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WURLUG (Wageningen Universiteit en Research Centrum Linux User Group)

This site contains information for the use of Linux in academia. Most of it is of a generic nature though some pages are WUR specific.

News: Hack@WUR

People programming in Linux meet up regularly at Hack@WUR (see HackAtWUR) the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 1900 hrs at [De Zaaier, Heerenstraat 33]. Drop in! No rules - just simple programming on any project you fancy.

Older stuff

June 17th 2008, LinuxCafe Wageningen

The yearly LinuxCafe for those of us who have nothing better to do!

6 December 2007 1900 hrs: LinuxMeet in Wageningen

Haarweg, see HaarwegDirections!

Play with BOINC
Play with OpenFiler? NAS
Demonstration of XEN 64bits Linux on 8 CPU machine

Beforehand Chinese food in the Nude (17:45 hrs).

19 June 2007 1400-1600 hrs: Using Linux - MAC/OSX mini-symposium at WUR

We organise a mini-symposium for scientists who use, or want to use
Linux or MAC/OSX at WUR (Location: Room C85 at the Transitorium on De Dreijen - building 312, up the hill). Speakers:

Armijn Hemel, Key-note speaker, on Unix in Academic Context
Harm Nijveen on Linux at Bio-informatics Wageningen University
Hylke van der Schaaf on Setting up your Linux-MAC/OSX system @WUR
Andre ten Bohmer on WUR FB/ICT support for Unix systems
Pjotr Prins on Linux: Wheels within Wheels - virtualisation with Linux and Windows

the poster can be downloaded from [Here]

Also

Afterwards we will have drinks
There will be a Cluster meeting at 13:00 hrs

News

New [beamer] based latex presentation templates by Patrick Bogaart. See TeXWUR.

[Linux] loving men are sexier.

Tu 24th of October 2006 - 19:30 hrs - next GettingAFix! Chinese dinner before - for those who care about food. See HaarwegDirections.

Added page about general considerations before StartingToUseLinux

LinuxCafe Thursday May 11th 2006 2000 hrs at Cafe [De Zaaier]

BibUtils: A great tool for converting bibliography formats, for example Endnote to BibTex and back

Check out the [Nix] packaging system. Software installation management with roll-back. A brilliant idea and it (should) go main stream!

IMAPs is available now! See WURImapForDummies

Pjotr has created WUR style support (TeXWUR) for presentations using LaTeX (do away with PowerPoint from today!)

Minutes of SecondAnnualMeeting

WURLUG hosts TeXMed - the NCBI PubMed? to BibTeX converter(!)

Great LinuxCourse book can be downloaded from the WURLUG site! Written by Alain Wenmaekers.

See also AgendA, OldNews and LinuxNewsAndHistory

Wageningen Universiteit en Research Centrum Linux User Group

Main Goal: Encourage the use of LinuX /Unix and other UnixVarieties (including MacOSX) for scientists, especially in WUR context

Audience: Everyone interested in LinuX /Unix and other UnixVarieties (not limited to WUR!)

Activities: This website, a MailingList, a MemberList, presence at times of ArrivingStudents and regular meetings.

Linux Server: This server is running DebianLinux (kindly permitted by Theo, Pjotr & Michiel)

Preferred language is English, but most of us speak Dutch as well.

There are no membership fees and no limitations to membership of the WURLUG. Similar to the way the Bay Area LUG operates (http://www.balug.org/). More information can be found on WhoIsWURLUG.

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Contact pjotr.prins att wur.nl or stephan.verrips att wur.nl or E-mail no-spam@wurlug.org (note: spam-protective measure: remove the dash from this email adress)