About the DCGLUG

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Paul Sutton

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.

Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Looks like Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish has been released. Please see link for more info

November Meetings

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Reminder for dates of November meetings

Saturday 17h November – Holsworthy

Sat 24th November – Plymouth

Please see meetings page for times / venue details

Paignton Code Club 2

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Paul Sutton

The next Paignton code club is Saturday 20th October 2018. Paignton Library at the usual time. Please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information.

Cosmic Cuttlefish

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Paul Sutton

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 🙂

Paignton Code club

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Paul Sutton

The 2nd Paignton code club is this Saturday 29th September 2018. Paignton Library at the usual time. Please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information.

Package Salvaging

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Paul Sutton

There is now a initiative with the Debian Developer community to salvage old packages. More details can be found here. The community are looking for people who are really committed to not only taking this on, so it is a long term commitment.

October meetings

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Reminder for dates for September meetings

Saturday 20th October – Holsworthy

Sat 27th October – Plymouth

Please see meetings page for times / venue details

September Meetings

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Reminder for dates for September meetings

Saturday 15th September – Holsworthy

Sat 22nd September – Plymouth

Please see meetings page for times / venue details

Ubuntu for Containers

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Ubuntu for containers

National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Paul Sutton

National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide.

Last week the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) in the UK issued their latest publication which gives advice on how to configure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in accordance with their security best practices.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)is the UK government department responsible for providing guidance on Information Security to the UK public and private sectors as well as responding to online security incidents and securing networks.

https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/30/national-cyber-security-centre-publish-ubuntu-18-04-lts-security-guide