Fsf-friends April 2003

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Linux
by sajeev 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

Hello, Is RedHat Linux 8 a real open source, cross platform, free software? Sajeev -- I hope you won't mind if I go offlist for some time now, you are always welcome to send a personal reply.

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LINKS: GNU/Linux quotes... from the Indian press
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

BUSINESSES are also starting to use [GNU]Linux more freely due to the tremendous savings they can make. Computers still cost Rs 25,000 or so -- and almost a similar amount goes into the software. When a business needs to buy a lot of computers, that amounts to staggering costs. -- Mala Bhargava, BusinessWorld (India) March 3, 2003 GUESS WHICH Indian company has bagged the biggest export order in the telecom sector? Midas Communications, a seven-year-old R&D company based in Chennai, focussing on rural telephony, has just picked up a $12-million (around Rs 60 crore) order from Egypt. It will install 200,000 telephone lines based on the corDect wireless in local loop (WLL) technology that it has developed in partnership with the Tenet grouup, spearheaded by IIT- Chennai professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala. -- M Anand in BusinessWorld (India) March 10, 2003. (Prof Jhunjhunwala has long focussed his attention around GNU/Linux) WITH COMPANIES such as HP, Microsoft, Red Hat, NIIT and Reliance putting serious money into it, the vernacular computing market in India looks set to bloom in 2003.... The Simputer has a GNU/Linux embedded system with local language support... Red Hat will launch a Hindi-enabled 9.1 version (Linux) in the next six months.... NCST IndiX Project will enable Hindi and other Indian languages on GNU/Linux systems. IndLinux (offers) support for Hindi on Gnome. Swathanthra Malayala Computing Project (offers) support for Malayalam on Gnome. IIT Madras (is working on) support for Tamil on GNU/Linux system. -- Report by Priya Srinivasan, spanning four pages, Business Today (India), March 16, 2003. CIRCULATED VIA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Malappuram : IT@School and Akshaya
by CK Raju 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

School teachers and a handful of elected representatives of Malappuram district have requested a demonstration of Free Software, to be weighed against possible use at IT@School and Akshaya programmes of the district. Resident volunteers of the district, who would like to contribute to the theme (most likely in May) should make their presence felt. CK Raju

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[Announce] Sagar 0.5.0
by Sayamindu Dasgupta 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hello, I am pleased to announce the latest member of the Free Bangla Fonts Project collection - Sagar (The Sea). Sagar is a Free OpenType font containing covering the entire Unicode range for Bengali, and covering most of the commonly used juktakkhars (conjuncts). Sagar has been developed using the glyphs donated by Mr Omi Azad from Bangladesh. We have also used a "templating system" to create the convert the font quickly and efficiently into an OTF. (More details can be found at our mailing lists archive at http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/freebangfont-devel/2003-03/threads.html) Sagar can be downloaded from http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=freebangfont (However, please note that the font is not yet usable in M$ Windows (tm) - I am yet to find out why). -Enjoy the release- -regards- Sayamindu PS: The work on the conversion has been done entirely on Free Software (three cheers for pfaedit !!) PS again: Many thanks to Deepayan Sarcar for working on the template system - that really made life a lot easier ;-) -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [ http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/ ] ========================================= Speak out on social and cultural issues at PeacefulAction.Org http://www.peacefulaction.org *****************************************

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[CALL FOR PAPERS]Pista '03
by Raj Shekhar 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Socio Political Informatics and Cybernetics: Pista '03 July 31, August 1-2, 2003 - Orlando, Florida, USA Jointly with The International Conference On Computer, Communication And Control Technologies: CCCT '03 http://www.confinf.org/Pista03 Pista '03 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking, problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present their research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present political information systems and software based solutions. Public servers are invited to present case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Political and social scientists are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems and political processes. Politician and political consultants are invited to present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT. All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Pista '03 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking, problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present their research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present political information systems and software based solutions. Public servers are invited to present case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Political and social scientists are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems and political processes. Politician and political consultants are invited to present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT. All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. You can find complete information about the conference in our web page http://www.confinf.org/Pista03 * Pista '03 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Prof.: Jose Vicente Carrasquero Organizing Committee Chair: Prof: Frederik Welsch Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics * CONFERENCE AREAS AND TOPICS -- Raj Shekhar http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/

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Ready to Rock: Kernel 2.6 [LINUX JOURNAL * May 2003]
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

CAN [GNU]LINUX do for music what it did for server applications? Ask Dave Phillips. His linux-sound.org website is a resource for everything from hard-disk recorders to music notation editors. This issue offers a preview of the 2.6 kernel and the audio excellence of Linux.... ////////[SOFTWARE]///////////////////////////////////////// o Football manager http://www.autismuk.freeserve.co.uk Graphics are crude; but the game is a lot of fun. o Magic notebook: http://www.joanthanscorner.com/etc/magic_notebook Keep notes using a web interface. o Server status: http://www.the-den.org/status Keep an eye on servers. Needs X, but clean, fast, simple. o Pebrot: http://pebrot.sourceforge.net Python version of MSN Messengers, runs without X. o GNU Pilot Logbook Pro ftp.stampede.org/skibum/gplbp/bplbp.tar.gz Professional logbook for pilots will all entries you need. o Hardware Lister http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/lshw.html IRQ, module used and more for cards and hardware. ////////[NEWS]///////////////////////////////////////// o Ericsson releases source code for its Telecom Inter-Process Communication under the GNU GPL. o Japan to spend $8.3 million on open-source development for Linux development for consumer electronic goods. Also $416,000 to switch Japanese government computers over to free software. ////////[TECH]///////////////////////////////////////// o Introducing Plone, a simple content management solution that allows all readers to read publicly available content, and those given permissions to publish their content to the general public. o Writing stackable filestystems: Now you can add a feature to your favourite filesystem without rewriting it. o Battles inside the computer o Using Firewall Builder, Part I: use one easy GUI to build and deploy policies for all your firewalls and servers. o TECH TIP: A simple script to search a collection of RPM packages for a specific file... o Advanced memory allocation o INTRODUCING THE 2.6 KERNEL: scheduler and audio improvements are only two of the features you'll notice when the 2.5 development series becomes 2.6. Other important features include O(1) scheduler / preemptive kernel / latency improvements / redesigned block layer / improved VM subsystem / improved threading support / new sound layer. o Starting with the 2.5 series, it's simpler and faster to customize your kernel or add a driver. o Kernel mode Linux: Now you don't have to write a module to run a program in kernel space. Run any program there with this patch. o Reiser4, Part II: Designing trees that cache well. o SOUND SOFTWARE to turn your GNU/Linux box into a synthesizer studio: GPL amSynth Great analog synth emulation Proprietary Elara Proprietary UltramasterJuno6 GPL Bristol GPL LegaSynth Emulates DX7 and some chips GPL ALSA Modular GPL SpiralSynth Modular GPL MSS GPL AUBE Proprietary RTSynth Proprietary JSyn Varied synthesis methods, excel sound GPL ZynAddSubFX GPL Cumulus Unique real-time granular synthesis GPL gAlan Interesting 'module processing' env GPL jMax LADSPA support planned BSD-ish Pd Rich syntehsis, OpenGL, VST/LADSPA,JACK GPL Freebirth Bass synth, sample sequencer Proprietary UltramasterRS101 Like Freebirth but more GPL iisusynth GPL RX/Saturno o Learning regular expressions. For precision of text manipulation and description, it's hard to beat the power of regexps. o DOING GOOD AND PREVENTING BAD: If you didn't know about Linux Journal publisher Phil Hughes and his background in a nuke plant and as a anti-nuclear protester, Costa Rica's renewable source-produced energy, and the link between such issues... check this out! ////////[ADVTS]///////////////////////////////////////// "Become a card carrying member of the Free Software Foundation. Your membership dues help FSF protect your freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, fight for rights of all users of technology, and defend the GNU GPL...." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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SITEWATCH: New GLUG from down south (Trichy)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

URL : http://glugt.linuxisle.com tux GNU/Linux User Group - Trichy GNU * Main Menu * [1]GLUG Home [2]Projects [3]Downloads [4]GNU/Linux Links [5]Meetings [6]Mailing Lists [7]Credits * GNU/Linux Docs * [8]GNU/Linux Workshop [9]Tips/HOWTOS * Reminder * GLUG-T Meeting Date: 20th April, Sunday Time: 9:30 to 12:30pm Venue: Accel IT Academy Thillainagar [10]* Help Needed * LCD Projector Domain Name & Web Space Meeting Place Welcome to GNU/Linux User Group - Trichy The GLUG-T is based at Trichy, a small city at the heart of Tamil Nadu, a state in India. The user group aims to promote free software in its spirit. We meet every 3rd Sunday on a decided place. (Check out our [11]meetings page for the next meeting's venue.) In our meetings we discuss both technical and philosophical issues related to free software. We welcome everybody interested in free software and the GNU/Linux OS to join our user group. Joining the GLUG-T: You can join us by subscribing to our mailing list glug_t(a)freelists.org and attending our meetings. To subscribe to the mailing list send a mail to [12]glug_t-request(a)freelists.org with 'subscribe' as subject. Contacting Us: .In case the information you are looking for is not in this website you can mail to [13]glug_t(a)linuxmail.org. * Cookie * * Poll * Which is your favourite Desktop Environment? (_) Gnome (_) KDE (_) Text Mode (_) Others [14][ Results ] Vote Powered By * GNU/Linux * EMACS * pHp * GIMP * Apache *

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IRCTC to run Oralacle business suite on GNU/Linux
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Oracle to provide tech services to Indian Railways' arm >From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Apr 23 (IANS) Oracle India, the local arm of the global technology giant Oracle Corp, Wednesday said it would provide tech services to automate and streamline all processes of an Indian Railways subsidiary. Oracle will use its E-Business Suite to streamline business processes and information flow across the nationwide operation of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC). IRCTC is a public sector company set up and wholly owned by the ministry of railways. It functions as an extended arm of Indian Railways to upgrade and manage the catering and hospitality services at railway stations and on trains. IRCTC's mandate also includes promoting domestic and international tourism through development of budget hotels, special tour packages, information and commercial publicity and global reservation systems. "The Oracle E-Business Suite on Linux gives us the power to control and run our nationwide operations in a cost-effective manner," said S.K. Kaushik, director (finance) of IRCTC. Amitabh Pandey, group general manager (IT services) of IRCTC, said: "We are on the verge of a major expansion. We needed an efficient and robust system, which is also scalable. The Oracle E-Business Suite will meet all our requirements." Shekhar Dasgupta, managing director of Oracle India, said: "We are delighted to contribute to the e-readiness of IRCTC and help them meet their goals of improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs. "It is particularly exciting that IRCTC will run the Oracle E-Business Suite on Linux as this will enable IRCTC to realise additional cost savings and benefit from greater efficiency." --Indo-Asian News Service

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Open source revolution :-) the way to go.
by vishal 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

Yes u are right, its fully open sourced tool, I use this all the time and replying u using evolution as my mail client and using all open source tools for development. No microsoft or even SUN So good luck. Vishal. -- vishal <vishal(a)tusc.com.au> --- This message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitutes a trade secret. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from us may be monitored. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions that are present in this message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.

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LVS/AS
by sameer 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

hi friends, I wanted to emulate a Linux cluster for some database application. For that i went to redhat.com, they have this software with the name "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS" costing hefty 1.5 k$. Does anyone know if any such HA/AS or LVS is available for free download? Regards. sameer.

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