Lovable LUGgable: support your Linux user group
There’s no denying that the widespread growth of Linux was due in part to the raw enthusiasm of advocates meeting together under the broad banner of a “LUG” – a Linux User Group. LUG members were pioneers and cowboys, early adopters and passionate hobbyists. Today, the LUG is different. With the rise of commercial backing, the ease of distro installation, and the omniscience of Google do LUGs still have any role to play in the Linux world?
Early LUGs ran on the whiff of any oily rag; members had evangelistic zeal as they passionately spruiked the virtues of Linux. Yet, it wasn’t purely technical: sure, Linux was a radically free OS with a degree of hacker mystique, but Linux was also a tremendous social phenomenon taking place. Geeks could root for this newcomer which was not only immune to, but shattered through, the business practices which commercial software monopolies used to wither their opponents.
A regular and popular component of LUGs was an install-fest; here anyone could bring along their desktop or laptop and receive unbridled help with getting any Linux distro of choice up-and-running. Back in the day, so to speak, Linux was still regarded as a system for experts and it was par for the course that arcane command-line instructions and tweaking were required for success. There was none of this “even your granny can run Ubuntu” back then.
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