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The 'In The News' section of this website is an archive of articles and guides in which the ILUG has had more than a fleeting reference made to it.

Debian to relase in December
Posted By Paul O'Malley - 12:25, 8 January 2006
The debian project has announce that they will release in December 2006. Their time line is as follows: N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06: freeze base, non-essential toolchain (including e.g. cdbs) N-105 = Mon 14 Aug 06: d-i RC [directly after base freeze] N-45 = Wed 18 Oct 06: general freeze [about 2 months after base freeze, d-i RC] N = Mon 4 Dec 06: release [1.5 months for the general freeze] The good news is that they are on track to reach this goal.

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In the not really not really in the news section
Posted By Paul O'Malley - 18:50, 21 August 2005
Ubuntu, that distro that has taken the Linux world by storm in the last year has reached a 'testing milestone' on the way to its October release of the third edition 'Breezy Badger'. Colony-3 is the name of this test version. If you want to try it out burn the live CD version. It is several steps ahead of hoary, but like all betas has a little way to go yet. Have a look, you know you want to :).

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OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen Swipes at Naysayers (and there are lots :))
Posted By Paul O'Malley - 22:15, 8 August 2005
Stuart Cohen is quoted in an article on the newsforge site, and he does the rounds. He takes a side swipe at several critics of Linux, and in this writers opinion did it rather well.

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TV3 Agenda Linux Debate.
Posted By Ken Guest - 08:19, 25 April 2001
February 2001 saw Agenda,
the TV3 current affairs debate programme, host a debate on Linux. An
mp3 of the debate is available.

Essential Guide To ILUG
Posted By Ken Guest - 08:27, 19 February 2001
ComputerScope published a 'Essential Guide' to Irish User Groups. This is the guide to the Irish Linux Users' Group which was published in October 1999.

Linux Takes Root In Ireland
Posted By Ken Guest - 08:34, 19 August 1999
Linux Takes Root In Ireland.
Irish Computer published this article in August 1999.

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