NaLuG Meeting

Today I went to a meeting organized by the NaLuG, there I presente,

together with three other members a presentation about hardware with

Linux support, in particular we talked about companies that sell Linux

compatible devices like Tuxedo Computers or Framework. One of the

other members talked about Framework and their experience with the

Framework 13" laptop, which is now in my wish-list as my new laptop

(after I build a tower PC). During the QA time we talked about

different things, one of which was the abysmal performance of laptop's

batteries on Linux. After the presentation one of the members

suggested me a bunch of interesting blogs about free software and we

talked about our shared interest for the small web.

Of the blogs suggested one that captured my eye is 100Rabbit, written

by two artist that live on a boat. The articles that I liked the most

were about Uxn, a 8-bit virtual machine created to run small utilitarian

programs like text-editor, vector-graphics programs and small games,

the other article was about the use of technology in a very limited and

strange situation that is living on a boat. In particolar the amount of

electricity that modern computers use, even for easy tasks like text editing.

After lunch we talked about Linux distros, and in particular about KISS Linux.

The person I was talking to (R), had a project to create another meta-distro based

on KISS Linux and in particular in implementing a package manager capable to create

reproducible builds. I still think that they will end re-implementing portage from

Gentoo but in C

PS. I want to thank the maintainers of Gemlog.blue for not deleting my account even after this time 😃

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