The year starts with a look at not-so-common Linux distributions.
Ian Young: Android x86 project (http://www.android-x86.org/) and Puppy Linux (http://puppylinux.org/).
Baden Delamore: brief demos of some of the tools and penetration testing techniques available through Kali (https://www.kali.org/).
Andrew Crosby: Raspberry Pi 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi) demo, what's new, what's hot.
Michael Cree: BeagleBone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard#BeagleBone) demo, consisting of general introduction of the BeagleBone and on using it for interfacing with an inertial measurement unit (IMU).
Due to the positive feedback on Baden Delamore's demonstration of Kali (https://www.kali.org/) back in February, there will be a follow up to, delving deeper into the world of (in-)security.
2015-05-25 Git
git (https://www.git-scm.com/) - from novice to master. Lawrence D'Oliveiro will introduce you to the distributed revision control system git, demonstrating the basic commands and also more advanced actions.
It is time to do what many other meetups usually do: meet at a pub and have a chat over a drink! Let's all go to The Cook (upstairs) and talk all things Linux.
No matter whether you are new to Linux or even never heard of it but would like to know more about it, feel free to stop by and say hi.
Ian Stewart will talk about the Linux Terminal Server Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Terminal_Server_Project) (LTSP) and how to connect to it using thin clients (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client) and RaspberryPi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi).
Peter Reutemann will give the new Linux Mint (http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2864) release a quick spin.
Reinstalling the WLUG web-server and investigating the use of docker (https://www.docker.com/) for running the old wiki alongside the other Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/) instance.
Docker experts welcome!
Hieu Trinh will talk about how to use a Raspberry Pi for sorting fruit.
Ian Stewart will bring along the new TAILS (https://tails.boum.org/) (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) 1.5 release.
General discussion on email encryption (incl signing) and network privacy.
Since we don't have access to our usual meeting room, let's just get together at the Cook for a drink and chat on all things Linux and Open-Source.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Waikato Linux Users Group Society.
Agenda (preliminary)
- President's Report
- Treasurer's Report
- Election of 2016 Committee
- Consumption of pizza