From Linus to Guido: a user group's front-row seat
The DC LUG meeting list reads like an early history of Linux itself. A look back at the speakers.
This server (running Linux, of course) is managed by members of East Coast USA Linux user groups. It was formerly known as wauug.erols.com and linux.wauug.org. We hope you enjoy your visit.
East Coast US Linux User Groups
- Boston Linux and Unix (BLU) - Boston, Massachusetts; founded April 1994
- DCLUG - the DC Linux Users Group (formerly DC-Linux); meets in Bethesda, Maryland; founded July 1994
- LUGMAN - meets in Centreville, Virginia; founded October 1994
- UMLUG - University of Maryland at College Park; founded November 1995
- Piedmont Linux User Group - Burlington, North Carolina; founded January 1996
- RiVaLUG - Richmond, Virginia; founded June 1997
- WPILA - WPI Linux Association; Worcester, Massachusetts; founded September 1997
- SMLUG - Southern Maryland; looking for members
Eastern Canadian Linux User Groups
- Scarborough Linux User Group - near Toronto, Ontario
- OCLUG - Ottawa Carleton, Ontario; founded March 1997
Related Technical User Groups
- Linux International
- USENIX - the Advanced Computing Systems Association
- SAGE - the System Administrators Guild (DC-SAGE, Old Bay SAGE)
- WAUUG - Washington Area Unix Users' Group (Bethesda, Maryland)
- AWCNCC - Association for Women in Computing (Washington DC Chapter)
Linux mailing lists in HTML
We keep searchable, browsable archives of the busy Linux kernel, networking, MS-DOS and mtools mailing lists.
LinuxFests
We hold LinuxFests three or four times a year, usually in Bethesda, Maryland, with help from DCLUG and LUGMAN. People bring their machines and leave with Linux installed and running - for free.
Linux-Related Pages
Mirrored Linux Software
Daily mirrors of key parts of sunsite and tsx-11, packages from numerous smaller, harder-to-find Linux FTP sites, and a growing number of packages which originate from this server, live in our anonymous FTP area.
Bleeding-edge kernels: Linux v2.1 development kernels and patches were flown in several times a day fresh from Finland (ahem, make that California), for the convenience of hackers who wanted the very latest right away. If you did not enjoy debugging, the advice was to stick to the safer, more conservative 2.0 kernels. See upgrading to kernel v2.0.