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But it seems that a new warfront is being fought in the sphere of soft drinks with Bing Soda, Microsoft Soda and Ubuntu Cola

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, …

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?!

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 …

For all of you who’re interested in trying out Ubuntu for the first time, NUS Computing Club and Ubuntu.SG have teamed up with us to present the next instalment of our Open up to Open Source series, imaginatively titled Ubuntu. (Sorry!)
Read about the event on the Ubuntu.SG site. While registration for this event is closing soon because of limited places in Programming Lab 2, we’d like to get a sense of how many people would like to attend such an event if we were to hold another.
We are also …

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 …