Scott Mischke has arranged for a presentation by the Director of Information Security at MPI Research, Randy Slain, on security risk assessment “best practices”, especially as a precursor to qualification in the pharmaceutical industry; common challenges they face with security. identifying vulnerabilities and conducting due diligence audits to mitigate risks. The presentation will begin at … Read more
Scot Henderson made another great presentation at our weekly KLUG meeting. The topic, FLOSS or Free Libre Open Source software was very interesting and informative. We learned the difference between Free and non-free software in the GNU/Linux world. Scot introduced us to vrms (virtual Richard M Stallman); https://scottlinux.com/2014/02/19/find-non-free-software-installed-on-your-debian-machine/ … an apt that will detect any … Read more
Read About Kalamazoo Linux Users Group (KLUG) Raspberry Pi weekend at the Air Zoo sponsored by the Kalamazoo Makers Guild. Jan. 26th KLUG meeting started the construction of our Preuss i3 3D printer. Lynden Kirk working on Dave’s laptop.
Scott #3 demonstrated is big drone and flying skills at our first meeting of the new year. He also demonstrated that he is as equally proficient at flying a mini drone that our group intends to print in the future using the 3D printer we are building.
Kalamazoo Linux Users Group making our sixth computer donation of 2015 at The White Oaks Retirement Residence in Lawton MI. Kalamazoo Linux Users Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit with the mission to promote GNU/Linux and “Open Source” products and to share our knowledge and experiences using new technologies with each other and the public.
Scot Henderson demonstrated the 3D printer that he built at home at our Tuesday night meeting. We also welcomed six new folks to our meeting to learn about the Linux operating system and the Open Source community and we gave two Dell desktop computers (with Linux Puppy installed) away last night so they could become … Read more
At the October 27th meeting of the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group we discussed and demonstrated the use of “Wine” – www.winehq.org – to run Windows programs on the Linux operating system. We also discussed and approved a plan to fund a project to build a totally “Open Source” 3D printer as a group; A bill … Read more
Last night Scott Henderson did in impromptu presentation of GNU (a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix.”) and GPL (General Public License) and the four freedoms of open source software: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your … Read more
Excellent turnout for the May 19th meeting with a large monetary contribution by one member. very lively discussion on to many topics to recall with some support provided as needed. Displayed KLUG’s Raspberry Pi Pirate Box, a Peppermint and Mint 17.1 distro on two boxes that were donated last week by a member. We also … Read more
At our Weekly KLUG meeting we checked out a great new Linux distribution of Chromixium and a few members learned the basics of a publishing program for Linux called Scribus. We also held elections for our board and the results were: Lynden Kirk – President; Bill Lindemann – Secretary and Director; Paul Moreno – Treasurer … Read more