Welcome to the Dayton Linux Users Group

When:

Thursday, October 15, 2026 @ 7:00pm

Where:

Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302 (or 348)

We will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87602254357
Meeting ID: 876 0225 4357

The easiest way to join the meeting is to click “Join from browser”. You can also choose “Join from Zoom Workplace app” to open the meeting in an existing Zoom installation or to download and install the app for Windows. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.

For those attending in person, we will most likely adjourn to Milano’s afterward for food and socializing.

Presentations/Topics:

Running powerful AI models locally has traditionally required expensive, high-end hardware. Strata is an open-source AI inference engine designed to change that, making it possible to run large language models on ordinary PCs with relatively modest graphics hardware. By efficiently managing system memory and GPU resources, Strata can run models that would normally be far too large to fit in a consumer graphics card’s memory.

At this month’s DLUG meeting, Shawn Garrett will share his experiences experimenting with Strata, from installing it on a laptop to integrating it into a hybrid local/cloud AI infrastructure. He’ll also discuss his contributions back to the open-source project.

Come learn how Strata is making powerful, locally hosted AI more accessible to Linux enthusiasts and home experimenters.

As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.

When:

Thursday, September 17, 2026 @ 7:00pm

Where:

Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302 (or 348)

We will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87602254357
Meeting ID: 876 0225 4357

The easiest way to join the meeting is to click “Join from browser”. You can also choose “Join from Zoom Workplace app” to open the meeting in an existing Zoom installation or to download and install the app for Windows. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.

For those attending in person, we will most likely adjourn to Milano’s afterward for food and socializing.

Presentations/Topics:

Rebuilding or replacing a Linux machine often means more than simply reinstalling the operating system. Over time, most of us accumulate our own preferred collection of tools, configuration files, command-line utilities, scripts, and other customizations — all of which need to be recreated when moving to a new system.

For this month’s presentation, Eric Bentley will look at one approach to treating that environment as a reproducible build artifact rather than something that has to be reconstructed by hand. After recently rebuilding several machines at home, Eric developed a process for recreating his preferred Linux workstation environment in a repeatable way, using the same approach to create a live USB system containing his tools and configuration.

This is not a presentation about a particular package or turnkey solution. Instead, it will look at the problem as a development process: deciding what needs to be reproduced, organizing and automating the pieces, and developing a solution that works for the individual user. It should provide plenty of ideas for anyone who has ever set up a new Linux machine and thought, “Now how did I configure all of this last time?”

As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.

When:

Thursday, August 20, 2026 @ 7:00pm

Where:

Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302 (or 348)

We will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87602254357
Meeting ID: 876 0225 4357

The easiest way to join the meeting is to click “Join from browser”. You can also choose “Join from Zoom Workplace app” to open the meeting in an existing Zoom installation or to download and install the app for Windows. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.

For those attending in person, we will most likely adjourn to Milano’s afterward for food and socializing.

Presentations/Topics:

Tiny Core Linux is a minimal Linux based operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK. It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux. The distribution is notable for its small size (11 to 16 MB) and minimalism; additional functions are provided by extensions.

Ben Kendrick will talk about his recent experience with Tiny Core Linux and give a demonstration.

As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.