Tyneside Linux User Group

Next Meeting

Sat, 12 May 2012 15:45:01 +0100

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.
Brian Ronald

Kubuntu abandoned by Canonical

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:32:27 +0000

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.
Brian Ronald

Linux version 3 released

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:56:00 +0100

Last night, Linux Torvalds cryptographically signed a tag on his Git repository for the Linux kernel: v3.0 It's finally here.
Brian Ronald

New web server

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:34:22 +0100

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.
Brian Ronald

We won a prize!

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:01:02 +0000

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!
Brian Ronald

New server

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:06:35 +0100

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.
Brian Ronald

Server down-time

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:09:39 +0100

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.
Brian Ronald

Software Freedom Day

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:16:46 +0100

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.
Brian Ronald

Annual new year's eating

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:17:38 +0000

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.
Brian Ronald

Happy Birthday to Linux

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:09 +0100

Linux 0.01 was released to a largely unsuspecting public on this day, 1991, making Linux 18 years old and legally able to buy beer. It had 10,239 lines of code at the time. It now has about 12 million.
Brian Ronald