Boston Linux & UNIX was originally founded in 1994 as part of The Boston Computer Society. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month, online, via Jitsi Meet.

Meetings and Events


Our group has been meeting since April 1994. We formed our group as part of The Boston Computer Society (BCS); when the overall BCS organization dissolved itself, we chose to continue on as an independent user group.

From June 1994 to February 2020, immediately prior to the CoVID-19 pandemic that began in March 2020, most of our meetings were held on the M.I.T. campus. Ever since then, we have been holding our meetings online at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org.

Index of speakers at BLU events



Meeting Schedule


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Schedule for 2002

Wed, Dec 18, 2002 (tech)VMWare and IBM on VMWare ESX
Wed, Nov 20, 2002 (tech) Developing for Embedded Linux
Sat, Oct 26, 2002 (hands-on) Linux InstallFest XIII
Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (tech) Beowulf Redux: The State of Beowulf Clustering
Wed, Sep 18, 2002 (tech) Internet Collaboration and Systems Administration
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 (tech) Introduction to Apple MacOS X
Sat, Jul 20, 2002 (social) Annual Summer BBQ VIII
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 (tech) Introduction to IBM AIX
Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (tech) Linux & Unix Standards Update
Wed, May 15, 2002 (tech) Moving from MS Windows to GNU/Linux
Sat, Apr 20, 2002 (hands-on) Linux InstallFest XII
Wed, Apr 17, 2002 (tech) The IT Job Market HOWTO
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 (tech) LinuxSoup V: Linux in the Enterprise
Wed, Feb 20, 2002 (tech) Open Mike Night: User Groups in India, Linux & Compaq
Wed, Jan 16, 2002 (tech) Software Freedom and the GPL

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We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities.

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