Is there still an Ubuntu Toronto LoCo that meets at linuxcaffe on the second Tuesday of every month?

Two major linux releases came out last week, and we have them both available for burning;

After two years of development, Debian (the base of many fine distributions) released version 4.0, known as "Etch". The release was accompanied by a handful if new install disks, including the uber-potent multi-architecture net-installer.

So after the theft of my brand new Macbook occurred on September 7th 2006, and after I waited for two full months for the police to give up and report it "lost", I have finally returned to the GNU/Linux platform, though not by choice. I am still paying, with interest, for the laptop that was stolen from me, while using a laptop that neither has the power nor the features of the one I purchased.

Regardless, I am using a dinky Toshiba running CentOS 4 and I cannot even get it to hibernate when I close the lid - something the Macbook did by default. I have tried everything I know how, from disabling apm and enabling acpi to messing with the /proc structure and even trying to write my own tools, though to no avail.

Thanks Dave Sullivan for your workshop on Ubuntu and thanks to the people at the Linux Café for hosting it. Dave did the impossible; answered all our questions and kept to his agenda despite some video technical problems. In addition to learning about Ubuntu, an animal rights activist from the audience freed a Goldfish and we got to watch it swim about the desktop. If you haven't tried this just press Alt+F2 and type “free the fish” (without the quotes).

Where can you go to get a semi-private tutorial about the world’s fastest growing Linux distribution, and buy a descent cup of coffee at the same time. The only place I know is the Linux Caffe, the focal point for the Linux community in Toronto.

Dave Sullivan, Consultant with Lophyte Technology Consulting delivered a solid presentation on Dapper Drake Ubuntu 6.06 .The knowledge base of the participants ranged for the well experienced to one person who had installed Ubuntu the day before. Dave wasn’t phased when answering the technical questions from the Linux veterans and the more general questions with the Ubuntu newbies. I left the seminar wanting to get home quickly to apply what I had learned.

Distro is short for distribution, and it's the collection of operating system, applications, style and installer.
It's how linux is typically distributed.

This page will (when we figure out how) have a big list of distros with reviews and comments and stuff.

It's snowing like crazy.
Our marquee outside reads;

UBUNTU 4 U
VISIT WWW.LINUXCAFFE.CA

Into the caffe klumps a girl, maybe 17 years old. She approaches the counter awkwardly, but with an impish grin, and asks Lisa "do you know what ubuntu means ?"

Seneca has downloaded over 80 disk images of installable open source software "distributions" and crafted a feindishly simple burner interface for them.

Net result; hot-and-cold running linux for YOU !
-major desktop distros
-minimalist distros
-live CDs galore
-special purpose distros (scientific, bio-informatic, multimedia, library science, firewalls, routers etc)

any of which can be yours for the asking (and $6)