Continuing our “back to basics” campaign, the subject this month will be BASH; what it is and how to use it, how to write simple scripts, and where to find more information.

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This month will be kind of a grab bag. I KNOW I want to do some more with the Linux Partition Manager, GParted. I’m also going to, for once, live up to the “Beginner” in our name by doing a run-through on file systems, how Linux sets up its subdirectory tree, hard and soft links, $PATH and $CDPATH, fsck, mount and umount and /dev/fstab, and so on.

As usual, there will be coffee and calories on hand.

See you tomorrow.
John

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This month’s meeting of the LBSIG will be on Tuesday the 11th at the usual
time and place — 8109 Greenslope Drive, 6 PM informal and 7 PM presentation.

This month one obvious topic will be Ubuntu 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx. I’ll have
CDs available for common flavors.

I also want to demonstrate Calibre, which is THE program for conversion of
Ebook formats. (Calibre is a good example of open source, because it’s
written in Python and therefore runs on Linux, Windows, or OSX.)

I’ve also had a request to discuss the theory and practice of torrents, and
last month I never got around to showing a few ZSH features that will make you
switch from BASH.

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This month is kind of a grab-bag.

I have Beta Two of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) to show off — the final release
will be on Thursday the 29th.

I’ll discuss a couple of programs for finding duplicates on your disk — Unique
Filer (a free Windows program which runs perfectly under Wine) and the Linux
command line’s Fdupes.

I’ll show off a couple of tricks demonstrating why I use Zsh instead of Bash as
my default shell.

I’ll talk about Shutter, the mother of all screen shot capture tools.

–
John Dierdorf Austin, TX
www.io.com/~dierdorf

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This month I plan to talk about and demonstrate browsers. In particular, I’ll
show Swiftfox, which is a version of Firefox compiled strictly for Linux,
Opera, and Google Chrome, and maybe even throw in Ubuntu’s “vanilla” browsers,
Konqueror for KDE and Epiphany for Gnome. As one would expect, they are
MOSTLY the same with respect to rendering web pages, but with the exception of
Konqueror and Epiphany, the other browsers are all faster than Firefox.

I’ve got a CD of Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 3 if anybody is interested. It still has
the “old” color style, though. As you may have read, Lucid will have a very,
very different color scheme for Gnome compared to the brown/orange that has
defined Ubuntu for a long time.

As usual, carbs and caffeine will be on hand.

–
John Dierdorf

The topic will be putting the SystemRescueCD on a USB stick. It’s trivial enough that I’ve done it several times now, and I’ll have them to give away at the meeting. (I think I’ll have five of them, which means there will be a
lottery, unless 5 or less of you show up!) I WILL have enough copies of the System Rescue CD v1.3.5 to go around.

I’ll show some of the stuff that the SystemRescue system can do for you.

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On the slate this month:

- Discussion of the newest version of Linux Mint, which is a reworked and even easier-to-install version of Ubuntu. I’ll have CDs of LM 8 (Helena), which corresponds to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).

- More tweaks and comments about command-line tools.

- Unison vs. Rsync for synchronizing data between two computers or two disks.

- Using Kubuntu v4.4 beta instead of the default v4.3.

As usual, snacks and coffee will be available. I even promise the house will be warm.

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The topic is TBA.

See the Linux Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc

The topic is TBA.

See the Linux Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc

The topic is TBA.

See the Linux Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc