BELUG meeting Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30pm.

The Zoom link, with password, is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131116407?pwd=OFkwZzZWMVhDdlhMTU91K2lOVkQvZz09

Meeting ID: 131 116 407
Passcode: 117647

The in-person location is at the North Bellevue Community Center:

North Bellevue Community Center
4063 148th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early to help set up the room.

The meeting will follow our usual format with introductions all around,
collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations,
and finishing with our best answers to your technical questions.

In February we discussed these topics:

We talked about maker spaces in the area. Here is a google search with
a good list:

https://www.google.com/search?q=maker+spaces+seattle+area

Ethan tested out Some utility software:

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/
https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-caldav-servers/
https://github.com/pimutils/khal

Someone mentioned a gaming mouse control program:

https://github.com/libratbag/piper

Some distributions that were mentioned:

https://linuxmint.com/
https://ubuntu.com/
https://archlinux.org/
https://distrowatch.com/

Randy ran into HP printer problems an suggested we try brother printers

For those people mostly stuck on windows computers we recommended
windows subsystem for linux, WSL:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

We discussed how to track cronjob status using:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Procmail
https://www.syslog-ng.com/products/open-source-log-management/

And an alternative cellphone distribution:

https://grapheneos.org/

We had a few more new people at this meeting, so welcome to BELUG.
Thank you for visiting.

We cover a wide range of topics and I hope you can attend our next meeting.

Thank you,
Steve Herber her...@herber.us cell: 425-281-0355
Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services