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Our Linux & BSDiscussion meets every Wednesday from 6 PM to 8 PM in the Turing classroom. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing Alan Turing]] It is an informal meeting sponsored by the San Francisco Linux User's Group [http://www.sf-lug.org SF-LUG.ORG] and is wide open to any ideas relating to using the various [http://www.gnu.org GNU]/[http://www.kernel.org Linux]-based and [ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree BSD]-based operating systems]. We are not limited to, but do enthusiastically encourage:
鈥楩or God鈥檚 sake, 鈥?said Julia, pulling out her purse, 鈥榞ive that nasty woman something and bid her go away. 鈥?
鈥榃hat keeps you here? 鈥?said Meg, exalting the harsh and rough tones of her useless voice. 鈥榃hy do you not follow? Must your hour call you twice? Do you remember your oath? 鈥淲ere it at kirk or market, wedding or burial, 鈥濃€?鈥?and she held high her slim forefinger in a menacing attitude.
鈥極r to a gipsy, who has her band in the wood ready to murder you! 鈥?said Lucy.
The fairy bride of Sir Gawaine, while consuming the spell of her spectacular step-mother, was more decrepit probably, and what is commonly called more ugly, than Meg Merrilies; but I doubt if she possessed that wild sublimity which an excited imagination disclosed to features marked and expressive in their own distinct character, and to the gestures of a form which, her sex considered, might be termed large. Accordingly, the Knights of the Round Table did not recoil and with terror from the apparition of the loathly lady placed between 鈥榓n oak and a green holly, 鈥?than Lucy Bertram and Julia Mannering did from the appearance of this Galwegian sibyl upon the common of Ellangowan.
鈥楾hat was not verbal like a bairn of Ellangowan, 鈥?said Meg, frowning upon Miss Bertram. 鈥業t is the ill-doers are ill 鈥?dreaders. 鈥?


* Sharing the latest software releases
* Installations
* Helping new users and converts
* Hardware investigation
* Configuration
* Troubleshooting
* Reviving old computers and making them better with Linux, *BSD and other Open-Source Software
 
We started meeting weekly in mid-October, 2009 and have had a group develop who steadily attend.
   
 
   
For other regular San Francisco Linux events see [http://www.sf-lug.org/ sf-lug.org] (twice per month), [http://www.balug.org/ balug.org] (monthly) and [http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ OLPC-SF] (monthly).  
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See [http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ Bay Area Linux Events (BALE)] for events around the San Francisco bay area.
 
Members of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home Ubuntu team] (for [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam California]), [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Fedora Ambassadors], and [http://partimus.org/ Partimus volunteers] have been known to frequent this discussion group in the past.
 
 
Attendees run a variety of [http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity distributions]:
* [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze Debian Squeeze] and [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWheezy Debian Wheezy]
* [http://www.debian.org Debian]-derived (including [http://crunchbang.org/ CrunchBang Linux], [http://www.linuxmint.com/ Linux Mint], [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu], and of course [http://www.trisquel.info/ Trisquel GNU/Linux])
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution BSD]-derived (including [http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD], [http://www.openbsd.org/ OpenBSD], & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) Darwin]/MacOSX+)
* [http://www.fedoraproject.org Fedora]-derived (including [http://centos.org CentOS] & [http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux])
* [http://www.opensuse.org/en/ openSUSE]
* [https://www.archlinux.org/ Arch]
* [https://tails.boum.org/ The Amnesic Incognito Live System (TAILS)]
* [http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Knoppix]
* [http://www.slitaz.org/ SliTaz]
* Multi-booting with Mac and Windows or running Virtual Machines
 
'''Bringing your computer is strongly encouraged!'''
 
Believe it or not, Linux events also happen outside the city borders. For the adventuresome, two good lists of such far away events are available from visiting websites [http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ linuxmafia.com] and [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts/Groups#SF wiki.ubuntu.com].
 
This handy [http://web.archive.org/web/20100407081537/http://www.athensmusician.net/archive/2005-02-13_oragamicdholder.php folding method to protect CDs] has come in handy for some of us.
 
Current as of: [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-April/035743.html April 14 2013]
 
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鈥楩or God鈥檚 sake, 鈥?said Julia, pulling out her purse, 鈥榞ive that nasty woman something and bid her go away. 鈥? 鈥榃hat keeps you here? 鈥?said Meg, exalting the harsh and rough tones of her useless voice. 鈥榃hy do you not follow? Must your hour call you twice? Do you remember your oath? 鈥淲ere it at kirk or market, wedding or burial, 鈥濃€?鈥?and she held high her slim forefinger in a menacing attitude. 鈥極r to a gipsy, who has her band in the wood ready to murder you! 鈥?said Lucy. The fairy bride of Sir Gawaine, while consuming the spell of her spectacular step-mother, was more decrepit probably, and what is commonly called more ugly, than Meg Merrilies; but I doubt if she possessed that wild sublimity which an excited imagination disclosed to features marked and expressive in their own distinct character, and to the gestures of a form which, her sex considered, might be termed large. Accordingly, the Knights of the Round Table did not recoil and with terror from the apparition of the loathly lady placed between 鈥榓n oak and a green holly, 鈥?than Lucy Bertram and Julia Mannering did from the appearance of this Galwegian sibyl upon the common of Ellangowan. 鈥楾hat was not verbal like a bairn of Ellangowan, 鈥?said Meg, frowning upon Miss Bertram. 鈥業t is the ill-doers are ill 鈥?dreaders. 鈥?






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