Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux Users Group

About the DCGLUG

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DEVON AND CORNWALL GNU/LINUX USER GROUP

The aims of the Devon and Cornwall GNU / Linux user group are :

  • Promote, advocate and support the use of Free software and GNU / Linux within Devon and Cornwall.
  • Provide platforms for help and support.
  • Promote alternatives to closed source software or platforms.
  • Promote useful information relating to FLOSS and related topics.
  • Hold regular ‘physical meetings’  which are more social gatherings.
  • Provide a platform for discussion via our e-mail mailing list, IRC and Social Media.
  • Promote and support related activities and or groups such as code club.

We run an active e-mail discussion list.  Please visit our join page for more details and a link to the mailmail sign up form.

We have an mailing list archive which can be viewed here.

We also run a IRC channel on freenode

server irc.freenode.net – Port 6667 channel #dcglug

Please see tutorials menu for help with setting up IRC.

 

CODE CLUB PAIGNTON 6

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CODE CLUB PAIGNTON

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 15th December 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.     Please visit https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ for more information about Code Club and please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information about the Paignton sessions.  Places are limited.

You can also contact Paul Sutton via the DCGLUG mailing list.

Torqauy Library also run sessions.  Please contact  https://www.torbay.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/torquay-library/

Note this will be the LAST session of 2018.  We will commence on January 5th.

 

Paignton Code Club 5

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CODE CLUB PAIGNTON

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 1st December 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.     Please visit https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ for more information about Code Club and please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information about the Paignton sessions.  Places are limited.

You can also contact Paul Sutton via the DCGLUG mailing list.

Torqauy Library also run sessions.  Please contact  https://www.torbay.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/torquay-library/ 

Places are limited

Cosmic Cuttlefish

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Ubuntu 18.10  aka Cosmic Cuttlefish is currently in Beta and looking for testers.    More details on how to get involved in this can be found here

Looks like it has a some interesting new features, including kernel 5.0  which is another milestone.

Anyway the above page has a link to the usual image archive, so get downloading and testing 🙂