BELUG meeting Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, April 9th at 6:30pm.

The Zoom link, with password, is:

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

Meeting ID: 131 116 407
Passcode: 117647

We are also in-person at the North Bellevue Community Center. The address is:

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

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

Bob and Jerry will be hosting the meeting this month. Thank you Bob
and Jerry. The meeting will follow our normal format with introductions
all around, collecting technical questions to answer later, then any
presentations, and finishing with our best answers to the technical
questions.

Here are some events for your calendar:

The Linux Foundation convention April 16-18 in seattle, with a talk from
Linux:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/

The Embedded Open Source Summit on the same dates, April 16-18:

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/embedded-open-source-summit/

LinuxFest Northwest will be in Bellingham on April 26-28:

https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/

We had very good discussion at the last meeting. We discussed these
and other topics:

I mentioned some chromebook firmware updates to allow any OS to be
installed on selected hardware, and a favorite security and AI blogger:

https://docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/firmware/supported-devices.html
https://danielmiessler.com/t/Newsletter

Rohr ran an LLM on a raspberry pi and he used podman for some of his
work. He also mentioned a documentation reader application DWWW, the
down loadable archive of internet sites like wikipedia for offline
access:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewXANEIC8pY
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/dwww.1.html
https://kiwix.org/en/

Ethan worked with cockpit and sway:

https://cockpit-project.org/
https://swaywm.org/

Alex worked with alpine linux, was using the .local domain, and was very
happy with sshfs:

https://www.alpinelinux.org/
https://www.interserver.net/tips/kb/local-domain-names-ubuntu/
https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/why-using-local-as-your-domain-name-extension-is-a-bad-idea-4828
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

Randy lead a discussion that touched on teraform, podman, cloud init,
flatpak, gnu cash, a diet app, a universal blood monitor app, and a cpap
tracker:

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform
https://podman.io/
https://cloud-init.io/
https://flatpak.org/
https://www.gnucash.org/
https://cronometer.com/
https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.lazyt.ubpm
https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/

I hope everyone can attend this meeting.

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