Meeting Minutes, January 10, 2026

Here is the quick recap of what happend in ILUGC Monthly meet, January 10, 2026.

Intro

  • Mohan welcomed participants and gave small introduction about ILUGC

Talk 0

  • Sridhar started his talk about Digital publication
  • Explained about traditional publication and compared it with digital publication
  • Explained more about different formats available for digital publication
  • Explained about epub and its importance in digital publication
  • Explained why epub don’t have page numbers concept
  • Showed simple way to create epub using Calibre

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Talk 1

  • Narenderan started his talk about Learning linux on Android
  • Explained about various way you can reach a terminal in android (adb shell or termux)
  • Showed how to use adb shell to connect your android device from your laptop
  • Showed how to install termux and start a terminal
  • Showed how to use andronix to create a full fledged xfce desktop environment in android
  • Showed how to use VNC to connect to the desktop environment running in android from the laptop

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Talk 2

  • Mohan started his talk about Pipewire
  • Showed how to gather information about Sound Hardware from various files in /proc/asound directory
  • Explained the important of ALSA, briefed about various sound devices available in /dev/snd directory
  • Explained why Sound Manager or Sound Server is important for Linux
  • Explained about PulseAudio and its significance of modernizing the Audio Infrastructure in Linux
  • Explained about Pipewire and why it was needed compared to PulseAudio
  • Explained various tools used to intract with Pipewire components

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After talks discussion

  • In a lively discussion Mohan continued playing around pipewire daemon by killing them and trying to directly send random data to /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
  • Participants Introduced themself and their experience getting to know about Linux and why they come to ILUGC Meet.
  • Took Group Photo
  • Windup

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