Happy Birthday Tim!

I think we should do a talk on MINIX.  Seriously!  It is currently
running on every Intel system out there these days, unbeknownst to
most people, hidden away below your regular operating system:

https://itsfoss.com/fact-intel-minix-case/


On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 08:59:46PM -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
> 0. Thanks for the birthday wishes! My wife has pointed out that I've been
> involved in WLUG for more than half my adult life at this point!
>
> 1. As for the dinner location, I have no idea, it's a surprise!
>
> 2. I'm totally down for having an in person meeting, we'd just have to find
> a venue. The Hudson library worked really well, I'd be cool for that, of
> other places are more central to others, we can figure something out.
> Please propose locations and we'll figure out what works. I'm also not
> opposed to having a rotating set of locations as long as it doesn't become
> too confusing.
>
> 3. TrueNas Scale does look cool. There's talk of putting gluster on to of
> ZFS for scale out storage, which slightly distresses me. I played with
> gluster back in the day and was rather unimpressed with it, maybe it's
> matured a bit) but last week poking at FreeBSD on a VM got me thinking
> about TrueNAS and it's partner project TrueNAS Scale (which is a debian
> based version of TrueNAS that supports containers, KVM, etc.
>
> 4. I was given a Raspberry Pi Zero as a gift. Apparently there's a tiny
> unix you can run on it!
>
> Later,
> Tim.
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 2:47 PM John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Tim> My birthday is on the 11th and the family is taking me out for dinner.
> >
> > Where to?  We can all meet up with you and sing.  LOL!
> >
> > Tim> We'll have the meeting on the 18th instead! I've got some ideas
> > Tim> for topics, but if someone has a burning desire to talk about
> > Tim> something, let me know!
> >
> > Is this in person?
> >
> > Tim> Otherwise I think I'll show off my experiments with TrueNAS scale.
> >
> > That will be interesting to look at.
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