For those of you that didn’t know, Ubuntu is going to change the way that their logo appears to make it ‘light’. To see what it looks like Brand.

Is K-Slug still at K-State?  Yes, K-Slug is still here!  K-Slug is actively meeting every Wednesday for lunch in the Union and chats daily on our IRC channel.  It is just in need of some student members who love to run Linux or even want to learn how.  So if you run Linux or know of someone who does feel free to send them our way.

The biannual activities carnival has struck again. This time we handed out a whopping 24 Ubuntu CDs and many people took fliers, including a few ladies who just thought Tux was cute. Hopefully they will see that he is not only cute but useful too! We had a laptop running ubuntu with a wiimote connected that could be used to play the game neverball. Landon also stopped by for a while with his eeepc and showed off some mythweb features.

To those who are reading this as a result of picking up a flier: Welcome! If you did not sign up on our mailing list at the fair, please feel free to do so now by following the “Listserv” link on the right. Also, If you ever have time to come to lunch on Wednesdays (noon to 1PM) please come back and check the “Lunch Meetings” section on the right.

Here is a picture of the merry group:

You asked for it, so we’re doing it. After some great discussion on the mailing list, folks decided it would be nice to have an installfest so we could cover some basic issues that arise when installing Linux. It’s been a while since we last held one, so it was agreed to do one now. Here’s what you need to know:

• Date: Friday, March 28, 2008
• Time: 6:00 PM – ??
• Location: 122 Nichols Hall

What you should bring:

• Your PC or laptop (or Mac). If you like, you can leave your monitor at home. We can provide one for you.
• An install CD/DVD of the distro you want to try out. A limited number of Ubuntu CDs will be available for those who want to try it. If you don’t already have a CD and want something else besides Ubuntu, bring a blank CD and we’ll help you burn an ISO.

What you should do before coming:

• Backup any and all important data on your machine.  (See Disclaimer below)
• Learn what hardware you have installed on your machine. This will be important should you have to choose kernel modules for drivers later on.
• If you want to dual-boot, defrag your harddrive multiple times so the partition you will be shrinking is as clean as possible.

If enough people are interested, we’ll pass the hat and order some pizza. The event will run as long as people are still participating.

Come and be prepared to have fun and learn something in the process.

Disclaimer: K-SLUG, K-State, and event helpers may not be held responsible for any data loss or hardware failures incurred by your experimentation. The possibility of such is very limited, but still exists. Computers are imperfect machines, as are people and software.

Print and share the poster.

Once again members of K-SLUG attended the Activities carnival in the Student Union. We handed out 10 Ubuntu CDs and talked to numerous people. Hopefully we will see a few new faces at the next lunch!

We also had some fun tweaking our display systems for maximum eye candy. There were even a few rounds of Frets on Fire.

The fall Activities Carnival was held from 6:30-8:00pm in the Union today. Our table was in the second floor hall. We had an iMac (on loan from the computer store), a tablet and two laptops running Ubuntu with various window manager setups. The infamous tux chair also made another appearance. We were in a higher traffic area this year and handed out about 30 Ubuntu live CDs and had some great conversations about Linux.

Jason decided to give Tux a try:

Friday March 9th, K-Slug along with ACM is proud to present Late Night At Nichols. The fragging will begin at 7:00pm in rooms 122 and 127 of Nichols Hall. Unlike previous semesters, a Halo 2 tournament is going to be held in one of the two rooms, along with Guitar Hero like always. Projectors will be in both rooms to provide for console gaming alongside the PC gaming that always goes on. Hope to see you there!

This last saturday, K-Slug held it’s first ever Hacker Saturday. You might be asking, what’s that? Well, it’s a time to get together and work on side projects that many of us have as well as solve Linux related problems. Most of us don’t get around to working on our side projects and they tend of slide out of existence. The idea behind Hacker Saturday was to provide an opportunity to get together with friends to work and get help on our projects.

We met at the Bluestem Bistro and set our laptops up. For this being a Linux Users Group, there sure seemed to be a lot of Apple hardware present. We even heard one girl say, “Wow, look at all the Macs in there.” But MacOS X being built on a Unix base, plus just being a good OS, makes it acceptable to us (execpt Toebee). We ended up having about 6 to 8 people show up, with two ACM guys stopping by too. Once we were setup, we worked on projects from 17:00 to 20:00. Most of the work, was tweaking installs and getting eye-candy like XGL and OS X’s quake-like terminal running. As far as actual projects go, there were plans made to revive the web based CourseScheduler killer, which I would really like to see get finished.

All-in-all it was a great time and Bluestem Bistro had some great food too. K-Slug has the same room reserved next Saturday from 17:00 to 20:00, so come out if you want to work on a project or if you have any Linux problems that need solving.

Tonight, from 6:30 to 8:00, k-slug will be manning a table at the Activities Carinval, on either the first and sceond floor of the Student Union. We hope to attract new members and spread the word on Linux.

We will have flyers and distros to hand out. We are also setting up a couple of demos to attract people. These include, a machine running XGL, which is a fully 3D openGL desktop that has some really awesome eye-candy that you need to come see for yourself; a laptop playing Star Wars: A New Hope, and not just regular Star Wars, but Star Wars being outputed via aalib, which displays video in ASCII; and lastly we are going to have an Xbox running Linux to show that Linux can be run on a variety of systems.

So stop by our table, pick up a flyer and distro and find out what’s it like to use a computer without Windows!