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Capital District Linux Users Group is the Albany-row name on the national list. NYLUG is New York City and a different animal.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#albany
Annapolis does not host a standalone LUG. Northern Virginia Linux Users Group is the DC-metro list that still meets weekly.
https://www.meetup.com/novalug#annapolis
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts. The old Georgia Tech-adjacent club that still answers ale.org.
https://ale.org
Augusta is a small capital. Maine Linux activity clusters on the US LUG list and in Portland more than in the capital building’s shadow.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#augusta
Austin Linux Meetup / CTLUG orbit. Second Thursdays. Capital and scene are the same city for once.
https://www.meetup.com/linuxaustin
Baton Rouge Linux Users Group. SELF still carries it next to NOLUG in New Orleans.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#baton-rouge
Bismarck does not advertise a LUG. Fargo / Red River groups are where ND Linux people actually mail.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#bismarck
Boise LUG is on the national roster. Boise also has a Red Hat user meetup if the generic LUG is quiet.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#boise
Boston Linux & Unix. Third Wednesdays. The New England club people actually mean.
http://www.blu.org
Fedora once listed a Carson City LUG. Living traffic is Reno LUG and Las Vegas Linux Geeks. Capital is a lunch drive from Reno.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#carson-city
Charleston WV has no durable LUG page. Mid-Ohio Valley LUG (Parkersburg) is the named neighbor on old USENIX pages.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#charleston
Cheyenne has no LUG site. Denver’s Rocky Mountain LUG is the Front Range room Wyoming people actually drive to.
https://www.meetup.com/rocky-mountain-linux-users-group#cheyenne
Columbia Linux Users Group. SELF still lists ColaLUG next to Charleston CHSLUG and Greenville UCLUG.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#columbia
Central Ohio Linux Users Group. Columbus proper. Dayton DMA Linux is the other Ohio room worth knowing.
https://www.colug.net
Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group (Nashua side) plus the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee list. Concord rides those.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#concord
Denver-area Linux meetup. CLUE was the old name; this is the list that still gets a room.
https://www.meetup.com/rocky-mountain-linux-users-group#denver
Central Iowa Linux Users Group. Third Wednesdays in the Des Moines / Windsor Heights orbit.
https://www.meetup.com/central-iowa-linux-users-group
Delaware capital is too small for its own club. Philly PLUG is the nearest room that still meets.
https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Linux-User-Group-Meetup#dover
Kentucky capital has no page. Lexington BGLUG and Louisville KYOSS are the rooms SELF lists.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#frankfort
Harrisburg Unix / Central PA Linux User Group on the national list. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubs are the big-city alternatives.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#harrisburg
Hartford itself rarely keeps a homepage. Connecticut groups show up on the US LUG list; start there and walk toward New Haven.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#hartford
Helena is a small capital. BozemanLUG and BILLUG (Billings) are the groups the national list still names.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#helena
Honolulu groups come and go with the university calendar. Start on the US LUG list; there is no single durable hlug.org right now.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#honolulu
Central Indiana Linux Users Group. First Wednesdays, still posting 2026 talks. This is the capital LUG that behaved.
https://www.cinlug.org
Linux Users Group of Jackson. SELF still has the row. Southern Mississippi LUG is the other MS list.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#jackson
Missouri capital has no LUG site. Saint Louis Unix Users Group is the nearest large club; Columbia and Springfield have smaller lists.
https://www.sluug.org
AKLUG is anchored in Anchorage, not Juneau. Statewide list and the only Alaska LUG that kept a domain.
https://aklug.org
Lansing itself is thin. Metro Detroit / Michigan! /usr/group is the statewide-ish club; start there rather than inventing a capitol LUG.
https://www.meetup.com/topics/meet-your-neighborhood-linux-users
Lincoln does not keep a homepage. Omaha LUG and Bellevue LUG are the Nebraska rooms on the roster.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#lincoln
No durable Little Rock LUG homepage turned up. Use the SELF roster and ask on the nearest alive list.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#little-rock
Madison Linux Users Group. Milwaukee LUG is the other Wisconsin list. Capital and university town, so this one existed.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#madison
Alabama capital has no standing LUG page. Birmingham (BALU) and Huntsville (LUNA) are the groups SELF still lists.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#montgomery
Montpelier will not grow a LUG homepage. Burlington / statewide Vermont lists on the national roster are the mail stop.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#montpelier
Nashville Linux Users Group. SELF still carries NLUG. Chattanooga and Knoxville have their own lists.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#nashville
OKC LUGnuts. Beginner desktop through sysadmin. Still posting monthly Jitsi meetings in 2026.
https://www.meetup.com/okc-lugnuts
Olympia Microcomputer Users Group runs a Linux / Raspberry Pi SIG. Greater Seattle LUG is the big-city alternative.
https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-usa-washington
Phoenix Linux Users Group. Second Thursdays plus installfests. The capital that actually has a LUG with a site.
https://phxlinux.org
Pierre is the smallest capital problem on this list. No standing LUG site. Sioux Falls is the usual “is anyone there” ask.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#pierre
Classic Providence LUG pages went stale. An Omarchy PVD meetup is what showed a 2026 date; GNHLUG is the other New England net.
https://omarchy.org/meetups
Triangle Linux Users Group. Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill. One of the largest remaining US LUGs.
https://www.trilug.org
Richmond VA Linux Users Group. SELF still has the row. NovaLUG covers the other end of the state.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#richmond
Linux User Group of Sacramento. Fourth Thursdays at Hacker Lab when they publish a date. BALE carries the calendar.
https://www.saclug.org
Minneapolis / Saint Paul share TCLUG. Capital is Saint Paul; the meetings have always been twin-cities.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#saint-paul
Salem has no separate LUG. PLUG in Portland and the OSU LUG in Corvallis are the Willamette options.
https://www.pdxlinux.org
Provo Linux Users Group is the Utah club that kept plug.org. Salt Lake rides that list more than a separate SLCLUG page.
https://plug.org
New Mexico GNU & Linux Users Group. Albuquerque ABQLUG is the bigger room if Santa Fe is quiet that month.
https://nmglug.org
Linux Users of Central Illinois. Fourth Tuesdays at Springfield MakerSpace when the listing is current. Chicago clubs are a different planet.
https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-usa-illinois
No stable Tallahassee LUG site. JaxLUG, Suncoast, GOLUG, and NWFLUG are the Florida groups SELF still names.
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/southeast-foss-groups#tallahassee
Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association sits in Lawrence. Topeka does not keep a separate site; KULUA is the eastern-Kansas list.
http://lugslist.com/ctry/usa.php?lg=en#topeka
Trenton has no durable LUG page. Philadelphia PLUG and the old LUNICS / North Jersey lists are the commute options.
https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Linux-User-Group-Meetup#trenton
Not a state capital. Included because every US map stops here. Northern Virginia LUG is the metro list that still meets.
https://www.meetup.com/novalug#washington-dc
