Linuxers January 2007

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If you are Bill Gates ...
by പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hi, We have started collection of tips to promote Free Knowledge and Free Software for a Free Society here. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre Please pass on this to your friends which ever field of life they are in also contribute to make it better. Cheers Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit
by Debarshi Ray 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

> http://brlcad.org/ > > The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) http://www.tech.oru.se/cad/varkon/ What about Varkon? If BRL-CAD is used by the US military, then Varkon is used by SAAB, the Swedish automobile and aircraft maker. Excerpts from the Varkon site: "VARKON can be used as a traditional CAD-system with drafting, modelling and visualization if you want to but the real power of VARKON is in parametric modelling and CAD applications development. VARKON includes interactive parametric modelling in 2D or 3D but also the unique MBS programming language integrated in the graphical environment." "VARKON has been available for more than 15 years and the number of users are steadily increasing with systems installed in many Europeean countries as well as the USA. Customers range from big companies like SAAB Aircraft to very small companies with only a few employees. There is also an increasing number of users all over the world running the free version of VARKON for UNIX and GNU/Linux. VARKON is written in ANSI portable C and has been compiled and successfully executed on many different platforms. The UNIX version has a user interface based on X-Windows and the PC version uses Microsoft WIN32. Currently there are VARKON systems running on workstations from HP, SUN, IBM and SiliconGraphics and also systems on VAX's with VMS or Intel PC's with SCO/UNIX, GNU/Linux or Windows95/98/NT. There is even a customer running Varkon on a Cray T3E supercomputer with 256 300Mhz 64 bit Alpha processors ! VARKON is not expensive. The UNIX version is distributed in sourcecode under the GNU/GPL license. There is also a prebuilt binary version for GNU/Linux free of charge. The current price for a Windows95/NT license is 875 USD. Support is available for all platforms including GNU/Linux. " Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit
by Debarshi Ray 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

> qcad *is* a good foss cad tool - but it is not 3D. I dont have the > technical ability to evaluate this tool, but i dont think it is a 3D > CAD thingie It seems that they also have a proprietary version which has 3D capabilities. Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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Of Java, GPL, Gosling, and other things
by Vihan Pandey 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hello, Everyone was over the moon when Sun accounced Java would be going GPL. We heard a lot of stuff from corporates, FSF, etc... but i didn't see much of a visible reaction from Sun's core development team, namely James Gosling. i just came across this, it seems a lot of developers wanted all of Java to be free as in freedom from day 1 and were pretty annoyed that it would not be so. Thus i did some searching and i found this quote from Gosling himself : ``I'm really happy we're finally getting it done (the only thing I'm unhappy about is how many complexities there are to take care of - don't worry, we'll get it done). No, I'm not job hunting: Sun is fun again! " Its located here : http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/beardless_conspiracies Oh, by the way Duke(Java's mascot) is Open Source as well, check out : http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/gpl_v2_wins%21 Interesting stuff. i've always admired Gosling, the Alpha Geek :-) i admit i was very dissappointed when i read that he had sold Gosling Emacs to some company, but i knew he still had hacker culture within him :-) Regards, - vihan

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Why not a social networking site?..
by Pushparajan V 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi friends, When i first learnt about how open source development took place, i found that development model more amazing and wonderful. Opensource projects collaborated using Mailing lists, Forums, Wiki, IRCs, Version control and more.. All thru the web without any physical contact. And the important concept i consider behind an open source development is not the code that comes out.. Its the integraty and social equity between the people. (but not the intention of open source however). In todays world, many open source projects go dead because of many reasons. The main reason may be because of less collaboration or developers fail to hand over to the upcoming interested peoples. Why open source projects fail at collaboration and syncronization in the evolving Internet 2.0 web?.. I consider the main problem is in the collaboration mechanism used. Current way of collaboration within open source projects is good. But it should be made better. The hottest buzz word in the internet world is Web 2.0. In that the most talked is the community based sites. Nowadays, in news i can see many social networking sites created for specific purpose. For music sharing, news sharing, photos sharing, technology sharing, etc. Why not a social networking site specific to open source code sharing and for open source people connections?.. I searched thru internet to get one good social networking site to integrate with the open source developers world wide. But i failed. Is there a social networking site exist particularly for open source developers ??? .. It would be fun if such a social networking site is there.. ;) The first problem a programmer gets while entering into open source world is the collaboration. They get help through the LUGs however. But, what about the collaboration in a global perspective ? If there is no such social networking site (for sharing interests, code, features needed etc) for the open source world at present, why not a social networking site be created?.. (is there any plans of such like?) Dont make this a flame war please :).. If you find some ignorant quotes somewhere, please correct me.. Waiting for ur hot suggestions.. Thanks & Regards, Pushparajan V http://www.vprajan.org - - - - - - - - if(others(love)>=life) { noends=true; lifetime=others(love).length(); } - - - - - - - -

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[OT] 3 Types of Linux Users
by Mrugesh Karnik 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

http://www.openaddict.com/the_three_types_of_linux_users.html I think he has forgotten the hobbyists, but its a pretty decent read anyway. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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GNOME speaker wanted for FOSS meet.
by Debarshi Ray 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

I got this on the ilug and gnome-list mailing lists. Anybody interested, please mail the original poster, ie. Girish R V, and not me. Happy hacking, Debarshi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ??????|Girish R V <girishrv_at_gmail_dot_com> Date: Dec 20, 2006 10:53 AM Subject: [GNOME-India] Call for Speakers on GNOME for FOSS meet at NIT Calicut To: gnome-in-list(a)gnome.org Hello all, I am girish, a 3rd yr btech student from nit calicut(a dist in kerala). We are conducting a 2 day programme on FOSS( called FOSS meet@nitc ) in the same lines as FOSS.in. We need some speakers who are willing to come over here and give us a talk on Gnome,GTK, and its upcoming features. The event is scheduled on 2,3rd February. We will be paying all the charges expended for travel and stay here**. This is the third edition of this event. Last time we had over 14 speaker from companies like yahoo,google,IBM speaking on various topics. We got a participation of over 300 students from all over kerala. Please do mail me if anyone is interested. Thank You **(Though if anyone is coming from north india we may not be able to cover the expenses. But even if you are do contact us. We will try to cover it.) -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Commercial: Job Opening
by Mukund Deshmukh 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

> We at Infotech Financials Pvt. Ltd are looking to hire persons having > work experience of 6 months to 2 years in Java. Candidate should be > proficient in JSP (Java Server Pages) and any RDBMs. Candidates with > knowledge of IBM-DB2 will be given higher preference. > Oh! Not Again.... 1. This was posted few days back, and if you did not get response, then probably list members are not interested. 2. Some one on this list has asked if this is related to Linux, then also you chose to ignore. Remember... list is NOT a news paper. Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022, India.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Commercial: Job Opening
by Krishna Dagli 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

>> We at Infotech Financials Pvt. Ltd are looking to hire persons having >> work experience of 6 months to 2 years in Java. Candidate should be >> proficient in JSP (Java Server Pages) and any RDBMs. Candidates with >> knowledge of IBM-DB2 will be given higher preference. >Oh! Not Again.... Sorry but I thought my earlier message was moderated since I got a message saying same. >1. This was posted few days back, and if you did not get response, then probably list members are not interested. >2. Some one on this list has asked if this is related to Linux, then also you chose to ignore. The development and deployment are on Linux. >Remember... list is NOT a news paper. Thanks for reminder. Regards Krishna.

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Windows tax refund
by Network Accelerator 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Hi, Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused Windows license on new purchase of laptop/PC? Please read this.. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/227237 Awaiting your comment. Cheers!

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