Apr 2026 MeetingApr 2026 Meeting
Started with discussion about copyright etc and Anna’s Archive was mentioned as a source of books. I checked and found that it has a scientific paper I’d wanted to read.[...]
Feb 2026 Meeting ReportFeb 2026 Meeting Report
Andrew Pam spoke about new developments in Linux gaming and about hardware and OS support for games etc. He also described some interesting developments with Linux support for SMR disks[...]
April 2024 Meeting: EO2024, Maemo Leste and moreApril 2024 Meeting: EO2024, Maemo Leste and more
The April 2024 meeting is the first meeting after Everything Open 2024 and the discussions are primarily around talks and lectures people found interesting during the conference, including the n3n[...]
July 2023 MeetingJuly 2023 Meeting
Meeting Report The July 2023 meeting sparked multiple new topics including Linux security architecture, Debian ports of LoongArch and Risc-V as well as hardware design of PinePhone backplates. On the[...]
April Hack Day ReportApril Hack Day Report
The hack day didn’t go as well as I hoped, but didn’t go too badly. There was smaller attendance than hoped and the discussion was mostly about things other than[...]
March 2022 MeetingMarch 2022 Meeting
Meeting Report The March 2022 meeting went reasonably well. Everyone seemed to have fun and learn useful things about computers. After 2 hours my Internet connection dropped out which stopped[...]
Mailing ListMailing List
We now have a mailing list see https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/flounder for information, the address to post to the list is flounder@lists.linux.org.au.. We also have a new URL for the blog and events.[...]
First Meeting SuccessFirst Meeting Success
We just had the first Flounder meeting which went well. Had some interesting discussion of storage technology, I learnt a few new things. Some people did the ZFS training and[...]
First Meeting AgendaFirst Meeting Agenda
The first meeting will start at 1PM Australian Eastern time (Melbourne/Sydney) which is +1100 on Saturday the 5th of February. I will start the video chat an hour early in[...]
Flounder OverviewFlounder Overview
Flounder is a new free software users group based in the Australia/NZ area. Flounder stands for FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) down under. Here is my blog post describing[...]