Linux Supporters Group

Archive for April, 2009

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Linux Supporters Group Adelaide

An Appreciation of KDE 4: Looking at the history of the development of the K Desktop Environment — comparing and contrasting this latest version with what has come before.
Configure a Gateway: Explaining the details behind getting a Linux box to act as a router and gateway — a bit about iptables and TCP/IP — in preparation for a workshop in June.

The meeting shall be held at the Adelaide South West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide.

Supper provided. $2 Centre fees. Further Info.: contact us on this Blog.

Everyone welcome. Meeting starts at 1930. Doors open at 1915.

Usual ‘Speak-to-a-Geek’ session. (Committee meeting 1800-1915)

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

We have added these to our “Tutorials” section:

An Intro. to the C Language: a gentle introduction to the C language for programming hardware using Linux.

Controlling an LCD: a C program to write to a commonly-available LCD module connected to a parallel port under Linux.