The Saint Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) is an IRS 501c(6) designated not-for-profit professional association dedicated to education and communication among computer users. SLUUG members include many Linux and UNIX professionals, Networking experts, System experts, hobbyists, and students. Also, many who are interested in Unix, Unix-like Operating Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS) applications, products, projects and services.
We have met continuously since we incorporated in July 1992. All of our meetings are free and open to the public. There is no individual membership fee.
Connection instructions will first be sent to our mailing lists and then linked here .
We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM, Central Time, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen sharing and video camera .
Then we start at 6:30 PM with our BASE introductory level session ( often focused on personal computing ); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, smoke and mirrors, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space.
Sometime after 7:00 PM we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.
Sometime after 7:15 PM, we may take a short break before our MAIN topic ( often focused on enterprise computing ),
Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small.
Last month we outlined some of the work we planned for updating BOCK ( our web and mail server ).
The tutorial or basic session this month, will again be a quick update of the work planned on our web/mail server, Bock. We need to upgrade thru 2 major releases of the Debian OS. What need be considered and planned in OUR particular case. But also, what does the discipline of doing this planning show all of our members how to plan such as effort on their own systems? IE systems that may be MULTI-USER? ...systems that should have high availability and high uptime? IE you can NOT just "be down" until this "kinda works"!
This will be about the next phase in our transition from Debian 10 to Debian 11 base line.
Attending any two SLUUG sponsored meetings in calendar year 2023 qualified members to vote. Mail in balloting was held thru out February. That resulted in Ken Johnson and Sean Twiehaus being elected to our Board of Governors. James Conroy continues as Chairman of the Saint Louis Linux Users Group.
Something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful.
Before, during, later, and then now. Mostly telephones were analog, had rotary dials, phone booths took quarters, long distance calls were expensive. Party lines were common. Computers ran on punch cards and reel-to-reel tape. A five megabyte hard drive was the size of today's dishwasher. Mini-computers were the size of a deep freeze. Things changed.
In January, Ed Howland told us about the "History of The Unix Shell". So, why talk about all that old stuff? Well, all historians will point out that you want to know the history to understand "how we got here." What were the problems that we were trying to solve? We are living with the solutions...and the new problems caused by those solutions, so we should understand what was being attempted.
So, Scott will give us the decade by decade description of the important events and inventions in computing. And you can understand what they have influenced in your problems today.
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