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<title>Linux User Group HOWTO
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<title>Linux User Group HOWTO
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<author><url name="Rick Moen" url="mailto:%20rick@linuxmafia.com%20"></author>
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<author><url name="Rick Moen" url="mailto:%20rick@linuxmafia.com%20"></author>
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<date>v1.7.1, 2003-10-14
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<date>v1.7.2, 2003-10-22
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<abstract>
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<abstract>
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The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and
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The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and
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tiny to colossal:
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tiny to colossal:
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<itemize>
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<item><bf>PDA/embedded/router:</bf> Hitachi H8 series, Motorola
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<item><bf>Diverse <url name="PDA/embedded/microcontroller/router"
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Dragonball, Motorola ColdFire family, Motorola QUICC,
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url="http://www.uclinux.org/ports/"> devices:</bf>
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Motorola MPC family, Axis Communications ETRAX, Intel i960,
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<url name="Hitachi H8 series"
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NEC V850E, NEC VR series, MediaGX, STPC, Hitachi SH3/SH4
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url="http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/h8/">,
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"SuperH", Intel ARM/StrongARM, Intel Xscale family, AMD
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<url name="Motorola Dragonball"
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Elan SC520 and SC300, ZF Micro ZFx86, Samsung ARM7, Toshiba
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url="http://www.linuxdevices.com/products/PD5338609592.html">,
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TMPR3912AU, Cirrus EP7211, and PRISMA
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<url name="Motorola ColdFire family"
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embedded/microcontroller/PDA machines, as well as Cisco 2500,
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url="http://www.uclinux.org/ports/coldfire/">,
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3000, and 4000 series routers.</item>
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<url name="Motorola mc68360 QUICC"
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<item><bf>IA32:</bf> i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II,
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url="http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/mc68360/README.html">,
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Pentium III, Xeon, and Pentium IV processors, as well as
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<url name="Axis Communications ETRAX"
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IA32 clones from AMD, Cyrix, VIA, IDT, Winchip, NexGen,
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url="http://developer.axis.com/software/">,
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Transmeta, VIA C3 Ezra "CentaurHauls", and others.</item>
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Intel i960,
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<item><bf>Other micro:</bf> Most PowerPC/PowerMac and G3/G4/G5, and
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<url name="NEC V850E"
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the Motorola 68020-68040 series on Mac/Amiga/Atari ST.</item>
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url="http://www.ee.nec.de/_uclinux/">,
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<item><bf>IA64 and similar:</bf> AMD x86-64 "Hammer" family (including
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AMD Opteron), and Intel IA64/Itanium/Itanium2.</item>
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url="http://www.linux-vr.org/">,
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<item><bf>RISC workstations:</bf> Most MIPS, DEC Alpha, PA-RISC, and
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Cyrix MediaGX (x86 core),
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SPARC.</item>
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<url name="STMicroelectronics STPC (x86 core)"
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<item><bf>Mainframes:</bf> IBM S/390 and Fujitsu AP1000+.</item>
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url="http://www.stmcu.com/forums-cat-132-6.html">,
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ZF Micro ZFx86 (x86 core),
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Hitachi SH3/SH4 (SuperH:
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<url name="link1" url="http://www.superhlinux.com/">
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<url name="link2" url="http://linuxsh.sourceforge.net/">),
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<url name="Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. ARM family"
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url="http://www.arm.uk.linux.org/">
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(StrongARM, XScale, ARM6, ARM7, ARM2, ARM250, ARM3i, ARM610,
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ARM710, ARM720T, ARM920T),
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Elan SC520 and SC300,
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Toshiba TMPR3912AU (MIPS),
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Motorola 68020-68040 -based VME boards and
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<url name="ISICAD Prisma"
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url="http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/way/fr30/"> machines,
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as well as Cisco 2500, 3000, and 4000 series routers.</item>
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<item><bf>IA32 family:</bf> i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro,
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Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, and Pentium IV processors,
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<item><bf>Motorola/IBM <url name="PowerPC family"
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url="http://linuxppc64.org/">:</bf> Most
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<url name="PowerMac (including G3/G4/G5)"
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url="http://penguinppc.org/dev/pmac/"> /
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<url name="CHRP" url="http://penguinppc.org/dev/chrp/"> /
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<url name="PReP" url="http://penguinppc.org/dev/prep/"> /
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<url name="POP" url="http://penguinppc.org/dev/pop/">,
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<url name="PowerUP Amiga"
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url="http://linux-apus.sourceforge.net/">,
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url="http://linuxppc64.org/">).</item>
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<item><bf>Digital <url name="VAX minicomputers and MicroVAXen"
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url="http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/"></bf>.</item>
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<item><bf>Intel <url name="8086/80286"
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url="http://elks.sourceforge.net/"></bf>.</item>
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url="http://www.linux-m68k.org/"></bf>:
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url="http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/linux-hp/">,
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url="http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/index.shtml"> and <url name="Fujitsu AP1000+ (SuperSPARC cluster)" url="http://cap.anu.edu.au/cap/projects/linux/">.</item>
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<sect1>Other sources of information
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<sect1>Summary
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<sect1>Summary
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As of mid-2003, there are LUGs in all 50 US states plus the District of
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Columbia, nine of Canada's ten provinces, all six of Australia's states
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Columbia, nine of Canada's ten provinces, all six of Australia's states
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plus the Australian Capital Territory, and over 100 other countries,
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including India, Russia, China, and most of Western and Eastern Europe.
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