Main Page

This is the main page of the GLUG wiki. If we have anything of importance, chances are you WON'T find it here :-P We're building a Coffee Machine.

Projects

This section contains a couple of projects we may or may not be working on.

Coffee machine

IRC log, [Thu Dec 6 2007] [10:19:46] < frozty_sa > we're actually now busy designing it < frozty_sa > because this has been a geek dream of note < frozty_sa > we just now decided to start on it Here is the wiki page for the coffee machine. Submit all ideas etc here so we have a place to have all planning etc done.

Requirements

What must this coffee machine do?

Note: this is not a technical spec, this just lists what we want it to do.

  • Make Coffee (of course)
  • Connect to a network
  • Have a web interface
  • Shell Interface (optional)

South African Companies that use Linux

This is simply a list of companies in South Africa that use Linux.

Company Name Linux Usage
Nando's Servers, POS
Pick 'n Pay Servers (POS is QNX)
Maranatha Records/Gospel Direct Servers, Desktops, POS
Exclusive Books Servers (POS as well?)
Mecer Servers
Microsoft SA OEM Sales Registration Server

Where to get Linux

How do you get Linux? Well, ask people here, or visit the Get Ubuntu page on the Ubuntu LoCo site. The easiest would be to ask your local LUG (Linux User Group). You are more than welcome to ask on our mailing list in glug-chat, or in IRC at #glug.za on freenode.