Just noticed this, and thought it might need updating since we're now a
buncha lugs... :)
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We meet the first Wednesday of every month at various locations in the
greater New Hampshire area to discuss the Linux operating system. During
the summer months meetings are held in Nashua, NH; the rest of the year we
meet on the UNH campus in Durham, NH. Sometimes we creep down to Lowell,
or even join the Boston Computer Society's Linux group. That is why we
call ourselves the "*Greater* New Hampshire" Linux Users Group.
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On occasion we may investigate other "Freeware Operating Systems" such as
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============================What is Linux?====================================
Linux is a free operating system started by Linus Torvalds while at the
University of Helsinki. It is developed by Linus and a small band of
faithful lieutenants who are (in turn) helped by hundreds (well, maybe
dozens) of others.
It is a "UNIX clone", which means that it has not passed the X/Open suite
of tests to be called "UNIX" (Linus can not afford the test suite costs),
but other than that it looks and feels like UNIX.
It is a multi-user, multi-tasking, timesharing system that provides both
command-line and graphical (X11) interfaces. It supports TCP/IP, NFS, SLIP,
PPP, and a variety of other networking protocols.
Linux can now be obtained in any number of ways, in a number of 'flavors'
(called distributions). These include the purchase of CD-ROM ($3 to $80),
network download to local disks, network installation from a remote server,
and of course floppies. There is no "license" per se, so you may apply it
to as many systems as you wish.
Linux runs on a wide variety of platforms, including Intel-class (386 or
higher), Digital Alpha, MIPS, ARM, PowerPC, and SPARC. There is even a
port to the popular 3Com PalmPilot.
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