Linux Supporters Group

We are the Linux Supporters Group Adelaide. We meet at the Adelaide South-West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide, at 7.30pm. on the first Wednesday of each Month.

On August 4th we shalll have short talks on Linux and its promising future.  Speak-to-a-Geek about your Linux FAQs.  Suprise subject on the night.  Plus hear about our future programme, and end-of-year function.

Refreshments provided. Cost is $3.00 — plenty of parking available.

Bring your Friends, All Welcomed.

Linux Format (Jul 2010): Multi-booting summary —Better compression using xzip — Compiz-Fusion tutorial — Project management using Gnome-Planner — Introduction to version control with Subversion

Linux Format (Aug 2010): Web browser comparison — Linux phones discussed — methods of repairing damaged files — Blender in its 3D mode — Tutorial on email program ‘mutt’

Linux User & Developer (Issue 88): Review of web application programs — Tutorial on Python — Ubuntu 10.04 DVD

Linux Magazine (Jul 2010): Klaus Knopper’s column — Password management — Vim and Terminator; a new look at terminals and command-line — Multibuntu DVD

Admin Network & Security (Linux Special): Knoppix troubleshooting tools — remote administration tricks — Tools for networking with windows computers

Linux User & Developer (Issue 85): Tutorial on virtualisation — Some bash command-line hints — GNU ‘C’ compiler explanation — Quick and easy GUI development using PyGTK — Article on ChromeOS vs Moblin — How to make bare-metal backups

Linux User & Developer (Issue 87): The German WePad (linux-based) alternative to the iPad — Creating .pdf with Scribus — A bash tutorial — How to create .deb packages — A bit about device drivers

Linux Journal (June 2010): Remote access using OpenVPN — A brief history of Linux distributions over the past almost 20 years — Linux on the PowerPC, the ARM and the Itanium — Remote backup techniques

Linux Format (June 2010): Game FlightGear ! — Firewall distriburtions —A swathe of distros. on DVD to try via virtualisation — Shell ‘zsh’ — Boost Firefox performance — Base (instead of MySQL etc).

Linux Magazine (June 2010): Get ‘git’ version control running — File permissions explained

The Linux Supporters Group Adelaide meets at the Adelaide South West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide on the first Wednesday of each Month at 7.30pm.

On July 7th, we have two presenters:

Adam Webb shall talk on The Latest CPUs in Personal Computers.

Peter Perry shall talk on How to Manipulate Images in Linux.

Cost $3.00. Refreshments provided. The usual speak-to-a-geek session. where we try to solve your computer problems.

Bring your friends — all welcome.

THE LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP meets at the ADELAIDE SOUTH-WEST COMMUNITY CENTRE.  171 Sturt Street, Adelaide at 7.30pm on the First Wednesday of each Month.

At our Wednesday night meeting in June, Trevor Glen and Michael Terrington from Sarugo will present “A new cool way to back up all your data”, using a method — “MemoryBox” — introduced by their company.

Cost is $3.00 refreshments provided. bring your friends. All welcome.

Plus our usual “speak-to-a-Geek” and solve your computer problems.

THE LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP ADELAIDE meets on the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EACH MONTH from 7.30PM at 171 STURT STREET, ADELAIDE.

MAY 5TH WORKSHOP: “HANDS ON LEARNING”

Bring your own computer and monitor with power cords, mouse, keyboard.

(We have a few laptops loaded with Debian Lenny available, too).

We shall be showing several ways to install and use Linux. You may make use of our debian/ubuntu partial mirror, too.

Hot Soup and crusty bread, Tea and Coffee: Cost $5.

Please RSVP for catering to: ASWCC phone 82123533 between 9am - 5pm.

Sale of books, pc hardware, disc drives, cables, kvm switches &c cheap.

NOTE:  The slides and extensive supporting notes for the recent talk on MySQL have been added at the bottom of the “Tutorials” section of our website under the topic “Databases: How to manage MySQL via PHP”.

And just to make sure we are on the same page, check out http://www.promotinglinux.com/truth/ …

Linux User & Developer (Issue #83) : A whole heap of  python programming tips — How to get started with the mutt mail client — A fair bit about the Android phone — A brief look at Chrome OS — DVD containing Debian ’squeeze’.

Linux Magazine (April 2010): Knoppix 6.3 DVD — MySQL Workbench tutorial — Klaus Knopper on why KVM switches can mess up your video resolution choices — ClamAV install+configure tutorial — (the original) GRUB tutorial.

Linux Journal (March 2010): Using OpenVPN for Linux — Using ssh through a compromised firewall.

The Linux Supporters Group has created an APT partial mirror for use in our Friday Linux Learners Lounge, our monthly Wednesday Meetings and our bi-annual  Workshops.

It should now be easy to bring in your own computer and install any one of over 3500 packages that you might need on the spot, by connecting to our server via ethernet cable. You may also upgrade your distro. You have to be running one of the following distristribution releases:

DEBIAN:  [i386]     etch   lenny   squeeze

[main contrib non-free]

UBUNTU:  [i386]    dapper   hardy   intrepid   jaunty   karmic   lucid

[main restricted universe multiverse]

Linux Format (January 2010) : Linux Netbook distros — Grub booting tutorial — SSH tunnel over HTTP to get out anywhere.

Linux Journal (January 2010) : Lots about how to control amateur radio systems from Linux — Using Firewall Builder 3.0 — Port-knocking sequences for security — Create a Linux  DNS, Web & MySQL server using Xen.

Linux Format (February 2010) : Comparison of anti-virus software — Nine Linux projects in 90 minutes ! — Recovering lost data on a disk — Using NAT in Linux — GRUB2 tutorial.

Linux Journal (February 2010) : Linux Virtual Private Networking — Mutt: how configurable ! — Running Remote Applications: XDMCP, Xnest, ssh -X, Vino, &c.

Linux Format (March 2010) : Very good article which follows an HTTP datagram as it traverses the internet.

Linux Magazine (March 2010) : Linux Steganography tutorial (hiding stuff in plain sight) — Details of how an attack can be carried out via Javascript in a pdf file — Managing all those passwords you have — Constructing a sandbox (isolating damage from untrusted scripts) for Firefox — Comparison of popular Linux media players — Tiny Core Linux — Abiword tutorial — Linux photo managers compared — ImageMagick command-line photo editting.

Linux User & Developer (Issue 81) : Slax Linux with installation tutorial — Xen virtualisation tutorial — DVD containing Slax Linux & openSUSE11.2-RC1.

Linux+ (Vol 4 No 1) : Linux Mint intro. — Linux Server Administration Tools — Using SSH instead of VPN for secure remote access.

The Linux Supporters Group Adelaide meets at the Adelaide South West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street Adelaide, at 7.30pm, on the first Wednesday of each month.

April Meeting:    Barry Dwyer shall present MySQL - database in Linux.

Cost is $3.00, refreshments provided, also our usual speak to a geek session.