Date: Apr 04/27/14 9:13 AM Subject: [FOSS User Group] The new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and more, at free FOSS meeting this Thursday, May 1st From: Dick and Jill Miller" On: Hi, fellow FOSS fans! Extra, extra! As of last Friday, the Computer Lab's new NatickFOSS computer runs on the new Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. Visit the Natick Community-Senior Center to give it a try. Learn about and share Free, Open-Source Software with the FOSS User Group at the Natick Community-Senior Center! We meet 3-6PM, usually on the first Thursday of the month, at the Natick Community-Senior Center at 117 East Central Street (in Room 125, the 1st-floor Classroom). It's for all, beginners through experts, on Linux or Mac OSX or Windows. We're WiFi-equipped, we're friendly, and it's free. Join us if you can! At our Thursday, May 1st meeting (if time and interest permit): Raffle Item demo. Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each). The FOSS News: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu Kylin was 1 year old on April 25th; so what? What's wrong with DRM? Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media). Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) - What's new, and how to do a Linux download and install. Fotoxx 14.04: How to use the new "Ken Burns" Zoom effect in its Slide Show, and its new Pattern effect. The NatickFOSS computer's "Welcome To FOSS" wallpaper (using LibreOffice Writer and Inkscape). NatickFOSS On-Line Forum. FOSS Q&A. Bring a friend to our monthly FOSS meeting! Beginners, arrive by 3PM for the introductory slide talk. Casual from 2PM, and/or join us for dinner afterward. Other meetings (all in two days!): May 6th - International Day Against DRM. May 7th - Auto-ID and Sensing Expo (& Internet of Things) at MIT. May 7th, 7PM - Dick Miller will be the guest speaker at the Desktop User Group of the Boston Linux & Unix User Group - where he will provide a comprehensive introduction to Fotoxx and its photo editing and managing capabilities. For more info on all of these, see our NatickFOSS Archives page! Between meetings: See us on-line at NatickFOSS.org - where you can subscribe to this newsletter, and can click on the meeting date to see our draft agenda and other meetings. Share information and questions on the NatickFOSS Forum. Tell others, distribute our NatickFOSS.org business cards, print and pin up some NatickFOSS.org posters. Try our new Ubuntu Linux computer in the Computer Room at the Natick Community-Senior Center. Get free software and/or free Linux and learn how to use it. CU on Thursday! Cheers from --Dick and Jill Miller, Partners, MMS Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group at Natick Community-Senior Center -- | A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° | Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free-software, Linux PC.