By EC Linux February 10, 2026
Business Items
Next Meeting: March 9, 2026 @6PM
Location: Beachside Church
Items discussed:
Rust Night! Part 2
Recap on today’s meeting:
- SSH’d into Ubuntu server with 8 nice GPUs
- tested GPUs with Python
- demonstrated how nix was installed despite no root perms
- demonstrated Nix Flake for Rust development environment
- added entr to re-run cargo run on every save
- 12 small programs that demonstrated what we learned about Rust last month
Also, this solved the “I have no name!” issue: LD_PRELOAD=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_sss.so.2
Additional Resources:
A half-hour to learn Rust: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
Interactive “The Rust Book” at Brown: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/
Rust Documentation: https://doc.rust-lang.org
Compile Rust online: https://play.rust-lang.org