Linuxers December 2015

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by Milind Oka

Hi, In my efforts to push FOSS in schools and colleges, I am distributing free and open source softwares in schools and colleges. All projects are uploaded on source forge. However I am facing some printing problem executing JAVA code on bosslinux. I usually print output directly on A4 paper and suppress print dialog. I wrote the program before I knew BOSS and was working nicely on windows. On BOSS, the program executes properly but the default output comes on letter size instead of A4. This trims some left, right, top and bottom content. I tried various code snippets to pro grammatically set the paper A4 but it does not work. I am using cups-pdf and the pdf print is also having the same problem. I thought first that it was a problem specific to boss but a friend of mine sent me this. =================== [Forwarded from Sanjay Patil] Yes, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=88286#c12 The crucial information is the geographical location, i.e. the second part of a locale name, for example: en_GB is English for Great Britain => A4 paper en_US is English for United States => Letter paper I think that without an existing geographical location (in particular for "C" or "POSIX") it is just not possible to set another paper size than what is the default in the PPD. Or the fallback should be at least "A4" (if avialable in the PPD) because I think that A4 paper is more often used in the whole world than Letter. ============================== Has anybody come across this. Will you please run the following java code on any other linux version and let me know how it works or send me the pdf output ? I have already set the default data so just run the Java file and press the [Print Attendance] button. You will get 23 page document. Only one page will do for testing. pdf output will be best. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsc-formcreator/ Thanks and regards Milind

7 years, 5 months

Open Source Hackathon

by Rushabh Mehta

Dear all, We are planning to do an open source hackathon sometime in March in Mumbai and willing to sponsor reasonable prize money (50k)? The hackathon will have a theme of improving / documenting / making help videos for an open source project or making a new one. Anyone interested in collaborating? We will also need a venue, we are thinking of a college. Anyone has leads please write back to me. Thanks! best, Rushabh

7 years, 5 months

Help required in installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 10

by Royce Pereira

Hi, I have a Windows 10 PC with was installed in 'legacy' mode (not EFI). I shrunk my C: to create free space of 25Gb for Ubuntu. I created a 64 bit Ubuntu bootable USB pendrive. For booting from the pendrive, I select the boot mode at the BIOS splash screen I have tried both 'USB drive' and 'EFI-USB-drive'. I tried to install Ubuntu 15.1 but the free space is always marked 'unusable'. Before this I'd got a warning that the installation was started in EFI mode, but target installation is non-EFI, and if I force it I won't be able to switch OSs. But this warning is not appearing subsequently, only my freed partiton is showing 'unusable'. Is there a way install Ubuntu into the created free space in such a situation? Thank You! -- Best Regards, -- Royce Pereira

7 years, 5 months

WHY BOSS ? My Strategy may be wrong but ...

by Milind Oka

Hi all, My strategy may not be acceptable to IT experts. May be because I am a teacher and not a software professional. But I have realized how we are being exploited by proprietary giants. I would think promoting FOSS is not my cup of tea. So I waited several years with the hope that FOSS will be everywhere soon. But that was a mistake. I thought there were experts all from IIT, TIFR and IISC. They are all capable of bringing FOSS and will make our country proud and digitally independent. But my observation taught me that linux has become a style statement. Working on terminal was considered as difficult and something that a common man should not do and stick to Windows. All young experts (few exceptions) are now looking for Google, Oracle packages rather than working in villages and teaching poor people. The fight now has come to a common man like me who cannot speak in technical jargons like you but works little bit on computers. The problem seemed political and not which linux is good or bad. It is a political fight and not technical so your question which is better seems irrelevant to me. How we can attack those hard skin politicians is my problem. You take a round in Mantralaya and you will observe that almost everyone is paid by Mircrosoft. In a FOSS workshop in IIT, I saw a FOSS expert (fed by government and Microsoft) giving polished lectures and saying that today we can write an operating system in a couple of days. A student asked, sir how many OS's have you written ? That was quite an embarrassing question for him ! I heard about BOSS on 31 Jan 2015. I searched on internet and was shocked ! It was 2006 when BOSS started. I saw government itself fooling people by praising BOSS everywhere but in small news papers and also not willing to implement it. The name BHARAT is a magical name. So on 31 Jan 15, I decided to exploit it. Perhaps that is the strongest point of my activity. I just checked that BOSS is workable. I am a common man and I have been using BOSS 5.0 (Anokha) straight 10 months without touching windows, doing all the work and little programing. Of course without anti virus. So I can show bharat proudly on my laptop or desktop at my home and in my workplace (SIWS college) doing all regular work. Showing Tiranga waving on it ! It is a child of our motherland (don't be upset, I know it is not fully Indian but for a common man I do say it). Even if her child is ugly, mother still loves it. Mother will never discard her child but nourish it accepting as it is. That is my simple view and surprisingly it works as I expected. If you give thousand lectures on FOSS. People will clap and give you flowers and thats all. If there are only lectures, Microsoft will arrange parties one after the other. They are not at all worried. But I am doing installations and that is too in education institutes It is something that Microsoft won't like. See my condition - Use free Result software only after installing BOSS in your school or college on at least two computers and also work is to be done on BOSS only. We have already tested the whole result process on BOSS. (Also for other linux versions, there is a chance that school/college heads may refuse installing other OS. But Bharat as an official government OS and also recommended for schools, they cannot openly resist it, if teachers demand) We cannot install BOSS on all PC's simply because Microsoft product names are there in syllabus. So on the other hand, my PIL exactly prays that - remove proprietary names from curriculum. Government will try to prolong the PIL. But I am prepared for that also. I am waiting for politicians to pronounce BHARAT, they have to do it (reluctantly) because it is a part of "make in india". I have done correspondence with PMO requesting to advertise BOSS on television since BOSS is a part of "Make in India". They are not responding and also not denying my request ! Another RTI is ready to be filed in a couple of weeks to PMO as a part of my fight. Note that I can collect important government documents supporting BOSS. Which is not possible for other linux flavors. Now that government has official support for boss, said that it is perfect, (I have official letters from government) so that will work nicely in court not the reality. If I fight for Ubuntu or FOSS in general, I am not going to win. For example, they will bring thousand ( paid) experts claiming in court that Ubuntu is inferior to Windows. They will not dare to say Bharat is bad and Microsoft is good in public, it will affect their political TRP ! Also their own documents (incorrectly !) say that BHARAT is the best system in the world ! But it is going to work in the court. Our legal system is like that. I think I am going to trap them in their own net. My lawyer Shree V P Patil is a retired justice (72). He is a great person. At this age he is working with me day and night without charging any fees. When he says that we are surely going to win, certainly that makes some sense ! My aim is clear. Removing proprietary software from this country, literally by any means, boss or otherwise. After that we will discuss which linux flavour to use or use different falvors for different work etc. You people can decide better than me. I am just unable to answer your technical questions. Your suggestions may not be in accordance with my plan, implement them in your own way. I am really happy. If you believe in my path, please do join us. For the time being, BOSS is a perfect partner for me and may be to a common man like me. I am going to fight. I am just doing my duty as a teacher, nothing else. There are forks and we all are free to choose any. regards and best of luck. Milind

7 years, 5 months

Today, 24 Dec - Mahacharcha - DD-Sahyadri - 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm - Welcome BOSS and FOSS

by Milind Oka

Hi all, Please watch today's 'Mahacharcha' on 'Free and Open Source Software' (Discussion program in Marathi) Along with Hamara and other efforts to promote FOSS, let us promote 'Bharat Operating System' also. We should also welcome it. Topic : DIGITAL INDIA AANI BOSS PRANALI - PART - 1 Date : 24 Dec 2015 Time : 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm (45 Minutes) Place of Telecast : Doordarshan Kendra, Worli, Mumbai - 30 Kindly share this post to all. Thanks to Mumbai Doordarshan and all FOSS supporters.

7 years, 5 months

Today, 24 Dec - Mahacharcha - DD-Sahyadri - 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm - Welcome BOSS and FOSS

by Milind Oka

7 years, 5 months

[job] Help in making rpm/deb/brew packages

by Rushabh Mehta

Hi all, We have a shell script that helps us install mariadb, nginx, node, redis, python2.7, libjpeg, wkhtmltopdf and other pre-requistes. We would like to build standard packages for installation on rpm, deb and brew based systems. Here is the link to the script: https://github.com/frappe/bench/blob/master/install_scripts/setup_frappe.sh The bench command should be available after the package is installed. Your contribution will be open source with your authorship. We will help / collaborate with your on any queries. This is a paid job, I have also posted on upwork.com but would love to work with someone in Mumbai! best, Rushabh -- @rushabh_mehta https://erpnext.com

7 years, 5 months

A free eBook daily from Packtpub.

by Royce Pereira

Hi, Just a heads up.....Packtpub has been offering a free eBook everyday for a while now. Today's eBook is 'Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects'. You can get it here: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning 21 hours left to get it, at the time of writing this post :-) Keep checking back for a different eBook daily! Cheers.

7 years, 6 months

KK's crowd funding campaign is closing soon

by Pirate Praveen

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/funds-crunch-blurs-his-visi… https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lab-for-digital-freedom-foss-training-de… Support and spread the link on social media -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

7 years, 6 months

[Commercial] - Job Opening in Technical Support at Red Hat Pune

by Suhas Prabhu

Hello Friends, I am hiring for L1 to L3 Technical Support positions in Red Hat Pune. *We are conducting a Hiring Event on coming Saturday 5 Dec 2015 only for those who are referred by internal employees.* *If anyone is interested in a career with Red Hat, please send me your resumes on suhasprbu(a)gmail.com <suhasprbu(a)gmail.com> or suhas.prabhu(a)redhat.com <suhas.prabhu(a)redhat.com>. I will do the initial screening and if suitable send you the referral link to apply. Only those who get the link and apply will be eligible for the Walk-in event.* *You will get an invite through the system for the event as a confirmation. So hurry and send me your resumes if interested.* Can someone forward this email to Pune Linux Users group as my membership to the mailing list is not working for now ? ================================================================ The job profile would be as below: Job summary The Red Hat Global Support Services team is seeking a highly skilled Technical Support Engineer with excellent technical and customer service skills to provide support for our enterprise subscription customers. In this role, you'll become an expert with Red Hat technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and our storage and cloud solutions, and provide technical support for customers primarily through the phone and internet. You will be responsible for performing basic investigation and troubleshooting to resolve difficult customer issues quickly and effectively. Your customers will often include other engineers, so we'll need you to develop your technical skills by becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and getting up to speed with our storage system. Primary job responsibilities - Provide technical support to Red Hat enterprise customers - Diagnose problems, troubleshoot customer issues, and develop solutions to technical issues - Exceed customer expectations by providing outstanding customer service - Consult with and develop relationships with in-house engineers and developers to promote creative solutions and improve customer satisfaction - Contribute to the global Red Hat knowledge management system while working on customer issues Required skills - 1- 5+ years of Linux experience in the enterprise sector with excellent administration skills - Thorough knowledge of the Linux kernel, networking, and memory management - Troubleshooting skills and a passion for problem solving and investigation - Ability to work with conflicting priorities, initiate problem solving, and maintain a customer-centric focus ==================================================================================== - SuHaS

7 years, 6 months

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