MELUG-South
With an emphasis on education, we value the hard work you do. MELUG-South is a place for you to communicate with other professionals or skilled users for the purpose of broadening horizons.
MainE Linux User Group
South District
From Lewiston to Portsmouth, we advocate, support, educate, and socialize with Linux Users in most facets of MicroComputing, from the corporate multi-user to the desktop single-user environment.
Install your favourite major linux distribution in a group as part of one of our demonstrations. We do this by request. If you have a specific purpose or need from a major distribution, membership/affiliation entitles you to workshops focused on those needs.
Philosophical Foundations
A no-nonsense-but-friendly approach to solutions is welcomed. Socratic wisdom is acceptable. Effort counts; Competence counts more. Aggression is vital. Bluntness is appreciated. Focus is mandatory.
Our membership is expected not necessarily to be knowledgable in all facets of microcomputing, but to be able to learn a new tool when necessity mandates, to be able to create a tool when one does not already exist that provides a solution, to be able to educate others, and to be able to see obstacles as exercise.
We refuse to let failure be an answer to a problem. If we can imagine a capability on a linux system, we can create it.
Reinforcement Learning
To become a competent sysadmin, it is necessary to learn the basics first, branching out to more advanced concepts; these advanced concepts are simply extensions of the base knowledge gained when learning how to use a linux system. For example, a user must learn perl before they can write a perl-based content management system.
Systems Learning
As is expected, we value the other sciences that serve a foundation for microcomputing. We will be recurrently discussing the use of system statistics in your system administration tasks to monitor for problems or room for improvement in your system. You should be able to know what is happening on your system, and how often it is happening, how fast it is happening, whether a new daemon is slowing down your system, whether your browser is leaking memory, and how to perform binary arithmetic after even a brief period of membership.
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