Meeting Information
We will be resuming our normal meeting schedule next month. The September meeting will be held on Saturday, September 10, 2005, from noon to whenever at Frank Ten Thy's home in Coeur d'Alene. See the Meeting Location page for more information.
The North Idaho Linux Users Group was started in 1999 by Bill Rishsew, an instructor at the North Idaho College Work Force Training Center and North Idaho College. Until January of 2001, the meetings were held at the Work Force Training Center. Our meetings are now held at various locations, which are shown in the Meeting Info page.
The early meeetings of NILUG were mostly Install Fests and question answering sessions, since not many of us were too familiar with Linux. Meetings are now more structured, with a question and answer period and a main topic period. Install Fests are now held on a less general basis.
The goal of NILUG is to promote the growth of Linux users, answer questions about Linux and help users with problems they encounter using Linux.
KNOPPIX 4.0 Live DVD Released
The [link=http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02836#0]latest version of KNOPPIX has been released[/link] on a DVD. The DVD contains over 5100 programs in 8 gb (compressed to about 3 gb on the DVD).
KNOPPIX 4.0 for CDs will also be released soon.
Novell Opens SUSE Professional
Novell has rebranded and released SUSE Professional as a community project known as [link=http://www.opensuse.org/]OpenSUSE[/link]. The OpenSUSE project is meant to open SUSE Linux development to the world. This effort is similar to the Fedora community effort started by Red Hat.