Minutes 2025-09-18

1. Many people again today!
   1. 

      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. 

            Tally of all distros
            Pie chart was generated from the list of distros with the 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