Next Gathering Sept 5th and Next Meeting 19th
Sorry there was no meet up in August. Hope everyone a fun time with there Vacations and Family. You gotta squeeze so much into this short Summer here in Wisconsin.
* Saturday, Sept 5th
Social Gathering
Panera Bread, 6935 75th Street, Kenosha, WI
From 2:00pm to whenever
Panera Bread has free WiFi.
* Saturday, Sept 19th
LUG Meeting, File Managers both GUI and Command Line.
Kenosha Southwest Public Library, 7979 38th Avenue, Kenosha, WI
From 2:00-4:30pm
opensolaris
I sure do wonder what the future holds for the solaris open source clone.. Now that they are being bought out by Orical.. Not that I use the system but curious on how things develop when corporations and money are involved.
An Introduction to me.
I am fairly new to linux. I started off and on with Ubuntu 7.04. Since then I found linux to be getting better with each new release. Most of my time is spent in Ubuntu 9.04 even though my machine is set up to dual boot with windows xp. If it weren't for my wife I could easily go 100% linux.
I have set up one friend with Ubuntu after his windows 98 Dell became infested with more viruses then you can imagine. He made the switch to a full time ubuntu user and has never been happier.
5 Excellent Downloadable eBooks To Teach Yourself Linux
So you have heard of all the advantages and geeky babble about how Linux is better and you have finally decided to try it? Just one thing, you don’t know an awful lot about Linux to get you started. How about some free downloadable ebooks to teach yourself Linux, that you can download today? Would that help?
Free – you ask? Yes, free. Welcome to the world of Linux where things are free both as in free speech and also as in free beer (mostly)!
LXDE Environment
A list of Features from Fedora 11 LXDE's wiki :
* PCManFM: File manager, provides desktop icons
* LXPanel: Feature-rich desktop panel
* LXSession Lite: Standard-compliant X11 session manager with shutdown/reboot/suspend support via HAL and gdm
* LXAppearance: LXAppearance is a new feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher able to change GTK+ themes, icon themes, and fonts used by applications
* LXTask: Lightweight task manager derived from xfce4 task manager with all xfce4 dependencies removed, some bugs fixed, and some improvements of the UI
Meeting: July 25th @ Kenosha Library Southwest
Kenosha Linux User Group will have a meeting on July 25th @ 2-4:30pm
at Kenosha Library Southwest in there Meeting Room. The topic will
be Advanced Terminal Commands.
Location: 7979 38th Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53142
Chip Millholland will be going over some commands in the terminal as well as teaching how to make "alias" for common commands. Chip has been a Linux user since Fedora Core 1 and is very knowledgeable. Any other wish to contribute can contact us here.
Drinks and Snacks are allowed in the conference room. Feel free to
5 Free and Open Source Web Browsers That You May Have Never Heard Of
For web browsing, most of us would prefer Firefox or Opera because of their speed, security, stability, and overall features. While a handful of people may like surfing the web with some of those terminal-based browsers.
For a change, why not try some web browsers that would perhaps cater to a few of your specific needs and would serve as an alternative to your existing browser. Why not try some of these Free and Open Source web browsers that you may have never heard of:
http://www.junauza.com/2009/06/5-free-and-open-source-web-browsers.html
Spicing up our LUG
Do you attend or run a Linux User Group (LUG)? Looking for some fresh ideas to give it a new lease of life? Read on and discover how your LUG meetings can be more than a general Linux-related chit-chat down the local pub...
