PalmyLUG

PLUG mentioned in January 2012 issue of PCLinuxOS magazine
Link: [link]

I also wrote an article, about demonstrating PCLinuxOS at Feilding High School, in the same issue.

Jim

Big welcome to James who has just joined the Spinning Planet team as an Internet SOftware Developer.

Vim's 20th anniversary. A good solid editor. Should be in every power users tool set.

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A new approach for the cloud? Not virtualisation, but physicalisation. [link]

Hi Jim, had play with PCLinux LXDE and the OpenBox, both worked well, but as to be expect the OpenBox had more apps then LXDE.

If you are into KDE rather than Gnome, check this out:

[link]

Jim

Heard this story on the PCWorld blog site about Linux keeping systems going at Canterbury post earthquake.
Link: [link]

Jim

PCLinuxOS
At the August meeting, I gave some live CD copies of three different versions of PCLinuxOS. I wonder if anybody has tried them out yet.

Jim

My desktop spat the dummy, now time to replace it. I have been a fan of Asus gear, except for hard drives.
I do some video editing, a bit of desk top publishing and hope to do some interactive education stuff. Not into games at all. Any suggestions, usually used AMD CPU but not too precious about that. Would like quiet system and be able to run digital TV through it. Will run Linux of course; been using Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks in anticipation.

Good talk from Mikko Hypponen on TED about defending the net. [link]

Of those who have a Google+ account, should create a MOSS circle and include any members of MOSS they know. Just an idea which I have started my end.

Nice bit of news over at ArsTechnica about ARM nodes in the cloud - 2U cabinet, 120 nodes per cabinet, 5W per node. Ubuntu software layer [link]

Brynn,

I see comment that Fedora 16 will plan to have BRTFS.

Fedora 15 is out with Gnome 3. This is a huge change and is a really nice OS: [link]

Ubuntu 11.04 is out - packages already available on Thinair Repos [link] - CD ISOs in [link]

If you like designing with InkScape you'll love this: [link]

Oracle gives in to community forked office suite: [link]

From the comments at the bottom of tonight's agenda, it looks as if we have a persistent spammer

Facebook open sources its server AND datacentre design. [link]

Blender planning.
First stable 2.5 version (2.57) is still planned for March.