I was hoping to find a group here in Cookeville, Tennessee. After searching for a while, I found a group listed. There was a link to their website, which I clicked. And got an error message, wouldn't you just figure? -- http://www.tntech.edu/old_content.html -- LOL
Not to be stopped, I tried again using different search terms. The same link turned up, so from sheer stubbornness, I clicked again. The group no longer exists and was a computer club rather than a LUG, anyway. -- http://www.tntech.edu/cmug/
There was a link to a group in Crossville (about an hour away). I don't travel well currently (long story), so I think that starting a group might be the better course of action. I'm thinking CLUG would be a good name.

Are there any other members here from Cookeville, Tennessee? Or do you know a Linux user or 3 in my area that you could put me into contact with? I'd love to interact with others from this area.

-Merlin

I too think so..

I know you said you don't travel well, but Nashville has a LUG. I've never participated in it but I went to the site not long ago and it seems there is some activity with them. Cookeville is an hour away from you, right? I'm about an hour away from Nashville as well.

Oh and I think Chicago's LUG took CLUG. How about T-CLUG? CT-LUG? CLUG-TN? CookeLUG?

I'd be very interested in any Cookeville Linux user groups...

Chris in Cookeville
Mandriva 2006

You're an hour away in which direction? Cookeville is about 1 & 1/2 hour east of Nashville.
Hmmmm.... perhaps CFL (Cookevillians for Linux)? Or LUC (Linux Users of Cookeville)? I suppose the name should be put up for community discusion when there's a community.

Hi, Chris.
It's great to see another Cookevillian here! Do you know any others who use Linux that live in the area? Perhaps we could start making plans for a meeting? What do you think?

-Merlin

Hello this Sat morning!

Yeah we ought to get together sometime. I have a weird schedule but... <griN!>

<Ramble mode on>

Finally feeling like we have a mature Linux install. Means we've got working apps for the tasks important to us. Not testing apps so much anymore, mostly just using what we've got to their most. Not feeling like a lost newbie much anymore. Wahoo!

I know one other local user. He's also using Mandriva 2006 on an old CPU like me. Just trying new software, messing around but I think equally committed to Linux. Same problems as we had with Windows - security, viruses, trojans, limited free software, etc.

Have told another two or three dozen people about Linux and passed out 6-8 Knoppix and "TheOpenCD" live discs. Most people I have talked with are scared to try Linux or in some cases even change settings in Windows! <griN!> One person had her dubious copy of MS Office croak. Didn't have an install disc for MS Office anymore. I installed and demonstrated OpenOffice for them but they were not adventurous enough to use it. This was 2.0 too. The wanted their Office 97.

We'll never go back to Windows at our house. I'd like to have a Win98 partition to support a few games we have but never to do anything that goes out on the 'net. Have not tried Cedega. Have tried CrossOver Office but it is too slow for much but office apps. I don't understand the tweaking required to get the raw Wine working from scratch.

What are you doing with Linux?

We are using the 'net like everyone else. (Thunderbird/Opera/Firefox/KMail/Xine/Mplayer/KHTTPrack/iPodder/weather/GAIM)

Office Apps:
(OpenOffice/Inkscape/Xpdf/PS to PDF converter/Scribus/Blender 3-D)

Media:
(AmaroK/Digikam/Sane/VideoDVD::Rip/KAudioCreator)

Misc:
(FlightGear/Celestia/Stellarium/gkrell/SuperKaramba/trying a few Linux games/Bluetooth)

There are many more titles that I am playing with, a few more that I am playing with (ATAIdle for example).

<ramble mode off>

Talk to you soon...

Chris

Hi, Chris. (ramble on)
I'm currently multi-booting PCLinuxOS, Fedora Core 5 and winxp. I don't use the windows much anymore. Fedora is pretty easy to tweak for my needs and PCLinuxOS works 'out of the box'. You do have to add some things after installation, but that is remarkably easy. Their community of users and the developers are first rate, IMO. Here's a link -
http://www.pclinuxos.com/news.php
I tried Ubuntu for a while and found it to be a non workable solution for me, though it is a good distro. I tried Suse 10.1 but found it too limiting and intrusive. I tried and like Mepis. I had Mandriva installed for a while, but it wouldn't update. It always gave the error message that there wasn't enough disc space (on a 160 gig drive!) for the updates to be applied no matter how I tweaked it, so I'm thinking it may be the hardware that I have. It's a beautiful distro, otherwise.
I set aside a partition for testing other distros, but I think I'll stick with the 2 I have as they work on my HP quite well (better than windows ever did).

I haven't convinced the windows users here at home to switch, yet. They don't like change. Maybe I should quit fixing their boxes when there's a problem with windows? No, probably not - they're too uncertain of what to do and would probably get into a worse predicament which I would have to fix anyway. (ramble off)

About meeting, just let me know when you can. With as many computer users as there are around Cookeville, we should be able to convert a few more and then they will convert more. Anyway, talking with someone who uses Linux beats talking with windows users, IMO.
I look forward to such an event. Bring along anyone who wants to come. We can swap stories.

-Merlin

I'm about an hour south of Nashville. I'm 2 hrs away from Cookeville. My brother used to go to Tech for engineering. As much as I'd like to possibly be apart of it all 2 hrs is too far for me. Or more than I'm willing to go anyways. How about moral support I do like your suggestion of names.

Two hours is a bit far, isn't it? Moral support will be fine, I think.
Thanks. I think the actual naming will have to wait on having a vote, though I will put those names in the agenda to be voted on, I think. There may be other, better names put forward. The name will be chosen by the group.

Maybe we ought to broaden the name to include the whole region... I am president of the local Corvair club and that's how we are named.

Chris

That's a good idea. It would keep us in the 'friendly category', wouldn't it? There may be users from surrounding areas who would see that as including them, and that is a great thing.
Thanks!
-Merlin

Just an FYI, there is an active Cookeville Linux User Group these days. It was started in late 2008. We meet at Poet's coffee shop in downtown Cookevegas. :P

Come and join us!

http://cooklug.wikispot.org

Just figured I would post this.. I came across this thread via google search and thought I would let everyone know myself and a couple others have recently started putting a Cookeville Linux Users Group together as well.

A fellow member has an IRC server set up:
irc.skagitattic.com
#lobby

- Dean

We got an initial site put together.

The URL is http://www.supergluetech.com