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Re: December WLUG Meeting! Topic: Fedora Silverblue, toolbox and Flatpaks!

by Joshua Stone

Hey all, I'm glad to be a part of this! I'd just like to give a fair warning that my material is probably going to be rough around the edges since I haven't had much time to prepare a slideshow. Honestly I'm thinking that I'll probablyalternate between a slideshow and just showing you some examples on my laptop. -Josh On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 09:21 -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > Hey Everybody, > We've got a meeting this Thursday on December 19th 2019! > > Location: WPI Campus Center Mid-Century room (our usual haunt) > Date & Time: December 19th, 2019 > > Our speaker this month is Joshua Stone. He's going to giving a talk > about a couple of cool technologies in Fedora! Josh provided me some > details about these innovations so I've mashed them up and included > them below. > > Silverblue: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/Toolbox: ht > tps://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora- > silverblue/toolbox/Flatpaks: https://flatpak.org/ > > Silverblue s 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 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. > > Flatpak 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. > > As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards > we'll head off for dinner to continue the conversation. > > Thanks, > Tim Keller > WLUG President > > > _______________________________________________WLUG mailing list -- > wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org

Dec. 19, 2019

Re: [Wlug] Next meeting - topic?

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 05:53:55PM -0400, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > Who wants to do a PGP Keysigning? It would involve advance > preparation from everyone who would like to participate. By now I'd > imagine most of you have gotten your feet wet with GnuPG :-) If not, > see: > > http://www.wlug.org/files/pgp-slides/index.html > > If there is interest, please let me know in the next couple days so I > can organize the procedure and send out instructions. I'd be game. Who wouldn't want to travel to Worcester with passport in hand? ;) BTW: I ran the 2 keysignings at LISA 03 and had http://www.biglumber.com/ recommended to me as a useful site to organize key signings in the future. I haven't poked around it too much, but it may make life easier. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem? -- Larry Wall in <199709050042.RAA29379(a)wall.org>

April 12, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Using Meetup

by Keith Wright

> From: Henrique <nican(a)WPI.EDU> > > Hey, > > Yesterday I was browsing around Meetup.com, and found another group > called Worcester Web > Technology <http://www.meetup.com/Worcester-Web-Technology/>, and they are > also meeting at WPI, apparently on the third Thursday of every month. > (today) > > I recommend WLUG also create a meetup group for attracting new > members. Also Meetup is nice for sending out reminder emails about > the meetings on the day before. WLUG has a mailing list, and I get mail from it regularly. It works. I am violently, foaming mad, opposed to the idea of giving that mailing list to any third party. This includes Facebook, Yahoo, Google, as well as meetup.com, which I have never heard of. What advantage could there possibly be? If somebody wants to plant a pointer to the WLUG web page there, or most anywhere else, then go ahead. I can't stop you and I don't want to try. -- Keith

March 22, 2012

Re: [Wlug] meeting topic

by Mike Leo

I did not try ( or know of) a graphical installer... i booted off the "livecd" and walked through the handbook to install....then gave up... thanks for the feedback anyway. --- Greg Labonte <gbonte(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: > Just wondering Mike, Did you try using the Graphical installer for > Gentoo? > > > > On 1/30/06, Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Am I wrong, or is the gentoo install insanely comlicated? > >> > >> Although I did not sit in front of it from start to finish, it > >> seems like an install takes hours > >> and hours of work... > >> > >> I followed the Handbook (some 80 pages of documentation), which > >> i'm sure is very accurate and each > >> step worked as advertised, but in the end it was too much. > >> > >> After an install of debian, which takes me less than 20 minutes, > >> this was too much for my poor > >> little brain to take, and I eventually gave up. > >> > >> In addition to that, I can't for the life of me, get slackware to > >> consistantly install lilo > >> correctly during the install. > >> > >> Any comments on either of these would be apreciated, however, I am > >> just writing this to toss my > >> vote in for a linux install fest as a meeting topic. > >> > >> I have no problem bringing in a laptop to show the simple, > >> eligant, streamlined, 20 minute debian > >> install, but I would like to also see someone go through a gentoo > >> install, and assist on a > >> slackware lilo config...all of which can be done via my laptop if > >> needed. > >> > >> Thanks ! > >> Mike > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wlug mailing list > >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Feb. 1, 2006

Re: !!!! Reminder!!! Wlug Meeting Oct 13th @7PM: Topic: Fotoxx, Speaker: Dick Miller, Location: WPI Mid Century Room.

by Dick Miller

CU there! Have computer, will travel. Cheers from --Dick (and Jill) Miller, Partners, MMS <TheMillers(a)millermicro.com> Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group in Natick (NatickFOSS.org) <http://millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupNatick.html> -- *| A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° |* Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, non-proprietary <https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/>, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free open-source software, /Linux/ <http://NatickFOSS.org/> PC - with /Ubuntu-Unity 22.04.1 LTS/ <https://ubuntuunity.org> and /Fotoxx 22.35/ <http://www.kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html> making the most of the tiny camera within a Samsung Galaxy A53 5G smartphone <https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-review-3149923/>. On 10/13/22 17:05, John Stoffel wrote: > See you there tonight, in person!

Oct. 13, 2022

Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!

by Jon "maddog" Hall

The port of Tru64 to Itanium must have been after I left. I do not know anyone in the Tru64 product management that would have given any life to that project. No life. None. I can ask one of the engineering managers of that time. md On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:13 PM Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Still boggles my mind the amount of money HP spent on Itanium hardware > back after they acquired Compaq/Tru64 only to basically abandon the whole > thing and lay off everyone. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:44 AM Jon "maddog" Hall via WLUG < > wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >> I still vividly remember my boss showing me the plans for support of >> Intel's Itanium processor. >> >> As someone who taught operating systems and compiler design for a number >> of years I still remember my shock that THIS was the answer for Intel's >> 64-bit chip....an Ultra-Wide Instruction set. >> >> I wailed away about how all of this was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.....mostly >> because I had spent the past six months proving why even a regular CISC >> system was the wrong answer, and here Intel was going in the opposite >> direction. >> >> After twenty minutes of me fuming my boss simply grinned, shrugged his >> shoulders and left my office. >> >> While I was proud of the fact that the Alpha processor was so prominent >> in the production of the movie "Titanic"......now I had to deal with a real >> life "Itanic"....watching it sink. >> >> md >> >> P.S. It was only a month or so after, I think, that AMD came out with a >> reasonable extension to the i86 architecture....which (although it was not >> RISC) I was reasonably happy with. >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:24 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey Everybody, >>> >>> We've got a meeting next week on the 11th at our same time (7pm) >>> >>> As for a topic, if somebody would like to present something, I'd be >>> up for it. >>> I figure we'd all toast the depreciation of Itanium in the linux kernel. >>> Good riddance! >>> >>> We'll definitely be talking about the PI4 Nano!! >>> >>> As usual, I'm sure other topics will organically surface. >>> >>> Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA >>> >>> Later, >>> Tim. >>> -- >>> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >>> constituents as "consumers". >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>> Change Settings: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>> Web Forum/Archive: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/BJNCC… >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >> Change Settings: >> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >> Web Forum/Archive: >> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/DM5K6… >> >

Feb. 4, 2021

Re: ISPS limiting..was Re: Meeting next week! March 14th 2024!

by Keith Wright

Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Funnily enough, I get a 403 error when I try to view that page. Last I > remember it allowed services for private use. > -------- Original Message -------- > From: THE HAMMER via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > https://www.spectrum.com/policies/internet-use-policy I get a page titled: Spectrum Internet Acceptable Use Policy, which says, in part: 2. Prohibited Activities Using the System, Network, and Service. Any activity or use of the Service which violates system or network security or integrity are prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Such violations include, without limitation, the following: L. Running any type of server on the system that is not consistent with personal, residential use. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCS, SQUID, NTP, DNS or any multi-user forums. So they threaten you with jail time for listening on port 25. PHLHT!! -- Keith

March 14, 2024

Re: [Wlug] NIC settings -- how?

by David Goss

Hi all... hope someone can help... been away from the meetings for a while... ( like a year ) due to health reasons... then to boot my linux machine had a massive failure and i had to replace it... had it all set up the forward and masquerade a couple of windows boxes through my dsl connection... ( verizon ) have the pppoe all set up... but can't for the life of me remember how to set up the ipchains to handle the windows boxes for the wife and kids... and man they are getting hostile about not being able to get on the internet from home... i know it was not that hard to set up but for the life of me i can not find the docs i used in the first place... hoping to make some meetings soon... now that the health is getting back to "normal"... and buying beer for the helpful guy that can get my network back to normal as well... best regards to all dave goss

Oct. 11, 2003

Re: Dec meeting.. not the 14th! 21st or 28th?

by Chuck Anderson

On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 03:13:49AM -0500, Robert Schwein via WLUG wrote: > On 12/8/2023 12:56 AM, Chuck Anderson via WLUG wrote: > > (local sports broadcast blackouts). Or trick hotels into giving you > > a better price--yes, hotels can hike the rates they present to you > > if they think you are nearby--assuming you need last-minute > > accomodations while you are away on vacation. > You've pretty much hit the high points Chuck. From my own experience > when going overseas if I'm able to VPN to the country I'm going to, the > rental car reservation is considerably less in cost to reserve that car > than if I reserved it from state side. I'm assuming there is a > difference between a poor native and a rich American. Oh right, I had the hotel thing backwards. It may be cheaper if you appear to be in-country for hotels, rental cars, etc.

Dec. 8, 2023

Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by Stephen C. Daukas

Hi Andy! Sounds good to me! I think that would be a better transition for anyone who ends up installing the real thing (so to speak). Steve Andy Stewart wrote: >On Tuesday 02 September 2003 4:22 pm, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: > > >>Is introducing yet-another-flavor-of-linux useful? I understand what >>you are trying to achieve, but one of the first questions that came to >>my mind was "what is the difference between Knoppix and a regular Linux >>distro"? (The first was actually "what the hell is Knopix"!) Will it >>be confusing to the people looking at is verusus what they see when they >>look at SuSe, Red Hat, etc.? >> >> > >Hi Steve, > >OK, point taken. What if I were to demo the SuSE Live Eval CD instead? It is >actually quite close to a fully installed SuSE distribution. > >Andy > > > -- Stephen C. Daukas - stephen(a)daukas.com - http://daukas.com/

Sept. 3, 2003

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