BELUG meeting ZOOM ONLY Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

The North Bellevue Community Center is closed this month for repairs.
The BELUG meeting will be ZOOM ONLY.

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 21 years.

The next meeting is Tuesday, February 10th 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 belug meeting will follow this format:

introductions all around
collect technical questions to answer later
our best answers to your technical questions.

Last month we discussed many topics including:

waning support for 32 bit linux for very old computers:

mxlinux: https://mxlinux.org/

using a kvm switch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch

using a vim plugin for ai coding support such as vim-ai:

https://github.com/madox2/vim-ai

one person was using tailscale to access their fedora system:

https://tailscale.com/
https://www.fedoraproject.org/

Other people just mentioned the distribution they were using,
including:

ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/
kubuntu: https://kubuntu.org/
mint: https://linuxmint.com/
bsd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems

we discussed over the air OTA options for feeding a linux based
media server:

https://www.plex.tv/personal-media-server/
https://jellyfin.org/
https://emby.media/linux-server.html

One recommendation for linux friendly off-site backup storage:

https://rsync.net

Bill reported on his raspberry pi 500 and gimp version 3;

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus/
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

We cover a wide range of topics for new and old linux users.
I hope you can attend this next ZOOM ONLY meeting.

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