LKLUG Receives Sun SparcStation 5 Donation
Submitted by root on Mon, 2000-07-10 09:30

Prasad K Dharmasena of University of Maryland has donated a "pizza box" containing a Sun SparcStation 5 (170 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 4.2 GB SCSI Harddisk, CD-ROM, floppy, keyboard, mouse), extra SCSI hard disk (2.1 GB), installation CDs (RedHat Linux for sparc and intel, netbsd, openbsd and Solaris) and networking and power supply hardware.

Some time ago, an almost discarded Sun IPC belonging to CS was salvaged by two CS students, Sarod Yatawatta and K P Visakan, with a kind donation of spare parts from Prasad.

With the courtesy of Prasad and the Department of Computer Sciences at University of Peradeniya, LKLUG now has access to a full blown Sun SparcStation 5.

Golden Jubilee Exhibition
Submitted by root on Wed, 2000-02-02 10:30
The Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, organized an exhibition to be celebrate the 50th year of the faculty, which went from the 24th of Janyary to the 2nd of February. There were many demonstrations on Linux/Unix and related software at the Department of Computer Sciences, including networking, web development, control systems, graphics and image manipulation, simulations, games and multimedia etc.
A Collection of Linux Software CDs Donated
Submitted by root on Sat, 1999-11-20 10:30
Srilal Weerasinghe has donated a collection of Linux/Unix software CDs including Linux distributions and software archives. They are available for circulation at the LKLUG Mini Library.
  • 2 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 2CD (i386 binary) sets
  • 2 Linuxberg Software Archives 4 CD sets
  • 5 RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 binary CDs
  • 2 RedHat Linux 6.1 source CDs
  • 3 RedHat Powertools 6.0
  • 3 Word Perfect 8 for Linux Personal Edition CDs
Linux Demo
Submitted by root on Mon, 1999-11-01 10:30

LKLUG and the Department of Computer Sciences organized a Linux Demonstration on the 30th of October 1999. The major event was a Web server performance test on small and medium range servers running Linux/Apache and Windows NT. The demonstration went from 9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. The tests were done on the CS network using about 17 computers.

Linux Demo at Techno 99
Submitted by root on Mon, 1999-10-18 09:30
LKLUG and the Department of Computer Sciences presented Linux at Techno 99 at the stall of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Techno 99 started on Friday, 15 October 1999 and went till Sunday, 17th at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH). A detailed report will appear soon.
PEEES Day '99
Submitted by root on Sat, 1999-06-05 09:30

There was a LKLUG stall hosted by the Department of Computer Sciences, at the anual session of Peradeniya Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society (PEEES), on the 5th of June. The demonstrations covered areas such as Unix/Linux fundamentals, networking, multi platform integration, programming in C, Perl and CGI, typesetting, GUI, office applications, graphics, multimedia and games.

RedHat Linux 6.0 CD Now Available
Submitted by root on Mon, 1999-05-10 09:30
Thanks to Santha, the RedHat 6.0 CD is now available with LKLUG. Our RedHat 6.0 mirror is also complete. Contact us if you want to borrow borrow the CD.
RedHat Welcomes LKLUG
Submitted by root on Sun, 1999-04-25 09:30
LKLUG received a welcome pack from RedHat. This was followed by its registration in the RedHat LUG list. The pack includes RedHat 5.2 CDs and RPM T-Shirts.
SuSE Linux 6.0 CD
Submitted by root on Sat, 1999-04-10 09:30
Carlos has donated a full SuSE Linux 6.0. The package with (4 installaion CD's and one live file system) is available for circulation. The manual is unfortunately German.
Latex Seminar
Submitted by root on Sat, 1999-03-20 10:30
A seminar was held in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, on 20 March, 1999 on Latex and it's Sinhala and Tamil Extentions. See seminar material page to get related material and software.
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