Edmonton Linux User Group - Meetings

Topic: Social Discussion lead: Group Discussion Physical location: Meeting Room, Boston Pizza Calgary trail. 4804 Calgary Trail NW, Edmonton, CA T6H 5H5. Virtual location: https://meet.elug.rocks/2025Apr24 Presentations and or Videos here

Topic: Linux Sockets // Network & processes Discussion lead: Robin Physical location: Hybrid Virtual location: https://meet.elug.rocks/2025Mar27 Presentations and or Videos here

Topic: plan9port Discussion lead: RobinS Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 Robin rescued the meeting with a look at plan9port, a suite of programs and utilities from Plan 9 user space ported to UNIX systems. Presentations and or Videos here

Topic: Everything! Discussion lead: Everyone! Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 We had some enjoyable linux group therapy. The only thing missing was some vim. (And pizza, for that matter…) Presentations and or Videos here

Thanks to everyone who came out to share some Linux-flavored holiday cheer at Boston Pizza!

Topic: JACK audio connection kit Discussion lead: Robin Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 Robin told us JACK… ok, he told us all about JACK, the professional sound server API that lets you manage audio streaming in many different ways. JACK supports many different plugins to do just about anything you need to do with audio streams. Almost everything you need for JACK should be available in your standard Linux distro software repository. ...

Topic: Cyber security! Discussion lead: Robin will start, then the floor is open to anyone and everyone Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 Robin got the discussion started by giving a quick description of a few security tools that he is familiar with, and then we continued talking about various other security tools and utilities: AIDE (advanced intrusion detection environment) aide.github.io file integrity checker ...

Topic: General Discussion lead: various Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 The group talked about possible topics. What is interesting for people to talk about. One of the topics we identified an interest in was to review the everyday tools people use when driving Linux. In one of our next meetings we will review different options and tools people use on a daily basis. Was there pizza and vim? Unfortunately no Pizza… or vim for that matter… which was weird. ...

Topic: tmux Discussion lead: Robert, and then everyone Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 tmux is a “terminal multiplexer”, essentially a terminal manager for creating and managing multiple terminal windows within a single environment. tmux isolates terminals from connection dependencies because the (tmux) terminal process is now on the remote machine, not on your local machine, i.e. terminal processes can continue running on the remote machine even if your connection to the remote machine is lost. ...

Presenter: Mostly Robin, but there was plenty of banter from several others Topic: More security topics! public key crypto, ssh, gpg keys Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/yhBzVWn4UoVTGW1T7 https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh ~/.ssh/known_hosts file = list of authenticated server signatures “I’ve connected to these servers before, and this one matches a signature” ~/.ssh/authorized_keys = list of authenticated public keys “I’ve authenticated these (users) public keys before, and this user has proven they have a matching private key” ...