Linux Supporters Group

The tutorial on scripting, describing the development of the script that explores all user commands available on your computer using bash, cmd.exe and powershell, has at last been uploaded to the tutorials section.

The tutorial comparing and timing bash, cmd.exe and powershell running the same word-frequency task has been uploaded to the tutorials section.

The X11 tutorial and some X11 exercises to try out are also there now.

An appreciation of the OpenOffice.org suite has been added as a slide-show that was recently given at our meeting.

www.freesoftwaremagazine.com has some good Linux cartoons … as well as a whole heap of interesting magazines devoted to free software issues.

Our December Meeting night is always a Movie night.

The movie on December 3rd will be “HACKERS” starting at 7.45pm.

We Meet at ASWCC, 171.Sturt st Adelaide. Cost $2.00 for Centre use.

We shall be running workshops that allow people to bring in their computer and go into various topics in a practical way and in a depth that is not possible during our normal meetings.

These workshops start in 2009 and shall be held in March, April, May and then September, October and November.

In our “LSGA Workshop” bring your computer and attend a formal main hands-on session and a few minor sessions over a three-hour period (on a night to be decided, in the week or two following our normal meeting night) of each of the above months from 1900-2200, with a small cost (probably $3-$4 or so) for venue hire.

Proposed topics shall be chosen from amongst our talk topics from previous months as well as ad-hoc topics arising at our meetings. They shall be advertised on this blog in advance.