[nmglug] Note on some hardware and OS details,

Ted Pomeroy ted.pome at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 10:31:58 PDT 2018


Satsangat, Thanks for response. Good to know you are following posts. See
you another time. Hope you trip goes well. Ted P.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 11:09 AM Satsangat Khalsa <satsangat at khalsa.com>
wrote:

> going out of town that day but, otherwise, would have attended
> good to hear Sam is still on the planet
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> NMGLugers, We are scheduled for a meeting on the 2nd of August - this
>> Thursday. I plan to be there at 5pm for our meeting to convene at
>> about 5.30pm. I will bring a TOMU.IM - "Tom's Open Microcomputer Usb"
>> for anybody to examine and try out. It is a complete computer, ie,
>> processor and memory plus I/O system for hardware programming
>> practice. Sam was good enough to pass this along to me at our last
>> NMGLUG meeting. I can activate it and do one trick, but there is more
>> on GitHub. I can also bring the remains of my Peppermint 8 OS
>> experiment. I am not using it anymore, so the disks (32 bit) and one
>> small hdd are here for the asking.
>> I am having good luck with Debian in either 32 or 64 bit installs. It
>> runds well, has a familiar GUI available and all of my favorite
>> applications and the ones I needed to investigate the TOMU.IM. I may
>> even switch over, though below I talk about the Xubuntu upgrade.
>> Still, I like the Ubuntu family because I can give it to others and
>> refer them to the copious information in clear and GUI format on the
>> Internet.
>> Oh yes, I am still using Xubuntu 16.04 at home, but will likely
>> upgrade to 18.04 before the end of the year. I never rush ahead to
>> upgrade a system till I am reasonably sure the upgrade tool is working
>> well. Since the support overlaps for a full year, I like to see what
>> others report about the process before taking it on. This also gives
>> me time to weed out old files and do a complete backup of my personal
>> files. My choice is to save files and accept that system and
>> application settings and defaults will change.
>> I may also have a laptop in need of assistance. The machine is taking
>> care of the digital life of a friend and though the friend reports
>> good health personally, there are some questions about the machine. I
>> look forward to speaking to the machine itself to get its side of the
>> story.
>> I hope to see some of you there, at the New Baking Co., this Thursday.
>> Thank you, Ted P.
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