We had another great meeting with 10 members present including 1 new attendee and 3 times on the meeting agenda with Clint doing the presentations.

The first presentation was on File and Folder Sharing with Linux and Windows and explored the Ubuntu sharing features that are part of Ubuntu LucidLynx (10.04). For the presentation, Clint had three virtual machines including one running LinuxMint 9 for live demonstration of how it all works and he included screen shots of sharing with a Windows 7 system.

It's that time again! The Utah Open Source Conference registration is now open, and with it comes the benefits of being active members of a Linux Users Group. Last year, 3 members of the Boise Linux Users Group attended and had great time along with the time we shared in traveling down and back together.

Moving forward on our plans for the Idaho Linux/OSS Day on Saturday Nov, 20th, 2010, we met in the Idaho Linux Users IRC Meetup on August 25th. Represented was both Boise and Eastern Idaho. We went over the current plans for three sessions consisting of an opening session on "Why Linux" in educating potential Linux users as to why they would want to use Linux over some other operating system; the session would focus on ease of use, the "free" quality software that is available in Linux, and compatibility with Microsoft applications.

I live in Mountain Home, Id and recently loaded Ubuntu 10.04 on my Dell D430 laptop, which using a 1390 wireless card. I can connect to the Internet using a wire connection, but cannot seem to configure my wireless connection. Can anyone help?

We had a great meeting with 14 members in attendance and one spouse. Our main presenter was Chad Nelson on the subject of playing games on Linux. He started out by showing us World of Goo, from 2dboy, which was part of the Wolfire Humble Indie game suite offering (which is now over). The game is still available from 2dboy. http://2dboy.com/games.php for $20. The Wolfire Humble Indie initiative was an "event" where Wolfire offered up a collection of 7 games for sale in a bundle but you could set your own price. Details of the event can be found at http://www.wolfire.com/humble.

I have been using openSUSE 11.3 for about a week until tonight when I decided to install Fedora 13 on that computer. I had installed the new KDE 4.4 version and I was pleased with the look and feel but too many problems kept getting in the way of my effective use of openSUSE. Examples:

We held our second Idaho Linux Users IRC Meetup on July 21st with 5 in attendance, all from the Boise area. We did have about a 90 minute discussion, primarily centered on the planning the statewide event promoting OSS/Linux on Saturday Nov, 20th, 2010. Plans are to still shoot for four physical locations to have this event simultaneously. Those locations would be North Idaho (Moscow), South East Idaho (IF), Twin Falls and in the Boise Area. We discussed the agenda at some length, proposing three segments.

I had my first opportunity to use the new version 5.0 of PartedMagic and all I can write is that PartedMagic just took a quantum leap as it moved from the 4.x series to 5.0 and the changes include a new opening menu screen with options not seen before including the SuperGrub disks for version 1 and 2 grub. Besides the new menu and run options, PM provides both Clonezilla and Ghost4Linux for all your cloning tasks. I used Clonezilla yesterday to move a physical hard disk to a virtual disk in VirtualBox using the cloning process, very cool.

We had a great meeting with 10 in attendance including 2 who had not previously attended and were not on the mailing list. Awesome for a warm July Evening! Clint opened the meeting with a demonstration Fedora 13 which he had installed on his laptop in a dual boot configuration. His first comment was on how Fedora 13 handled the "dual monitors" of the built in "wide screen" and the overhead projector as it was observed that it left the display settings on the laptop alone but set the proper 4:3 resolution on the projector so that both displays were "normal" in appearance.

The first Idaho Linux Users IRC Meetup was held on June 16th, 2010, at 7 PM in #idaho-linux-users on Freenode.net. With 8 attendees, we had a lively conversation about and we were in agreement of working towards having a statewide event promoting OSS/Linux on Saturday Nov, 20th, 2010. We would shoot for four physical locations to have this event simultaneously. Those locations would be North Idaho (Moscow), South East Idaho (IF), Twin Falls and in the Boise Area.