Linuxers May 2007

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Free Advice for the Litigious... Sun CEO on Microsoft's patent threat to Free Software
by Praveen A 25 May '07

25 May '07

Free Advice for the Litigious... "All of which is to say - no amount of fear can stop the rise of free media, or free software (they are the same, after all). The community is vastly more innovative and powerful than a single company. And you will never turn back the clock on elementary school students and developing economies and aid agencies and fledgling universities - or the Fortune 500 - that have found value in the wisdom of the open source community. Open standards and open source software are literally changing the face of the planet - creating opportunity wherever the network can reach." Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/what_we_did Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[ANN] NRC-FOSS node in mumbai
by Kenneth Gonsalves 25 May '07

25 May '07

hi, we have finalised arrangements to host the NRC-FOSS node in mumbai at VJTI. VJTI is giving us a lab with 30 machines and space for holding meetings, seminars, classes etc as well as an office. The node will be coordinated by Professor Jitendra Shah from the VJTI end and Mrugesh Karnik from the community end. Mrugesh is currently working along with Pradeepto, Vihan and Anurag on this. We are sure that many more community people will come forward to support this. The facilities will be available for any foss activity including lug, fsug meetings, seminars, course etc etc. The node will also help coordinate spreading of FOSS in colleges and schools in the state as well as help NRC-FOSS in it's task of getting FOSS into the curriculum of engineering colleges in the state. An important part of the activity will be to encourage and foster the development of FOSS code in the area. You may contact the node at nrcfoss.mumbai@au- kbc.org. Physical location and contact details will be given as and when they are set up. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Import utility ImageMagick
by Roshan 25 May '07

25 May '07

List, Does the command import -depth 8 -density 72x72 filename.png take a screenshot with 8bpp and 72dpi as resolution? Though the tool identify -verbose filename.png would list the details, I just want to confirm, if I'm doing the right thing. TIA. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Import utility ImageMagick
by Roshan 25 May '07

25 May '07

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KDM Login Problem
by Aniket Bharaswadkar 25 May '07

25 May '07

I am using FC5. I have upgraded to latest version of kdebase and kdebase-kdm, from kde-redhat rpms. The problem when I enter my username and password in KDM , it just drops me back to the same KDM screen , instead of my KDE desktop. Root can login , and also a new test user I created was able to login. With GDM , I can login to both KDE and Gnome. WIth KDM i cant login to anything. I have following version of kdebase and other rpms.. kdebase-3.5.6-3.fc5 kdebase-kdm-3.5.6-3.fc5 kde-settings-3.5-18.fc5 kde-settings-kdm-3.5-18.fc5 Please help....calling all linux experts.. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] A Full Aubuntu.
by Kartik Mistry 25 May '07

25 May '07

Rony (?) wrote: > > Ubuntu has more automated processes whereas in Debian you got to do some > things manually. I have used Sarge and Etch testing. In Debian if you > put in a usb pen drive, it loads it but has to be accessed in a browser > by entering its path. In Ubuntu it shows a nice icon on the desktop that > you can double click. There are more examples but I can't recollect them > all. Debian is excellent for console. Ubuntu for GUI. I don't want to > comment on Etch testing's gui. :P Automated? This pen-drive example looks crap. I have been using Pen-Drive on Debian since c. 2004 (Sarge Snapshot). Some more better examples? Etch is not Testing, it is stable now (Since April 8). Live on current time!! > Though one thing I must add that except for Sarge where it worked, I > have been struggling and unable to share my printer over the network > till today. I have to get files into my pen drive and paste them on the > main printer machine. Asked anywhere? Forums, IRCs? This list? -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 49, Issue 39
by Kartik Mistry 25 May '07

25 May '07

Dhawal Doshy wrote: > >I slightly differ on this.. why doesn't debian (being the upstream >provider for ubuntu) take feedback from the ubuntu community as well? >Redhat does this for fedora/centos/scientific.. they even invited centos >developers to collaborate on EPEL (though things are still being worked >out). Debian do in my cases. See any package in PTS. There is section called: 'Patches from Ubuntu' and yes, all patches in Ubuntu are available under: http://patches.ubuntu.com In many cases, Ubuntu is also upstream for Debian packages (because some developers are working at Cannonical). Ofcourse, Ubuntu has more artwork, shiny things than Debian. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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GCC 4.0 (C Compiler) on Kubuntu 6.06
by Roshan 24 May '07

24 May '07

List, I had to install GCC C compiler in Kubuntu 6.06, and found that it isn't installed with the default setup. I found out that GCC 4.0 base system (whatever that is) is installed. I used Adept to install GCC C compiler, assuming it would setup everything that I need to run C programs. You can run the command (sudo apt-get install gcc-4.0) to install GNU C compiler. Assuming that the installation of the compiler is with all the essential parts to run C programs, I wrote the traditional "HelloWorld" program and compiled it, also passing a parameter to generate a specific output file. The result: "Error: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory" Logged on to the #gcc channel on IRC and I was told to install libc6-dev. (sudo apt-get install libc6-dev) Now, this is just the C libraries. There are few other packages that would have to be installed for additional support of programming languages. What next? Compiled and Executed the HelloWorld Program. Hope this experience helps, newbies like me. :) For C++, I guess one needs libstdc++6-4.0-dev. For those with loads of data transfer capabilites (no caps) can use the following command sudo apt-get install build-essentail. Comments on this post are welcome. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Kernal issue
by zoheb ashraf 24 May '07

24 May '07

I am having a problem and want to know How to Compile a kernal in RedHat AS4. Plz help me out ASAP. Thanks & Regards Zoheb Ansari

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Re: [commercial] Job opening: OpenOffice support Engineers
by Kartik Mistry 24 May '07

24 May '07

On 5/23/07, jtd wrote, > Did you know that Novell signed a crooked deal with M$ to sue Linux > users who had not paid Novell to use linux ?. Oh u did not. How could > you with your head buried in the sand. Ofcourse. I know it very well. My head is always up and ready to face any real storm.. rather created by FUDs from various sources. > Did you know that Jeremy Allison resigned from Novell in protest > against that stupid deal. And more recently Robert Love? > Aha you did not. Your head was deeper in the sand. Yes. He got good job at Google. My head is still up. > Novel is seen as a company without scruples. And such companies are > unable to sustain themselves in the long run. Using FOSS as the > foundation to build your business is paticularly tricky becaus there > is very little to compare with (or follow). But what is certain is > that once you sully your reputation in the community it's curtains > for you. I agree that 'stupid deal' was really wrong and against whole FOSS community, but bashing and ignoring contribution is keeping head deep deep deeper in sand with bunch of water. > All the best to those who think that working for Novell is a wonderful > career opportunity. Nope. I am not thinking that way :) -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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