >> I hope it will be recorded because I, too, would like to learn about > >> emacs. > >> Also, I have two questions: > >> 1. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. When I update to ver. 20 or 22, I > >> would prefer to do a "clean" re-install, but I have a question. Does > >> that mean I must get a list of all my installed software and > >> re-install > >> them one at a time after I upgrade the OS? If so, is there an > >> easy way > >> for me to get the list?

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