Minutes from Meeting about Ubuntu Mini Meeting - 26 April 2017 Convened at 2017-04-26 18:30:26.422002 by chesedo in #ubuntu-za on freenode Minutes ======= [18:30:26] STARTED (chesedo) [18:31:15] TOPIC: Latest and Greatest News (chesedo) [18:40:20] TOPIC: Local Job Openings and Help Wanted (chesedo) [18:41:41] TOPIC: Ubuntu Education (chesedo) [18:43:35] ENDED (chesedo) Present ======= * Pieter Engelbrecht (chesedo) * Jeandre Le Roux (theblazehen) Raw Log ======= [18:30:26] Maaz: start meeting about Ubuntu Mini Meeting - 26 April 2017 [18:30:26] * Maaz gets out his memo-pad and cracks his knuckles [18:30:33] Hi all and welcome to another mini meeting [18:30:39] feel free to introduce yourselves to maaz using 'Maaz: I am ' [18:30:53] Maaz: I am Pieter Engelbrecht [18:30:53] chesedo: Yessir [18:30:58] Maaz I am Jeandre Le Roux [18:30:58] theblazehen: Yessir [18:31:02] Our topics are: [18:31:02] - Latest and Greatest News [18:31:02] - Local Job Openings and Help Wanted [18:31:02] - Education Project - Finding the Right Software [18:31:15] Maaz: topic Latest and Greatest News [18:31:15] Current Topic: Latest and Greatest News [18:31:19] off to the blaze - with excitement [18:31:53] http://karmainsecurity.com/tales-of-sugarcrm-security-horrors If you're running SugarCRM, patch it asap. And move to something better, if possible [18:32:33] On that note, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/ better upgrade firefox as well [18:33:12] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bfq-iosched/D-7wDP47iBI some good news - VFQ IO scheduler is now in mainline linux, which works really well for responsiveness on desktop systems [18:33:38] https://ablagoev.github.io/linux/adventures/commands/2017/02/19/adventures-in-usr-bin.html has some interesting stuff [18:34:06] https://dev.to/buntine/the-balanced-ternary-machines-of-soviet-russia nice read on some computing stuff in russia, with ternary computers [18:34:35] And https://github.com/ChrisRx/dungeonfs takes "Everything is a file" to a new level [18:35:37] Also, 9front is a bit more modern version of plan 9, has some great ideas, but I'm not too impressed with the shell environment etc [18:36:19] * theblazehen lost the link to other thing, 1 sec [18:37:37] * chesedo is a bit disappointed in mozilla [18:38:06] This guy wrote his own display managing system, with X and wayland compatibility layers, and here's a "Plan 9 like interface" for it https://arcan-fe.com/2017/04/17/one-night-in-rio-vacation-photos-from-plan9/ [18:38:23] And the normal DE used with it http://durden.arcan-fe.com/ [18:38:34] Worth a read through [18:39:16] https://arcan-fe.com/2016/12/29/chasing-the-dream-of-a-terminal-free-cli/ is a nice read as well, I'd sometimes like my terminals to work a bit more graphically [18:39:47] They way that plan 9 (and the video on https://arcan-fe.com/2017/04/17/one-night-in-rio-vacation-photos-from-plan9/) is how I think it would be really nice to have [18:39:57] That's about it then [18:40:09] great ty theblazehen [18:40:20] Maaz: topic Local Job Openings and Help Wanted [18:40:20] Current Topic: Local Job Openings and Help Wanted [18:40:30] With some new additions they are: [18:40:37] - Certified Scrum Master (JHB) -> http://obsidian.co.za/careers [18:40:37] - Open Source Hadoop Consultant (JHB) -> http://obsidian.co.za/careers [18:40:37] - Senior JAVA Developer with Middleware Experience (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-java-developer-with-middleware-ex [18:40:37] - Senior Linux Administrator / Linux Architect (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-linux-administrator--linux-archi [18:40:38] - Java Middleware Magician (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/java-middleware-magician [18:41:01] although not too sure about the last three [18:41:24] if anyone has others then feel free to mention them [18:41:41] Maaz: topic Ubuntu Education [18:41:41] Current Topic: Ubuntu Education [18:42:08] my status with this is the same as last time - well about... [18:42:50] need to check out the software theblazehen mentioned and one that i read about in one textbook [18:43:11] but with exams coming up, i am a bit busy currently... [18:43:17] so that seems to be it [18:43:31] thank you all for joining in on the mini meeting [18:43:35] Maaz: end meeting