UNIX USER GROUP

The NMU UNIX USER GROUP (NMUUUG) was formed to promote and develop interest in alternative operating systems (non-Windows). Primarily this includes but is not be limited to UNIX derivatives. Additionally the NMUUUG assists in bringing together students and non-students from the Marquette community allowing them to socialize and learn in a group atmosphere.

Although the world has many such groups, their affiliations are very informal.  We actively promote communication between groups, but are not directly affiliated with any one organization.

Some of our most recent meetings include presentations on: using WINE to run popular games in Linux, implementing the GNU Privacy Guard, and recompiling the Linux kernel.  We meet weekly on Friday evenings at 6pm in NSF 1209, with a casual Friday (a more social meeting where we discuss current events, watch/listen to opensource media and mainly just have fun together) occurring on every other week.

Our group is open to anyone who wishes to come and learn a little (or a lot!) more about Unix and its derivatives.  We currently have members of diverse experience levels and find that we have been able to learn something new from each of our members.

We currently have a webpage available at http://csc.nmu.edu/uug where we try to catalog the goings-on of our group.  We are actively trying to keep our site up-to-date and informative, so check back often.  We also have a mailing list setup which we use to keep our members informed about upcoming meetings.  Individuals can signup for the mailing list by going here.

We are also interested in having campus-wide events, the most recent of which was our Linux Installfest.  For the Installfest our group tailored a distribution (version) of Linux to be better suited for the TLC laptops.  This new distribution of Linux is called NMUBUNTU.  We then held a workshop in West Science and introduced users to NMUBUNTU, offering to help them install the distribution to their laptops, or to help them with configuring or installing what they already had on their computers.  We ended up having about 20-25 students come to our event, with 17 of those individuals signing release forms to have work done on their computers.

For more information please see our Website, or contact Chriss Wells at cwells@nmu.edu