Our next monthly meeting will be on Wednesday February 10, 2010 in the Basement at Stepinac HS at 7:00 pm room G1.
 


The February 2010 presentation will be," Ubuntu's installed, now what do I do?"

John Moore will lead a discussion and demonstration about what steps to take now that Ubuntu has been successfully installed on your machine. We will discuss configuring a network, setting up printers, customizing applications and most important of all - updating packages (patches) that are on your Ubuntu machine. If you have other questions about Ubuntu, please bring them to the meeting!

What is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing. The most recent version of Ubuntu is 9.10 (also called Karmic Koala).
 

   Please click here for more details about Ubuntu.


Has the Ubuntu bug bitten you yet? Check out some of these pubs:

 
Would you like to read Ubuntu User for free? Click here to read (or download a 43 mb PDF file) the first issue of Ubuntu User!

Ubuntu User magazine has now published three issues, click here for more information.
 

    

Full Circle Magazine is now up to issue 32, please click here for more information.

For those who are into Amateur "Ham" Radio, The January 2010 edition of "Linux Journal" discusses Linux and Amateur Radio. You say potato, I say potahto, you say ham, I say amateur... you see where I'm going with this? Ok, maybe not, Amateur Radio, that's where and that's what this month's issue focus is. What you might ask is the connection between Amateur Radio and Linux? Well Linux may be the only O/S out there with an AX.25 packet radio protocol driver, and it's had it since forever. So blow the dust off your license and start reading.

If Ham's not your favorite food, don't despair there are plenty of other articles in this month's issue including, but not limited to, Firewall Builder, Cucumber, Vimperator, port knocking with knockd, building appliances with Linux and Xen, and using Twitter from the command line.


Want to try out Ubuntu before coming to the meeting? Then click here to download a **Free** CD disc image of Ubuntu (about 690 megs). The download page will explain the  three simple steps of trying (live working demo) or installing Ubuntu. Your Windows machine can first download the image and then make a bootable CD (you do have a CD burner and not just a player on your PC?) on your "Windows" machine. After the CD has been created, then reboot your machine with the newly made CD in the player to try out Ubuntu. When the start screen displays, click on English and then "Live Mode" which is usually the first line choice. Run "Firefox" to surf the Web and "Open Office" to play with documents. Do you have any Microsoft Word documents on your Windows PC now? The Ubuntu "Live Mode" disc will be able to "read" your hard drive and retrieve those files with "Open Office".

Do you want to try out "Open Office" and see how it handles Microsoft Office documents? This is also a **Free** download and user license. Both the Windows and Linux versions are available for you to use. Please click here to download - 100 million users can't be wrong! Select your language and then locate the column that says "Linux 32-bit DEB" or click here for the version that will operate under Ubuntu.

 

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