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Tyneside Linux User Group	Sticky article	PRINT
Welcome to Tyneside Linux User Group Tyneside Linux User Group is an informal, loose organisation of Linux users and advocates in the general Tyneside area. There is no formal membership, and all are welcome to our meetings, which are largely social in nature. You may log in as guest (use a blank password). If you wish to have your own login, please email one of the LUG Co-ordinators. Email addresses can be found in the directory. We have two mailing lists: * The announce list is a low volume, read-only list where the LUG's coordinators can inform subscribers of meetings, events and important changes to our resources. * The general list is where subscribers can discuss pretty much anything they like. Related link: https://tyneside.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo Submitted by Brian Ronald

Meetings	Saturday 12th May, 2012	PRINT
Next Meeting Our next meeting will be in the The Discovery Museum on Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. It will begin at 12:00 (noon), to end two or three hours later, on Saturday 2nd of June, 2012 which follows our regular pattern of the first Saturday each month. You can find us in the classroom on the ground floor, unless there's a last-minute change. If there's a change, we will update this article. If you can't find us when you arrive, ask a member of staff to help you. Submitted by Brian Ronald

Linux and Free Software	Tuesday 07th February, 2012	PRINT
Kubuntu abandoned by Canonical Jonathan Riddell writes: Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE as well. A loss. Read more at the URL below. Related link: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2012-February/005782.html Submitted by Brian Ronald

Software	Friday 22nd July, 2011	PRINT
Linux version 3 released Last night, Linux Torvalds cryptographically signed a tag on his Git repository for the Linux kernel: v3.0 It's finally here. Related link: http://kernel.org/ Submitted by Brian Ronald

Tyneside Linux User Group	Monday 11th July, 2011	PRINT
New web server Thanks to Ross Cooney of Rozmic Wireless Limited, we have a new home for the LUG web site. This server was a last minute replacement after some funding trouble meant that the previous server had to be closed down. We're extremely grateful to Ross for stepping in with this! Now, go and have a look at Rozmic's web site, linked below. Related link: http://www.emailcloud.com/ Submitted by Brian Ronald

Tyneside Linux User Group	Tuesday 16th November, 2010	PRINT
We won a prize! Dear Brian, thanks for replying to our email, and your interest in Linux Magazine. By random selection you were chosen to be one of our fifteen LUG Package winners. We've sent your prize out with this letter, so that you can distribute the magazines to your Linux User Group. We wish you a good conclusion to the year and a great start to 2011! Kind regards, Steven Lloyd Linux New Media AG I'll bring them to the next meeting. We have recent (Sept/Oct) issues of Ubuntu User, Linux Magazine and Admin Network & Security. Cool! Submitted by Brian Ronald

Tyneside Linux User Group	Saturday 11th September, 2010	PRINT
New server This web site, including the wiki, the web chat and the web mail, and the LUG's mailing lists, have all been migrated to a new server. The transition was largely seamless. Having said that, I'm only human, so if anybody notices something that isn't working as it should around here, please do get in touch. Submitted by Brian Ronald

Tyneside Linux User Group	Thursday 02nd September, 2010	PRINT
Server down-time Our data centre is going to be performing some maintenance to the power supply on our server in the morning of Saturday, 2nd October 2010. This web site (and the mailing lists) will be off-line from midnight, until as late as 08:00 in the morning. This will be on the morning of one of our meetings. In the event of a monumental disaster at the data centre (which is an uncommon, but not entirely mythical event) the site won't be back before the meeting. If this is the case, please don't panic; just proceed in an orderly fashion to the last known stated venue for midday, which will be appearing here in due course. Submitted by Brian Ronald

Events	Monday 09th August, 2010	PRINT
Software Freedom Day SuperMondays will be putting together an event for Software Freedom Day this year. The date for your diaries is Saturday 18th September, 2010. News about exact times, venue, etc. will be posted here as soon as it's known. Members of Tyneside Linux User Group will be attending this event. Related link: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Europe/United%20Kingdom/Newcastle/SFD%20Newcastle Submitted by Brian Ronald

Events	Monday 07th December, 2009	PRINT
Annual new year's eating Instead of our regular January meeting, we're having a social meal at Frankie & Benny's Restaurant. This will be the third time we've done this. The last two were great successes. Franky & Benny's New York Italian restaurant - the one on the corner of Northumberland Road and John Dobson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. I'll need to know numbers as soon as possible. We've already got about six people who've said they'll come. Please, give us a shout on the general mailing list if you want to come, and I'll get us a table booked. I'm working on a provisional date of Saturday the 9th of January, and a time of six o'clock in the evening. As before, this isn't a late night thing. Submitted by Brian Ronald