linuxNUS

My favorite sections in the NUS Central Library is the TK5I05.885 and QA76.76 – all catering to the latest and old books on various Computer technologies. Last semester, I had to write an essay for the USP application on a topic that talks about my interest. And guess what, I wrote about  Open Source. I had to keep it non-technical as mainly Arts Professors would evaluate that. (Disclaimer : I did not get through USP ).
So I looked up some books regarding the topics, and for that I …

These are the current fronts in which the software wars are being fought.
But it seems that a new warfront is being fought in the sphere of soft drinks with Bing Soda, Microsoft Soda and Ubuntu Cola

Four years ago to this day, 7 Oct 2005, linuxNUS was officially born. That is to day, of course, that we were officially recognised as a Student Special Interest Group. Of course, that doesn’t mean that we weren’t around before that. linuxNUS first came into existence on 6 Jul 2005, as our Yahoo! Group, which still serves as our primary mailing list till this day. Before 7 Oct though, we were a loosely organised, but nontheless motivate bunch, determined to bring the value and benefit of open source software to …

All right, I’ll cut right to the chase with this one, and won’t pull any punches. Let me be the first to say, It can be a pain trying to use only Free and open source software.
There. I’ve said it. Now I await the pitchforks.
Before you toss me into the vat of boiling oil for heresy, however, hear me out. We’ve all been in this fix before. We really, really, want to use only open source software, but there are just so many things that stand in our way.  That …

After talking about the business opportunities with LXDE, Mario is now talking about the community at LXDE.
An interesting fact about LXDE Project is that the founder of the Project, alias PCMan, is actually a medical doctor!
A very prominent member of the LXDE community is Klaus Knopper, also the creator of Knoppix LiveCD. In fact, the recent release of Knoppix has moved from having KDE to LXDE as the default desktop environment.
One of the key messages from Mario is that an Open Source Project need both technical and non-technical members, …

Our website has a new look!
Other than some cosmetic touch ups, there is now also a chat applet login located on the sidebar. Extremely useful for those who do not have an irc client, but still wish to drop into #linuxnus.
Do drop into the channel. The place usually comes alive after 11pm.
In addition, our photos are now hosted at Webshots
While most of the photos are from our archives on this site, there are some photos of the previous LUG before linuxNUS was founded. These were dug out from The …