Resources:

This page lists links to linux resources, submitted by various lug members. If you wish to submit a resource, click here.

This tutorial is a good explanation of how to setup Sun's VirtualBox for OpenSuse 11.1. OpenSuse is one of the world's most popular distributions, now well supported through Novell who also sell commercial versions for both server & desktop use. VirtualBox is a free virtualisation package allowing guest operating systems to be installed on your computer. This tutorial explains both the basic installation of VirtualBox, as well as permission setup for non root access and setting up things like USB support.

ArsTechnica have released their 2008 Ovatio Awards to two distros, Foresight & OpenSuse, see why here...

Which Linux is right for you? Reviews/links/lists of most available flavours of Linux.

HowtoForge provides hundreds of Linux tutorials plus a support forum.

This site links to articles about getting Linux to work on various laptops.

This site is a great source of news, covering all areas of the Linux and free software communities. It also publishes a weekly newsletter containing various articles.

An online newspaper for Linux and open source consisting of news, reviews and articles.

From 9/1/2009 about Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth.

The New Zealand Open Source Society was started to protect and promote open source software in New Zealand.

A very popular technology news website, with heavy focus on Linux and free software.

Many people still believe that learning Linux is difficult, or that only experts can understand how a Linux system works. Though there is a lot of free documentation available, the documentation is widely scattered on the Web, and often confusing, since it is usually oriented toward experienced UNIX or Linux users. Today, thanks to the advancements in development, Linux has grown in popularity both at home and at work. The goal of this guide is to show people of all ages that Linux can be simple and fun, and used for all kinds of purposes.

Use your old PC as a firewall router. Useful introduction here.

Search TradeMe jobs site for Linux related opportunities. There seem to be plenty to choose from around the country.

Linux (and others) on mobile systems like laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, etc.

The Wellington Perl Mongers is a group that meets monthly to dicuss the Perl programming language.

Like the Perl Mongers group, but for users of the Python scripting language