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Ubuntu Workshop Mar 09

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:43:20 +0000

This was a very successful event and we would like to take this chance to thank Team Ubuntu Singapore as well as NUS Students’ Computing Club for the wonderful and professional collaboration.

And here are the long awaited photos.

Chief Instructor

The studious class

The Team

Signing off! Wait what’s that on the left?!

Registration closed for March 27th Ubuntu Workshop

iced — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:31:54 +0000

What’s on March 27th, you say? Team Ubuntu Singapore, or TUSG, is going to hold a workshop / demo session in COM1, showing how it’s possible to use open source software to get your work done, and live your life the way you want it! For more details, check out their site.

However, there’s been really great response from you guys, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Computing Club! As our venue (Programming Lab 2) is limited in space, we’ve had to close registration for the event.

For those of you who’ve missed out, though, fret not – this huge response will no doubt encourage future events to take place, and some might take place really soon, too! If you like, you can leave us your name at our official contact address. Or join our mailing list to receive updates!

What we’d really like is for more people to come by our IRC channel and hang out. It isn’t all that hard, now is it?

Non Sequitur

iced — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:16:44 +0000

So … I am somewhat relieved that I managed to install OpenSUSE 11.0 on my laptop, in a separate partition, just the way Linux should be run. It wasn’t accepting any sort of Ubuntu CD before, though it did give me some excuse to tangle with Lilo… really long story that doesn’t belong here, hence the title.

But I’d like to remind you guys that even though lots of our events are based around Ubuntu, and more collaboration with Ubuntu-SG is in the works, there are plenty of other distros out there, and there has to be one that suits you.

… Yes, I heard you say Windows Vista. Nice try, go back to chroot jail; do not pass go, do not collect $200. If the rest of you are interested in checking out other distros, I’d recommend DistroWatch as I’d mentioned before at the recent Install Fest.

There, I’ve made a QuickPress not so quick, and managed to link a non sequitur back to the previous post. If only everything in my life was this successful

P.S. It is purely coincidence that we might be inviting OpenSUSE, well the meetup group anyway, to NUS somewhere down the line. Really.