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The official and only legal Jacksonville Linux Users Group™, otherwise known as the JaxLUG™, backed by the Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Jacksonville Linux Users Group Inc, please see our legal and financial pages for more information, along with our donate and sponsor pages. We have open legal positions, with system administration and other positions to come.
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Come join us all year long in 2026 as we celebrate 30 years of Linux in Jacksonville, the 30th anniversary of the JaxLUG, the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! Come interact with us on our very own Matrix homeserver matrix.jaxlug.ngo or for hard core Linux geeks our IRC channel on OFTC #jaxlug, and re-join the restored self-hosted Mailing List at list@jaxlug.ngo, the heart and soul of the group since 1996. Checkout the JaxLUG Infrastructure Project, or the coming JaxLUG Recycle Program a.k.a Project Phoenix, and our work-in-progress superior, top-notch, human expert authored Linux resources, with more to come as volunteer time permits to help foster and grow the next generation of Linux users, and ideally, Linux and open-source developers!
We are the knowledgeable, skilled, and authentic open-source and Linux community; the experts!
There is a saying, we stand on the shoulders of giants that came before us, expand that to, we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. This is a fundamental principle of Unix, Linux, and Free and Open Source Software, where we respect history, we respect licenses, we respect intellectual property, we respect those that came before us, as if it were not for them, we may not exist, nor would the FOSS we use and love like Linux!
We are the innovators, others can copy us, but will never be us, they just follow our lead!
In what should be a celebratory year, it has broken down to a few locals, who are intimidated over change of status-quo which impacts their self-serving agenda of controlling most of the local technical groups, who are resisting major advancements for the benefit of the community, at the expense of the community, in order to preserve their own personal career interests and financial gain!
The Jacksonville Linux Users Group Inc. dba JaxLUG is a victim of active and ongoing Criminal Corporate Identity Theft .
Don't be fooled by copycats, wannabes, flimflammers, blue websites with Delaware mailing address, and fake Linux communities that exist solely on proprietary platforms, such as Discord, Meetup, Google Groups, and others, people who claim to be Linux and security experts who struggle to do minimal tasks like host static websites or other on Linux.
As Morpheus famously said to Neo;
“You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
Jacksonville, Florida is riddled with people who claim to have knowledge and skills they do not, and who merely want to socialize rather than have a real technical community that benefits its members and the area! Unfortunately, local educational institutions and municipalities rather support in-authentic unlawful fraudsters and scammers, rather than support locally highly educated, experienced, and authentic, bona fide lawful efforts. Jacksonville does a great job of holding itself back, no more!
The future of Jacksonville, Florida, is Linux!
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is corrupt Application Serial No. 99399026 as reported to the United States Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General in Public Complaint No. 26-0890-N.