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A Linux User Group or Linux Users' Group (LUG) or GNU/Linux User Group (GLUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. The term commonly refers to local groups that meet in person but is also used to refer to online support ...
A Linux User Group (LUG) is a meeting of people who like Linux and use it. Each country will usually have a national LUG which may administer the groups, offer free services etc. and it is also possible for groups to get sponsorships from various commercial organisations, SuSE is one example.
Adamcon (Coleco Adam user group) Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) SHARE; Macintosh User Groups in the UK; DUsers, the first Macintosh users group, based at Drexel University; IIUG International Informix Users Group; COMMON for Power Systems (IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, System i, AIX and Linux) users in North America.
Users' groups may be organized around a particular brand of hardware (e.g., Mac), software and operating systems (e.g. Linux), or more rarely may be dedicated to retro systems (e.g., Apple II). An example of an early user group is the Apple User Group Connection.
NFSv4 was intended to help avoid numeric identifier collisions by identifying users (and groups) in protocol packets using textual “user@domain” names rather than integer numbers. However, as long as operating-system kernels and local file systems continue to use integer user identifiers, this comes at the expense of additional translation ...
NYLUG (New York Linux Users Group) is a LUG (Linux User Group) based out of New York City.NYLUG supports all things Linux and FLOSS in the greater New York City area.. NYLUG meets on a monthly basis, and features a speaker or speakers who give presentations of interest to the NYLUG membership.
In Unix-like systems, multiple users can be put into groups. POSIX and conventional Unix file system permissions are organized into three classes, user, group, and others.The use of groups allows additional abilities to be delegated in an organized fashion, such as access to disks, printers, and other peripherals.
LinuxChix was founded in 1999 by Deb Richardson, who was a technical writer and web-master at an open source consulting firm. [3] [2] Her reason for founding LinuxChix was to create an alternative to the "locker room mentality" of some other Linux User Groups and forums.