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A Linux User Group or Linux Users' Group ( LUG) or GNU/Linux User Group ( GLUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. The term commonly refers to local groups that meet in person but is also used to refer to online support ...
cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc. [1]) of a collection of processes . Engineers at Google started the work on this feature in 2006 under the name "process containers". [2] In late 2007, the nomenclature changed to "control ...
Linux user groups. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Linux user groups. A Linux User Group (LUG) is a meeting of people who like Linux and use it. Each country will usually have a national LUG which may administer the groups, offer free services etc. and it is also possible for groups to get sponsorships from various commercial ...
File-system permissions. Most file systems include attributes of files and directories that control the ability of users to read, change, navigate, and execute the contents of the file system. In some cases, menu options or functions may be made visible or hidden depending on a user's permission level; this kind of user interface is referred to ...
A group identifier, often abbreviated to GID, is a numeric value used to represent a specific group. [1] The range of values for a GID varies amongst different systems; at the very least, a GID can be between 0 and 32,767, with one restriction: the login group for the superuser must have GID 0. This numeric value is used to refer to groups in ...
The wheel group is a special user group used on some Unix systems, mostly BSD systems, [citation needed] to control access to the su [4] [5] or sudo command, which allows a user to masquerade as another user (usually the super user ). [1] [2] [6] Debian and its derivatives create a group called sudo with purpose similar to that of a wheel group.
A users' group (also user's group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related. Overview [ edit ] Users' groups started in the early days of mainframe computers, as a way to share sometimes hard-won knowledge and useful software, usually written by end users ...
Portland Linux/Unix Group. The Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG) is a group of Linux and Open Source enthusiasts in Portland, Oregon. The group was started in early 1994 as a venue to discuss and promote Linux and Unix, and is one of the oldest Linux User Groups in existence. PLUG is volunteer-run and does not have any formal criteria for ...