Friday March 20, 2026

Linux Users of Central Illinois

The Linux Users Group of Springfield, Illinois and the surrounding area.


Some other users groups in the area:
Chicagoland Linux Users Group


Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
St. Louis Linux Users Group
Unix Hobbyists', Administrators' & Coders' Club


Google
Search only this site

Contact Us || Links || Mailing lists || About/Credits

Meeting Info:

Meetings of the Linux Users of Central Illinois are the 4th Tuesday of every month from 7 PM to 9 PM at the Springfield MakerSpace in Springfield, IL. (The Springfield MakerSpace is located at 1227 S. Pasfield Street. Follow the link for a map and driving directions.)

The next LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2026.

In addition to the regular meeting, there is also a special Newbie Night, intended for new Linux users, on the second Tuesday of every month at the same time and location as the regular meetings.

The next Newbie Night is scheduled for Tuesday, April 14, 2026.



News from around the web:

News from
* DOJ Charges Super Micro Co-Founder For Smuggling $2.5 Billion In Nvidia GPUs To China
* Chuck Norris Dies At 86
* Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop
* As OpenClaw Enthusiasm Grips China, Kids and Retirees Alike Raise 'Lobsters'
* Opera GX Web Browser Comes To Linux
* China Is Helping Drive Cuba's Solar Boom
* EU Cloud Lobby Asks Regulator To Block VMware From Terminating Partner Program
* Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says
* 4Chan Mocks $700K Fine For UK Online Safety Breaches
* Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta
* Rapper Afroman Wins Defamation Lawsuit Over Use of Police Raid Footage In His Music Videos
* Google Details New 24-Hour Process To Sideload Unverified Android Apps
* Meta Backtracks, Will Keep Horizon Worlds VR Support 'For Existing Games'
* OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral
* Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices
News from
* Dell Upstreams Firmware For The XPS Snapdragon X Elite Laptop
* Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Enhanced Performance For AMD Radeon Linux Gaming
* SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default
* Patches Sent Out For Booting Linux On Apple M3 But Without Much Functionality
* Linux Patches Updated To Steal Tasks For Improving CPU Utilization
* Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces MicroCloud Cluster Manager
* Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions
* Mageia 10 Beta Now Available For Those Who Reminisce About Mandrake Linux
* Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property
* Steam Linux Beta Prepares For 64-bit, Can Be Run Inside Steam Runtime Container
* Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years
* Thunderbird Looks To Finalize Its Exchange Support, Refresh The Calendar UI
* AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP
* Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented
* Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux
* GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance"
* Mozilla Releases Llamafile 0.10 To Enhance Their AI Offering For Easy-To-Use LLMs
* OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine
* Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux
* Virtual Swap Space Patches Updated For Improving Linux's Swap Design
* Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board
* Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir
* AMD Prototyping AMDGPU SVM Atop DRM_GPUSVM Framework
* Intel Ends Work On Open-Source kAFL-Fuzzer For Fuzzing VMs
* GNOME 50 Released With Many Fantastic Improvements
* Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Released For Apple Silicon Macs
* Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions
* Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
* Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs
* Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements
* Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel
* GRUB Bootloader Development Moves To FreeDesktop.org


Contact Us || Links || Mailing lists || About/Credits

webmaster@luci.org
Last updated Tue Sep 25 11:40:00 2018.