OPEN BSD TRAINING

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. As an example of the effect OpenBSD has, the popular OpenSSH software comes from OpenBSD.

The IRC NOW network make extensive use of Open BSD in their services,  and offer a range of these services as they encourage use,  they are offering introductory and administration training for free.   They do have shell accounts available

The training pages are on their website, but support is VIA IRC or Internet Relay Chat via their own servers (it is decentralised, so there are a good few servers linked together.

I am posting this here, despite this being a Linux user group because I feel there is some relevance,   there are certainly skills that would be useful and are transferable to the Linux world

There is no reason we can’t discuss Open BSD on the Linux user group mailing list or Matrix / IRC channels.

Not linked to IRC now, but there is a OpenBSD Matrix community.

The next Tinkerers meeting will be on Saturday 23rd August 2025.   We will meet at the STEAM café at first for drinks / catch up then at some point move over to what was the Tea Shed which is 2 minutes walk away to have a look at the Lego Robots as part of the venue’s STEAM Bots project.  We will also have another look at Helen’s Dragster Car at some point,  probably in the back room of the STEAM café as this has some space to put down some white tape as a track for the car to follow.

We will let the cafe staff know where we are gong if moving from the main cafe area.

Tinkerers Facebook page

STEAM CAFE & DISCOVERY CENTRE

13 TORBAY ROAD

PAIGNTON

At present, they only have a facebook page.   I can’t do much about that.   I can be contacted via the mailing list or via the Lug matrix channel.

Paul

With the release of the newest Debian stable just round the corner, the release notes have details of what is coming in the new version, from software to hardware support.

Debian

Trixie Release Notes

We can discuss on the mailing list and or on the group Matrix channel unless you are on IRC which is bridged to Matrix, so people can discuss on both.

There is also a Debian Matrix Channel

The next Tinkerers meeting will be on Saturday 26th July 2025.   We will meet at the STEAM café at first for drinks / catch up then at some point move over to what was the Tea Shed which is 2 minutes walk away to have a look at the Lego Robots as part of the venue’s STEAM Bots project.

If you are not sure what this is,   then Mike who runs both the Tea Shed and STEAM Café has obtained various Lego Robot and the arena, which were used as part of Warrior bots.

The idea us to run something similar but also give people an opportunity to build their own, maybe not on the same scale as these robots, but smaller, with the Lego remote controls we can still build some cool stuff.

If you want more information on this, please contact STEAM Directly

STEAM CAFE & DISCOVERY CENTRE

13 TORBAY ROAD

PAIGNTON

At present, they only have a facebook page.   I can’t do much about that.   I can be contacted via the mailing list or via the Lug matrix channel.

With support for MS Windows 10 ending, on October 14th.  There may be many reasons you don’t want to, or are unable to upgrade to Windows 11.  There is now a campaign growing to get people together to help upgrade computers to a Linux distro.

End of `10

Has all the details and links to various groups, the UK is very underrepresented on here but if there is anyone in the South West who can maybe help then maybe we can make a difference to a few users out there.

End of 10 Matrix Channel

LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available for download – The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only office suite that respects the privacy of the user, ensuring that the user is able to decide if and with whom to share the content they create. It even allows deleting user related info from documents. In addition, it has a feature set comparable to the leading product on the market.

This is apparently the last of the 24.x release. If you want the latest LibreOffice, then you can download 24.2