NMGLugers, We are scheduled for a meeting on the 2nd of August - this Thursday. I plan to be there at 5pm for our meeting to convene at about 5.30pm. I will bring a TOMU.IM - "Tom's Open Microcomputer Usb" for anybody to examine and try out. It is a complete computer, ie, processor and memory plus I/O system for hardware programming practice. Sam was good enough to pass this along to me at our last NMGLUG meeting. I can activate it and do one trick, but there is more on GitHub. I can also bring the remains of my Peppermint 8 OS experiment. I am not using it anymore, so the disks (32 bit) and one small hdd are here for the asking. I am having good luck with Debian in either 32 or 64 bit installs. It runds well, has a familiar GUI available and all of my favorite applications and the ones I needed to investigate the TOMU.IM. I may even switch over, though below I talk about the Xubuntu upgrade. Still, I like the Ubuntu family because I can give it to others and refer them to the copious information in clear and GUI format on the Internet. Oh yes, I am still using Xubuntu 16.04 at home, but will likely upgrade to 18.04 before the end of the year. I never rush ahead to upgrade a system till I am reasonably sure the upgrade tool is working well. Since the support overlaps for a full year, I like to see what others report about the process before taking it on. This also gives me time to weed out old files and do a complete backup of my personal files. My choice is to save files and accept that system and application settings and defaults will change. I may also have a laptop in need of assistance. The machine is taking care of the digital life of a friend and though the friend reports good health personally, there are some questions about the machine. I look forward to speaking to the machine itself to get its side of the story. I hope to see some of you there, at the New Baking Co., this Thursday. Thank you, Ted P.