open source on the Peoria.com Forums

Does anybody in this area use open source? I hear there is a group starting in Pekin, but no word yet on their first meeting.

I only know of one open source company in the area, there is also a Linux group in Peoria but I don't think they're really active. They've got computer classes at the Miller Senior Center but I get the impression this new group is supposed to be more advanced and targeting a younger demographic.

Anyone know more?

What do you mean by "use open-source". I use tons of open-source and paid apps. What would the meeting discuss? lol

What, you've never heard of a linux user group before?

That reminds me, I need to put linux back on my computer....

Linux User Groups are for old men who can't use online resources adequately.

I've heard of them, but never joined any meetings. I'm not for all that social fu fu stuff.

Pock, you should come over and put Ubuntu on for me. last time I did, using the newest version, setting up the Swap, which has changed form the last version I installed, screwed up the drive letter for my main HDD

Ubuntu install wasn't too bad. I did have some hardware issues on an Inspiron E1505 I am using it on. It didn't have the correct firmware for the wireless card.

That is what I liked about gentoo, doing an install from source, building a kernel customized for my hardware. Although that got time consuming, it was fun and informational while I was learning linux, now that i know how to utilize the OS, I just want easy.. I went from Gentoo to CentOS to Ubuntu (Server and also running Desktop)

Last time I ran Ubuntu, install was super easy, picked the drive for the Linux OS to run on, partitioned, went with default swap and done.
This time, it was different. When it asked which drive to set the partition, the drive letters had me all screwed up and it ended up putting swap at 0 on drive 1, so there was no way to load the grub

Ubuntu has gone the way of Unity. If you install 10.04 you should be okay, but the latest version? Forget about it.

That's what I was doing. Upgrading from 10.04 :/

Installed the newest beta version i saw on their website today, 12.04 I think it was.