ScotLUG :: April 30th 2020

Hi folks,

A few people have been asking what we're doing this month for ScotLUG. We
are taking the advice of government and NOT organising a meeting for March.
Based on our current understanding of the situation, we have a talk planned
for April.

Our current plan is to meet at the Electron Club as usual in April. We do
however have the intention of organising an online / live streamed event if
needs be. I will get more details to you closer the time.

The next meeting will be on April 30th covering Linux From Scratch, kindly
presented by Ajazz

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In the modern era of flashy app stores, touch-based UIs and containers for
all, is there still a place for building your own software from scratch?
What about building your entire OS from scratch?

Who'd want to do that?

I argue that there is still a great value to getting to know your OS in
detail by building it package by package from the ground up, and the Linux
From scratch project helps you do just that. I'd like to take you through
the build process and demo a few differently configured machines. But aside
from being a great learning project to extend your knowledge of Linux
systems, can Linux From Scratch be used for any "real" purposes? It
definitely can, and in fact with a few tweaks to the build process, it can
even be a fantastic everyday desktop environment.

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Thanks,
Kenny.