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What is the Wellington Linux Users Group?
The Wellington Linux Users Group, better known as Wellylug, is a group of people who are
interested in Linux and Open Source in general. Anyone may join wellylug and participate
online, in person or both.
To obtain a good idea of what Wellylug does, take a look at our aims:
- To exchange Linux and Open Source software knowledge and experience
- To encourage the usage of Linux and Open Source, by introducing it, explaining it, and helping people to install it.
- To have a good time, meet other people and to make friends.
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Meetings:
Meetings are held in Wellington, once a month. Vist the meetings page for more information for what occurs at the meetings.
Wellington City:
Meetings are being held roughly monthly in Wellington's CBD.
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Lower Hutt:
Meetings are being held on the 4th Tuesday of each month in Lower Hutt.
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FYI: If you register on this website, you can set your account to send you meeting reminders.
We also sometimes run special events called 'Installfests'. These installfests happen roughtly once a year,
and are a great way for you to try out demo Linux machines, take home free CD's, attend presentations and even get
Linux installed for you, by experienced Wellylug members. Take a look at our previous installfests
to get an idea of what happens.
What is Linux?
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GNU/Linux (usually referred to as Linux) is a free, open source operating system, released under the GNU General Public Licence.
It typically consists of the Linux kernel (originally created by Linus Torvalds) along with
many applications and libraries, many created by the GNU project.
FYI: Detailed information and history about Linux can be found at Wikipedia
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From a user's perspective, Linux provides a free operating system, as an alternative to proprietary systems
such as Microsoft Windows, and it is suitable for desktops, laptops, servers and embedded devices, as it is
fast, flexible, secure and reliable. Another, very important feature, is that it is free and open source,
allowing anyone to make changes to it, leading to faster bug fixes, better security and newer features.
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Why should I use Linux?
Why should I use Linux? What will it give me that I don't already have? Read on to find out just some of the
many features of Linux!
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Linux is legally free, and comes with a huge range of software, that is easily
installable, upgradeable and removable. Under Windows you could pay thousands for the same software and it
still wouldn't be as intergrated as Linux. |
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Linux is rock solid and even if an application does crash, the way Linux is
designed, you can just kill the collapsed application without having to restart the system. People claim
to have had Linux servers running for months or even years without a crash! |
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Linux has no shortage of device support - in fact, it often has better support
than Windows, autodetecting devices, solving conflicts and even supporting devices Windows XP dropped support of. |
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Linux runs on just about any computer system - from i386 to AMD64 to Apple Mac to PDAs, etc. |
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When you are running any critical server, such as file or web, you need it to always
be up & ready. In Linux just about any change can be made without having to restart the system! |
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The old barrier of Linux being hard to use is long dead. Now with distributions such
as Mandrake installation and use is as easy, if
not easier than Windows. |
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Unlike desktop versions of Windows, Linux is a server strength operating system.
It is ideal for running web and database servers, as well as desktop + laptop work. |
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Having the source code available gives you an unlimited amount of flexibility.
Further more, distributions such as Gentoo
make it easy for non-programmers to have complete control over their systems & a
Linux from scratch
system gives you 100% control! |
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A Microsoft VP has admitted that Microsoft products are
not engineered for security. Linux, however, has its source code freely available,
making it easy to find, and more importantly fix, any security flaws that exist. |
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Linux can share your computer with Windows, making it easy to try out without
having to switch completely or can even run direct from the cdrom! |
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Upcoming Meetings: Wellington:
Mon 08 September 08
Lower Hutt:
No current meetings
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