[BALUG-Talk] Linux Mint 18.2

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Andrew Lewis (andy@simulsys.demon.co.uk):

> Hi Guys,
>  
> I hope you do not mind us reaching out from SOSLUG, the Southend-on-Sea
> Linux User Group in England, but I saw your email about Lubuntu? A couple of
> us at SOSLUG have installed Linux Mint 18.2 64-bit and it is a cool user
> environment, and I recommend you give it a look on a stick?

Hullo, Andrew!  Of course we don't mind a bit.  Yes, I agree that
Lubuntu is a terrific little distribution, as is LXDE generally.
I'm always on the lookout for nice but relatively compact 'live"
distributions in particular.  (We used to call those live-CD, but the
metaphor is perhaps a bit confusing in 2017.)

In the same vein, you might appreciate Bodhi Linux, http://www.bodhilinux.com/ ,
based on the smart but resource-economical Moksha Desktop.
 
> We are looking at a number of projects, including music from sensor data
> from a Raspberry Pi Sense Hat, and machine learning using scikit-learn. We
> would be happy to share basic data about Raspberry Pi using Raspbian Linux;
> for example I have a 4-node Beowulf Pi Cluster which runs parallel Python on
> Open MPI which I can share information about?

My goodness yes, more accomplishments with the RPi are always welcome.

Greetings from the S.F. Bay Area to our cousins in Essex.

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