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February 9, 2022 Meetup

St. Louis Unix Users Group

Create an image laid out as detailed: The background should be a tech-themed gradient of dark blues and greyscale which includes faint illustrations of circuits or server racks. On the left side, position a non-specific tech company logo near the top, with images reminiscent of hardware architecture subtly blended into the background. Overlay it with icons that symbolize server updates, file inspection, analytics and monitoring tools, and cloud services. On the right side, display a graphic of a terminal window featuring command-line text like 'ls -a', and include icons for configuration settings. Include also a faded image of an old computer terminal and a directory tree structure in the background. Separate these sides with a faint vertical line or gradient. Use a color palette that harmonizes strong corporate tones (reds, blacks) with retro terminal aesthetics (greens, whites on dark backgrounds). Remember, no textual content should be included.

What's New in Solaris 11.4

Presented By: Bob Netherton

Serving customers into 2031 and beyond

Paraphrasing Mark Twain a bit, rumors of the demise of Solaris have been greatly exaggerated. For many of our customers, SPARC and Solaris continue to be critical technologies and this talk will be focused on how Oracle has supported and will continue to support those customers into the next decade. This will be a technical discussion covering:

Solaris Support Repository Updates (SRUs) - what they are and why they matter

New features in ZFS, including vdev device removal (has it really been 16 years)

Solaris Analytics for fans of Grafana (Solaris Web Dashboard) and Prometheus (Solaris Stat Store)

Platform support

Security and Compliance Reporting tools

Solaris in the Oracle Cloud

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@OpenSourceAdvocate • 3h ago

Don't miss Bob Netherton's deep dive into Solaris 11.4 on February 9th! Learn about Solaris Support Repository Updates, Security tools, and Oracle Cloud integration. 🌐 #TechTalk #Solaris @SLUUG_Org https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/283378913/

.Dot Files

Presented By: Ed Howland

What are dotfiles? If, as you say, they are invisible, then how do I view them? Why to dotfiles exist? Where did they originally come from? What are they used for? Why are they splattered all over my clean pristine home directory and other folders? Is there some strategy for managing them well? All these questions and perhaps many more will be attempted to be answered by this talk.

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✨ Want to clean up your home directory? Ed Howland will teach us all about .dot files on 2022-02-09. Discover why they're important and how to manage them! 🛠️ #Linux #Unix #Configuration @SLUUG_Org https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/283378913/

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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.