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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. See also. Free software portal; Linux portal
Computer user groups may consist of members who primarily use a specific operating system, such as Linux. While many hackers use free and open source software, others use Macintosh, RISC OS, Windows and Amiga OS. There are also other user groups that concentrate on either Mac OS (Macintosh User Group or MUG) or Linux (Linux User Group or LUG).
A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.
The NLUUG (formerly known as The Netherlands Local Unix User Group) is an association of professional UNIX and Linux users in the Netherlands. The group aims to increase and extend the awareness and use of Open Standards (including UNIX) and similar open systems and Open Source software. The NLUUG also maintains one of the largest FTP mirrors ...
Formed in 1998, the group participated in Bangalore IT.COM 1999 (now known as Bangalore IT.in ), then India's largest technology event. The Government of Karnataka gave the BLUG an entire pavilion, where it exhibited Linux-based machines showing various applications, under the motto "Seeing is believing". Over the years, the BLUG participated ...
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Hardware platforms. 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.