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March QCLUG Meeting

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date: 3/14/2017
topic: wierd ass distros
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  topic presentation notes:
    - red star os: >
      - christian presented on red star os 3.0 which is north korea's linux operating system.
      - red star os is dubbed the most oppressive linux distribution and is locked down in various ways.
      - the current release of red star is 3.0 which appears to be based on rhel/centos 6 and has a 2.6 kernel
      - this release "appears" to have a kde 4 based desktop that looks nearly "identical" to max osx... ...
      - selinux is enabled by default
      - root is disabled out of the box and needs to be enabled manually...
      - the yum repositories appear to be broken as well as christian attempted to install the virtualbox guest additions which failed due to the inability to install gcc and make via yum...
      - travis the presented on red star os 2.0 (previous release)
      - this release uses a kde 3 desktop that looks like a mostly "stock" kde 3 experience
      - also appears to be centos based, and has a 2.6 kernel
    - alpine linux: >
      - alex presented on alpine linux which is a security-oriented linux distribution with a focus on being light-weight
      - has no systemd
      - comes in a number of flavors, mini root, standard, virtual, etc.
      - after the quick presentation alex demonstrated the installation process for alpine linux.
      - basically you boot the iso, login as root (no password) and type setup-alpine which is a wizard-like script that interviews the user in a text based shell and eventually alpine gets installed.
      - alpine linux is mainly a busybox based distribution (aside from the package manager apk)
      - alex was able to get xfce working, however no applications are installed by default.
      - the packages in apk are mostly useful for non-desktop usage, however alex was able to install lynx with ease.
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