Date: 28th August
Hosted By: Michael Pope
This is great for those wanting to keep a backup or create a distro. There are two ways to run remastersys.
Create a live cd with your system and data intact
remastersys backup
Create a distro with no data included
remastersys distro
Presentation notes: 20090828_mlug.pdf
Every week from now on we will have the cool things of this month. Here are mine for this month.
Great reviews, tutorials and podcasts: http://www.tuxradar.com
KleanSweep, clean disk easily, web: http://linux.bydg.org/~yogin
SMPlayer - cool frontend to mplayer
Sockso music server, play your music over the internet great for parties,
http://sockso.pu-gh.com/
Spicebird, email client which does much more than thunderbird, contact, calendar, tasks
Web: www.spicebird.com/download
Super Grub Disk, mini boot disk (400KB download), easy menu driven grub install/rescue.
web: http://supergrubdisk.org
The software distribution system that works differently. rootz mounts complete live distros over the web, and makes them available locally. rootz - http://vamosproject.org/rootz
BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk www.giannone.eu/bgtlb/current
Blueproximity - locks up the screen when you walk away from your computer with a bluetooth enabled phone. Good from a security aspect. http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net stuffed up, doesn't really unlock.
Made using Ruby on Rails http://meetinbetween.us/
http://susestudio.com/ - customise your own distro and try it out online.
Remastersys - Easy Live CDs for Ubuntu/Debian.
http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html
Ubuntu Customisation Kit- Even easier Live CD creation, Web: http://uck.sourceforge.net
Wammu, manage your phone through linux the easy way.
Web: http://wammu.eu
Zile, cut down emacs for saving space.
Web: www.gnu.org/software/zile
open font library - share fonts (Like open clip art)
OpenClipart which is usable: http://testvm.openclipart.org/cchost/
KDE 4.3 was released, which is just a polish of features.
Perl Audio Converter - http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/ - batch convert from one file format to another easier.