Update: Due to an urgent family situation, John Kerr won't be able to present his LaTeX at the Law Library talk this month. The GDB presentation is still on, and we will have a roundtable discussion to close out the meeting.
Sergio Durigan Junior will give us an overview of GDB, the GNU Debugger. He will illustrate some basic usage and show us some exciting advanced features.
Bob B discusses the virtualization distribution Proxmox, and the vulnerability scanner OpenVAS. Victor Kofia discusses the Nix programming language, the Nix package manager and the NixOS distribution. Unfortunately, once again we had some A/V issues during the meeting: the recording of the end of Bob's presentation got cut off, and Victor had projector issues. See kwlug.org/node/1149 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Chris Irwin presents UEFI (the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and Jason Eckert discusses Pop!_OS, an Ubuntu remix focusing on developer productivity. Unfortunately, Jason's microphone cut out halfway through his presentation, so we lost a lot of audio. See kwlug.org/node/1145 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Nathan Fish will tell us about the Interplanetary File System, a peer-to-peer distributed protocol that could replace HTTP and make the Web decentralized again.
Doug Moen will revisit Curv, the functional 3D modelling language he developed to create art using mathematics.
Bob B will give us an introduction to OpenVAS, the Open Vulnerability Access Scanner, including how he used Proxmox to set up his demo lab.
Victor Kofia will discuss NixOS and the Nix package manager. Nix takes a declarative approach to systems configurations, and all upgrades/rollbacks are atomic. It bills itself as "the purely functional Linux distribution."
Tim Laurence discusses tools to identify operating system bottlenecks. Brent Clements demonstrates a variety of hardware emulators. See kwlug.org/node/1143 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Lanny Cox discusses tiling window managers in general and i3 in particular; Jason Eckert discusses the Windows Subsystem for Linux. See kwlug.org/node/1142 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Note: The location for this meeting has changed. It will now be held at TriOS College.
Chris Irwin will give us a practical overview of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), the successor to computer BIOSes, and GUID partition tables, the successor to MBR tables.
Jason Eckert will tell us about Pop!_OS, a Linux distribution by hardware manufacturer System76. This presentation will be beginner-friendly.
Mikalai Birokou talks about containerization and LXD. Jason Eckert illustrates fun things you can do with SSH. See kwlug.org/node/1138 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Unfortunately we had technical difficulties recording audio for this podcast, so the first part of the LXD presentation was cut off.
Note: The location for this meeting has changed. It will now be held at TriOS College.
Tim Laurence will lead a discussion on tools you can use to identify bottlenecks in systems.
Brent Clements will talk about game emulators in Linux.
Note: Benjamin Tompkins's presentation on virtual machines has been postponed.
