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Welcome to iLUG-Cal Submitted by [15]webmaster on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 14:46 * About us: The Kolkata chapter of the Indian Linux Users's group (ILUG-CAL) is a non-profit, volunteer driven organisation dedicated to the propagation and usage of GNU/Linux in Kolkata, and in West Bengal. The organistion tries to provide suppport to the GNU/Linux community in Kolkata, as well as to increase the usage of GNU/Linux among the general computer users community in the city. It also organises workshops, seminars, etc for the local student community. * Membership: Anyone who is interested in GNU/Linux, or wants to try it out, or wants to learn more about it is welcome to join. One can become a member in two ways - either by joining the [16]mailing lists or by attending a [17]meeting. * Meetings: Meetings are held every month, usually on the 2nd Saturday - and the venue is usually announced on the mailing list.

Meeting on Saturday, 10th May 2003 Submitted by [18]webmaster on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 16:30 We have a meeting on the 10th of May, 2003 (Saturday) from 16:30 (IST) onwards. Please click on the "Read More" link below for more details.

[19]add new comment � [20]read more [21]Meetings Slap the credits everywhere! Submitted by [22]sankarshan on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 19:50 Sankarshan (sankarshan@ilug-cal.org) writes as: A recent article on [23]Newsforge, by Hank Reiser (the architect of the Reiser filesystem and founder of namesys)makes for interesting reading. The article is posted below, while for the newsforge link click [24]here Slap the credits everywhere! by [25]Hans Reiser - [26]add new comment � [27]read more "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature Submitted by [28]webmaster on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 17:04 Here's the announcement: We are pleased to announce the first publically available source code release of a new kernel-based security feature called the "Exec Shield", for Linux/x86. The kernel patch (against 2.4.21-rc1, released under the GPL/OSL) can be downloaded from: [29]http://redhat.com/~mingo/exec-shield/ The exec-shield feature provides protection against stack, buffer or function pointer overflows, and against other types of exploits that rely on overwriting data structures and/or putting code into those structures. The patch also makes it harder to pass in and execute the so-called 'shell-code' of exploits. The patch works transparently, ie. no application recompilation is necessary. [30]add new comment � [31]read more [32]News Gitobitan Online - a noteworthy effort Submitted by [33]sankarshan on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 11:39 [34]Somendra M Bhattacharjee of Bhubaneshwar has finally gone ahead and done it. Over an extended period of time, Somendra has been toiling over the important project of putting Rabindranath Tagore's Gitobitan online - something the Bengali speaking population worldwide would appreciate. It is finally available [35]here. [36]add new comment � [37]read more Get ready for another 'office suite' shakeout Submitted by [38]cybersiddhu on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 10:59 It seems that we are in the verge of watching the battle of best 'office suite' - combo-pack of softwares to perform common tasks like word processing, spread sheeting, presentation and e-mailing. And this time, hopefully it will not be a smooth sailing for the market leader Microsoft's "Office". [39]Full story [40]add new comment [41]Home Users Linux is... The Bachelor! Submitted by [42]webmaster on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 05:52 [43]O'Reilly Net is featuring a hilarious article called "Linux is... The Bachelor!", which begins with..... Sun stood with one hand on her hip and the other twirling her long, pretty blonde hair. "I really like Linux. I think he's really got it together. I mean he has so much energy. I can definitely see myself as Mrs. Linux." . Read the entire article [44]here. [45]add new comment [46]News Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family Submitted by [47]webmaster on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 13:53 [48]Bitstream, a leading developer of font technology and digital fonts and our very own good old [49]GNOME have released the Vera font family under an open source/free license. The set of 10 fonts can be downloaded from [50]http://www.gnome.org/fonts/. I have personally downloaded the fonts, and to be honest - they rock!!! For the full press release on the deal, click [51]here. [52]add new comment [53]News Website updated Submitted by [54]webmaster on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 02:02 As many of you know, [55]www.ilug-cal.org is run on a Free (GPL'ed) content management system called Drupal ([56]www.drupal.org). We had started with Drupal 4.0.0, and this morning I upgraded the system to Drupal 4.1.0. This upgrade adds a number of new features and optimization (including better performance and faster response). I expect the transition to be as smooth as possible. However, I would request all who are visiting the site to notify me immediately if they find any error (if a page is not rendered, or if a comment cannot be posted, or if there is any error from PHP). My email address is [57]webmaster@ilug-cal.org. In case of *extreme* emergency, ring me up at 24632431 and lemme know (I am at home throughout the day now). [58]add new comment [59]LUG News Review of "The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2" Submitted by [60]Indranil Das Gupta on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:58

A review of "The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2" done by [61]Rohit Vishal Kumar. The reviewed resource is an useful starter's guide to learning LATEX 2 by any TeX/LaTeX newbie. The review covers the structure of the above book and mentions where to get hold of this rather handy resourse. You can download Rohit's review from [62]here. [63]2 comments [64]Study Material