Our next meeting is this coming Thursday, December 3rd, 6:30 PM, in the Computer Lab of the Boise Public Library, Capital Blvd, across from Julie Davis Park. On the agenda, more discussion on Ubuntu 9.10, Mint 8 is now released, and I will do a tutorial on configuring and using Grub 2 along with possible discussion on how the audio JACK panel system can be used to route and capture audio. The usual time will be allowed for Q & A. If you have something to share, show, or something you would like help with, feel free to bring your computer and we'll try to get you connected at the library.

We had a great meeting with almost a standing room only cloud (no one was standing other than Clint). Clint led off with a presentation on Ubuntu 9.10 where he first brought up some emails from other users which documented that a lot of users were having problems with this new release and that it was best to wait for a while.

Our next meeting is this coming Thursday, November 5th, 6:30 PM, in the Computer Lab of the Boise Public Library, Capital Blvd, across from Julie Davis Park. It's been a pretty exciting month with the release of Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" on Oct. 29th (will demo at the meeting and offer some comments on upgrading or clean install) along with several other releases including an update to Puppy 4.3.1. I will also show how use Wine and configure applications as part of the Ubuntu 9.10 demo.

I released SLAMPP 2.0.2 on October 30, 2009. Download links are available at http://slampp.abangadek.com/info/index.php?page=download. Changes in this release include: 1. Tips and Tricks section of CD based SLAMPP info website now includes numberous how-to's in using SLAMPP. 2. CUP's now works out of the box. 3. WBAR quick launcher icons now all work. 4. Postgresql administration is now available using both PhpPgAdmin and webmin, out of the box. 5. TinyWebGallery was updated to 1.78 and now includes several folders as examples as how you can use TWG.

This year, Mary Reid, Chad Nelson, and Clint Tinsley from our group traveled to Sandy, Utah for this gathering to experience 2009 UTOSC!

We had another great meeting on Thursday, October 1st, 6:30 PM with 14 in attendance. Clint led off with introductions, followed a demonstration of Puppy Linux 4.30. It has been quite a while since we looked at Puppy Linux and it appears that the Puppy has grown into a full matured Puppy (Do Puppy's ever mature into full grown?), even still only 100MB in size. Puppy 4.30 now comes with full network printing support with Cups 1.11 and Clint passed around some high quality printouts made from Puppy to a Networked HP PhotoSmart C6180 printer.

Our next meeting is this coming Thursday, October 1st, 6:30 PM, in the Computer Lab of the Boise Public Library, Capital Blvd, across from Julie Davis Park. On the agenda, new lightweight desktop distributions including LXDE (Lubuntu), Puppy 4.3, using PartedMagic 4.5 (4.4), update on Slampp Simple Home Server, and the road south to the Utah Open Source Conference update. If you have something to share, show, or something you would like help with, feel free to bring your computer and we'll try to get you connected at the library. Hope to see you there.

The Utah Open Source Conference is being held in Sandy, Utah, October 8th - 10th. http://2009.utosc.com/pages/home/ Early bird registration closes September 19th so register now if you plan on attending. So far, we have two members going from Boise and possible room for a couple more. We will be traveling down early Thursday AM and then returning on Sunday, the 11th, as the conference goes late into the evening of the 10th. Contact Clint if you are interested in going for details.

An email was sent out to the list prior to the meeting announcing that the September 3rd Meeting was cancelled due to Boise State University opening game against the Oregon Ducks. In that our meeting location was in close proximity to the University, access and parking would have been challenging, and many of our members would be watching the game. Boise State University prevailed against the Oregon Ducks in a close well fought game on the blue turf, score was 19 - 8. The post game skirmish was not part of that game but is what will probably be remembered most.

We had another great meeting on Thursday, August 6th, 6:30 PM with 10 in attendance. Ed Works led off the first 45 minutes in showing his little Acer netbook running Jolicloud (www.jolicloud.com) which is based on Ubuntu 9.04. Jolicloud model is to bring "cloud computing" to the desktop and appears to be planning on becoming a subsription service at some point as it is a business and not an community of open source developers. A French company, they just obtained 4.3 million funding from the French investment community. Read more...