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What's the Deal With the AI Bubble? Everything to Know
Hey Retrievers! It’s that time of the week again! What’s the Deal With the AI Bubble? Everything to Know Today at 7:15 PM in SOND 409 Presented by the Beyond 40 Maryland Chapter Learn more about Beyond 40 at https://freesoftwarecaucus.org/ Other News: Reminder InstallFest is just a week away, this is a great opportunity to bug those friends who keep saying they’re interested in installing Linux, we’ll provide the resources. More information will be provided soon.
September 23, 2026
What Does It Take to Build a Distro
Hey Retrievers! You’ve heard all about them, but ever wondered what really goes into a Linux Distribution? What Does It Take to Build a Distro Today at 7:15 PM in SOND 409 Presented by Hamza and Dipa Other News: InstallFest is right around the corner, join us in the commons to share about Linux. (Sept 30 11 AM - 2 PM) See the presentation below. – Alex Merryman LUG President
September 16, 2026
Introduction to Linux and the CLI
Today at 7:15 PM in SOND 409 Today’s meeting will be a introductory look at getting comfortable with the Linux environment. We will be welcoming some CS421 (Operating Systems) students into our session today by request of Prof. Mironov Feel free to come with a Debian VM prepared if you would like to follow along with some of the concepts we will be learning. This weeks meeting will be recorded and broadcast on Webex
September 9, 2026
Linux User's Group Mirror Server Updates
Hey Retrievers! The Linux User’s Group system administration team has been busy over the summer. We have made substantial improvements and upgrades to our mirror server infrastructure to better server the campus and Linux community. First, we had downtime in July where we worked to expand our servers storage array. We added an additional 36TB (~24TB usable after RAID). With this additional storage space, we are able to better support existing and new distributions.
September 8, 2026
First Meeting - Welcome to LUG
Hey Retrievers! It’s that time of year again! LUG will be having it’s first meeting of the semester tomorrow! First Meeting - Welcome to LUG Happening tomorrow Wednesday at 7:15 PM in Sondheim 409 Meet the board What is a LUG? What does the UMBC LUG do? Why should we care about Linux in 2026? Checkout the presentation: This may just be the semester of the linux desktop
September 2, 2026
Enterprise Storage Workshop
Hey retrievers! The semester is finally wrapping up, and I wish you all the best on your finals! However, LUG is having one last event! Today at 7:15PM we’ll be having our last meeting of the semester, join us for our Enterprise Storage Workshop. There will be: Pizza, Snacks, and Drinks A lecture on SAS storage technologies A look at real production hardware A chance to work with us as we work to upgrade our mirror server See you all there!
May 13, 2026
MeshPages: A Web Server Framework for Meshtastic
This week one of our alumni: Devon S will be presenting on MeshPages: A Web Server Framework for Meshtastic You can check out the project repo here: https://github.com/MushroomGecko/MeshPages
May 6, 2026
2026 Club Elections
Today’s meeting we will hold our annual officer elections! Come out to hear from the candidates, learn about our goals, and vote for the future of the club. As usual, this will be held in Sherman 103 at 7:15 PM The 2026 LUG elections have concluded! 2026-2027 Officer Team: President - Alex Merryman Vice President - Danielle Esposito Treasurer - Hamza Nasher Alnaem Secretary - Milk Patel
April 29, 2026
Under the Hood of apt: How Debian Handles Your Software.
Today’s meeting will be on “Under the Hood of apt: How Debian Handles Your Software.” by me! This is a comprehensive introduction to packages and package managers as a whole, but I chose to look at Debian to best explain things. As usual, the meeting will be held in Sherman 103 at 7:15PM You can see the presentation here: While I was at it, I compiled my notes and made a writeup:
April 22, 2026
Linux User's Group Mirror Server
LUG’s Mirror Public Server Enters Production Hey Retrievers! Over the past couple months, Linux Users Group’s system administration team has been working diligently setting up a public repository mirror service. We aim to provide open, reliable, high speed access to a variety of popular Linux distributions for the Linux and open-source community. The mirror server is now entering production, and is open to the general public for use. We support downloading via HTTP(s) and RSYNC (details below). We currently have 8 distributions mirrored (including Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Mint, etc), with more coming soon! To utilize our mirror server for your distribution, consult the documentation for your distros package manager for instructions on how to set our server as your mirror!
April 16, 2026