Wisconsin Linux Users
From Wisconsin Linux Users
Connect with other GNU/Linux enthusiasts in and around Wisconsin! Feel free to edit this page and add your own content related to GNU/Linux use in Wisconsin.
Link Us!!! Please consider linking to http://wisconsinlinux.org from your Linux related web site. Wisconsin Linux User Groups (LUGS) are especially encouraged. Your links help other Wisconsin Linux users find http://wisconsinlinux.org and share their knowledge and ideas about Linux.
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Wisconsin Linux News
2008-09-03 Middleton, WI – Extreme Engineering Solutions has released the XPedite7170, a low-power single-board computer for embedded applications. Includes a Linux Support Package. Read more...
2008-08-27 Madison XO laptop project brings innovative tool to local children. Read more...
2008-07-22 Scott Finley, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has ported the ext2 file system to Microsoft's new research operating system Singularity.
2008-04-18 The Eau Claire Linux Users Group gave an interview to channel 13 in Eau Claire, regarding Linux.
2008-02-25 "As a major sponsor of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08), NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) will present seven technical white papers with researchers and students from leading universities around the country." Presentations by UW Madison students and researchers. Read more...
2008-02-22 Amtelco XDS Telecom Boards Now Support Asterisk "Amtelco XDS has entered the open source world by announcing Asterisk support for their Amtelco XDS Boards." Amtelco is based in the Madison, WI area. Read more...
2008-01-31 "A startup founded by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison..." Nemean Networks LLC "...next month will begin beta-testing an appliance based on its patent-pending technology aimed at stopping attackers and bot-herders before they hit client machines." Read more...
2007-12-04 Red Hat Linux has incorporated your own University of Wisconsin - Madison's Condor Project (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/) into their Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid) product. See http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/mrg.html for more details on Red Hat Linux's Enterprise MRG. Congrats to the Condor Project!
User Groups
Wisconsin Linux User Groups (LUG's)
- BarCampMadison ( http://barcampmadison2.org/ ) and BarCampMilwaukee ( http://barcampmilwaukee.com/ ) are not Linux User Groups, but you will find lots of 'em in attendance!
- Beaver Dam Linux Users Group http://damlug.org/
- Burlington Linux Users Group http://www.burlingtonlinux.org/
- Duluth, MN Superior, WI Linux Users Group http://www.dsluug.org/
- Eau Claire Linux users group is an informal group of Linux and open source software enthusiasts. http://eclug.homelinux.org
- Fond du Lac Linux Users Group http://www.fdllug.org/
- Kenosha Area Linux Users Group http://www.kalug.org <<< Kenoshans Unite! Get this group off the ground.
- La Crosse Linux Users Group http://www.lclug.org/
- Madison Linux Users Group http://www.madisonlinux.org/
- Milwaukee Linux Users Group http://www.milwaukeelug.org/
- North East Wisconsin Linux Users Group http://www.newlug.org/ <<< Meets in De Pere, WI
- Sheboygan / Manitowoc Linux Users Group http://www.bratlug.org/
- UW Oshkosh Computer Science Club http://www.uwosh.edu/cs_club/ <<< This is not an open membership group, but you can join their mailing lists.
- West of Madison Technology Users' Group http://groups.google.com/group/westofmadtech <<< Not Linux-specific, but welcomes Linux-related discussion/presentations and formation of Linux SIG.
- WiLoCo is an Ubuntu LoCo Team of folks from Wisconsin. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WisconsinTeam/
There is also an extensive list of local Wisconsin Tech Groups here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pDMgmYwi3Um77V18tIM76Kw
Meetings / Event Calendar
If you want to add your own event, just edit this space and I'll get you setup to add events. -sgtd
Live LUG Meetings!
Have a look at http://live.wisconsinlinux.org/ to sit in on a LUG meeting right now!
Chat
- Several people inhabit the #wilug channel on irc.freenode.net . Point your IRC client to irc.freenode.net and /join #wilug or if you don't have an IRC client handy mibbit.com is a web-based IRC gateway. Choose the Freenode.net server and the #wilug channel. Stop in sometime and introduce yourself. You can also browse over to http://www.wilug.us/ or http://www.wilug.org/ to get a synopsis.
- Ubuntu Wisconsin LoCo team maintains the #ubuntu-wisconsin channel on irc.freenode.net .
- Beaver Dam Linux Users Group maintains the #damlug channel on irc.freenode.net .
- The Milwaukee Linux Users Group maintains the #mlug channel on irc.milwaukeelug.org .
Individuals
GNU/Linux - Open Source - Techie - Individuals from Wisconsin -- with websites!
- http://www.djhsolutions.com/
- http://seiler.us/
- http://mydigitechnician.blogspot.com/
- http://www.theputnams.net/mike/
- http://www.lfod.us/
- http://www.hentzenwerke.com/
- http://www.apocalyptech.com/
- http://upsidedownkingdom.org/
- http://www.lyonlabs.org/
- http://www.chadkittel.com/
See how many Wisconsin-ites are counted on the Linux User Counter
Gear
ISPs and Hosts in Wisconsin
Commentary on Internet Service Providers and Hosts in Wisconsin:
- Time Warner Cable / Roadrunner http://www.timewarnercable.com/wisconsin/ - You can get an Internet-only line.
- AT&T http://www.att.com/ - Decent DSL service
- TDS Metrocom http://www.tdsmetro.com/
- NetSonic offers dedicated, colocated, or virtual hosting right in Green Bay, WI. http://www.netsonic.net/
- NTD Athenet offers residential and business Internet services as well as dedicated, colocated, or virtual hosting in Appleton, WI. http://www.athenet.net/
- NetNet http://www.netnet.net/ - Internet access and web hosting in North East Wisconsin.
- Hosthead http://www.hosthead.com/ - Web Design services and hosting based in Madison, WI.
Software
Linux Distributions
You can't have a web site about Linux without links to the popular distros! In no particular order:
- Fedora http://www.fedoraproject.org/
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) http://www.redhat.com/
- CentOS http://www.centos.org/
- openSUSE http://www.opensuse.org/
- SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/
- Debian http://www.debian.org/
- Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/
- Slackware http://www.slackware.com/
- Lunar-Linux http://www.lunar-linux.org/
- OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org/ <<< Not Linux, but free and popular!
- FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ <<< Not Linux, but free and popular!
Distrowatch.com is a good place to watch the many, many different flavors of Linux.
linux.org is a good place to stay current with Linux news, find tutorials, or user groups in other states / countries.
GNU/Linux and FOSS Mirrors in Wisconsin
- http://mirror.services.wisc.edu/
- http://mirrors.tds.net/
- A "The Linux Documentation Project" mirror http://ldp.ods.org/
Handy applications employed by Wisconsin Linux users.
- twill http://twill.idyll.org/
- screen ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/screen
- irssi http://www.irssi.org/
- firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
- rizbot http://sourceforge.net/projects/rizbot
- PircBot http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php
- PieSpy http://www.jibble.org/piespy/
- mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
- mpd http://www.musicpd.org/
- mpc http://www.musicpd.org/mpc.shtml
- mpdscribble http://www.frob.nl/scribble.html
- MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/
- MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/
- phpBB http://www.phpbb.com/
- drupal http://drupal.org/
- Enemy Territory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory
- dwm http://dwm.suckless.org/
- Asterisk http://www.asterisk.org/
- Mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
- subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/
- OpenWRT http://openwrt.org/
- WebGUI http://webgui.org/
- vim http://vi-improved.org
- VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/
- Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org/
- Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
- backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ A backup solution supporting client backups from Windows, Linux, Etc.
