Callout Thursday
There will be a Spring callout this year. Come find out what the Purdue Linux Users Group is about.
Welcome Back
Welcome back for the new year and the spring semester. We hope your holidays went well. The PLUG calendar has been updated with events for this semester. Officer meeting times and member meeting times have been assigned. Keep an eye out for future updates on the calendar, and we hope …
Open Source LAN
The Open Source Lan this semester will be this Friday, November 8th from 6-10pm in LWSN B155! We will be playing Nethack, Alien Arena, 0AD, Warsow, Super Tux Kart, Marathon, and more! Please install games in advance. If you have trouble you can stop by at 5:30pm. There will …
Linux Driver Tech Talk
There will be a tech talk about the process of writing Linux Drivers on Monday, October 28th at 7:30-8:30pm in LWSN B134. Eric Villasenor will be speaking. If you can, bring a laptop to follow along with any examples.
Vim vs Emacs Battle!
The next installment of the Linux 101 series on advanced editors will be presented in the form of a battle between vim and emacs! Thor Smith will present vim usage and Alex Ryker will present emacs usage. There will be debate and time for questions at the end. The event …
PGP Keysigning
There will be a PGP signing event this coming Monday, October 21st at 6pm-7pm in LWSN B155. Please bring a student ID and government ID. Also, please try to print about 10-30 copies of your pgp fingerprint beforehand. Professor Gene Spafford has agreed to present on how PGP works at …
Linux 101 Session 3
Linux 101 Session 3
The next installment of Linux 101 is Wednesday, Oct. 9th at 7pm in LWSN B158! This session will talk about bash scripting and file permissions.
1. Introduction to Shells
2. File permissions
3. Introduction to Shell scripts
4. Bash programming concepts
Math Supercomputer Tour
On Thursday, 10/3/2013 PLUG will have a tour of the MATH Supercomputers. We will meet at 6:30pm under the MATH building breezeway and walk as a group to the tour area.
Linux 101 Session 2
The next installment of Linux 101 is Wednesday, Sept. 25th at 7pm in LWSN B158! This session will talk about package managers and various types of file systems. See the full list of topics below:
1. Package Manager Basics
2. Installing Software via Package Managers
3. Installing Software Manually
4 …
Linux 101 Session 1
Linux 101 starts this week on Wednesday . The first session will be an introduction to using Linux.
Introduction to Linux (Wednesday, Sept. 11th at 7pm in LWSN B158)
1. Basic commands
2. File Operations
3. Basic Editors
4. Root access
5. TTY vs. X