Sponsors Page

Sheffield Linux User Group is regularly helped out by businesses and Universities in this country and from others in other countries. A brief summary of sponsors is shown below.

Blackwell's provided floor space for our Linux Demo Days which took place at their West Street branch. This was a great success and we arranged a Demo Week for the back end of 1999 . Blackwell's have also given books which helped with the production of this web site. There were some really nice people in the West Street shop. Click on the logo to go to their site. Our monthly meetings took place at West Street which is one of the best branches of Blackwell's bookshops. We did have many meetings at the West Street branch. This has now finished and we have now moved to Sheffield Hallam University where our monthly meetings take place on Saturday afternoons.

Dinning Area Regeneration Trust have sponsored our Linux User's Group. With their help we were able to pay for a meeting room at Sheffield Hallam University.

Prentice Hall have sponsored Sheflug. Their small donation has paid for our new meeting room at Sheffield Hallam University . This is a great place for a LUG meeting. We hope to have many more in the future. We still continue to support their interest in GNU/Linux publications by advertising their company on our front page.

Wrox Press very kindly donated some books for our demo days and one of their employees turned in for the Saturday session and many others . He even did the draw for us so that several people could win some Red Hat software. Sheflug and Wrox have now promoted so many books together that we can't remember how many we actually saw in front of us. If you want good quality books at sensible prices then these are the people. You might want to have a look at our book review pages. Wrox are looking for authors who can produce Linux books.

O'Reilly books very kindly donated books for our demo days they have also given away books for our infrequent LUG draw. As we all know they produce excellent books at normal prices and both Wrox Press and O'Reilly books are hoping to produce many more Linux books which will help all of us. If you look at the O'Reilly.com site in the States (rather than the UK one) you can find an address for suggestions. So.. if you want to write a book why not send them some e-mail. Click on the logo for the UK site. You might also want to have a look at our book review pages.

Red Hat have provided software for Sheflug and they say that they will provide more in future. They are one of the leading Linux software companies and in spite of their recent public financial deal they are continuing to provide support for open source projects. Their software is know to be very reliable and several clones have been produced some of which are slightly better. The fact that clones have been produced should explain to you how good their software really is.

SuSE have supplied many CDs and software for our demo days. They have also provided much technical support. They are the best European manufacturer of Linux software. Their operating systems are easy to use and understand (apart from the German bits). This is heavily GPL'd software. The 8.2 version comes with several books and many CDs full of software. Only one of these is needed to install a working system. Since SuSE 7.0 came along there have been many changes. There is now an SuSE version for SPARC, PPC, Alpha and Intel platforms. Everyone is saying "if only we could have done this ten years ago". The latest SuSE Online newsletter shows Blinux. This is an SuSE project for blind users of Linux software. The B means braille.

VMWare have provided much help for our LUG and were hoping to come to our December demo days at Blackwell's. If you want to know more about this intriguing crash proof software then click on the logo. VMWare will allow you to use just about any software on any other software. A virtual machine within a system.

Applixware have supplied a great deal of software for our demo days. They also produce Office Suite 99 for SuSE. Applixware is one of the best office suites for Linux and the new 5.0 version is to be recommended to anyone. If you don't want to use Linux as server software and you want more from it then you should consider Applixware.

Compusys provided hardware for our Demo Week which was December 1999. Their company provide a great deal of service to industry and Universities. If you want support and you need a lot of it then you should have a look at their web site.

Transtec have sponsored Sheflug. They are an international company who provide all kinds of hardware from small servers up to the big stuff. Their site can provide you with a few surprises so why not click on the logo and have a look ?

Alpha Processors Incorporated provided an Alpha machine for our Linux Demo week in December 1999. They were also able to provide us with a very able technician who did a very good job of selling Alpha products. API are doing very well just now and we know that they will continue to be a success.

Sheffield Computing Services are at 23-27 Taplin Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield S6 4JD. They provided two Linux PCs for our Christmas 2000 demo days at Blackwell's bookshop at West Street in Sheffield. Also for one of our seminars at Sheffield Wednesday's football ground. They can be very helpful. If you want to ask about hardware you can phone them at 0114 281 9333. They also have a web site which you can view by clicking here.