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# Many people again today!
# Many people again today!
## [[File:LUG attendance on 2025-09-18.jpg|alt=photo of a bunch of nerds sitting in a room to talk about some kind of penguin software|thumb|Noah's very poor photo showing the breakout attendance at LUG tonight]]People had to sit on the sides of the room
# People had to sit on the sides of the room
## This often happens on the meetings immediately following K-Day
## Holding off on moving all future meetings to a larger room until we're sure attendance is stable
# Introductions!
# Introductions!
## Forgot to do last meeting
## Forgot to do this last meeting
## Name, Year, Major, Distro
## Name, Year, Major, Distro
## Noah tallied each person's Distro of choice
### Noah tallied each person's Distro of choice
### Arch was the clear winner
### Arch was the clear winner
### Full breakdown in pie chart
### Full breakdown in attached pie chart
#### [[File:LUG Distro Tally 2025-09-18.png|alt=Pie chart breakdown of all distros|thumb|Tally of all distros]]Pie chart was generated with command:<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
#### Generated with command:
python3 -c "
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, collections
data=open('tally.txt').read().splitlines()
c=collections.Counter(data)
color_map={
'Alpine':'#0D597F','Arch':'#1793D1','Bedrock':'#333333','Debian':'#A81D33',
'Fedora':'#294172','Gentoo':'#54487A','Mint':'#87CF3E','NixOS':'#5277C3',
'Not Running Linux (YET)':'#999999','RHEL':'#EE0000','Ubuntu':'#E95420'
}
labels=[f\"{name} ({count})\" for name,count in c.items()]
colors=[color_map.get(name,'#cccccc') for name in c.keys()]
plt.pie(c.values(), labels=labels, autopct='%1.1f%%', colors=colors)
plt.show()
"
</syntaxhighlight>
# ZFS by Noah!
# ZFS by Noah!
## For more details, see old minutes
## For more details, see: [[Minutes 2025-01-16]] (the last time I gave this talk)
## BTRFS also exists
## BTRFS also exists
### "If you mention the word 'BTRFS' in the LUG Discord, an entity by the name of "Sarten X" may materialize from the depths to give some opinionated takes
### "If you mention the word 'BTRFS' in the LUG Discord, a mysterious entity by the name of 'Sarten X' may materialize from the depths to give some opinionated takes" - Anonymous LUG member
## Our mirror server is FreeBSD+ZFS, works great
## Our mirror server is FreeBSD+ZFS, works great
### Kinda ironic the Linux mirrors aren't running Linux, and we also don't even mirror FreeBSD...
### Kinda ironic the ''Linux'' mirror server isn't running Linux
### We also don't even mirror FreeBSD on Mirrors...
# Jellyfin is a thing!
# Jellyfin is a thing!
## Mirror of Blender Open Studio Films (all Creative Commons licensed)
## Mirror of Blender Open Studio Films (all Creative Commons licensed)
## Let me know if you want to have a login to stream them!
## Let me know if you want to have a login to stream them!
## Soon to be migrated to a bare-metal server
## Soon to be migrated to a bare-metal server from the current jank VM


[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]
[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]

Revision as of 03:27, 19 September 2025

  1. Many people again today!
    1. photo of a bunch of nerds sitting in a room to talk about some kind of penguin software
      Noah's very poor photo showing the breakout attendance at LUG tonight
      People had to sit on the sides of the room
    2. This often happens on the meetings immediately following K-Day
    3. Holding off on moving all future meetings to a larger room until we're sure attendance is stable
  2. Introductions!
    1. Forgot to do this last meeting
    2. Name, Year, Major, Distro
      1. Noah tallied each person's Distro of choice
      2. Arch was the clear winner
      3. Full breakdown in attached pie chart
        1. Pie chart breakdown of all distros
          Tally of all distros
          Pie chart was generated with command:
          python3 -c "
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, collections
data=open('tally.txt').read().splitlines()
c=collections.Counter(data)
color_map={
 'Alpine':'#0D597F','Arch':'#1793D1','Bedrock':'#333333','Debian':'#A81D33',
 'Fedora':'#294172','Gentoo':'#54487A','Mint':'#87CF3E','NixOS':'#5277C3',
 'Not Running Linux (YET)':'#999999','RHEL':'#EE0000','Ubuntu':'#E95420'
}
labels=[f\"{name} ({count})\" for name,count in c.items()]
colors=[color_map.get(name,'#cccccc') for name in c.keys()]
plt.pie(c.values(), labels=labels, autopct='%1.1f%%', colors=colors)
plt.show()
"
  3. ZFS by Noah!
    1. For more details, see: Minutes 2025-01-16 (the last time I gave this talk)
    2. BTRFS also exists
      1. "If you mention the word 'BTRFS' in the LUG Discord, a mysterious entity by the name of 'Sarten X' may materialize from the depths to give some opinionated takes" - Anonymous LUG member
    3. Our mirror server is FreeBSD+ZFS, works great
      1. Kinda ironic the Linux mirror server isn't running Linux
      2. We also don't even mirror FreeBSD on Mirrors...
  4. Jellyfin is a thing!
    1. Mirror of Blender Open Studio Films (all Creative Commons licensed)
    2. Let me know if you want to have a login to stream them!
    3. Soon to be migrated to a bare-metal server from the current jank VM
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