GNU/Linux Special Interest Group

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Meet every Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm

Location: The Computer Room

(2nd floor behind the boutique)

The Olympia Senior Center

222 Columbia ST NW

Olympia WA

SIG Leader: Paul Braget paulbraget@yahoo.com

Skill Level: Beginning to Advance methods (Such as security issues).

Objectives: Introducing beginners to GNU/Linux is fun, and having experts in the room really helps.

Open Source Platform

GNU/Linux Live CD and install (Ubuntu Debian Distribution)

Other Live Linux Distributions may be demonstrated.

Gnome Desktop Environment

Gimp and other included Applications

Group input will always be a factor in future presentations.

We do our demonstrations using the "Point & Click" desktop interfaces common to the GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, SUSE, Red Hat, etc. You’ll feel right at home, and you may decide you can’t live without your own GNU/Linux machine. Or you can learn how to dual boot with Windows. If you want to know more about the “innards” of GNU/Linux, someone can show you. Our goal is to have fun, learn more about GNU/Linux, and in the process learn to respect all operating systems.

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