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. Actually, Clint had done the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater by posting a negative comment about 9.10 on the Ubuntu list and there were alot of responses to that "flame" by other people having problems with 9.10 as well as those "offended" that someone might say something negative about Ubuntu. Both Martin and Clint, BoiseLUG Members, had a number of problems with the upgrade or install of this latest release. Major complaints included slow booting, network manager, wireless connectivity, sound, and "bugginess." Clint did demonstrate a number of things using Ubuntu 9.10 which he had on his laptop, so it does "work" and there maybe some advantages in installing or upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 and some users out there had reported no problems, indicating perhaps some hardware challenges as well. Clint recommend that one hold off on upgrading or install 9.10 but use 9.04 or Gloria Mint 7 which work well have have less issues. There are only three "improvements" to 9.10 over 9.04, and not really worth the price of admission with everything that is broken in 9.10. Clint then demonstrated how to configure wine, add applications, and run windows applications from the file browser. Bookmarks referenced during the presentation: The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 9.10: http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-9.10-karmic-koala-p3 Ubuntu New Features - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-910 Ubuntu Release Notes - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910 Ubuntu Restricted Formats - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats On the Restricted Formats link, one finds that libdvdcss is already installed with libDVDread4, available from the Ubuntu repositories, but there is a command line you must run to actually install libdvdcss, and be able play movie DVDs. The command line is "sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh". Clint then showed how the WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer) worked to install Ubuntu 9.10 inside Windows which doesn't require that a re-partitioning of the hard drive to install Ubuntu Linux as it installs as an "application." WUBI basically functions by creating a Linux file system as two files which placed in a C:\ubuntu folder and a special "mbr" file is placed at the root of the C: drive. The Windows boot.ini file is modified to include an entry for "Ubuntu" at c:\wubildr.mbr which is loaded by the Windows boot loader when Ubuntu is selected from the Windows Boot Menu. There is a uninstall-wubi.exe in the C:\ubuntu folder which will remove the "application" from Windows including the disk files, which in Clint's install, occupied 6 GB of disk space on the NTFS file system. Using VirtualBox on Ubuntu 9.10, Puppy Linux 4.3.1 was demonstrated as part of the discussion of Puppy Linux. At the conclusion of the discussion, it was determed that there wasn't enough interest in resurrecting the Puppy Linux How-To project. We then moved on to a demo of the latest version of Slampp 2.0.2 and all the additions made. Clint is now co-developer and maintainer of Slampp and was responsible for this latest release. He also made mention of the Google SLAMPP Group where you can post comments as well as problems and suggestions. The Slampp 2.0.2 project is now on Sourceforge.net where you can download the latest release. http://sourceforge.net/projects/live-slampp/ Sourceforge.net can now be accessed via geek.net but the download repository is still at sourceforge, using the link shown. As the 9 o'clock hour approached, the meeting ended with a discussion of the Utah Opensource Conference 2009 which members Chad Nelson and Clint had attended. There were many worthwhile presentations made there providing a few "I did not know that" experiences for both Clint and Chad. One link of note is http://ubuntu-tutorials.com, a Ubuntu Guru site of one of the presenters at the Utah Conference. The Utah Conference site at http://utosc.com/presentation/schedule/ was visited where you can find the list of presentations and available session downloads. At 9 PM, we were almost chased from the Library as it was past closing time. Footnote to meeting. During the meeting we tried to see if we could upgrade to VirtualBox 3.10 and ./configure couldn't find gcc. After the meeting, I tried resolving several dependencies for 3.10 but the show stopper was libxml2, which was installed but could not be found by the configure script. Conclusion is that 3.10 is not currently supported on Ubuntu 9.10.