Linuxers February 2011

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Debian release party in Mumbai
by Nitesh Mistry 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Debian release party in Mumbai: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartySqueeze/India/Mumbai Thanks to Vivek for hosting the party. -- Regards, Nitesh Mistry | www.mistrynitesh.com PGP key id: A6FEF696 | 'geekosopher' on freenode irc

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OT - Commercial - Nuttx
by Akshay Mishra 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Any Nuttx fans here ? I have used Nuttx since past few months and find it quite interesting. While not Linux and hence OT (?), it is an open-source RTOS and works like a charm on our micro-controller platforms. Again, looking for somebody who can work with us on Nuttx for some interesting application development. These are also open to fresh Linux enthusiasts. Regards, Akshay 98693 21611 www.dspworks.in

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OT-Commercial-OpenWRT specialists required
by Akshay Mishra 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Any OpenWrt specialist with ability to work on Linux drivers and based out of Mumbai on this list ? We have some work on our own product and need somebody willing to get his hands dirty. Looking for somebody with atleast 3 years of Linux driver experience and atleast 6 months of OpenWRT exposure. Please contact me offlist. This is a short-term requirement. Thanks and Regards, Akshay 098693 21611

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[X post] Fwd: New look for Debian's websites
by Kartik Mistry 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Finally. Head over to debian.org for new fresh look! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar(a)debian.org> Date: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM Subject: New look for Debian's websites To: debian-news(a)lists.debian.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ New look for Debian's websites press(a)debian.org February 5th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205b ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New look for Debian's websites On the occasion of the release of Debian 6.0 "Squeez" [1], the Debian website team is pleased to publish a new design for Debian's web presence. After roughly 13 years [2] with nearly the same design, the layout and design of many of the websites run by Debian changed together with today's release of Debian Squeeze. Debian's main website [3] and its wiki [4], lists archive [5], blog aggregator planet [6] and package information system [7] now have a consistent new layout. The new layout is meant to give Debian's web presence a cleaner and more modern look as well as making the web pages easier to use and navigate. 1: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a 2: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212024258/http://www.debian.org/ 3: http://www.debian.org/ 4: http://wiki.debian.org/ 5: http://lists.debian.org/ 6: http://planet.debian.org/ 7: http://packages.debian.org/ "I didn't expect my slight annoyance to result in a published redesign. The work others have done to make sure that happened has been most impressive. Hopefully the redesign can start a refinement process that will converge at the best distro website ever." says Kalle Söderman, who was one of the driving forces behind the layout change. The website team also took care that the new design includes accessibility improvements (e.g. for the colorblind) and scales well for different resolutions. About Debian ------------ The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press(a)debian.org>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-news-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110206014128.GX11890@melusine.alphascorpii.net -- Kartik Mistry Debian GNU/Linux Developer IRC: kart_ | Identica: @kartikm

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[X Post] Fwd: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released
by Kartik Mistry 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

FYI and forward to your favorite [G/]LUGs ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Meike Reichle <meike(a)debian.org> Date: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:50 AM Subject: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released To: debian-announce(a)lists.debian.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released press(a)debian.org February 5th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name "Squeeze"). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a "technology preview". Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. Debian runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390), and ARM EABI (armel). Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" introduces technical previews of two new ports to the kernel of the FreeBSD project using the known Debian/GNU userland: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD for the 32-bit PC (kfreebsd-i386) and the 64-bit PC (kfreebsd-amd64). These ports are the first ones ever to be included in a Debian release which are not based on the Linux kernel. The support of common server software is strong and combines the existing features of Linux-based Debian versions with the unique features known from the BSD world. However, for this release these new ports are limited; for example, some advanced desktop features are not yet supported. Another first is the completely free Linux kernel, which no longer contains problematic firmware files. These were split out into separate packages and moved out of the Debian main archive into the non-free area of our archive, which is not enabled by default. In this way Debian users have the possibility of running a completely free operating system, but may still choose to use non-free firmware files if necessary. Firmware files needed during installation may be loaded by the installation system; special CD images and tarballs for USB based installations are available too. More information about this may be found in the Debian Firmware wiki page. 1: http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware Furthermore, Debian 6.0 introduces a dependency based boot system, making system start-up faster and more robust due to parallel execution of boot scripts and correct dependency tracking between them. Various other changes make Debian more suitable for small form factor notebooks, like the introduction of the KDE Plasma Netbook shell. This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: * KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.4.5 * an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.30 * the Xfce 4.6 desktop environment * LXDE 0.5.0 * X.Org 7.5 * OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 * GIMP 2.6.11 * Iceweasel 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox) * Icedove 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird) * PostgreSQL 8.4.6 * MySQL 5.1.49 * GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5 * Linux 2.6.32 * Apache 2.2.16 * Samba 3.5.6 * Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3 * Perl 5.10.1 * PHP 5.3.3 * Asterisk 1.6.2.9 * Nagios 3.2.3 * Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support) * OpenJDK 6b18 * Tomcat 6.0.18 * more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages. Debian 6.0 includes over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitoring solution Icinga, the package management frontend Software Center, the network manager wicd, the Linux container tools lxc and the cluster framework Corosync. With this broad selection of packages, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web or storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that Debian 6.0 fulfils the high expectations that users have of a stable Debian release. It is rock solid and rigorously tested. Starting from Debian 6.0, the "Custom Debian Distributions" are renamed to "Debian Pure Blends" [2]. Their coverage has increased as Debian 6.0 adds >Debian Accessibility [3], DebiChem [4], Debian EzGo [5], Debian GIS [6] and Debian Multimedia [7] to the already existing Debian Edu [8], Debian Med [9] and Debian Science [10] "pure blends". The full content of all the blends can be browsed [11], including prospective packages that users are welcome to nominate for addition to the next release. 2: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/ 3: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/ 4: http://debichem.alioth.debian.org/ 5: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEzGo 6: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis 7: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/index 8: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu 9: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ 10: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience 11: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/ Debian may be installed from various installation media such as Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks or from the network. GNOME is the default desktop environment and is contained on the first CD. Other desktop environments — KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, Xfce, or LXDE — may be installed through two alternative CD images. The desired desktop environment may also be chosen from the boot menus of the CDs/DVDs. Again available with Debian 6.0 are multi-architecture CDs and DVDs which support installation of multiple architectures from a single disc. The creation of bootable USB installation media has also been greatly simplified; see the Installation Guide [12] for more details. 12: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual In addition to the regular installation media, Debian GNU/Linux may also be directly used without prior installation. The special images used, known as live images, are available for CDs, USB sticks and netboot setups. Initially, these are provided for the amd64 and i386 architectures only. It is also possible to use these live images to install Debian GNU/Linux. The installation process for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 has been improved in various ways, including easier selection of language and keyboard settings, and partitioning of logical volumes, RAID and encrypted systems. Support has also been added for the ext4 and Btrfs filesystems and — on the kFreeBSD architecture — the Zettabyte filesystem (ZFS). The installation system for Debian GNU/Linux is now available in 70 languages. Debian installation images may be downloaded right now via BitTorrent [13] (the recommended method), jigdo [14] or HTTP [15]; see Debian on CDs [16] for further information. It will soon be available on physical DVD, CD-ROM and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors [17], too. 13: http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ 14: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which 15: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ 16: http://www.debian.org/CD/ 17: http://www.debian.org/CD//vendors Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 from the previous release, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny"), are automatically handled by the apt-get package management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree also by the aptitude package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux systems may be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes [18] as well as the installation guide [19] for possible issues, and for detailed instructions on installing and upgrading. The release notes will be further improved and translated to additional languages in the weeks after the release. 18: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes 19: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual About Debian ------------ Debian is a free operating system, developed by thousands of volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract and Free Software, and its commitment to provide the best operating system possible. Debian 6.0 is another important step in that direction. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org or send mail to <press(a)debian.org>. -- Kartik Mistry [Proud] Debian GNU/Linux Developer IRC: kart_ | Identica: @kartikm

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Photoshop Replacement required.
by khanolkardilip＠gmail.com 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hi kshitij You can try on gimp its a great replacement for photoshop ------Original Message------ From: Kshitij M Kotak Sender: linuxers-bounces(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in To: LUG GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India ReplyTo: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Photoshop Replacement required. Sent: Feb 4, 2011 7:43 PM A start-up in E-commerce, subsidiary of a 100-crore group is looking for Web-site designers and Graphic Designers on Open-Source alternative. Can my friends here guide me on what is a good alternative and would you have someone wanting to work with such a company in the specified profile? Regards and thanks in anticipation. Kshitiz Sent from Handheld Excuse typos -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone

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[OT/Humor] Penguin goes shopping for fish
by Arun Khan 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

http://www.flixxy.com/pet-penguin-goes-shopping.htm The penguin "back pack" is cute :) Enjoy, -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: [PLUG] Gnunify: Delegate registration open
by Arun Khan 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Forwarding w/o prejudice. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <webmaster(a)plug.org.in> Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:29 PM Subject: [PLUG] Gnunify: Delegate registration open To: plug-mail(a)plug.org.in Hi Delegate registration for Gnunify 2011 is now open: Check out at http://www.gnunify.in --webmaster @ plug _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

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GNUnify 2011 _ A forum to Unite open minds
by ABHI MEHTA 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hello, GNUnify, one of the India's biggest open source is back for its 9th year. Organized by Pune Linux Users Group(PLUG) and the students of SICSR. The tagline itself “A forum to unite open minds“ says it all. Sponsored by Mozilla and to be held on 11th and 12th February, 2011, SICSR, Pune will be the host to a variety of exciting events such as techie- talk, FOSS in education, workshops, install-fest and many more. There will also be eminent personalities from the Open Source World sharing their experiences through talk, lectures and workshops. There will also be representatives from Wikipedia and Mozilla who will be conducting workshops for two days. For more details, please visit http://gnunify.in/ Team Gnunify.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Please use appropriate subject line (Was Re: Fwd: [PLUG] GNUnify '11) (Binand Sethumadhavan)
by Suhit Kelkar 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Quote-- the urge to show off is one of the fundamental characteristics of the human male-- unquote So is the urge to dominate, to assert one's presence, to browbeat and to bully. A hint to the wise. Regards Suhit Kelkar

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