Linuxers November 2008

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Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Free Software Free Society
by Praveen A 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> Date: 2008/11/13 Subject: [Fsf-friends] Free Software Free Society To: fsf-friends <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Dear Friends, Kerala government is organising a conference on free software and free knowledge movements from 9th to 11th December. Please see http://fsfs.in for more details. We invite you to join us in this conference. Please inform other friends also about this conference. with warm regards, arun. _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM November 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Folks, We have a ILUG-BOM Nov. 2008 Meet at per below schedule Date: Sunday, 16th Nov. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya of R&H) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 Topics: 1. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1.5 hour) 1.1 The role and contribution of technology to Visual Effects 1.2 Our operating environment - the hardware which powers our servers and workstations 1.3 An overview of our Linux cluster environment 1.4 The role of FOSS in R&H. How we use Linux and other software in our systems and production pipeline 1.5 Managing large scale Linux deployments. The technical and human angles 1.6 Some of the technologies which we work with. Introduction to Bazaar Version Control (http://bazaar-vcs.org/) - By Prashant Shah 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of a version control system 3. Creating repository 4. Working with local and remote repository 5. Checkouts 6. Branching and merging 3. A demo on One Laptop Per Child Project and Indian Scenario - by Amit Gogna Announcement on Wiki @ http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Nov_2008_Meet Looking forward to meet you all at R&H. :) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Steven Wright - "Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."

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Installation Problem !
by IPS Khurana 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

hi i am facing problem while installing Ubuntu 8.10 currently i am using ubuntu 8.04 which is running fine.. system config is : Intel P3-550mhz, 512mb sd ram, 80 ide gb hdd Asus BX440 Motherboard. but when run 8.10 for installation it halts and show msg *initramfs> and does not goes further.. what can be the problem.. pls confirm ! thanks n rgds *-- Inder

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One Laptop Per Child Project Introduction to GLUG - Mumbai
by amit gogna 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi linuxers, This is my first mail to the group As per my telecon with Dinesh I look forward to participate and if possible give a small demo on* One Laptop Per Child Project and Indian Scenario* in the current meet this Sunday. For those who are new to the project can read the more about the project on the following site :- laptop.org wiki.laptop.org http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India Looking forward to the meet. Thanks, Amit -- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

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Sahana call for participants/contributors.
by Ajay Kumar 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hi All, I have planned a workout at FOSS.in for Sahana which I have put up on the project wiki here, http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php?id=dev:foss_in_2008_ideas Request you guys to take a look and if the project interests you, would be glad to have some contributors to the project. I have contributed to the Messaging module for SMS features using SMSTools v3 in my Summer of Code 2008. So in case you have worked on SMS related interactive applications, your input would be helpful. And we are also looking for Language/Translation contributors for various Indic languages. Appropriate mailing list information can be found here: http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php?id=dev:mailing_list_policy Feel free to ping me in case you are willing to contribute to the project in any way or participate in the workout if you are attending the event in Bangalore. Thanks & Regards, Ajay Kumar "I code for SAHANA. Do you?" http://ajuonline.net

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[Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation
by Steve 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi, Being involved with linux now for a long time, I have always researched the level of linux compatibility before buying any new hardware. I recently needed to buy a cheap wireless USB adapter (cheap because, i think i'd probably use it only a couple months before my laptop's bmc4310 wireless card is nicely supported -- ehe, that's an entirely different topic -- no, i have not got it to work on Fedora 10). Well, this didn't turn out as easy as I expected. Sure, 90% USB wireless cards just work with linux, but what if I chose a random one and it turns out to be from that 10%, so, I began researching. Unfortunately, a lot of 'cheap' wireless cards, don't come with tech. specs, so you have no clue what chipset the card is based on. For example looking at http://tinyurl.com/6p8tc3 (ebay.com search URL), I didn't know what to buy. I would have to research each of those individually, eliminating by price. Anyways, long story short, I got frustrated with the fact that I have to do this 'research' every time I need some new hardware, so, I thought of setting this up: http://tuxcompatible.com This is a 'classifieds' site where people looking for linux compatible hardware (/software/periperals/devices/services ..etc), can shorten or eliminate the research step. I would like to invite hardware vendors (or request you to invite those hardware vendors you know) who know the linux compatibility of devices they sell, to create their listings here. To prospective buyers, I request, please let the vendors know that you learned about their product from tuxcompatible.com, so that they are encouraged to keep posting. ...and to anyone else, I welcome you to comment or suggest improvement. You may also choose to help me out -- http://tuxcompatible.com/drupal/node/2 Please read more at the site. Thank you for your time, regards, - steve

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation
by Steve 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi, Firstly, thanks all, for the comments about the site (I really appreciate it) and also about the suggestions on making bmc4310 work. I am sorry, I wasn't too clear about that bit, I should have said haven't got it working in my setup yet -- which means with WAP-PSK support. Right now, I am using the broadcom's (proprietory with binary blob) wl module[1] which works only in open networks (I have not tried WEP). Even using the windows driver with ndiswrapper works with just open and WEP enabled networks, not with WAP-PSK ...anyways, like I said, native upstream kernel support will come in a couple of months[2]. Anyways, about jtd's comments: > Plenty of resources are already available on the net. > However these are mostly about hardware available in the US and > Europe. Hardware available here are substantially different and for > shorter durations. So it is a constant battle to keep finding out the > best fit for linux. Exactly ! ...and that's the reason why I set up tuxcompatible.com. Most of the times, the hardware available locally would use same or similar chipsets, but they would be branded by different companies (sometimes chinese, taiwanese or korean) and this leads to confusion. The resources available on the net usually just discuss compatibility and/or performance. There is no (or at least no 'well known') linux centric *marketplace* online -- this is what I hope to achieve with tuxcompatible.com (or even encourage professional web-developers/companies to consider as an viable bussiness). > Further given the very random and one time requirements of desktop > users, their unwillingness to understand the soup they are in and > reluctance to change, supporting individual newbie desktops is a > major pain. Well, I totally agree with the unwillingness to understand compatibility issues ! My dad or Uncle (who are not just linux but /computer/ newbies) should not have to worry about the level of linux support a device has when purchasing it. It should *just work* ....of course this is far from ideal right now. The next best thing to do, IMHO, was to at least give then one place where they can go to purchase their hardware. That's what tuxcompatible.com hopes to achieve (or ever encourage ...blah blah ..) > Hardware compat is a minor issue. File formats and user > apathy are the main problems. Oh, that's is a different problem altogether. Users apathetic to change should best not venture to linux until they are ready, else it just screws up the experience for them. regards - steve -- Want hardware that Just Works on your linux box ? Try: www.tuxcompatible.com [1] http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php [2] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=show&redirect=en%2Fuse… On Wed 12/11/08 11:54 AM , jtd jtd(a)mtnl.net.in sent: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 16:46, Steve wrote: > > > Anyways, long story > > short, I got frustrated with the fact that I > have to do this> 'research' every time I need some new hardware, > so, I thought of> setting this up: > > > > http://tuxcompatible.com > Plenty of resources are already available on the net. > However these are mostly about hardware available in the US and > Europe. Hardware available here are substantially different and for > shorter durations. So it is a constant battle to keep finding out the > best fit for linux. > Further given the very random and one time requirements of desktop > users, their unwillingness to understand the soup they are in and > reluctance to change, supporting individual newbie desktops is a > major pain. Hardware compat is a minor issue. File formats and user > apathy are the main problems. > > > > -- > Rgds > JTD > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > >

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Announce: ILUG-BOM November 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Folks, We will have a ILUG-BOM Nov. 2008 Meet at per below schedule Date: Sunday, 16th Nov. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya of R&H) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 Topics: 1. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1.5 hour) 1.1 The role and contribution of technology to Visual Effects 1.2 Our operating environment - the hardware which powers our servers and workstations 1.3 An overview of our Linux cluster environment 1.4 The role of FOSS in R&H. How we use Linux and other software in our systems and production pipeline 1.5 Managing large scale Linux deployments. The technical and human angles 1.6 Some of the technologies which we work with. 2. We need more speakers to talk on subjects of their choice (45 min to 1.5 hrs) I would like more people to come forward and speak at the meeting. Announcement on Wiki @ http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Nov_2008_Meet Looking forward to meet you all at R&H. :) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Jack Benny - "Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fr...

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[X Post] Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1
by Kartik Mistry 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Try it out! Note that its RC1 so if you encounter any issue(s) during installation, Please file a bug (You can use `reportbug' tool, it is very easy to use). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Otavio Salvador <otavio(a)debian.org> Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:35 AM Subject: Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 To: debian-devel-announce(a)lists.debian.org Cc: debian-boot(a)lists.debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Debian Installer team[1] is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. Improvements in this release of the installer * Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and more reliable than earlier releases); * Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell's ARM-compatible Orion chip: o QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409; o HP Media Vault mv2120; o Buffalo Kurobox Pro; * Installer images for Netwinder have been added again; * Installer images for i386 Xen guests[2] * Support for hardware speech synthesis (speakup) has been added; * Upgrade of packages early in pkgsel, for example to get available security updates for base system packages; * Support for loading firmware from (removable) media during the installation; * i386/amd64: support for installing to and loading firmware from MMC/SD cards; * New translations: Welsh, Irish, Northern Sami, Serbian (Amharic and Marathi were added in beta releases). Known issues in this release * i386: for this release, installation from floppy disk is not supported; * PowerPC: the graphical installer should work on almost all systems with ATI graphics cards, but probably not others; * touchpads should work with the graphical installer, but support may be suboptimal - if you experience problems, you should use an external mouse instead. See the errata[3] for details and a full list of known issues. We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installation CDs and DVDs, other media, errata, and everything else you'll need are available from the Debian Installer web site[4]. The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release. References ~~~~~~~~~~ 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team 2. http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#InstallLenny 3. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 4. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ - -- Otavio Salvador Debian Installer Release Manager -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_

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[Fwd] [X] [Pyroom-team] PyRoom in Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu
by Kartik Mistry 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Give a try to pyroom. I am sure you will love it. You know how to install it :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Florian Heinle <launchpad(a)planet-tiax.de> Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:47 PM Subject: [Pyroom-team] PyRoom in Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu To: pyroom-team(a)lists.launchpad.net Hi, good news everyone! PyRoom has been packaged for Fedora and Debian. Now that Ubuntu Jaunty Development has begun, PyRoom has also been pulled into Ubuntu from Debian SID automatically. Thanks to Sven Lankes (Fedora) and Kartik Mistry (Debian) for their work! Bruno, I've edited our homepage repo with install instructions for Fedora, would you please pull rev34 to the server? -- Florian 'tiax' Heinle _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~pyroom-team -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debian.org/~kartik Blog.en: ftbfs.wordpress.com Blog.gu: kartikm.wordpress.com

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