Our next meeting is Tuesday night, September 20th, will feature member John Bowen member has volunteered to present on two topics, "Beginning Vector Algebra using Iverson Notation" and "Teaching using Raspberry Pi"  Both of these topics involve the use of the RaspberryPi.  John will be ssh'ing from his Mac where he will also be hosting his slide presentation and content presentation.  This should be a very informative presentation, not only  in content but in the use of the Mac as the presentation platform and connecting to the RaspberryPi.

Clint started out the meeting with the "Questions" session.  There was a question from member Mike on the Raspberry Pi magazines.  Clint showed the MagPi web site and how to download past copies of the magazine.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi47.pdf
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/

Another good meeting with 14 present. As planned, Founder Clint Tinsley, presented on SELinux. Delivering from prepared slides and demo scripts, Clint spent 90 minutes "demystifying SELinux" in the words of one of those present.  What follows here is the outline from his slides and includes the demonstration scripts.

SELinux Usage
Major Distributions support it!
In kernel since 2002
Fedora since Core 2 (2004)
RHEL since version 4 (2005)
Debian since Etch (2007)
Ubuntu since Hardy Heron 8.04 (2008)

What is SELinux?

Tonight's meeting focused on the current status of Plasma 5 as presented by member Darin S.  Darin had installed the Neon Developer Edition from neon.kde.org which represents the latest and greatest in Plasma 5.  Neon is built on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS foundation.

It was a very interesting presentation as Darin navigated about Plasma and Plasma Wayland.  Wayland is a replacement for the underlying Xwindows server which provides support for high DPI monitors, such as teh ones being found on new laptops (greater than 1920).

Tonight's meeting was "open forum" as we had no presentations scheduled. Clint opened the meeting with an update on the new release of Ubuntu 16.04 (April 21st). He has a number of machines where updated automatically from 15.10 to 16.04. 

Another good meeting with 13 in attendance but we need to work on that, getting more out to the meeting that would be in all fairness to those who take the time to put together their presentations in preparation for the meeting.  Tonight, we meet in a new location and that may have had an impact on attendance.  We are now meeting at CWI, across the street from TAOS.  Again a heartfelt thanks to our friends at TAOS that host our meetings and makes sure nobody goes home with an ample supply of pizza, cookies, and soda.

At tonight's meeting, we continued to focus on Penetration testing.  Clint had prepared an extensive Impress slide presentation on installing and building media based on Kali Linux as well as the tools followed by outlining the penetration testing process of gathering information, vulnerably scanning, and finally testing actual vulnerability using various tools on Kali Linux including nmap, openVAS, Armitage and metaspoit.  Clint demonstrated all this using two laptops, VirtualBox, and a private network consisting of router and an internet connection for displaying websites.