Linuxers April 2007

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17 Apr '07

Hello All, I was reading a BBC report on the search engine www.ask.com and decided to try it. The keywords 'olsr wireless mesh' threw up nice results and in this page http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/1103.en.html there is a pdf file that explains the practical aspects of OLSR meshes and how to optimise link quality. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/665-Slides_Communit… -- Regards, Rony.

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Debian Etch review
by Kumar Appaiah 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear Linuxers, This is a nice article about how the Debian project has tried to "redefine" itself with Etch: http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/07/04/13/1231226.shtml?tid=106 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi, I am sure most of us know about the annual event Google Summer Of Code. Like past years The KDE Project participated this year even. Actually I had posted about the event when it was kicked off this year. Anyways, results were declared sometime back and KDE got some 40[1] [2] slots from Google. But for me the bigger and happier news is that a lot of Indians participated this year and quite a few them submitted good proposals. There were 216 eligible proposals in all that were submitted to The KDE Project. And the news that is even more happier and bigger is that one of the chosen candidates is from our ``Amchi Mumbai" even - Sharan Rao. Some of us surely must have seen him / met him at LUG meets or otherwise. Sharan has been an occasional contributor to K3B since last year. Sharan's proposal about Umbrello was happily selected by mentors - I say this because I was present at the meeting and I noticed how proposals were judged strictly by core KDE devs. I think, I have mentioned before how being a ``actual" contributor helps in such cases because they already have seen your code. And more importantly, a good proposal does it job really well. Sharan's proposal was really good, more importantly something he thought all by himself and was completely out of the box and mentors didnot even put forth that in the stock ideas. All he did was found a cool application and found what it was lacking and made a good proposal around it. To be fair to other candidates, I must admit most of the 40 accepted proposals were just like that of Sharan. And all such proposals just passed with flying colours even if there was a discussion/debate on pros and cons of the proposals. If there were only disputes, it was due to certain conflicting proposals or duplicate proposals for the same idea, in which case the most suitable candidate was selected which ofcourse was measured by a scale called as - "who show most enthusiasm and maybe has submitted most patches or proposal was very very strong". It was taken care that proposal was worth atleast 30+ hours per week of work and was even informed to student if he had other ideas. Anything less and the candidate was questioned. I was sort of happy and pleasantly surprised watching mentors calling a spade a spade or some such metaphor. And since I have spoken to personally ( or heard about ) quite a few candidates this year, the common thing was their enthusiasm and willingness - be it Mike Authur, Marcus Hanwell or Sharan or anybody else. Anirudh Ramesh (based in Singapore) and Piyush Verma (Delhi based) are the other Indians in the list. Good luck to you both. Do well. Also heartiest congratulaltions to other members of the list who have been selected as well for other projects. Good wishes to all of you. Sharan, dude you rock! Congratulations and loads of good wishes. And one guy whom I really need to thank is our beloved admin - Anurag - who was instrumental in helping me get introduced to ( and meet ) Sharan ( - my favourite twit, is what I like to call him ) sometime Feb '06 or so. He has done really well for himself and learnt a lot without any other expectations and more importantly has contributed some lines of code to Free Software and I am sure he will do much much more. [1] http://dot.kde.org/1176336589/ [2] http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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OT -- [ Commercial]Embedded Linux Developer Required
by Akshay Mishra 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hello all, I am working with a small team on software development/embedded development. Need BE (EE/CS) with linux/embedded development expertise. 1-2 years of experience and a "Linux hand" should be good. The requirement is to work on an embedded platform/driver and application development. The association is open, in terms of either on project contract basis (4 months full time project) or becoming an employee . We can discuss that for the suitable candidate. You could drop me an e-mail if the work described suits you or if you desire more information Regards, Akshay

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PXE Boot
by mahesh pokhriyal 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hello Friends, I configured ltsp for PXE Boot in Fedora 5 . But when i try to boot from Client pc through PXE Boot i got error message: Doing the pivot_root pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory Mounting the devfs filesystem mount: Mounting /devfs on /dev failed: device or resource busy Running /sbin/init exec: /sbin/init: no such file or directory Kernel Panic : Attempted to kill init! Note:- My client pc have onboard LAN with Boot Rom supporting. Also my pc have in which i configured ltsp support Boot Rom. I also try with RHEL ES 4 but i face same problem. Do i need an external PXE Boot lan card for my client PC. Pls. help me & give me solution friends. Thanks & Regards, Mahesh Pokhriyal --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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Wireless free information system successfully setup.
by Rony 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hello All, On Saturday 14th April 2007 we successfully setup the wireless mesh running the free information server. This time the OLSR protocol was also loaded into 2 laptops that acted as additional nodes. The server machine with Apache2 was loaded with CD and DVD isos in the /var/www/ folder and we could visit the machine through the mesh and access the web page with all the isos. So finally we were having tea in the canteen and downloading Linux isos on our laptops. The linux laptop got a speed of 1.2 Mbps to 800 Kbps and the windows laptop got abot 500 Kbps. We can work on the speed part. What a nice day to start the free information network. It was the 'Jayanti' of Dr. Ambedkar who wanted to empower the people with freedom and knowledge. The full setup is available at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh - Regards, Rony.

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Signup procedure for the wiki
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hi, Is it possible to have a stronger signup procedure for the wiki? I think something as simple as email confirmation should do the trick. Simply entering a username and password is making it really simple for bots to play havoc. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Wireless Mesh meet at HBCSE
by Rony 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hello All, We are meeting again tomorrow Saturday 10.30 am onwards 14th April 2007 at HBCSE Mankhurd for the wireless mesh setup. This time we will be setting up the content server and is a very good opportunity to see how the mesh will provide free information to the public. All those who attend are requested to bring their laptops if possible, to test the mesh as much as we can. -- Regards, Rony.

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Old distros cds! Interested?
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hey, I have a few old Kubuntu CDs and few new ones even lying around. Where old = 5.10 and new = 6.10. I have some ed/ubuntu - 6.10 as well. Now if anybody is interested please ping me offlist, we can arrange a meeting or meet during a lug meet or some such and I can give you the cds then. And before somebody says - ohhhh those are old, why would I need those? Umm, you think. maybe old hardware or whatever. I am sure there might be some use other than distributing those to autorickshaw drivers in Panvel. Btw, those 5.10 Kubuntu CDs, were sent directly by Jonathan Riddell because those days there was no shipit for kubuntu or whatever. Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Jayanta has Tagged you! :)
by Roshan 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

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