About FredLUG

The Fredericksburg Linux User Group (FredLUG) is a group of Linux and free and open source software (FOSS) fans. We meet and discuss FOSS and Linux, troubleshoot and solve IT problems using FOSS, and advocate Linux and FOSS to the greater Fredericksburg community. We welcome Linux users, developers, and anyone curious about Linux and FOSS. All experience levels are welcome. Here's how to find us:

  • At our meetings (unless otherwise posted):
    • 3rd Monday of each month at 7PM (1900). Check the email list on Monday meeting nights for the location of the meeting that night.
    • Last Saturday of each month at 9AM (0900), at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library England Run Branch at 806 Lyons Boulevard, Fredericksburg, VA 22406 (map)
  • On the email list—join at http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug. You can peruse the archives here, but we hope you'll join the list.
  • On the IRC channel #FredLUG on irc.freenode.net. Join the conversation here.

Moving to Fedora 19 Alpha!

Mar
28

The post Moving to Fedora 19 Alpha! appeared first on The Grand Fallacy.

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Why Does Amazon.com Hate Open Source?

Sep
08

Without Open Source software, Amazon.com would not exist. Their infrastructure would kill a Windows server infrastructure. They never could have afforded the licenses they needed to scale their infrastructure in the Windows world back in the early days of 96 and 97. So why does Amazon treat Linux users like 2nd class citizens?

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Meeting notes 2012-Aug-25

Aug
25

These are meeting notes from our regular Saturday, August 25 meeting. We covered plans for the upcoming Software Freedom Day event in Fredericksburg, and a short presentation on systemd, the new startup system in many Linux distributions.

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OpenShift PaaS presentation

Aug
02

On Saturday, July 28th 2012, FredLUG hosted Grant Shipley from Red Hat's Openshift team to discuss and demonstrate Openshift with the FredLUG crew.

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