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Meet up with Montana Linux people on IRC. We currently gather at the #ubuntu-montana room on the freenode network. Stop in and say "hello" or even ask/answer some questions. Don't have to be a Ubuntu user either. Or use the web-based chat client.

See also the MontanaLinux.org calendar provided by Zimbra in both iCalendar and http formats.

BillingsLUG
The BillingsLUG meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7PM. This month:

Lannocc Technologies
1440 Grand Ave.
(Behind China Express)

BozemanLUG
The BozemanLUG meets on the FIRST Thursday of the month at 7PM

MSU-Bozeman
EPS Building, Rm 259
Bozeman, MT
Used to be the LAST Thursday, but we changed it

HelenaLUG
Several HelenaLUG meetings have been scheduled, please check calendar

Helena Public Library
Large Conf. Room
Helena, MT

MissoulaLUG
The MissoulaLUG is currently on hiatus but a few individuals are working in the background to change that ASAP.

Events

Upcoming events

BozemanLUG: June 2013 Meeting(event)(15 days)

opinion

Yet Another Year of the Linux Desktop?

Submitted by Scott Dowdle on Wed, 2009-11-18 08:02. desktop | Linux | opinion

I wrote a comment to an LWN news blurb referring to a story about the future of Linux was in Google Chrome OS. The post was so long that I decided to cross post it here. :)

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I assume you (the person on LWN who wrote the comment I was replying to) were being sarcastic when you said that 10-20 million Linux desktops don't count. I'd argue that the numbers are actually larger than that (probably by as much as 2x) but let's stick with a medium number of 15 million... for my discussion below.

Some people want commercial software on Linux, some don't. I attended the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 in Oct. and attended a presentation by a big wig from Adobe where he talked about FLOSS and Adobe. Of course the usual question came up about when will we get Photoshop and various other Adobe products for Linux and the answer was something like, "when there are enough Linux users to guarantee sales of at least 50 million copies". That is a rather high hurdle. Seriously, you have to sell 50 million copies of something before it becomes profitable? What a poorly run company you must have.