We will have a booth at the Mines Celebration. Come see us!
The purpose of the Informal GNU/Linux User Group of the Colorado School of Mines is to
promote the use of Open Source Software (and in particular the
GNU/Linux operating system) in the community of the Colorado School of
Mines, by encouraging mutual aid between users. Our main activity is
to organize Linux Parties, Tutorials, and in general to provide resources
to help people install and use Open Source Software. We have a mailing list, CDROMs and
other stuff that you can borrow, including the Linux Journal. We
also make grouped orders of cdroms from cheapbytes (e.g. RedHat Linux 6.1
costs $3).
Contact: Nicolas M. Thiery
(nthiery@mines.edu) or mailing list linux@mines.edu.
GNU/Linux is a very powerful operating system that can run on PC
(desktop or laptop), most MacIntosh's, alpha and SPARC stations, etc.
It is a variant of UNIX, which also provides nice graphical
interfaces. The central point is that GNU/Linux is Open Source
Software: not only is it free (download from the web, cheap CDROMs),
but you have complete access to the sources of all programs to tailor
them to your needs. In a word, it's a system developed for users, by
users. There is a wide range of applications running on it, including
spreadsheets, word processors, compilers, games, and a huge amount of
scientific softwares. Many of these applications are also Open Source
Software. Note that Linux and windows (or other operating systems) can
coexists on the same machine when specific applications are needed.
A group of happy long-time users of Linux. We think we owe something
to the Open Source Software community for all the software we could
use at no cost. Promoting Open Source Software is a way for us to
contribute to the international effort to provide anyone with free,
open, stable, user-friendly and powerful operating systems and
applications. You are welcome to join and help us!
We meet every week, on Wednesday from 5pm to 6pm, and Thursday from
1pm to 2pm. Most of the time, the meeting takes place in the SGI lab
247 in Green Center, and the main topic is a tutorial, followed by a
general questions and answers session. If you need help installing or
configuring linux on your machine, feel free to bring it, and we will
look at it right after the meeting.
Specific anouncements are sent to the mailing
list.
The mailing list linux@mines.edu is devoted to technical
discussions about GNU/Linux and more generally Open Source Software,
as well as to the organization of the tutorials and Linux parties. To
subscribe, just go to: https://maillistmgr.mines.edu/cgi-bin/maillistmgr/maillist.cgi
If you don't have an account on slate.mines.edu, we can add your
email by hand.
You can borrow plenty of GNU/Linux CDROMs and books about GNU/Linux
and open source in general from Arthur Lakes
library. Just ask for the reserve of the GNU/Linux User
Group.
The Informal GNU/Linux User Group of the CSM /
The Informal GNU/Linux User Group of the Colorado School of Mines /
Nicolas M. Thiéry
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