Linuxers September 2008

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM September 2008 Meet

by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह)

Dear Linuxers, The ILUG-Bom September 2008 Meeting is tomorrow. The details are as follows. Date: Sunday, 21st Sep. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: B-103, Powai Sarovar Co op Society, next to Powai Police station, Bldg no 1, MHADA, Rambaug Powai, Mumbai - 76 Topics: 1. Programing using QT by Prashant 2. Understanding and countering Software Patents in India 3. Check the status of Namazu We need a portable projector at this venue. Looking forward to meet many LUGers. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Stephen King - "French is the language that turns dirt into romance."

13 years, 9 months

a gnu/linux cd shop online

by Suhit Kelkar

Hey, this might be useful. http://www.linuxbazar.com/

13 years, 9 months

[ILUG-Bom]Request for Xubuntu 8.04.1/8.04

by Easwar Hariharan

list, There are two pending requests for Xubuntu 8.04.1/8.04 on the wiki,one is by myself ;) and one by Ashish Tripathi.Could someone with some spare bandwidth download the distro for us please(knura,please note :P)?I would be attending the GLUG-Bom meet on 21st at Powai,so that should be a convenient location for exchange of media or burning.In case someone has the distro but is not attending the meet,please contact me off-list. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

13 years, 9 months

A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation?

by Praveen A

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-September/005460.html My mail is not appearing in the list archive Posting it again ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM Subject: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation? To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in> Cc: rms at gnu.org, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun at gnowledge.org>, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjunag at gmail.com> Today I came to know about an event called freedom and software happening in Chennai on 21st September through a blog. The event website is a google site http://sites.google.com/site/freedomandsoftware/ Most of the friends participating are our friends. But this mail is for some clarifications The invitation text says following <quote> M. Subramanian - The Mayor, N. Ram - Editor, The Hindu, Debesh Das - Minister of Information Technology, West Bengal, Kiran Chandra - Director, Free Software Foundation India & Prabir Purkayastha - Secretary, Delhi Science Forum, have been confirmed to be the panel of speakers. The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system. The launch will be made by the Mayor, M.Subramanian. The project will be developed by engineering students with able technical support from the IT professionals & professors, and infrastructural support by the entrepreneurs. The logo and caption for the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched by Mr. N. Ram. The event will be attended by the IT professionals, Entrepreneurs, Researchers and professors of reputed colleges, from all over the country and the registration will be open to all, so you can bring all your friends as well. There will be no entry fee for the same. </quote> My questions are Following 1.Is this event anyway related with Free Software Foundation? 2. This news is not announced in any Free Software Mailing lists, like FSF-Friends, FSF-Tn(http://mm.gnu.org.in//pipermail/fsf-tn/) ILUG Chennai etc . It is not announced yet in gnu.org.in also. Why This much secrecy around this? 3.. The above invitation text says "logo and caption for the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched" in the function. Is FSF India decided to start regional FSFs? If yes why this is organising in a a secret maner? 3. The Invitation text says "The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system", why there is a need of another distribution when tamil is well supported in most of the upstream distributions? . Let it be the work of Tamil Localisation groups. 4. The contacts provided in the website contact page is not at all familiar in Free Software Community. And There is no information on who is organising this event. On a quick checkup with friends in Chennai, they says it is an event Organised by Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Thats why the secrecy. I don't have a problem in a political party supporting free software cause. But If it is the case i am very suspicious on following points 1. The exclusion of the Free Software Movement in Chennai in Organising it, 2. Creating a body with power structure before Contributing anything . I dont think a free software Foundation is not needed for releasing a Localised GNU/Linux Distribution 3. Secrecy in whole process of a Public event I am expecting a reply from FSF India on this Anivar -- 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

13 years, 9 months

Online quick introductory books/notes.

by Pradeepto Bhattacharya

Hi, Bumped into this [1] via Ruby-lang.org. Lots of nice online books ( called $Topic Essentials ) - short and very fast introduction to various topics - from Xen to Fedora to PHP. Esp helpful if you want a quick intro to a certain topic. Have fun. [1]http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Main_Page Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

13 years, 9 months

[OT][Commercial] opening for a Linux Sys. Admin

by P.S Rathinam

Hi All, We have an immediate opening for a Linux Sys. Admin. Experience: 5-8 years of experience in Linux/Unix systems administration, Windows administration is a plus *****Should have necessarily handled a team ****** Profile: - Bachelor's degree in IT - Experience in My SQL administration and support, replication is a plus. - Working knowledge of administrating applications using Apache and MySQL - PHP/Perl/Python programming skills a plus. - Drupal and Joomla administration experience a big plus. - Previous experience of working in a globally distributed environment would be a plus. - System administration in a mixed Linux/Windows environment. The servers are Linux SUSE or Windows Server 2003 - Ability to work closely with technology teams to define the deployment end-state. - Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems efficiently. - Ability to work with globally distributed teams. - Demonstrated good communication skills. - Self-motivated, with ability to work independently in a fast paced environment. - Strong in office productivity tools like Excel, Access, Visio Job Location: Mumbai. Interested individuals please contact me directly. Please mention your experience in the subject of your reply. Regards, Poornima Rathinam

13 years, 9 months

Free Software technologies for media streaming

by Chandita Mukherjee

Dear Friends Have you ever thought of being able to set up your own audio and video server, creating on-line media using Free Software? A workshop on media streaming is planned on 28-29-30 September at the Gnowledge Lab of the HBCSE conducted by Yves Degoyan and Lluis Gómez i Bigordà of GISS (Global Independent Streaming Support) Visit http://giss.tv for details. It will be intensive but a great opportunity for those who value it. If this idea intrigues you, please write to cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com with the same subject line, asking for the detailed schedule or look it up at www.cometmedia.org under forthcoming workshops. G Nagarjuna for the Gnowledge Lab at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education of TIFR Chandita Mukherjee for Comet Media Foundation.

13 years, 9 months

wrong url in firefox redirects to searchportal.information.com

by Abhishek Ambe rkar [अभिषेक]

I am using Firefox 3.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 Whenever I enter wrong url in address bar it redirects me to http://searchportal.information.com/ I didn't find any info on google regarding how to stop this. I used to get orkut login page upon entering just "orkut" in address bar and pressing enter, when I was using Firefox 2. But it now redirects to searchportal What's the exact problem? and how to get rid of this? Is this a DNS issue? I use MTNL Broadband, so both the DNS listed in router are DNS IPs provided by MTNL. Entering searchportal.information.com in address bar redirects to information.com These domains are owned by http://www.oversee.com/ as shown by 'dig'. -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Born To Be Free... Born To Use GNU/Linux...

13 years, 9 months

Windows Swap file in Linux Swap Partition

by Surya Pratap

Hi, yesterday night I was plain bored of tweaking out windows on my dual boot system, and got fed up of trying to defrag the page file which was sooooo fragmented so I did a bit of googling to see if the linux swap space can be used for the swapfile and guess what ;) .... Check out SwapFS at http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ Hope it is useful Regards Surya

13 years, 9 months

OSM sprint

by Kenneth Gonsalves

hi, report is here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/59/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

13 years, 9 months

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