Linuxers September 2010

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by H.S.Rai

Have a look at: http://lists.fosscom.in/pipermail/network-fosscom.in/2010-September/thread.… Information about so called National Browser, which does not work on Linux, nor has its source code. -- H.S.Rai

12 years, 6 months

Fwd: [fosscomm] Obituary to Our Friend & FOSS Activist Shyam Karanat

by Nagarjuna G

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM Subject: [fosscomm] Obituary to Our Friend & FOSS Activist Shyam Karanat To: Fosscom Network <network(a)fosscom.in> Dear All, Our Friend, and member of This List Shyam Karanatt ended his life himself yesterday afternoon. Still most of his friends are still shocked and not recovered from the pain of this news. Shyam was a very active Free Software advocate and Activist. I like to recall his major contributions to Free Software Movement in India He was known to me initially through Google Summer of Code candiate for Swathanthra Malayalam Computing , for building the prototype for Malayalam Speech Recognition system. and he started that with a project named sharika based on CMU-SPINX library. He become an active volunteer of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and part of various other LUGS like Swathanthra Software Users Group Malappuram, Foss Group in MES, FSUG- Thrissur etc. He become the project admin for Translating GNU.ORG webpages to Malayalam, and made a lot of progress with that work . He involved with Organising Various FOSS programmes in his college and varouos cities in Kerala . Shyam initiated the Syllabus Review page in FCI Wikia http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review and compiled most of the data, in association with Venkiy . Which become a major intervention too later. He took a major role on realising the idea of GNU labs and implimenting the first functioning GNU lab in MES kuttippuram http://gnulabs.org/ Shyam was a good speaker in various FOSS conferences like FOSS.IN , Mukth.in etc and associate with Various FOSS Groups like IndLinux, SMC, FSUG-Thrissur, FSUG-Calicut, SSUG Malappurm etc His funeral is at Ramapuram, Pala, Kottayam District today Shyam's Photo From Niyam's collection http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyam/2399712870/ ~ in the memory of a good friend Anivar -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ network mailing list network(a)lists.fosscom.in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in

12 years, 6 months

linuxcompatible.org taken over?

by Kenneth Gonsalves

hi, I was looking at linuxcompatible.org - and it seems to be only throwing up windows compatibility - or maybe I have forgotten how to search. Last time I looked at it was atleast 5 years ago. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

12 years, 6 months

[OT] [X-Post] Delhi-Mumbai courier for RMS

by Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)

Hi, Richard Stallman (RMS) has left a small package weighing about 10KG at my place that needs to be taken to Mumbai. Request you to contact me if you're going Delhi-Mumbai in the next few days and can carry it with you. Thanks, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves

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[Commercial] Opening: Lead Systems/Network Admin (Lead Operations Engineer) @ Efficient Frontier, Chennai

by Gourav Shah

Role: Senior/Lead Operations Engineer Responsibilities: - Monitor and maintain large production infrastructure involving pyton/java applications and postgres/oracle dbs as part of the 24/7 on-call team - Monitor and maintain product deployments in production hosting environment - Monitor and support developement, qa infrastructures - Troubleshoot product and customer issues - Local Systems and Network and IT Management - Manage IT Vendor Relations - Define, follow, and enhance Operations processes Qualifications: - Strong knowledge of Linux including configuration, shell, file system, cron, etc. a must - 3+ years of programming/scripting experience in Python, Perl or similar language - 2+ years of SQL and database experience atleast with one of these databases - mysql, postgres, oracle etc. - Strong knowledge of Internet, Networks and Web technologies (TCP/IP, HTML, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, cookies, email, web servers, etc.) - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Must be able to effectively multi-task, prioritize and delegate work, and be detail oriented - Leadership qualities - BE/BS in computer related field a must - Must be on call 24x7, in case operational issues arise

12 years, 6 months

[commercial] training in advanced linux internals

by Kenneth Gonsalves

hi, a very reputable company wants training in advanced linux internals. The expectations are as follows: Kernel Architecture Kernel Layout and Configuration Kernel Style and General Considerations Modules Synchronization Methods Kernel Initialization Timing Measurements Dynamic Kernel Timers Wait Queues Work Queues Tasklets Debugging Techniques The /proc Filesystem The seq_file Interface Processes Process Limits and Capabilities Process Scheduling Interrupts and Exceptions System Calls Signals Device Drivers User <-> Kernel Space Character Drivers Memory Addressing Memory Management Process Address Space Disk Caches Swapping Memory Mapping Multiplexed and Asynchronous I/O Networking internals Profile of people who would attend: 1. Proficient in Application programming in Linux 2. Good overall Linux understanding and experience 3. Some experience in kernel recompilation Expectation from the course: 1.Comfortable in kernel programming 2.Good idea of kernel design, data structures etc which will enable them to add/ modify kernel components People will be expected to start working on modifications and additions of components in the open source kernel immediately after finishing this course. Please let us know the duration needed to cover the above topics and the commercials. please contact me offlist if interested -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

12 years, 6 months

RMS in IIT Mumbai on 6th Sept. 2010

by Nagarjuna G

http://www.techfest.org/lectures/richard_stallman/ -- GN

12 years, 6 months

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