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Welcome to Cowlug

Welcome to the Cowichan Valley Linux Users Group, COWLUG for short. We are an active community of Linux users of differing skill levels and areas of expertise; home users and people who run their entire business on Linux. COWLUG has monthly general meetings.

The goal of Cowlug is to work with the community to develop Linux skills both at home and in business. We have an active mail list and provide good support for users migrating to or starting with Linux. By using this more open process, we support an operating system that uses free software development practices that many find more appealing than proprietary software.

To find out what linux is, refer to About Linux.


Linux, PC, Mac commercials

You know the old PC vs Mac TV commercials well this adds one more.
Watch these one at a time they are quite good actually.

PC Mac Linux 1

PC Mac Linux 2

PC Mac Linux 3



Informational Videos Available

I have put the following videos up for viewing. Some of these are quite good at spelling out up and coming features related to the Linux desktop.

Keith Packard talks about the new Xorg

This one is quite good. Keith talks about the new goodies in X such as auto configuring monitors and and switching displays on laptops. Well worth watching if you'd like to know where the X Window System is going.
xorg-keith-packard.ogg

Fixing suspend for fun and profit

Matthew Garrett from the Ubuntu laptop team talks about the current state of suspend / resume and where it is going.
suspend-resume.ogg

Hal and D-Bus, Making hardware just work

David Zeuthen of Redhat talks about how Hal and D-Bus talk to each other and the kernel, to allow hardware to just work when plugged, for power mangement and eye candy on the desktop.
hal-dbus-magic.ogg

The Kernel report

Johnathan Corbet tells us everything that has been happening and what is going to be happening in the Linux Kernel.
kernel-report.ogg

The State of Samba

Jeremy Allison talks about everything Samba.
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