I recently had to setup a Pinebook Pro with a LUKS encrypted NVMe disk. Since Manjaro ARM’s installer doesn’t have an encrypted filesystem option, I had to manually install Manjaro ARM on top of a manually encrypted NVMe disk. All
How to install Raspberry Pi images onto a micro SD card
Using GUI tools Download and install Raspberry Pi Imager (for Ubuntu, MacOS, and Windows) You might be able to install Raspberry Pi Imager from your local repo as well with this command. Using Raspberry Pi Imager should be pretty easy
Giveaway – Five free Raspberry Pi 3
On Monday October 5th 2020, ABQLUG will be randomly drawing names for a chance to win one of five Raspberry Pi 3 complete kits. Specifically this model. If you have always wanted a Raspberry Pi, now is your chance to
Installing Pi Hole using docker-compose, for dummies
This article will explain, in detail, how to use your Raspberry Pi as a dedicate Pi Hole appliance in your home network. There are many ways you can install Pi Hole. The official Pi Hole GitHub page recommends running a
Special Event: How to setup Pi-hole at home (October 6th, 2020)
On Tuesday, October 6th 2020 from 6 pm – 8 pm, ABQLUG will be hosting an event where we will show you how to setup a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole. Pi-hole is a local DNS service that will sinkhole domain
Getting Started with an MX or antiX Linux ‘Writable LiveUSB’
An MX and antiX Linux overview with commentary and advice for USB first-timers and Linux noobs by Tom 07/27/2020 Contents Introduction – Terminology Characteristics Support Important MX and antiX LiveUSB features – Fast and easy system creation, modification, and reproduction
Meetup 010 | Virtual Meetup
Shortly after the March 2020 meetup (Meetup 009) the governor of New Mexico ordered a stay at home order. Which limited large gatherings to no larger than five people. So we decided to take the meetup online! We ended up
Meetup 006 | A New Linux User Joins the Ranks
On December 3rd 2019, five ABQLUG members came together to discuss their recent projects. One member showed off their really cool Raspberry Pi setup. He had a FireCuda disk drive and a MX100 SSD connected over a SATA-to-USB cable. He
Meetup 005 | Linux Users Hanging Out
On November 5th, ABQLUG gathered for it’s 5th meetup. In total, there were 6 members that showed up. We mostly talked about the projects we were working on at home. One user talked about some monitoring equipment they created and
Meetup 004 | How we almost setup ZFS on root…
…and how GRUB got in the way On October 1st ABQLUG gathered for it’s 4th meetup. In total, there were 4 members that showed up to try and hack on a Ubuntu 19.10 machine. What was the goal? To setup
Meetup 003 | CloudReady, VirtualBox, and Manjaro
(Oh my…) The September 2019 meetup was on September 3rd at 6:00 pm. The even was hosted at Ideas & Coffee. To attend the next meetup, please visit: https://www.abqlug.com/attendee/ There was a total of 7 attendees, myself included. We discussed
Meetup 002 | Slack Channel
I’m taking a vacation around the same time as the scheduled LUG in August, so I decided to host this meetup a week early. There will be no LUG meetup for all of August 2019. September 3rd will be our
Meetup 001 | Wine in 2019…
…and why CrossOver may work better
How to install Firefox ESR 52.9 on Ubuntu 18.04
EDIT: Consider using this project instead. https://github.com/niclan/Javafox If you NEED to use a legacy version of an add-on. And can’t move away from the add-on, or don’t want to use Pale Moon or the other forks of Firefox; then keep
Meetup 0-day
ABQLUG hosted it’s first official meeting on June 4th at 6:00 pm. For detailed information on how to attend, please refer to the attendee page. This meeting was hosted at Ideas & Coffee. There was no need to RSVP, at