Meeting Minutes, December 13, 2025

Here is the quick recap of what happend in Ilugc Monthly meet, Dec 13, 2025.

Intro

• Mohan welcomed participants

Talk 0

• Gopinathan started explaining about his experience debugging a broken window environment issue
• During switching from KDE to Gnome, his packages screwed up and ended up without any Graphical Environment
• The switch triggered segfault whenever Xorg starts
• With help from mohan, Gopinathan installed official nvidia drivers properly
• Issue got fixed

Talk 1

• Irfan started his speech about IRC and Tilde communities
• Explained what IRC means, history of IRC, how it works
• Briefed about how to join IRC server, how to discover channels, how to join a particular channel etc.
• Explained about helpful Bots and Harmful Bots inside IRC network
• Introduced Tilde communities around the world, why they hate javascript etc.
• Deep dived into Hacker culture, what really means social computing and what FOSS achieved in this space.

Talk 2

• Sakthi started his speech about Talos Linux
• Gave overview about Kubernetes clusters how we can use our own computer to create minimal Kubernates cluster.
• Introduced Talos, explained how Talos differs from other lightweight Kubernetes distros.
• Explained how Talos boots, how everything is API driven, the significance of talosctl
• Demonstrated how to install Talos and boostrap it.
• As a general guidence, suggested few books to get started with Linux to participants.

After talks discussion

• Participants introduced themselves
• Mohan provided popular FOSS news from the last month
• Participants had lively discussion about Fundamentals of Learning
• Participants discussed about Custom ROMs and difficulties.
• Participants discussed about Running linux on Mac (Mac with x86 as well as Mac with Apple Silicon), talked about AashiLinux efforts to port Linux to Mac with Apple Silicon
• Participants discussed about the importance of Stable and LTS Distros as well as benifits of Rolling Distros
• Took group photo
• Windup