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March 8, 2023 Meetup

St. Louis Unix Users Group

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Future of OpenSuSE LEAP

Presented By: Lee Lammert

There are a lot of Linux distros, .. but there is only ONE that meets the following criteria (it's also what we use here):

* Largest independent Linux distro - pure Open Source as well as commercial side to support corporate environments

* Adheres to and provides a huge amount of development to mainstream FOSS projects (and may not so mainstream)

* That development commitment has produced some of the arguably most mature management tools of any distro, most notablly Yast.

* Manages a STABLE set of versions that have not changed in 20 years:

- OpenSuSE Leap (stable version, major updates every 18 months or so, track record of painless upgrades)

- OpenSuSE Tumbleweed (rolling release, bleeding edge)

- SuSE (commercial version with support)

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@CommandLineQueen • 3h ago

🚀 Exciting times ahead! Lee Lammert will explore the world of OpenSuSE LEAP, Tumbleweed, and SuSE. Get insights into their unique features and stable versions. See you there! #OpenSUSE #Linux #TechTalk @SLUUG_Org https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/292101394/

LibreOffice Database

Presented By: Stan Reichardt

Stan was planning, next up, to do a tutorial on the open source, cross platform LibreOffice BASE ( a desktop database front end ). It works with widely employed multi-user database engines: MySQL/MariaDB, Adabas D, MS Access and PostgreSQL. By default it uses an embedded HSQLDB ( Hyper SQL Database ) relational database.

Well, that was the original plan. Then, Stan ran across a 30 minute video that clearly gave a much better, much clearer, more complete, more concise and professional tutorial than he could ever hope to give.

What to do? Well, what then came to mind was to actually demonstrate using the two database tools that he had developed for SLUUG. Showing the flexibility, power and simplicity of these two in action could actually show why someone might want to explore using LibreOffice BASE.

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@LovesToLS • 6h ago

Get ready for a fantastic demo! Stan Reichardt will showcase the tools he developed, emphasizing the simplicity and power of LibreOffice BASE on 2023-03-08. Don't miss it! #OpenSource #TechTalk #SLUUG https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/292101394/

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Meeting Agenda

At 6:00p.m. Central Time the meeting opens. Participants are encouraged to join at this time to if they need to test their microphone, screen sharing, and video camera.

At 6:30p.m. Central Time we begin with our BASE presentation. The BASE presentation is intended to be an introductory level session ( often focused on personal computing ); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, smoke and mirrors, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space.

At 7:00p.m. Central Time we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

At 7:15p.m. Central Time the MAIN presentation begins. The MAIN presentation is intended to be something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful and is often focused on enterprise computing.