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Week #11: Lightning Talks! Hello all! This week is lightning talks! Come with a short (5-10 minute) talk ready and present it during the meeting. It can be about any topic – Linux-related or otherwise. As always, we’ll meet this Friday from 4:30 - 6:00 PM. See you there!

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Spring 2026 Week 10 - Ansible

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Week #10: Ansible Hello all, This week, we have Matthew, a guest speaker from Redhat, will be talking about Ansible, a tool for automatically managing multiple machines! Lightning talks are also next week! As a reminder, talks should be 5-10 minutes long and can be anything. See you, as always, in GOL-1455 from 4:30-6:00pm this Friday.

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2 weeks ago

Week #9: Shell Scripting Hello all, This week, Lyx will talk about shell scripting and how shell scripts can automate various tasks. As always, we’ll meet in GOL-1455 this Friday from 4:30-6:00pm. Also, Lightning Talks will occur on April 3rd (two weeks from now)! Make a five-to-ten minute presentation on anything you’d like and present it, if you’d like. Topics can be linux/FOSS-related if you want, but can also be about literally anything else. See you there!

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1 month ago

Spring 2026 Week 8 - Making Widgets with Eww

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1 month ago

Week #8: Making Widgets with Eww Hello! This week, Thomas will be teaching us how to liven up our desktops with ElKowars wacky widgets, a window-manager independent widget system. Learn how to configure it in yuck, make a fun facts widget, a notes widget and a taskbar. By the time he’s done, you’ll be able to make a clock widget so you won’t miss a meeting, Fridays at 4:30-6:00pm, in GOL-1445.

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1 month ago

Spring 2026 Week 7 - Arch Install Explained

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1 month ago

Week #7: Arch Install Explained Hello! A manual installation of arch is one of the most tedious and opaque tasks on a modern Linux system. Join us as Tristan walks us through the installation commands, what they actually do and why they are necessary. As ever, see you this Friday at 4:30-6:00pm in GOL-1445!

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1 month ago

Spring 2026 Week 6 - Declarative Package Management

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1 month ago

Spring 2026 Week 5 - UNIX Shell

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1 month ago

Spring 2026 Week 4 - cgroups

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1 month ago

Week #6: Declarative Package Management Hello! Reinstalling and configuring an operating system takes checks watch a long time. Sometimes there’s one setting that is either critical to your setup or breaks it. This week, Freya will be talking about declarative package management through Nix, how a declarative and reproducible system works, and how it fixes this! As always, see you Friday at 4:30pm-6:00pm in GOL-1445!

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1 month ago

Week #5: Shell Scripting Greetings! Join us to learn shell scripting! Tristan will be teaching us the wonderful world of sh/bash/dash/fish/elvish/gash/nushell/zsh (well, mostly sh) and the unix philosophy. cowsay -f tux

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2 months ago

Week #4: cgroups Hello! This week, Tim will present on cgroups, a Linux kernel feature to implement resource constraints on processes. Like always, see you this Friday from 4:30-6:00pm in GOL-1445.

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2 months ago

Week #3: The ZFS Filesystem Hello all! This week, Jack will be giving a talk on the Zettabyte File System (or ZFS), a Copy-On-Write filesystem originally developed for Solaris with a number of interesting capabilities and features. He’ll go over the general organization of a ZFS system, the most interesting features, and how to install and use it (even as your root filesystem if desired). As always, see you this Friday from 4:30-6:00pm in GOL-1445!

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2 months ago

Week #2: Open Source VR (in Godot) Hello, Hope your semester’s going well! This week, Joshua will be giving a talk on doing VR development in Godot, a well-known open source game engine! Join us (in person) this Friday from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445. If you have any talks you want to give, you should sign up! If you want a talk, but don’t have the time/expertise, feel free to suggest one instead! See you there!

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2 months ago

Week #1: Welcome back! Hi all, Welcome back to a new semester! Our first meeting is this Friday from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445 – we’ll do introductions, talk about our plans for the coming semester, and have time to socialize. See you there!

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4 months ago

Week #14: Elections! Hi all. This week, we’re holding elections for the positions of Vice President and Secretary. Both positions are still open, so if you want to help keep RITlug existing and have the time to spare, consider running for the positions (just message someone on eBoard to let us know). Other than that, this week’s meeting will just be social time – come to ask questions, share what you’ve been working on, or study for finals together! Join us for the final meeting of the year this Friday at 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445. See you there!

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4 months ago

Week #13: Lightning Talks! Hi all! The time has finally come for this semester’s lightning talks! Anyone can come with a 5-10 minute presentation about any topic they want – Linux/software-related or otherwise. No need to register in advance, just have your presentation ready to go. If you made a slideshow but don’t have a device to present with, eBoard will lend you one of ours. As always, join us this Friday from 4:30 - 6:00 in GOL-1445. See you all there!

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4 months ago

Week #12: Unicode Hi all! This week, I’ll be talking about Unicode and what you need to know to handle text properly. As always, we’ll meet from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445. As a reminder, next week is lightning talks! Presentations may be about anything but they should be fairly short (5-10 minutes). See you there!

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4 months ago

Week #11: Assembly Hi all! This week, Rose will be talking about low-level programming. As usual, we’ll meet from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445 Also, this semester’s lightning talks will take place on November 21st, two weeks from today! Anyone can come with a short (5-10 minute) talk about anything they want – whether it be about Linux or anything (really, anything) else you’re passionate about. Lightning talks can be as serious or unserious as you want. No need to sign up, just come to our meeting in the 21st with your talk ready! See you all there!

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5 months ago

Week #10: systemd Hi all, This week, I’ll be giving an extra spOoOoky talk about systemd, everyone’s favorite init system! As always, we’ll meet from 4:30 to 6:00 in GOL-1445. See you there, and happy halloween!

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5 months ago

Week #9: Writing a Forth Hi all! This week, Andrew will be giving a talk about low-level programming in Forth. We’ll go over a bit of history and what the language looks like, then look at a working implementation and see how little it takes to write your own. As always, we’ll meet this Friday from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445. See you there!

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5 months ago

Week #8: Processes and Threads Hi all! This week I’ll be talking about how Linux handles processes and threads. Join us this Friday 4:30 - 6:00 PM in GOL-1445. See you there!

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6 months ago

Week #6: Network Observability Hi all! This week, Gaïa is giving a talk on open-source network observability. Want insights into your network without selling out to evil corporations? Join us at 4:30-6:00 this Friday in GOL-1445 to see an example topology for a datacenter and for a home network and be sure to bring questions!

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6 months ago

Week #5: Haskell Hi everyone! This week Rose will be giving a talk about Haskell. Haskell is a purely functional programming language, which means functions have no side-effects and can only return a value. Join us this Friday at 4:30 PM in GOL-1445

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6 months ago

Fall 2025 Week 4 - UNIX History

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6 months ago

Fall 2025 Week 2 - Linux Directory Structure

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6 months ago

Fall 2025 Week 1 - Welcome!

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6 months ago

Fall 2025 Week 3 - Open Source Modular Synthesis

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