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<Announce>Pad.ma Launch
by Sanjay Bhangar 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Over the past few months, we have been working on a Public Access Digital Media Archive (www.pad.ma) and are having a beta-launch event on the 28th of February at JnanaPravaha Art Gallery at Fort. The interface has been written in Python (using the Turbogears frame-work) and Javascript and all the code is GPL. We are using Ogg Theora as the video encoding format for all the videos in the archive. The only browser it does not support is IE;-). Very much looking forward to larger involvement from the FOSS community and should be interesting for anyone who is interested in video, the web, and FOSS. All are welcome and very much looking forward to seeing some Linuxers there. For details of the event, directions, etc.: http://www.camputer.org/event.php?id=7 Warm regards, Sanjay

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New project on FLOSS
by Vinay Sreenivasa 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Hello all, Greetings from IT for Change! ITfC (IT for Change) is a non-profit organisation located in India. ITfC envisions a society capable of, and comfortable with, innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a tool, to further goals of social change.We undertake research, advocacy and field-action projects in the area of ICTs for development. Wanted to share information on a new on FLOSS, which is being coordinated by the European Union. This project will look at increasing FLOSS uptake in various countries, including India. This project called FLOSS Include, will be carried out by a project team of research institutes, government agencies, private companies and non-governmental organizations in 9 countries - Argentina, Cambodia, China, Ghana, India, South Africa, Spain and the UK. The consortium is led by UNU-MERIT, a joint research and training centre of United Nations University and Maastricht University in the Netherlands and includes among other organizations, Canonical Ltd the sponsors for Ubuntu. In India, the FLOSS Include project will carry out an in-depth analysis of the technical, business and socio-political needs for the growth of FLOSS use, deployment and development in the target regions. In the larger effort, partners will implement FLOSS solutions, tools and services to ensure they are cost-effective and practical for each environment. The FLOSS Include aims to ensure a lasting impact beyond the project duration. A project fact sheet is available at http://flossinclude.eu ITforChange (http://www.itforchange.net/) and Sarai, India (http://www.sarai.net/) are the two organizations in India, which will be a part of this project. As part of FLOSS Include, ITfC will focus on FLOSS and the public sector and will study the role of public sector agencies in producing, organizing and stimulating production of FLOSS, including using FLOSS for public administration, and sharing of FLOSS applications among public sector bodies. Much of social processes, like public delivery of health, education and livelihood support services have a central role for public authorities and hence public systems have a crucial role in pushing FLOSS. Currently commercial, proprietary software is often preferred and the project would study the contexts for FLOSS being used in a larger way for Public administration. We will also study government polices for FLOSS an area where which tends to often have a pro-industry / commercial software orientation and not much support or enthusiasm for FLOSS. In addition, since the issues of standards have a strong connection to the role of public sector - both as a major bulk user of software and being able to set default standards through using them in public application , and through direct policy interventions the study will have a strong focus on the interoperability and open standards aspects in our research. The project activities have been kick-started now and the project is currently in progress. Thanks, Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change 91-(0)821-2343527 91-98805-95032 vinay(a)itforchange.net www.ITforChange.net

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need help for ldap integration with qmail
by Advait Raut 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

hey guys... i need an help for integration of ldap with qmail on RHEL 5. if anybody has done this kind of stuff earlier then pls help me .. -- Regards Advait Raut

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] yum error ..unable to install
by Debarshi Ray 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

> I am trying to inall the yum installer ( yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm ) from > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.2/ Which distribution (and version) are you using? > rpm -ivh yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm I do not know why you need 2.2.0, because 3.2.x has been the current series for sometime now. Cheerio, Debarshi -- "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -- Arthur Ashe

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yum error ..unable to install
by Agnello George 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi I am trying to inall the yum installer ( yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm ) from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.2/ rpm -ivh yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm warning: yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 69886cc7 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:yum ########################################### [100%] i restarted yum and it started with no error [root@esha software]# /etc/init.d/yum start Enabling nightly yum update: [ OK ] but when i try to install gcc it give me the following error [root@esha software]# yum install gcc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? import yum ImportError: No module named yum [root@esha software]# can some one help me with this error ... thanks -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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Help required
by Yogesh Kulkarni 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Dear All, I need help in installing JDK & JRE on debian 2.6.18-6-386. I had tried my level best to install them but could not. Please help me in getting it done. Regards, Yogesh Kulkarni -- योगेश: कुळकर्णी http://yogamegha.blogspot.com https://launchpad.net/people/swamiyogesh

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And the winners for FOSS India Awards are...
by niraj＠efyindia.com 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Here's some great news that I (on behalf of the Linux For You team) wanted to share with all of you... The Gist... Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner will get Rs 25,000! Here's what M.R. Rajagopalan, director, NRCFOSS, shad to say w.r.t. the awards, Through such incentives, NRCFOSS expects to stimulate young minds, encourage innovative contributions to the FOSS ecosystem and address the digital divide." Complete details about the awards announcement can be had at: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm <snippet from the announcement> Here is the complete list of the winners: * Hindawi Indic Programming System * Zmanda Recover Manager for MySQL * Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System * Fedora (games and localization spins) * KDE 3.5 Hindi * MayaVi * Jtrac * DeepOfix * Tuxtype * WanEM * Mac4Lin * OpenLX * Anjuta * HarvestMan * Get it I say * KIWI-LTSP * Ffmpeginstall * Belenix * TVTK: Traited VTK * GNUSim8085 </snippet> For more details about the FOSS India Awards, visit: www.openits.com/awards/ Soon, registration will be opened up for FOSS India Awards 2009... Regards, Niraj Sahay

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OFFTOPIC: From India, a magazine that looks at Open Publishing ...
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

i4donline.net's February 2008 magazine focuses on open publishing. Some of the articles it has include: * Gutenberg Project * Moodle CMS * Widgit Software * Open Webcasting * Open Architecture Network * Digital Library in India, the million book project * Cape Town Open Education Declaration * Information on the Farm Front * Interview: Gregory Newby and Michael Hart * Workshop on Science Commons * ACIA: Intl Workshop on Asia and the Commons in the Info Age * Training programme on biomedical info retrival * BytesForAll summaries * Books: Community radio guide, empowering tools * Etc You can download it at http://i4donline.net/feb08/feb08.pdf FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 The Goa books blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com Goa1556 (alt.publishing.goa): http://goa1556.goa-india.org

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query about double firewalls
by Rohit V Bhute 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi people. Some of you might remember I had asked about the chaotic performance of a LAMP server a few months ago. My team finally brought the local server where we had tested our sites earlier online. We eliminated each component of the stack. Finally, we were left with the firewalls. At the ISP where we have co located, we have two firewalls - one dedicated hardware firewall shared among three servers and one on the machine itself. There is some NATing also involved since the LAMP server has a 192.168.x.x address. The test server which we were using as our baseline had just its own firewall (iptables). At the firm suggestion of the ISP's tech/network guys, today, we switched off the LAMP server's iptables firewall. Now sites are working like smooooth! <http://pastebin.com/m63e4e613> This is our test server's iptables listing. The LAMP server has ports 21 and 443 also open in addition to one listed here. The OUTPUT chain counters also show a lot of traffic. Otherwise, both iptables are also same. So my doubt is: was the double firewall (and NATing) the reason for the earlier chaotic performance? Is there some configuration we have to do to the iptables before we start it again? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org

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Sabayon Linux
by Rony Bill 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Hello All, This month's LFY comes with live + install Sabayon 1.1 Linux. My vendor too has co-operated to exchange defective media. However this month LFY appears to have improved its media quality and I have not found any problems yet. I tried out the live Sabayon DVD and there is only one way to describe Sabayon Linux :- TOO SEXY. It gets even better. Sabayon uses KDE, the great desktop environment. Sabayon is already loaded with popular multimedia codecs and works out of the box. The sound was not coming from my speakers and it was because the 'headphones' channel in the mixer (kmix) did not have its green dot highlighted. Once that was clicked, sound was perfect. Firefox comes pre-loaded with flash player so you can watch/listen flash content too. My system has a 512 MB RAM but I am sure even 256 MB RAM machines will load the live session without a problem as it appears to be quite light on the system. I am writing this mail from the live session. Even if one has his/her own favourite distro, this live DVD is definately worth a look. As one of our members would have put it, it takes the pants off Windows desktops. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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