January RRLug Meeting Minutes 01/10/13

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Feb 122013
 

 

The January  RRLug meeting went really well. We had  9 people attending as the year got off to a good start ! We met at 6:30pm  at Rasmussen College (rm 403).  Tonight there were two presentations:

  • Favorite Linux Commands – Sam Williams started out the new year discussions with several of his favorite Linux commands.
  • Sublime Text 2 – Peter Hedlund gave a great presentation on the relatively new text editor Sublime Text 2. Its not free, but its cheap, has a great deal of unique functionality, and it also has a vim compatibility mode called “vintage”.
  • Enlightenment Desktop – Sam Williams continued his demonstration of Enlightenment 17 release ZERO. Last month you could see that the desktop could easily be used on lower resource hardware, particularly on a Raspberry Pi. This month we discussed a little more areas of configuration.

The meeting was fun and there were many interesting questions asked. I suspect there will be several instances of E17 spinning up on a system near you soon and all running Sublime Text 2:-) Thanks Peter for a great presentation!

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December RRLug Meeting Minutes: 12/13/12

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Jan 092013
 

The December  RRLug meeting went really well. The holiday season lowered our attendance just a bit though to 9 people ! We met at 6:30pm  at Rasmussen College (rm 403).  Tonight there were two presentations:

  • Using USB Thumb-drives & Linux  – Sam Williams discussed using USB drives with Linux and how to deal with them. He discussed the importance of testing new and old thumb-drives alike particularly if they haven’t been used in awhile. Sam discussed proper test methods, securing data, and performance testing during the presentation.
  • Enlightenment (E17)/ Raspberry Pi – Sam Williams gave a two-pronged presentation on using the  pre-released Enlightenment 17 release ZERO. with the Raspberry Pi.  Sam gave some useful historic perspective on Enlightenment and an exposure to some awesome display  technology. Using the Raspberry Pi,  Sam was able to start demonstrating how E17  is perfect for computers with low hardware resources! Sadly the VGA<>HDMI adapter started misbehaving so it will be necessary to continue exploring the formally  released  Enlightenment 17 release ZERO ( release 12/21/12) at the January meeting.

As always we had some great and lively discussion!

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