[vox] Upcoming Meeting! September's "Hack LUGOD and Trivia Quiz!"

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Thu Sep 13 22:18:48 PDT 2018


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 03:46:35PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
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> Oh, I teach on Mondays.... I'll bring the class. Raspberry Pi is
> interesting, but mine collects dust now. If you buy a Pi, you have to
> buy a power supply, an SD card, a keyboard, an HDMI cable, a powered USB
> hub. You can get a Lenovo laptop that runs linux for 150 bucks. Or, the 
> Chromebook. I have yet to try the Chromebook for Linux laptop.

Well, it depends on what you're going to do with the Pi.  Maybe it'll
control a robot.  Maybe it'll be a weather station.  Etc. :)


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> >      * Planning more exciting meetings, including at least one
> >        Installfest.
> 
> Oh, the dreaded installfest. "Hi, I have this old computer that was
> sitting in the corner of my garage. Can you help me put GNU/Linux on it?"

That's what LUGs are there for! :)


-bill!


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