Fsf-friends August 2004

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[Arun M] Re: Fwd: [Fsf-friends] hi
by Anand Babu 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi Satyakam, Do you know if there are some more people interested in FSF Hyderabad chapter? -- Anand Babu Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>

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Re: Fwd: [Fsf-friends] hi
by Arun M 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

No yet, good idea if there are enough interested people. Mail is copied to Kiran, who is a free software activist in Hydrabad. > Is there a chapter of FSF in Hyd? regards, arun.

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hi
by Krishna Pagadala 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Is there a chapter of FSF in Hyd? Thanks Krishna To Reflect, to Inspire and to Empower http://www.employees.org/~krishnap/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

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an Interview
by Mahesh T. Pai 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

GN, Mayank great!! http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/16/1326236 (just going through) -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com Backup: The duplicate copy of crucial data that no one bothered to make; used only in the abstract.

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[COMMERCIAL]L.A.M.P (PHP) developer needed
by Vinayak 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hello We are a startup organisation delivering Linux based network management and email solutions to the SME market and developing L.A.M.P based database driven websites. We need a developer who - knows Linux well - has 1-3 years of experience in L.A.M.P (PHP) based programming - has good knowledge of HTML - has good communication skills Resumes should be mailed in text/pdf format to jobs(a)theargoncompany.com -- Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayakam Murugan Manager - Software The Argon Company 7th floor, Nanavati Mahalaya, 18, Homi Modi Street, Fort, Mumbai 400 023. Tel: 91-22 - 2288 2163 Ext 105 Help Desk: 91-22 - 2288 2774 Fax Number: 91-22 - 2288 2809 Mobile : 91-22-3101 8082 http://www.TheArgonCompany.com Viruses getting you down? Get your virus protected mailbox at http://www.tassm.com I prefer an OS made by programmers that need marketing than an OS made by marketing that need programmers...

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QUERY: FLOSS and the digital divide
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

I'm looking out for some good examples of how Free/Libre and Open Source Software could help bridge the "digital divide", particularly in the context of the less-affluent countries. Specially in South Asia or the rest of Asia. If you could offer any pointers or suggestions, I'd be grateful. In particular, the issue of computer obsolence seems to be a critical subject. But what with quite a few GNU/Linux distros seemingly going the bloatware way? Regards, FN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat, SALIGAO, GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org fredericknoronha at vsnl.net

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Re: QUERY: FLOSS and the digital divide
by K Raghu Prasad 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

> I'm looking out for some good examples of how Free/Libre and Open Source > Software could help bridge the "digital divide", particularly in the > context of the less-affluent countries. Specially in South Asia or the > rest of Asia. One of the major problem being faced by south asian countries like India is bringing PCs to the rural schools. Schools in our villages do not have resources to purchase computers even at a rate of Rs.15k per piece. So we find most of them using second hand machines. I had read somewhere few years back that the OEM license of Windows did not allow you to sell the OS along with your PC? I don't know whether still that clause is present or not. If so, a second hand PC is worth nothing unless you load it with a newly purchased Windows or a pirated copy of it. Even then, a licensed version of XP may not run on it due to the lack of hardware power required for it. So "GNU/Linux" or "* BSD" are the best options for them. Besides that, with free/libre OS comes hundreds of packages with varying degrees of choices thrown up at the user. All at no extra cost. This is not the case with the other OS. Another area of interest is the open standard of document formats available in free/libre word processor and spreadsheet software. This is very important not only for rural public, but also for the urban masses. With an open standard based document repository, your knowledge base is never going to be obsolete. That means you need not indulge in expensive data conversion tasks every year or pay through you nose to get new versions of compatible software. > In particular, the issue of computer obsolence seems to be a critical > subject. But what with quite a few GNU/Linux distros seemingly going the > bloatware way? Regards, FN This is due to an ongoing effort from GNU/Linux distros to please or convert Windows users into its fold. This makes a lot of business sense. Unless a Windows user finds the system user friendly as per his/her definition of it, he/she is not going to use Red Hat or SuSE distros. This comes naturally with some additional costs. If you want all the bells and whistles of latest KDE and GNOME, you need to spend a lot of CPU power and RAM. We need to remember that the target of these distros are new users with almost new hardware. Rural public or their systems are off their radar screen as there is not much revenue coming from those areas at present. We can't blame the distros either as you need good revenue generation to sustain yourself in this market. But there is a silver lining. Since everything is free and open we are as powerful as a business house when it comes to customizing our solutions. GNOME and KDE are not the end of all GUIs. There are other faster window managers with less features or less bloat, depending on which side of the fence you are. Xfce (http://www.xfce.org) is one of them. The Freeduc CD used Xfce-3 which was very fast to use and provided good functionalities. The latest Xfce is built with GTK2 and is capable of supporting all the languages already supported by GNOME. I think selection of packages for rural public is a critical part of the game. The packages which run faster on slower hardware is the way to go. But I am not sure whether current Mozilla or OpenOffice.org will make into that list. Well, one can use dillo (or links-hacked) and abiword (or lyx) as substitutes with lesser features. -Raghu

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Need RedHat 9 CDs.
by linuxjunkies＠spymac.com 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

LINUXjunkies Foundation are pleased to share it's collection of FREE software CDs. Here is the complete list : http://www.linuxjunkies.org/gnucds/ :) **No Shipping charge in West Bengal upto 4 CDs. rupam.r -- LINUXjunkies Foundation THe GNU/LINUX Fanatics' Group 21, Baksara Road, Baksara, Howrah - 711110 West Bengal, India www.linuxjunkies.org Feel Free to hang out in our Forum at http://linuxjunkies.org/forum/ ---- Introducing Spymac MailPro: http://www.spymac.com/mailpro/

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Need RedHat 9 CDs.
by Manilal 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hello friends, This person is in need of RedHat Linux 9 CDs. Can anyone near Malda(W.B) help him Address: subhra sankar misra. C/o, asis misra. 33 a singatala lane po+dist-malda pin-732101 ph-(03512)250639 regards Manilal

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FLOSS in education...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

To get an idea of what can be done with FOSS in education, please examine http://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/eduforge/Systems%2C%20Tools%20and%20Repositor… Just-launched FOSS Helpdesk Project. To learn about the project, examine the forums at https://eduforge.org/forum/?group_id=26 and the documents at: https://eduforge.org/docman/?group_id=26

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