[talk] NYC*BUG Tomorrow: NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist

[George Rosamond]

Please RSVP today!

March 6 2024, 1845 EST/2345 UTC
NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist
Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
NYU Tandon Engineering Building (new), 370 Jay St, 7th Floor kitchen
area, Brooklyn (directly across Jay St from National Grid office).
Closest subway exits in order are Jay St - MetroTech Station (A, C, R, &
F Trains) Borough Hall (4 & 5 Trains).

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This talk grew out of the experience of going on vacation with only a
$100 Pinebook and trying, and succeeding to get work done.

Roughly the topics will be:

    Installation and Updates - possibly automating them
    Setup after the first boot
        Battery monitoring with envsys framework
        tmux - the "GUI" of choice
        Network connectivity and wireless
        sudo setup
    pkgin and binary packages
    Email with mutt
    Using external media - USB sticks and CDs/DVDs - with and without sudo
    Audio
        Ripping CDs
        Various audio formats
        Podcasts
    Typesetting
        Typesetting with *roff
        Typesetting with tex / latex

I don't want to give a list of tools only. I would like to discuss more
about how they work - for example battery monitoring uses envsys
framework that can read various sensors and I have a sample program to
demonstrate it. Envsys can react when sensors reach critical values -
for exampe when the battery is almost depleted or when the CPU gets hot.
Email needs authentication - what the various options are. Wifi -
wpa_supplicant is great if you use just a couple of networks, for
example work and home; how we scan for wireless networks, how we sniff them.

Ivan Ivanov is a Bulgarian software developer currently working for a
financial company in New York City.

Offsite Participation: We plan to stream via NYC*BUG Website unless the
speaker requests otherwise. Q&A will be via IRC on Libera.chat channel
#nycbug - Please preface your questions with '[Q]'