BELUG meeting Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, March 12th 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.

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/

Linux meetings in St. Louis:

https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/299169590/

Last month we discussed these and other topics:

We discussed data center cooling:

https://www.165halsey.com/the-search-for-the-perfect-data-center-space-glycol-chilling/

Rohr flashed an open source bios on a laptop:

https://www.coreboot.org/

We discussed open source AI large language models:

https://www.llm360.ai/blog/introducing-llm360-fully-transparent-open-source-llms.html

Bill was installing and testing an SSD on a Raspberry PI 5 using a hat.
This is a random one from the web:

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=41219587178579

And I noted that we discussed debian and ventoy again:

https://www.debian.org/
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

I hope to see you tomorrow.

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