Linux Users of Central Illinois

Monday July 6, 2026

The Linux Users Group of Springfield, Illinois and the surrounding area.

Some other users groups in the area:
Chicagoland Linux Users Group

Unix Hobbyists', Administrators' & Coders' Club

Meeting Info:

Meetings of the Linux Users of Central Illinois are the 2^nd and 4^th Tuesday of every month from 7 PM to 9 PM. Meetings are held on Jitsi Meet. Details are posted in the meeting announcement on the luci-announce mailing list.

The next LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 14, 2026.

The following LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

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AMD Begins Staging Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.3

Intel Preparing Linux For IPU8 Web Camera Support With Nova Lake Laptops

OpenRazer 3.12.4 Fixes Compatibility With Linux 7.2

FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware

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KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL

GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality

GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements

UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster

Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning

Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11

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Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3

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webmaster@luci.org	Last updated Tue May 26 20:12:13 2026.