[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting: Immutable Atomic Desktop Linux

[Russell Senior]

Who: Robert Detjens
What: Immutable Atomic Desktop Linux
Where: 1930 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201-5304, Room 86-01
When: Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 7 PM
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Summary:

Fedora has been experimenting with immutable, OSTree-based versions
(https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops) as a new paradigm for the
Linux desktop, focused more on containers and Flatpaks instead of
traditional package management. What does any of this jargon mean, and
how did they replace the package manager? I'll explain what this is all
about, from the underlying technology up to how I use this for taking
the headaches out of managing my developer workstation.

Bio:

Robert Detjens has been hands-on with Linux ever since re-flashing his
high school Chromebook. Through college, he discovered a love for
sysadmin and cybersecurity in OSU's LUG, Security Club, and Open Source
Lab. These days, Robert is a CloudOps Engineer for The Linux Foundation
and keeps a homelab full of old servers at home to experiment with.

Venue:

PLUG is back at Portland State University. Thanks to the Computer
Science Department and to Andrew Greenberg for hosting us! The room is
in the basement of the PSU Engineering Building (also connected
underground to the Fourth Avenue Building, or FAB). Enter through the
Engineering Building. The outside door will be locked, but there should
be someone present at the entrance to let you in starting at 6:40pm
until 7pm. There will be a sign on the door with a phone number you can
SMS if there isn't someone there to let you in immediately.

PS: We are going to need a volunteer to hang out by the outside door
until start time to let people in, let me know if you are willing to do
that. Thanks!


-- Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
russell at pdxlinux.org