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Science India editorial
by Arun M 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

http://forum.gnu.org.in/1049371309/index_html The Columbia Tragedy The month of February started with a tragedy in the sky, a tragedy that could have been averted , like most others, if human knowledge had been more complete, or perhaps, if some individuals had taken more care. Science India pays homage to the seven space travellers who lost their lives as the space shuttle disintegrated high in the sky.We can add their names to the seven others who died when another space shuttle, the Challenger, blew up on the launch pad, or to thirteen others who died in various accidents involving spacecraft. Let us remember the jundreds or thousands of others, known and unknown, who had their lives prematurely terminated in our quest for the kind of technology that makes it possibel for us to go beyond the atmosphere. And a similar number of people who helped build up the scientific knowledge base for the development of technology. And, indirectly, the millions upon millions who helped all of us lead a life dvoted to science and technology by providing us the basic amenities of life. Let this remind us that knoledge is a product of social activity, contributed by one and all, and, as such, everyone is heir to all knowledge. Let this also remind us that knowledge is to be used for social good, and not for personal advancement. if the lives of the seven astronauts can remind us of this fact, they would have achieved far more than what they went to space for.

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GNUBeLUG... another report from Belgaum
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

URL : http://www.geocities.com/tonysingh4u/gnubelug.txt Minutes of GNU Be LUG Meet In an engineering college in Belgaum, called GIT, there are a few students who felt strongly about Free Software and its ideology. They wanted to eductae people around them and wanted to spread the message as we at Mumbai do. They took an obvious step, formed a formal LUG(ilug-belgaum(a)yahoogroups.com) about 6 months ago, and started introducing people to a new option. But they wanted to hold a big event, and event where they could have a larger number of people know of the option. So, they (Ashutosh Naik, Rohan, Rahul, Sanket Patil just to name a few) started to concieve this event which i'll describe in this article. Saturday, March 29th 2003, I and Bhaskar Ghosh another member of the Mumbai LUG reached the Belgaum bus station and called up the volunteers to pick us up. In no time they were there and I could notice the similar air of friendlyness that i'v always noticed with the Mumbai Luggerz. We quickly got fresh in a hotel wher we were put up and reached the college. The first look at the college made our jaws drop. We could notice lovely posters and banners al over the place with our own tux and GNU on them. Once in the lecture hall, we were introduced to all the the luggers of belgaum and we quickly looked over the arrangements that were loveley. The crowd started coming in and in no time we had main hall jampacked with around 150 minds, but this is not it. There was another hall arranged for the event and all the proceedings in the main hall were being streamed thru a web cam and displayed in the second hall. The first talk for the day was by Ashutosh Naik ofGIT who spoke about THE philosophy. He had er good presentation compiled which gave the taste of everything RMS talks about in his talks. So what if we didnt have RMS for the event, atleast we had a local RMS to take his place:). During the talk i was doing some face reading and noticed that the audience was a highly participating one and wanted to participate more. After Ashotosh's talk we had a very fruitful question answer session with people asking a lot about the differences of Free software and the Open Source Movements. We went on with some trivia for the audience and giving away of Knoppix CDs. I tried to make that very interactive from then on, and took things trevor ishtyle. Next speaker was Bhaskar Ghosh from DYPCOET kolhapur who did the installation of RH8 with specific stress on points like partitioning. He, actually went there as audience and wanted to use this as an opportunity to meet the luggers, but ended up speaking because due to some reasons Mr Dinesh Shah could'nt make it. After a quick snack break. we then had Rahul Iyer of GIT, belgaum talk about Kernel Modules. This talk was very informative and I must say that the LUG at belgaum is lucky to have a true kernel hacker with them right from its inception. Some more trivia and a few more knoppix CDs followed and then it was my turn. I was talking about using GNU/Linux for day to day use. As a part of that I also demoed knoppix and IndLinux. I could here a similar sigh from the audience that i heard at GNUnify, Pune, when they saw Gedit with hindi menus. I also got it across that the students sitting out there could actually contribute to this project. That was the end of the first days proceedings and we were again taken for a few snacks. Late in the evening a mini bus arrived at the hotel. We had a big contingent coming down from Goa for the event. I could see familiar faces like Fredrick Noronha, Dr. Anil Seth, Arvind Yadav etc and there were a few people i didnt know but got to know soon like Dr Gurunandan Bhat, Mr Dsouza, Amitay, Allwyn Noronha(no he is not FN's brother). Over dinner there was a lot of interaction and people were eating less and talking more. It was almost 11:30 by we finished dinner and a few people wanted to sleep, but a few people thought otherwise. FN made it a point to have Arvind Yadav and me otherwise we would have chatted all night and been drowsy the next day. Soon Trevor Warren and Warren Noronha from Bombay joiined the bandwangon(yes! another noronha. There was jokes of establising a noronha lug out there. lol) The next day was opened by FN who spoke about the status of the movement in India. I remember him stating that how we take the movement forward would make or break the movement, this made me feel more responsible. Next to speak was Dr. Anil Seth, an educationist as of now. He had compiled a very good analysis on "why GNU/Linux?". a new thing i noticed in his talk was that after he made the advantage clear he also touched an important point. he stated "What if I am wrong? you cant be trusting anyone like that. You still dont have anything to lose". The stage was then taken by the Trevor Warren who was speaking about Embedded Linux. Well we all know that Trevor gets to the stage, he is always amidst the audience. He and Warren Noronha demoed a few interesting Embedded equipment including a PDA and a box with a 512MB flas, a 486 processor and a wireless NIC that they had deployed on top of buses for the Karnatak Govt. We had the very knowledgable Dr. Bhat from Synapse Goa speak about SOAP and web services just before lunch. I have noticed this common thing when IITians talk, they have a fair amount of humour in their talks and thus make their highly technical talks the most engrossong ones.I have to add over here that Dr Bhat is the person who wrote the tex module of emacs and still he is the most humble man i have ever met. The last talk of the day was by Arvind Yadav from Goa who covered a lot of technical topics including .NET's counterpart in Free Software and a little more on the partitioning when dual boot systems are to be done up. His was a more of a question answer session and I was amazed atthe amount of questions that were pouring on. The last leg was a panel discussion where all the speaker were on the stage and one mic was always in the audience. Various topics were discussed including technical and topics related to ideaology and how could a i miss "making a living from free software". Bhaskar and I, the die hard fans of RMS spoke a lot about him and how the GNU project went about during this session. One more thing worth mentioning is that we had almost 200 copies of LFY march given away in the two days, which were sponsored by Mr. Rahul Chopra,editor LFY and we are very thankful to him for that. That apart we also had 87 copies of the knoppix CDs either sold or given away as prizes for trivia. 2 days of brain storming, almost 10 speakers, 200 magazines going out and almost 75 CDs of knoppix sold and an amazing amount of interaction with the audience of almost 250. How would one sum this all up? The only adjective that come to my mind is FRUITFUL, very very FRUITFUL. ^^^^^ LINKS ilug-belgaum(a)yahoogroups.com ilug-goa(a)yahoogroups.com fred(a)bytesforall.org(FN) guru(a)plusthought.org (Dr Gurunandan Bhat) GNUrpreet singh gnurpreet(a)softhome.net -------------------------------------------- Copyleft 2003 gurpreet. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1 or later. -------------------------------------------

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NEWS: India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service Bangalore, Apr 1 (IANS) India is neutral in the open source vs. proprietary software debate and will adopt a policy that will serve the country better, Minister for IT Arun Shourie said Tuesday. Making it clear that the government would not take a stand on supporting either the Linux or Microsoft platforms, he said no circular had been issued by his ministry to support either. Shourie's statement is the first categorical one from the government, which has been besieged by supporters of open source and proprietary software to promote their platforms. "I am not prepared to give a carte blanche. In India there is too much of 'either ... or'. There should be 'also' too", Shourie told reporters here. He was speaking on the sidelines of a function to dedicate Param Padma, a one teraflop super computing cluster that is the largest in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan. Decisions on the MSN-Linux issues would be taken on a "case by case basis. For instance, CDAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) will decide what will serve the country better," Shourie maintained. The open source platform provides the code for developers to modify for their applications. This code is not available in proprietary software. The campaign has been termed freedom against dependency. The debate on the issue got a fillip when Microsoft head Bill Gates visited India last year to push for proprietary software in the wake of the growing inroads by Linux among India's 500,000-strong developer community. Gates as well as supporters of open source like IBM and Sun Microsystems have committed millions of dollars to promote their platforms. "If there is a security product that we need and supposing it is required immediately and someone else has it, are we going to say we will develop it ourselves?" Shourie asked. Speaking after inaugurating the C-DAC facility, Shourie said "sensitive organizations should use indigenous software and hardware because bugs can develop several years later". --Indo-Asian News Service

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SITEWATCH: What exactly is gnowledge?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

URL : http://www.gnowledge.org Welcome to Gnowledge! By `gnowledge' we mean the knowledge accessible freely for the community in general, and to the users of the WWW in particular. We expect that the `g' in the term `gnowledge' is pronounced hard, and is not silent as `k' in `knowledge'. The possible Sanskrit and Greek roots of the term `knowledge' and the ideal of GNU to share knowledge in general and software knowledge in particular inspired us to use this term. At this site we will publish software to manage gnowledge. We desire to make this a community portal for those who believe in sharing. We are developing a gnowledge management application called GNOWSYS. Find out more about it by navigating through the menu on the left side. Powered by GNOWSYS, [15]ZOPE, [16]Python, [17]GNU/Linux � Nagarjuna G.[18]Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

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help on hurd
by Arko Provo Mukherjee 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

Hello Friends, There are lots of documentations on how to write modules for the Linux Kernel. Can you help me to find any documentation that will help me to write modules for the Hurd kernel, specially about driver writing on that platform? Regards Arko

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LINK: Create your own mailing list
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

URL : http://lists.asiaosc.org [1]Promoting open source and free software in Asia [2]Asian Open Source Centre Promoting open source and free software in Asia AsiaOSC Mailing Lists Server Access the Mailing Lists For a full listing of the mailing lists that are hosted by this server, please click [3]here. Create your Lists AsiaOSC offers free mailing lists to open source / free software projects in Asia. If you are interested in creating a mailing list for your open source / free software project, please email [4]mailman-owner(a)lists.asiaosc.org with the following info : 1. Short name of list (e.g. OSS_Vietnam). 2. Short description (e.g. 'Open Source discussion in Vietnam'). 3. Long description (e.g. 'For anything related to open source and free software in Vietnam'). 4. Geographical distribution (Asia, worldwide, or countryname). 5. AsiaOSC registered username (click [5]here to register). Mailing lists are offered to you under these [6]terms and conditions. Please take note that someone from AsiaOSC will be a co-admin for every list. The admin from AsiaOSC will not exercise any admin previleges unless the list is abused. Please report problems to [7]mailman-owner(a)lists.asiaosc.org [8]MIMOS - [9]AsiaOSC AsiaOSC Mailing Lists Server References 1. http://www.asiaosc.org/ 2. http://www.asiaosc.org/ 3. http://lists.asiaosc.org/mailman/listinfo 4. mailto:mailman-owner@lists.asiaosc.org 5. http://www.asiaosc.org/user.php?op=register&module=NS-NewUser 6. http://www.asiaosc.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=legal&file=index 7. mailto:mailman-owner@lists.asiaosc.org 8. http://www.mimos.my/ 9. http://www.asiaosc.org/

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INDIA-BELGAUM: Day 1 - GNUBeLUg '03
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

This note is a somewhat delayed report from Ashutosh Naik <a7ash(a)yahoo.com> in Belgaum... Our ILUG-Goa team of eight just returned late last night from Belgaum (150 kms away), after a very interesting visit there. FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Day 1 of GNUBeLUG was full of action. Remember, It was the first major event organised by ilug-belgaum. To begin with, the principal of GIT, Dr. D H Rao inaugurated the function by lighting the lamp. This was a really good way of starting the function because with one light, U can light another.. And that's the way the spirit of Free Software multiplies. The trend during the day was the GNu philosophy.. People were shocked to know that propreitory companies had taken their freedom for granted, And most definitely agreed that GNU/Linux was altleast worth a try..The Principles of Free, Open Source and Propreitory software were argued till length After the talk on GNU principles by myself, We had a brief Installation seesion, A talk on GNU/Linux in daily life by Gurpreet Singh, And finally a talk on Hacking Kernel Modules by a true hacker, Rahul Iyer. There were also loads of everyday questions answered by the panelists which included myself, Rohan, Bhaskar Ghose, Gurpreet Singh and Sanket Patil. Most of these questions were on switching to GNU/Linux and the configuration issues involved Finally the meet ended with a demo of the Indlinux v 0.37 project and a demo of Knoppix We do look forward to your company tommorrow.. which promises to be more action-packed as compared to today Tomm's Attractions : - Embedded Linux by Trevor Warren - Setting Up GNU/Linux as a WebServer - Dr. Bhat - GNU/Linux on the desktop - Arvind yadav - GNU/Linux in India - Frederick Noronha - Panel Discussions And much more You surely dont want to miss it !! Ashutosh Naik ilug-belgaum __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/xaxhjB/hdqFAA/VygGAA/0XFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To Post a message, send it to: ilug-goa(a)yahoogroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: ilug-goa-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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Urgent: Call for Action !!!
by Arun M 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi Freedom lovers, "Microsoft comes to Trivandrum..." dreaming of 'XPanding Horizons'. Venue: The South Park Hotel Date: 2-3rd April. 10.00 am - 5.30 pm Time to act and tell them Freedom Matters !! Lets join for a Demo. Happy Hacking, Arun. PS: If would like to help pls call me on 0471-2460250. We have just one day left. We welcome donations of blank media or GNU/Linux CDs to distribute.

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INDIA-BELGAUM: Day 1 - GNUBeLUg '03 (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

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SITEWATCH: FreeMed
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

URL : http://freemedsoftware.com About Contact Software Support Links Demo [1]About | [2]Contact | [3]Demo | [4]Links | [5]Software | [6]Support Site created by [7]jeff � 2003 by the FreeMED Software Foundation References 1. http://freemedsoftware.com/about.php 2. http://freemedsoftware.com/contact.php 3. http://freemedsoftware.com/demo.php 4. http://freemedsoftware.com/links.php 5. http://freemedsoftware.com/software.php 6. http://freemedsoftware.com/support.php 7. mailto:jeff@ourexchange.net

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