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Careers in FLOSS... (Dec 2003 issue of LFY)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

=========================================== LINUXForYou * Dec 2003 (Vol 1 No 10) In India Rs 50 (with CD) http://www.linuxforu.com Pages 102 * US$7.95 0 74470584957 =========================================== THIS ISSUE has probably reached your city. Saw it in Bangalore, and also got a complimentary copy from the LFY team at LinuxBangalore2003. But when I reached back to Goa on Dec 4, it wasn't in as yet. So it might take time to reach 'small town' India... FN REVIEWED: Mandrake 9.2 * PhProjekt * StarOffice 7.0 COMPUTERS AT TIS HAZARI, the session courts for the city of New Delhi, are being shifted over to Linux, courtesy the National Informatics Centre. - Rahul Chopra in this month's editorial. LINUX LEARNING CENTRE at Bangalore is offering courses in administration, security, development (internals and programming essentials, programming with Qt, device driver programming, MySQL & PHP), RHCE and Red Hat rapid track certification. www.linuxlearningcentre.com DotGNU RELEASES CD: It can now be used to implement application programs and Web services in C# and C applications under multiple operating systems, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSC, MacOS, MS Windows. The 219 MB release 0.1 CD is available as a free download at http://download.freedom.biz/dotgnu/dotgnu-0.1-cdrom.iso.gz.torrent e-Bridge calls itself "the new state-of-art training facility from eSpark Infotech is now open in the heart of Bangalore". It's offering embedded Linux courses (Linux fundamentals, programming Linux, embedded C & Linux, realtime C & Linux, Linux internals, device drivers, networking) and DSP courses (DSP fundamentals, TI/analog dev programming, audio/video, image processing, bio-medical systems). www.ebridgesolutions.net Linux.net provides a free e-mail service to those who want an e-mail address that ends in '@linux.net' MAJOR UPDATES and releases: OpenNA Linux 1.0, Gibraltar Firewall 1.0, Xandros Desktop 2.0, Onebase Linux 2.0, CUPS 1.120rc6. CAN YOU MAKE money with open source? Registration entails a "nominal fee" of Rs 5000 for a three-day conference. http://www.linuxasia2004.com/attendees/ February 11-13, 2004, New Delhi. SEND IN YOUR favourite slogans for a tee-shirt, and win five free copies of the shirt... LFYedit at efyindia.com MONEY CAN't buy respect, says Robert Adkins. Some of us might have met this guy at LB2003 in Bangalore. He's the CTO of Technetra Corp, and an advocate and implementer of FLOSS solutions for government. He can be contacted at radkins at technetra.com CAREERS WITH FLOSS: The number of students opting for courses in Open Source is growing steadily, even as industry experts predict a growing need for trained professionals in this expanding field. EXIT RED HAT, ENTER FEDORA: It's official now; the free (of cost) version of Red Hat Linux will not be available anymore. This has created a lot of FUD in an already unstable environment, thanks to the SCO episode. But is Red Hat closed for good? WEB-BASED COLLABORATION SOFTWARE: PHProjekt is an easy-to-install collaboration suite, which runs on the open source platform and databases. As the design of the system is developer-friendly, adding new features and components is a piece of cake. STAROFFICE: The latest version of Sun's office suite, StarOffice 7, may just be the right solution for the cost-conscious user. It loads faster than the earlier version, and sports some noticeable improvements. IN THE LFY CD THIS MONTH: Slackware (the "oldest Linux distro") and a range of GNU software for Windows users. FALLING BACK on backup systems. MAKING ADOPTION OF Linux in the enterprise easy. www.linux4e.com Business partners required: http://wwww.linux4e.com/partners ooWRITER HELPS YOU create your own templates and styles so that you can work with documents easily. Open Source is key to IBM's vision of computing. User empowerment is key to Microsoft's, writes Alolita Sharma USING DATABASE functions in Calc, a tutorial. (Wish there were more how-tos for the user in this mag! --FN) HALDIA DOCKS: it has a uniquely designed Linux installation with an active-active cluster set up, which is considered the best of its kind. This has ensured efficiency and cost-effectiveness. BASIC UNIX commands and concepts: an extract from *Running Linux* (Shroff Publishers, Pp 674 only Rs 425 in India). VxWorks and LynxOS are definitely the biggest embedded operating systems in use today. But slowly they are acknowledging the power of GNU/Linux and how it can help them maximise deployments. HELP LINUX GO INDIAN: By using various translation tools, you can join Language translation groups working across India to help translate GNU/Linux into your language. EXPERT INTRODUCTION: Multi-threaded programming under Linux. KICKSTART YOUR Linux installation (Part I): Installing Red Hat Linux on multiple machines one after another can be quite tedious. To avoid answering the same question over and over again, try the KickStart method, as it does not need any user intervention. WRITE CHEQUES. NOT JUST BOOKS: Niyam Bhushan on how anybody can turn thoughts into words, and words into wealth. NFS CLIENTS for Windows. OpenSSL PACKAGE offers a vast crypto library of algorithms WAIT QUEUES in Linux device drivers UNDERSTANDING recursive sub-routines INDIA-RELATED NEWS: HP launches GNU/Linux laptop Mandrake's latest distribution Oracle announces 10g for GNU/Linux Delixus offers India Linux CxProtect anti-virus mailing solution for mail-servers Trade management system from Network Programs Netweb Technologies unveils Tyrone MRO-Tek rolls out Network Management Systems Review of FLOSS at BangaloreIT.com =========================================== DISCLOSURE: This journalist (FN) writes a monthly column for LFY and gets paid for it. Promoting awareness about the content of LFY however is not part of the job, and is carried on with the intention spreading awareness about FLOSS among different GNU/Linux user groups in India. -- Frederick Noronha : http://www.fredericknoronha.net : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org : software we refer to Ph 0091.832.2409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.

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To open software within three years
by Manjush G.Menon 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Original Message ----- From: "IT@School" <itschool(a)asianetindia.com> To: <manjushmenon(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Reply > Mr.Manjush G. Menon > We are not giving to depend totally on Ms. Products. Rather MS > Office is taught along with open office and Windows along with Linux > from this year. Arranging the resource persons for training an open > software, making available the software, the maintenance of a help desk > etc. are logistical issues which could not be immediately undertaken. > We plan switch out to open software within three years. > Executive Director > ---- Original Message ----- From: Manjush G. Menon To: itschool(a)asianetindia.com Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Respected sir, From Manjush G. Menon, Sr.Programmer, Sofker Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kochi-18. To The Executive Director, 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project, SCERT Buildings, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram-12. Respected sir, SUB: In protest against the inclusion of products from multinational companies in the syllabus of 'IT @ SCHOOL' It's a very dissappointing fact that when the whole world is moving towards Free software, we at kerala are going behind a major MNC - Microsoft. I hereby register my protest in such an act from 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project team. Breaking of prototypes will definetly help us in finding economical and high quality products for our future generation. For students and programmers, the GNU Linux contains 'GNU Compiler Collections' which includes C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL, TCL etc. Also, for DTP and other publishing purposes, it includes GNU Office utilities like Abi-Word, gedit, and other worksheet utilities, all these with a nominal cost of Rs 700-800/-. The software as it is, is free and the cost is accounted towards the media (CD + Documentation) included. By this letter, I urge you to take this matter seriously and suggest necessary modifications in the action plan of 'IT @ SCHOOL' project. Wishing you all the best and wishing all 'Students @ SCHOOL' a bright future, Thanking you, Yours faithfully Manjush G. Menon. ______________________________________________________ Check out all the latest outrageous email attachments on the Outrageous Email Chart! - http://viral.lycos.co.uk

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[Fsf-friends] NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Fwd:NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free SoftwareUsers group
by Praveen A 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

hello, can any one help NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group to conduct a workshop or awareness program on Free Software philosophy and GNU/linux? -----Forwarded Message----- From: Dileep M. Kumar <dileep(a)symonds.net> To: FSUG-Kochi-Discuss(a)symonds.net Subject: [fsug-kochi-discuss] [Fwd: NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group] Date: 27 Nov 2004 19:25:30 +0530 Any takers ? Regards -- Dileep -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:30:03 +0000 (GMT) From: santhosh thottingal <santhoshthottingal(a)yahoo.co.in> To: dileep(a)kumarayil.net Sir, We have a Free Software users group in our NSS College of Engineering,Plakkad, named as FOX-Free software and Open systems eXtended. We understood that most of the students not aware of the Free software movement and GNU or they are misunderstanding the meaning and the mission. In this scenario we would like to conduct an awareness programme in the form of a seminar or workshop. We think that you are used to conduct these type of programmes and you can help us. If you are interested please reply us in email. Santhosh T R, Coordinator-Fox club, Dept of Computer Science and Engg. NSS college of Engineering, Palakkad-678595. Email: santhoshthottingal(a)yahoo.co.in desert_orion(a)yahoo.com -- ~vimal -- --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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FSF and GNU, and other talks on Free Software
by Ramanraj K 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Recently, the ILUGC organised a demo day for IEEE [pronounced as I-triple-E] at the Central Lecture Theatre, IIT Madras. Brief minutes about the meet is available at: http://www.chennailug.org/meeting/minutes/yr2004/ilugc-112004.html My talk was on on "FSF and GNU", and the slides I used for the talk is available at: http://personal.vsnl.com/ramanraj/FSF_and_GNU.tar.gz [99K] The purpose of the talk was to briefly introduce FSF and GNU to an audience totally new to free software. I should thank Bharathi for organising the event, giving the opportunity and for choosing a nice topic to talk about :) Though I used OO Impress for the talk, I have converted the file for use with MagicPoint, a X11 based presentation tool. The presentation file (FSF_and_GNU.mgp) is just a text file which may be easily modified or improved. MagicPoint allows presentation files to be created quickly with a text editor, building with tag directives for embedding graphics, grabbing command outputs into foils for live displays during presentations etc. After installing MagicPoint, to start the presentation give the command: # mgp <file_name> Official home page of MagicPoint is at: http://www.Mew.org/mgp/ Shakthi Kannan, gave a presentation on "GNU/Linux Software Applications for Engineers and Tech Support" and is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/cyborg4k/ieee1104.tar.gz [1MB] released under the Creative Commons-Attribution/Non-commercial/ Shared-Alike Version 2.0 License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Sivasankar Chander also introduced Gnu/Linux to the audience, but I do not have the link to his slides. In all, about 30 IEEE members, 70 IIT-M Students, and few others attended the demo day workshop. __

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to anand babu. guile project
by ISAAC PRAVEEN 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Anand, Guile is pretty ineresting for sure. Are there anyoone working on it from India? isaac praveen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Babu" <ab(a)gnu.org.in> To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] any lisp programmers? Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:24:19 -0800 > > > http://www.gnu.org.in/mailinglists.html > Fsf-prog (FSF India Programmers List) is more appropriate list to > discuss this topic. > > ,----[ "ISAAC PRAVEEN" <satriani(a)linuxmail.org> ] > | Would like to know if there are any Lisp programmers, not essentially > | AI programming. I work on common Lisp and Scheme (the future exn > | language for GNU)! > `---- > Yes, I use GNU Guile for Scheme programming. I found Scheme much more > powerful and easer than Python. Some of my own projects (like GNU > FreeIPMI, Freehoo) uses Scheme. My desktop environment (GNU Emacs, > Gnus, Sawfish...) is mostly Lisp extensible. > > > ,----[ "ISAAC PRAVEEN" <satriani(a)linuxmail.org> ] > | Currently, writing an extension language called ACE-lisp for > | algebraic(symbolic) computing. Not a replica of maxima though! Just > | for fun. > `---- > I would very much recommend you to contribute it to GNU Guile project. > > -- > Anand Babu > Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > Ph: 9886120247 Computing and Cognitive Neuroscience div. THE GAMMA MATRIX PROJECT Turing Lab Bangalore, India -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Learning to *use* free software
by Ramanraj K 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

>Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote: >--- Sriharsha Vedurmudi ><sriharsha.v(a)redpinesignals.com> wrote: >Is this "Project Shiksha" (Shiksha -> Teachin) or >'Project Siksha' (Siksha -> Punishment)? >http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/nov/25ms.htm >So, M$ is now kicking off with a colourful Trojan >Horse..... Generally, we cannot go by such unofficial reports which may be false or incorrect based on rumours. We would need to go by information from more authoritative sources. If the MOU is true, it is a very serious issue calling for swift action. Regardless of whether the MOU is true or false, we need to apprise the concerned officials with a few facts. It has taken a great deal of effort, enthusiasm and energy, of FSF, RMS, Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox and thousands of other developers, to create a totally free operating system, that is robust, secure and open. After more than two decades of hard work, we just have to take what is being served on a plate and eat it. The advocacy these days is more on merely *using* free software, that is much, much easier than *developing* free software. A government that cares for the welfare of its people would never ignore free software. Probably a memorandum could be addressed to the Govt of WB to take note of the free software movement, pointing to very fine examples from around the world, particularly Brazil, the whole of Africa, and Europe. The following report is particularly interesting: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Africa-Becoming-Vast-Frontier-for-Free-an… I am sure mere representations to the Govt. of WB should bring in desired changes, and PIL or other action would only come last of all, if necessary at all. Regards, Ramanraj.

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by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Wikipedia now feature Firefox in its main page ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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[Fsf-friends] Linux and windows face to face : Linux overtakes Mac on desktops
by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

There is a good discussion going on in spymac.com discussion forum in a thread started by me. It would be nice if you just go through it. Many arguments for an aginst free software and linux adoption is there. Also if you want to get an audience who don't know what linux is and who want to know what it is. It is ideal place to discuss. One important difference there is that majority on the forum use Mac OS X, very difficult to convert than Windows. they say it is secure ( It is Unix -- a BSD variant). They say it is powerful and userfriendly. It is worth signing up and join the discussions. All Free software evangelists come out and join me in this effort. http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=107392 Praveen A -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Firefox on Wikipedia main page as Featured article
by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

See the Wikipedia Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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STORY:- Security Report: Windows vs Linux
by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Biting the hand that feeds IT This is a story published on The Register, the UK's leading IT news web site. You can find the original at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/ I saw this on The Register and thought of you. Enjoy! Security Report: Windows vs Linux An independent assessment By Nicholas Petreley Friday 22nd October 2004 07:26 GMT * Executive Summary * Busting The Myths + Myth: There's Safety In Small Numbers + Myth: Open Source is Inherently Dangerous + Myths: Conclusions Based on Single Metrics * Windows vs. Linux Design + Windows Design o Windows has only recently evolved from a single-user design to a multi-user model o Windows is Monolithic by Design, not Modular o Windows Depends Too Heavily on the RPC model o Windows focuses on its familiar graphical desktop interface + Linux Design o Linux is based on a long history of well fleshed-out multi-user design o Linux is Modular by Design, not Monolithic o Linux is Not Constrained by an RPC Model o Linux servers are ideal for headless non-local administration * Realistic Security and Severity Metrics + Elements of an Overall Severity Metric o Overall Severity Metric and Interaction Between the Three Key Metrics o The Exception To The Rule o Applying The Overall Severity Metric + Means Of Evaluating Metrics o Exposure Potential o Exploitation Potential o Damage Potential o Overall Severity Risk + Additional Considerations o Application Imbalance o Setup and Administration * A Comparison of 40 Recent Security Patches + Patches and Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Windows Server 2003 + Patches and Vulnerabilities Affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 * CERT Vulnerability Notes Database Results * References * Footnotes Executive Summary Much ado has been made about whether or not Linux is truly more secure than Windows. We compared Windows vs. Linux by examining the following metrics in the 40 most recent patches/vulnerabilities listed for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3: ... Keep yourself fully informed by signing up to receive The Register's daily or weekly newsletters http://go.theregister.com/k/newslettermf To read the rest of this story, find the original at http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/. --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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