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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 …

Thanks again everyone for showing such support for our Welcome Tea! You guys turned out in such great numbers this year that we were caught completely off guard! We know it was a tight squeeze, but you guys were such great sports to help shift the furniture around to make way, you rock! =)

It’s really heartening to see such strong support for FLOSS (Free, Libre, Open Source Software) in NUS, and we’d really like to do more to help everyone learn and grow as much within the community as possible. …

It’s the time of  year again! It’s time to raise your hands in cheer to celebrate Free and Open Source Software! Go shout it from the mountain tops! Go dancing in the street!

Or… maybe not the dancing, shouting bit.

Software Freedom Day is here again though, for sure, this time round spearheaded by the newly formed Free and Open Source Alliance. We speak to Tom Goh and Darrel Chua, founders of FOSA to find out more about what Software Freedom Day is all about.

SFD 09 will be held at the National …

linuxNUS is hosting an Installfest at on 17 Sep 2009, Thursday, 745pm, at COM1 SR2.

During this community building event, people get together to do mass/Free installations of Linux Operating System and other open source software. The event is open to everyone, from the complete newbie to the expert. Novices can bring their computers along and learn from experienced users in Installation and troubleshooting problems.

Through this event, linuxNUS hopes to strengthen and build the community of Linux and Open Source users in NUS and Singapore.

For the purposes of instruction and coordination, …

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone has had an enjoyable summer break! To the freshmen, I bid you a warm welcome to the NUS family on behalf of linuxNUS!

To usher in the beginning of the new academic year, we are organizing a Welcome Tea. The linuxNUS Welcome Tea will be held at COM 1/SR10 on 09/09/09 (Wed) at 7pm. The purpose of this session is to introduce to you linuxNUS’s activities and related Open Source goings-on in NUS. We will also announce the upcoming exciting events that we have lined up …