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AFU Knoppix V6 Released

davekh — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:01:51 +0000

I’m pleased to see the AFU Knoppix has been released – initially with a broken kernal in the EN version, which wouldn’t boot. As promised they fixed it and its a neat distro for radio hams with plenty of software pre-installed, which saves time and cursing (when you get stuck in a library loop – wont work – no lib – cant install lib wrong ver. previous one doesnt work, previous ver wont work with newer other libs….. etc) .

It’s a live distro as per Knoppix and look on the German only page (Google translate is useful here) at http://www.afu-knoppix.de/

Look at the bottom of the 14/5/9 posting for a link to the EN ver. I’ve got it and enjoyed using it – not a fan of KDE though, AFU is sorted mostly – though some multi-language applicaitons appear – worth a try.

Dave H G0CER

Meeting report February 2009

davekh — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:16:53 +0000

A practical evening – albeit low on attendance. Dave H (moi, the author of this) brought along his ham radio kit and Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu UNR – and demonstrated it running a few different applications (QSSTV, GMFSK, FLDIGI and MixW running in wine) – the radio had a simple aerial but still managed to receive ham radio stations from all over Europeon 7MHz – not surprising at 8pm but with al all the electrical noise about it was a bit of surprise. I was unable to transmit back due to the awfulness of the aerial (high SWR) , but it was demo only.

Dave operating the Acer Ubuntu netbook with his FT817 radio at lug meeting

John A brought along a selection of access points that can be hacked for various uses and are cheap to buy. He also had his laptop with some videos of vblogs listed below – YMMV but worth a nose through them.

http://revision3.com/
http://revision3.com/systm/
http://revision3.com/hak5/
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/
http://www.bsodtv.org/
http://www.schneier.com/

Dave

Last minute Linux toys for Christmas?

shropshirelug — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:32:25 +0000

Unsure what to get the geek in your life for Christmas? Ive just been looking for a suitable netbook for my parents to take on their travels. Item of choice at present looks to be the AspireOne from Acer, which on the face of it seems ideal. 8.5 inch screen, slightly larger keyboard than the EeePC – a reasonably intuitive GUI that does a good job of making windows users feel less terrified. The underlying distro seems to based on fedora. The platform itself while easy enough for non-geeky users is fairly easy to customise, making it a good choice for those of us who cant resist fiddling. The best bit – Dixons seem to be selling these for about £170 right now. (most of the highstreet stores are a similar price). Have you been good this year? will Father Christmas be leaving you one? Leave a few hints around the house

OLPC G1G1 comes to the EU!

shropshirelug — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:16:54 +0000

A recent announcement on the OLPC news site confirms that finally those of us in Europe will be able to take part in the popular Give One Get One scheme where the price you pay for one allows for a second laptop to be given free to a needy child elsewhere.

Details are still a little sketchy, but it seems that 17th Nov is the launch day for the scheme.

Full details at : http://www.olpcnews.com/

Thanks to ntoll for the tip-off

Life Hacker reviews USB booting distros

shropshirelug — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:25:10 +0000

The popular LifeHacker website has recently run a small, but useful review of USB booting linux distros – http://lifehacker.com/5069054/battle-of-the-thumb-drive-linux-systems Personally I always keep a copy of DSL on a usb key with me – its helped me on numerous occasions (Most recently to get access back on a windows 2K server which had be “re-passworded”!)

contributions wanted…

shropshirelug — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:38:48 +0000

One of the better features of our old site was that various group members contributed to the running of the site. This new site also offers us this facility. If group members feel they would like to contribute to the site with a page on a specific topic, give chrisw or daveh a shout and we will set you up.

Ubuntu on underwater UAV

shropshirelug — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:49:14 +0000

The popular hackaday website today posted a link to a writeup of the recent underwater UAV competition entry from Cambridge University, featured on the mini-ITX website. Scroll down a bit, you will notice rather than a lightweight embedded platform its actually using Ubuntu 8.04 on a picoITX. Possibly overkill in terms of CPU usage, but an interesting direction to head in.

updates…

shropshirelug — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:36:00 +0000

As you will have noticed, the site has been updated. There is now an RSS feed of Linux based news from elsewhere in the community. Other pages are now being populated. Its hoped that we will be able to keep the site updated with blog-style news and info several times a week.

Check back frequently for the latest changes.

shropshirelug — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:51:11 +0000

Welcome to the Shropshire Linux User Group website. Possibly a temporary measure while we migrate servers but we hope you enjoy the new semi-blog style layout.

Telford Hamfest

shropshirelug — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:32 +0000

As in previous years SLUG will have a table at the Telford Hamfest – http://www.telfordhamfest.org.uk/

Come along and have a chat