[UFO Chicago] UFO-Chicago Meeting Tonight 01/28/2024

[Jay F. Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that James L Mazurek would write on Sun Jan 28 13:25:52 2024:

> 
> Hello All:
> 
> This is a reminder that we have rescheduled the January 2024
> in-person meeting of the "Users of Free Operating systems --
> Chicago".  http://ufo.chicago.il.us for tonight Sunday, January
> 28th.  We will meet at the Golden Nugget Pancake House located at
> 2406 W Diversey, Chicago IL 60647.  The meeting is scheduled to
> begin at 7 PM and will run until about 11 PM.  RSVPs are not
> required but are appreciated.
> 
> Jim Mazurek
> 
> I plan to attend
>

Unless there is a breakdown in public transportation, I shall be there
tonight at 7pm, and I shall have two laptop computers with me, on
which several free operating systems have been installed.

One laptop will have the following operating systems:

  Microsoft Windows 10
  Springdale Linux 9.2
  Bodhi Linux 7.0 Moksha
  antiX-23 Arditi del Popolo
  OpenIndiana 20231027

The other laptop will have the following operating systems:

  OpenSuSE Leap 15.5
  Linux Mint 19.1
  Fedora 39
  Manjaro Linux 23.1.2-240102
  FreeBSD 11.2
  NetBSD 9
  Haiku
  OpenSXCE 20191111161604

Bodhi and antiX Linux, both Debian-derived, were installed at the
request of another UFO member, so hopefully he will be present at
tonight's meeting.  They are both intended to be minimal distributions
(although I have added quite a lot of software to them both) and
antiX, in particular, not only does not use systemd, but also does not
even use NetworkManager, but rather, connman.  Springdale Linux, from
the Princeton University Institute of Advanced Studies, is a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux clone (with additional repositories for scientific
applications).  Manjaro Linux is derived from ArchLinux, which is one
of the few Linux distributions with a package manager that is neither
derived from the Redhat package manager -- .rpm packages -- nor from
the Debian package manager -- .deb packages (Slackware and Gentoo are
two other Linux distributions with idiosyncratic package management).
ArchLinux has a reputation for being user-unfriendly; Manjaro is
intended to be a user-friendly derivative of ArchLinux.

OpenIndiana and OpenSXCE are both derived from OpenSolaris.  OpenSXCE
has not been updated in approximately 10 years; its interesting
characteristic (which will not be demonstrated tonight) is that it
supports Sparc hardware, which has unfortunately been abandoned by all
the other free operating systems that are derived from OpenSolaris.
OpenIndiana, in contrast, is an Illumos-derived OpenSolaris variant
that is under active development; the version installed on my laptop
is only 3 months old.

Haiku is a non-Unix free operating system, which has been demonstrated
before.

I shall also bring questions involving ffmpeg and linode that I hope
other UFO members will be able to answer.


             Jay F. Shachter
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