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The Spokane Linux User’s Group has been meeting for over 15 years, discussing technology, Linux troubles, and advice. All are welcome to join us for festive Linux discussion over food and beer, from the grizzled Unix long-beard to the timid newbie. There are no dues or registration—just drop by!
Meeting Times: held the third Wednesday of each month, at 7:00 PM. They generally run 1½ to 2 hours long.
Location: January 2025 update: Our new temp location is: Denny’s on Division (3525 N. Division St.) — in their banquet room.

Nov 20th, 2024 meeting

Looks like the Pines / Sprague Denny’s has permanently closed. We checked out the Argonne Denny’s — and would like to give it a try for our November meeting. Denny’s on Division worked well for our October meeting — even though it’s a bit out of the way for some of our members — we are booked in their banquet room for our December 18th meeting (7pm). We can discuss more meeting location ideas at the meeting. Thanks 🙂

July 2024

Great meeting on July 17 at Denny’s. Thanks to all for participating. We are still scouting possible new meeting locations around Spokane; if you have a suggestion let us know via the e-mail list or contact form.

April 17, 2024

Good turn-out at April meeting at Sheri’s… thank you all for attending. We are meeting in person once a month — next meeting will be, as usual, third Wednesday of the month at 7pm. You can also join the discussion on our Discord server.

Aug 19, 2020

Shari’s conference room is not open yet for meetings. They said “maybe when we enter Phase 3”. You can join our email list for news and discussions. Also some members are using Discord chat / channels during the regular monthly meeting time.

Sept 18, 2019 meeting topics

Open Source Summit in San Diego, hosted by the Linux Foundation.
Lutris is a gaming client for Linux. It gives you access to all your video games with the exception of the current console generation. You can, in a single interface, run any game from your childhood memories to the current multiplayer games. Integrations with stores like GOG and Steam allow you to import your existing game library and community maintained install scripts give you a completely automated setup.
Jupiter Broadcasting: two new interesting shows to check out: Self-Hosted and Linux Headlines.
Mattermost: High Trust Messaging for the Enterprise–a flexible, open source messaging platform that enables secure team collaboration.
There’s a new local speedtest.net node up to help test our connections: select Cutting Edge Communications, Inc. instead of going to Walla Walla or Seattle.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The foundation for your enterprise hybrid cloud. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. It’s an open source operating system (OS). It’s the foundation from which you can scale existing apps—and roll out emerging technologies—across bare-metal, virtual, container, and all types of cloud environments.
ZFS File system may be coming soon to Ubuntu as an optional install feature.
Virtualization with LXC and LXD: LXD (pronounced lex-dee) is the lightervisor, or lightweight container hypervisor. LXC (lex-see) is a program which creates and administers “containers” on a local system. It also provides an API to allow higher level managers, such as LXD, to administer containers. In a sense, one could compare LXC to QEMU, while comparing LXD to libvirt.

hope to see you next month 🙂

June 19, 2019 meeting

Topics this week

Nextcloud offers industry-leading on-premises file sync and online collaboration technology. Our expertise is in combining the convenience and ease of use of consumer-grade solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive with the security, privacy and control business needs.
Running Overwatch on Linux: Overwatch is a colorful team-based shooter game starring a diverse cast of powerful heroes. Travel the world, build a team, and contest objectives in exhilarating 6v6 combat.
MyPaint is a nimble, distraction-free, and easy tool for digital painters. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices. Its brush engine is versatile and configurable, and it provides useful, productive tools.
Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the “works on my machine” excuse a relic of the past.
Supporting local company’s Kickstarter campaign: The Mimic’s Grid is an innovative new tool for your tabletop – a versatile gaming surface that enables infinite world building through an impressive set of features and modular design.
ZFS Filesystem releases version .80: The Z file system is a free and open source logical volume manager built by Sun Microsystems for use in their Solaris operating system.