Price in India: Rs 25 for LFY alone. Rs 100 with 2 CDs, LFY and LFY-Pro.

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SaiPACS, A MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR AGRI-SOCIETIES: Himachal-based Sai Hertz and Control Systems has developed SaiPACS, a software management tool for primary agricultural credit societies (PACS). Linux was chosen due to its sturdiness, cost effectiveness and close fit with the business requirement. See pg 44.

WIKI, AN OPEN EDITOR: The free wiki, often called an online database, allows you to create and edit Web page content. And if you want to launch your own wiki, this PHP-based software iswk a good choice that provides rich functionality and freedom to the user. (p 23)

DISK-BASED BACKUP ON LINUX: Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is the de facto standard for backup and recovery.

DRESS UP YOUR DESKTOP: With the latest versions of GNOME and KDE, there's a lot of exciting eye-candy to spice up your Linux desktop. Some tips (p 28)

[GNU]LINUX promises to be the messiah for industry in the mobile handsets market. At least that's what Wipro believes.It's a heavy-duty OS, handles intensive applications, and has no runtime royalty charges. It is backed by a large developer community, and sticks to standards, apart from having an evolution that is not constrained by a single vendor. (p 32)

MOBILE PENGUIN: If you haven't already brought a laptop, read about Ankur Rohatgi's triumphs and tears as he configured his to GNU/Linux. p 34

MERRY LAND HIGH SCHOOL in Ulsoor, Bangalore, is pushing FLOSS "in its own way". Students use DIA (diagram and flowchart program), Celestia (3D real-time, space simulation), Dr Geo (constructs interactive geometric figures, and turns maths into fun using 3D drawings), Open Admin for Schools (http://richtech.ca/openadmin/), etc. And grrrr, Free Software gets described as freeware!

PRINTING MADE EASY: CUPS servers p 65 onwards.

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* Etherboot: FLOSS code for creating boot ROMs for network booting. * Windows Services for UNIX 3.0: * Forte * Eclipse, platform for developing integrated tools * SARA, Security Auditor's Research Assistant * Fedora Core 2 updates * Oscar 3.0 for building, programming and using clusters * MediaWiki collaborating editing software * Wine for using Windows apps * RPM Wizard, installation program for RPM packages * StarDEict, cross-platform international dictionary * MonkeyCity Rescue, to create a Linux rescue CD to recover data from Windows machines * RTAI, a kernel patch * Suse 9.1 updates

GNOPPIX 0.8... a Live CD based on the Debian GNU/Linux distro. Uses GNOME. A *free* OS. Features cryptographic software, supports s/w developed for the LSB. Full Mono Develop environment also included. Looks and feels great!

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* COMPIERE, an ERP-CRM business solution. * ETHEREAL, the FLOSS network protocol analyser * CONQUER Windows with Wine * REAL-TIME LINUX: Have fun with LEDs * LIDS, under the GPL, acts as a Linux Intrusion Detection System. * STRACE, a useful diagnostic, instructional and debugging tool. * SHARP ZAURUS is a geek's dream device. * KERNEL 2.6 has made Linux a serious contender in embedded domain. * PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository * REVIEW of Knoppix 3.4 (note, 3.6 is just out -FN) * CREATE YOUR OWN packet sniffer. * TEXT processing in Python. * GENTOO 2004.2: great performance, configurability...

---------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIEFS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Linux tablet PCs can now recognise handwriting. * Linare offers professional edition Linux, at $40.

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* Lansmart Linux Training. Modularized high-end courses. Design your own courses from select modules lansmart@vsnl.net

* 'I use Linux' teeshirts for Rs 200 (round neck) and Rs 300 (collared) from kits@efyindia.com

* LinuxAsia2005, from Feb 9-11 at India Habitat Centre

* INDIA'S FIRST directory of FLOSS players, coming soon.

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha (FN) Near Convent, SALIGAO 403511 GOA India Freelance Journalist Tel: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 fred at bytesforall.org fredericknoronha at vsnl.net http://fn.swiki.net (FN's swiki) http://www.ilug-goa.tk (GNULinux Users Group Goa) http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks (GoaLinks Blog) http://news.gmane.org/gmane.culture.region.india.goa (Goanet)