About UMLUG

What is a LUG?

A LUG, a Linux User Group, is just that, a group of people who use the Linux operating system. As Linux is not a commercial product strictly speaking, and as we're a rather unconventional lot for choosing to use Linux rather than some other operating system, it's very beneficial to have someone to turn to for questions. Since Linux is released under the GNU General Public License, it also tends to attract people who believe in Free Software and the various things it represents, or who like to write their own software or help others to write good software.

What is Linux anyway?

To quote from linux.org:
Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.

What does UMLUG do?

We run and participate in a quite active mailing list, and we have meetings once a week, usually with a guest speaker to talk about an issue that is related in some way to Linux or Free Software or whatever interests most people. And we have pizza and soda.