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Propagating GNU / Linux in schools
by Dinesh Joshi 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello all, I've been invited to give a lecture on Linux ( technical + philosophical ). I want to "enlighten" them on the virtues of F/OSS. If any of you guys are into Linux related education / propagation activities then please let me know what might be the critical points that one must cover. Also, I think I'll show them some eye candy. Any good demos / videos available for download to showcase Compiz Fusion or the likes?? -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi

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fossconf update
by Kenneth Gonsalves 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi, Fossconf took place in Chennai on Feb 1 - 3 2008. There were around 100 talks, 40 demo stalls with student projects done in FOSS and tutorial sessions. The attendance was around 700 on the first day, 1500-2000 on the second day and around 600 on the third day. About 80% of the audience were engineering college students. Volunteers and student projects came from engineering colleges in Chennai as well as from colleges in Salem, Madurai, Vellore and Tirunelveli. Most of the speakers were first time speakers, and although the bulk of them were from Tamilnadu, we had speakers from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Goa, Trivandrum and Nellore. We also had a large number of speakers from the academic community who were participating in a FOSS event for the first time. The event was pretty chaotic at times since all of us were n00bs at conducting conferences. Many speakers had a rough time. In spite of the huge attendance, poor logistics lead to many talks having a very thin audience. But by and large, the feedback we have got has been positive. We thank those members of your LUG who helped out in the event and gave us support. We hope to see more of you at Fossconf 09 You may browse the slides here: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/browseslides/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ILUG-Bom]Some candidates for the Delhi Hall of Shame
by Easwar Hariharan 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi, Some sites which I felt fit the bill for being in the hall of shame. http://bankofindia.com Internet Banking doesn't work(shows a Security Error!,LOL) when used with FF but works perfectly with IE.Plus there is a declared statement at the bottom of every page:"Works best with IE 5.5 or better" http://irctc.co.in Same statement as above is present at the bottom of very page. http://incredibleindia.org Not exactly a Hall of Shame candidate in terms of F/OSS,but the majority of the links are broken.The feedback email links are also broken.God knows how tourism is booming in India.

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Kubuntu Gutsy going to initramfs prompt
by Amit Joshi 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

I have a completely updated Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Recently there have been some random problem. Sometimes when I try to boot there seems to be no activity on the splash screen and after a while it takes me to the initramfs prompt (Failure to mount root filesystem). But again sometimes it boots just fine with no problems whatsoever. I found that this was a bug. [1] The only solution to get around this problem was to append "all_generic_ide" to the root line in menu.lst. But I read in the bug report discussion that it may hamper the performance of my HDDs (which are already slow). Is there any other way to get around this problem? [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/67256 Regards, Amit. -- http://mckagan.googlepages.com

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Fedora 8, proxy settings, some crashes in KDE and Super Grub Disk!
by Nishit Dave 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

List, A little flashback. I had earlier posted a query about non-destructive resizing of NTFS partitions (where free space is not consolidated even after defragmentation) with gparted, for which there was no clear reply. Looking further, I found that ntfsresize, which is used by gparted, does not need free space consolidation. However, the only catch is that defragmentation should not leave any data near the end of the disk. OK, so partitioning done, I have installed Fedora 8 on my laptop with only KDE on it (space constraints). I want to add some packages not on the DVD, but I am facing some problems currently, as follows: 1. Environmental proxy settings: my internet connection goes through an open proxy that does not require any UID or password. I have manually configured firefox and konqueror's proxy settings and I can connect to the internet through them. However, yum / pup / pirut do not work. I have specified the proxy settings in the root bash profile, my (user) bash profile, and in the global profile under /etc/profile, but I cannot still connect. Any pointers? 2. Crashes: The network card control applets under KDE available as nm-applet or system-control-network crash when run. This happened even before I had specified any network settings. system-config-network works properly, methinks. Has anybody else faced this problem, and is there a solution? 3. Multimedia: Kaffeine, Amarok, etc. are unable to play even audio CDs. I wonder why. Is this what bleeding edge is supposed to be? Remember, my system is not updated, as yum doesn't work. Oh, and having installed grub on /dev/sda3 and not the MBR, I have found and started using Super Grub Disk (http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/) to boot Fedora. I have burnt its ISO to a CD/RW. It is really wonderful. I think all distros should offer it as a part of their live CD distributions. The ISO is just 3.5 MB, and a bz2 archive is only 500k odd in size.

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[OT] Online Programming Contest at TCE, Madurai.
by Balachandran Sivakumar 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hello all, Thiagarajar College of Engg., Madurai is organising a national level technical symposium named tecuthsav (https://tecuthsav.tce.edu). As a part of the event, an online programming contest(OLPC) will be conducted tomorrow(sunday, 10/02/2008). Please register in the site as a participant and also for the OLPC contest. The site has detailed information about the contest site: https://tecuthsav.tce.edu date:10/02/2008 time: 2:00 pm contact mail: olpc(a)tce.edu -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar (benignbala) Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached Learn to live.................Live to learn Mail: benignbala(a)gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ Site:http://benignbala.googlepages.com

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how to block gmail with blocking port 443
by Agnello George 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

HI I have Linux server ( Cent OS ) that runs a firewall and squid ( which is behind the fire wall ) . bellow is my iptable file # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [5233:333834] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [5:1836] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [1150:71993] -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 22 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A PREROUTING -i eth2 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128 -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [68521:21158845] :FORWARD ACCEPT [36355:23402728] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [93843:100437897] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth2 -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Thu Feb 7 02:43:43 2008 I redirect all request that comes for port 80 to 3128 ( squid machine ) .... and there with the squid i have blocked few sites. But i want to block gmail ( but i am not allowed to block port 443... which gmail works on ) so my question here is how do i block gmail with out blocking port 443 ? (sorry for binging this issue up again !! but i have not really not found a permanent solution ) Thanks ! for all the help !!! -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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shell script query
by Agnello George 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I am trying to write a really simple script to install postfix. my script begins like this : #!/bin/sh echo "this is a script tp install postfix for virtual domains " apt-get install postfix-mysql apt-get install mutt apt-get install telnet apt get install mysql-common mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev sysv-rc-conf apt-get instal openssl apt-get install libsasl2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl libauthen-sasl-perl apt-get install courier-base courier-authlib-mysql courier-ssl courier-pop sysv-rc-conf --level 235 mysqld on sysv-rc-conf --level 235 postfix on apt-get install apache2 apt-get install vim ..... and so on but as soon as the scipt executes it tries to install postfix-mysql , the apt-get progam asks the question " Do you want to continue [Y/n]? " i have to keep pressing " y " ...... what do i put in my script that will automate this , without asking me the question " Do you want to continue [Y/n]?" Thanks for all the help!! -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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Any Vocabulary builder software for linux
by Praveen Krishnamoorthy 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi all, i am using ubuntu and did some search in the synaptic package manager for any vocabulary builder but to no avail. Could anyone direct me to any vocab builder that comes along with ubuntu or anything else which i could compile for linux. Thanks in Advance!! --PraveenKrish-- Read my Blog at http://praveenkrish.blogspot.com

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Mounting Problem
by zoheb ashraf 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi ILUG-BOM, I want help regarding mounting windows network drive in Redhat Linux AS3/AS4. I shared the windows folder but unable to mount that drive. Kindly please help me out. Warm Regards Zoheb Ansari.

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Unwanted Connections
by Rony 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello All, I am back to using Etch-Kde and while the machine is idle, it shows occasional net activity. Netstat shows the following entries posted below. Why are bbc, rocky-mountain, steffani and such sites being contacted? How do I disable this? Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 debian.local:60323 rocky-mountain.cs:27644 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 debian.local:50722 steffani.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 debian.local:54730 ns24102.ovh.net:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 15 0 debian.local:54256 rocky-mountain.csai:ftp CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 debian.local:34230 ftp.de.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 debian.local:34116 linux.csie.nctu.edu:www ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 debian.local:60323 rocky-mountain.cs:27644 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 debian.local:50722 steffani.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 1 debian.local:36845 hk-in-f104.google.c:www LAST_ACK tcp 1 1 debian.local:32853 newslb306.telhc.bbc:www LAST_ACK tcp 1 0 debian.local:54730 ns24102.ovh.net:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 15 0 debian.local:54256 rocky-mountain.csai:ftp CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 debian.local:34230 ftp.de.debian.org:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 debian.local:34116 linux.csie.nctu.edu:www ESTABLISHED -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Propagating GNU / Linux in schools
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

>> games - lots of games - educational stuff will bore them. Then talk >> about free and pirated (they all must be using pirated cds/movies. >> Maybe 1 in 10 will grasp the point. > I plan to. But then what games? Give me a few good examples! OpenArena and Tremulous (Quake III mods -- rocks); Battle for Wesnoth (turn-based strategy -- I prefer real-time strategy) Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mounting Problem
by Raghu Prasad 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

> I want help regarding mounting windows network drive in > Redhat Linux AS3/AS4. > I shared the windows folder but unable to mount that drive. > Kindly please help me out. If your network is fine and windows share name, user name and password are correct, then the following command should mount the shared folder on Windows server running on (say) 10.1.1.1 to /mnt on your Linux system. mount -t cifs -o user=winuser,password=winpass //10.1.1.1/sharename /mnt Be root to execute this command. If share name or password contains white spaces, then appropriate quotes needed to be added for your shell to treat them properly. Raghu

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Hardwares other than i386/amd64
by Kartik Mistry 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Dear all, Some of us probably knows that Debian comes with more than 12 or more architecture support [1]. And, we traditionally only use either amd64 (AMD64 family) or i386 (Intel 32 bit processors) or powerpc (Mac is now on Intel processors). So, my question is where exactly other hardwares than these can be get from/within India? [1] http://www.us.debian.org/ports/ -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ blog.ftbfs.in | kartikm.wordpress.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mounting Problem
by Neelesh Gurjar 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

>From: "zoheb ashraf" <smartzoh(a)gmail.com >I want help regarding mounting windows network drive in Redhat Linux >AS3/AS4. >I shared the windows folder but unable to mount that drive. Kindly please >help me out. 1. Can you ping your windows PC which have the share ? 2. Please try following command on linux and give me the result. smbclient -U <windows username> --list=ferrari It will ask for password please put your windows passwd. Can you see the share name ? Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to configure 2 CPUs on Fedora
by Neelesh Gurjar 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

>>Neelesh Gurjar wrote: >>cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 8 CPUs. Kartik >Your problem solved! Probably, you don't have enough RAM when your >machine is behaving slowly even with 8 CPUs.. Server has 4 GB of RAM. Should I increase this ? or is there any logic to calculate RAM ? >>Neelesh Gurjar wrote: >> I will prefer to recompile kernel as Tally 7.2 for linux doesnt work on FC5+ >> Is there any debugging tool which I can use like Dtrace on Solaris ? Kartik >Debugging for Tally or Kernel? >It is better to start the new thread for this question rather than >asking different question on older thread. Yes I will create different thread for this. I need debuging tool for both kernel and application. Like if any app is not working then why its not working is there any problem in app or os. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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information on /etc/inputrc
by Agnello George 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I am trying to make changes to the /etc/inputrc file ..... ( this file basically handles keyboard mapping for specific situations. see http://tldp.org/LDP/lfs/LFS-BOOK-6.1.1-HTML/chapter07/inputrc.html ) but not much info is given on how to edit the file as per one likes. Suppose i want the keyboard key "ctl+e" to run the command ls -la .... how do i do this in /etc/inputrc file. thanks .... for helping me out here :-) -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to configure 2 CPUs on Fedora
by Neelesh Gurjar 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

>So, check that: cat /proc/cpuinfo shows two (or more in your case..) >processors. If not, something must be wrong with kernel, or you may >need to recompile kernel or at last, you need to use FC8 :P cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 8 CPUs. I will prefer to recompile kernel as Tally 7.2 for linux doesnt work on FC5+ Is there any debugging tool which I can use like Dtrace on Solaris ? -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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[Commercial]Community Pass Over! But You Can Still Attend the Keynotes At Open Source India Week
by Niraj Sahay 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Dear Open Source Enthusiasts, Here's more good news from Open Source India Week (aka LinuxAsia). Though our quota of 500 Community Passes got over last week, OSIW team has released a new pass--Visitor Pass, which will allow you access to the Keynotes and the Expo. Registration for the Visitor Pass is open to the first 250 registrants, for both cities--B'lore and Delhi. This Visitor Pass will entitle registrants to: 1. The Keynote & Star-Speaker sessions 2. The Expo Register at: http://www.osiweek.com/users/delegatetemp.php Star Speakers at Open Source India Week ********************************** Brian Behlendorf, Apache & Collabnet (B'lore and Delhi) Klaus Knopper, Knoppix (B'lore and Delhi) David Axmark, MySQL (B'lore and Delhi) Paul Kangro, Novell (B'lore and Delhi) Louis Sourez Potts, OpenOffice (Delhi) This year, LinuxAsia has grown into Open Source India Week -- a week-long event spanning three cities: Bangalore (11th-12th Feb), Mumbai (13th Feb) and Delhi (14th-15th Feb). Last year, LinuxAsia (Delhi) had received 1300-plus web registrations through individuals, so REGISTER ASAP to book your FREE entry!!! For MORE DETAILS on OSIW, go to: www.osiweek.com Yours truly, Team, OSIW www.osiweek.com team(a)fosii.org IMP: Make your contribution in growing this Indian Open Source event, by distributing this message amongst as many as you can--your LUG members, your office colleagues, your bulletin boards, etc.

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Kerberos
by Omkar Raut 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Just wondering if Kerberos is successfully implemented for Telnet. Can anybody shoot some pointers on this topic?

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[X Post] Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release
by Kartik Mistry 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi, Sorry for cross post but if anyone is brave enough to test and report latest Debian installer -- it will be very helpful for upcoming release, Lenny. ~ Kartik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Otavio Salvador Subject: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release To: debian-boot Hello, We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not so common architectures where we receive less general testing. In the current timeline, we will stop to accept fixes for the installer in few days so any important issues need to be fixed _now_. You can find the latest installer, for your pet architecture, at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and if you find any issues file a installation report. Thanks in advance and let's make Lenny the best release ever made! Cheers, Otavio Salvador on behalf of Debian Installer Team -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ blog.ftbfs.in | kartikm.wordpress.com

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How to configure 2 CPUs on Fedora
by Neelesh Gurjar 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi, I have Xeon Quad core processor server. And I have attached one more same processor to that motherboard. So now I have two processors on one motherboard. I have already installed Fedora Core4 on that. But after attaching new processor instead of getting fast its getting slow. Specially when samba user connects samba share or nfs clients connect nfs share it takes 2-3 or more for them. Is there any spacial configuration for second CPU ? or should i have to compile kernel ? -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Help with adding and tagging foss events in India
by Philip Tellis 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hello people, Some time ago, prompted by a thread on linux-india-general, I built a pipe to create a feed of foss events in India: http://pipes.yahoo.com/bluesmoon/foss_in_india What this pipe suffers from is lack of input data, so what I'm hoping for, is help from lugs around the country to create this input data. Doing this is fairly simple. 1. Add the event to http://upcoming.yahoo.com if it is not already there 2. Tag the event with the two tags "foss" and "india" You can do the same for barcamp style events, but use the tag "unconference" instead of "foss". Please spread the word, and help out Thanks, Philip -- hello world

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[Commercial]CTOSummit: A unique event that discusses Open Source related business opportunities
by Niraj Sahay 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

CTOSummit: A unique event that discusses Open Source related business opportunities Dear Sir/Madam, What's happening in the Open Source space? Is this growth for real or is it just another bubble? Are Indian IT firms benefiting from this phenomenon too? How? Why? These questions will be answered at the CTOSummit happening on the 12th of February 08, at The Taj Westend. Sample of speakers at the CTOSummit: Brian Behlendorf, Co-founder Apache and Collabnet; David Axmark, Co-founder, MySQL; Klaus Knopper, Co-founder, Knoppix. Speakers from Novell, Ingres, TCS, Satyam, Intel, Microsoft, and many more IT firm, will be participating in the discussion at the CTOSummit. Inspired from the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), which is an annual event in the US, the CTOSummit should be an excellent opportunity for you to discover the business and economics of open source, interact with global and Indian entrepreneurs who have been successful in this arena, and network with the who's who of the IT industry. The Background CTOSummit is one of the events being organised within the Open Source India Week (OSIW), which was earlier known as LinuxAsia. Both, CTOSummit and OSIW are being organised by the EFY Group--publishers of magazines like Electronics For You and LINUX For You. The earlier four LinuxAsia were held only in Delhi, but this year the event has expanded into three cities: Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. Few facts related to the business side of Open Source: · MySQL just got bought by Sun Microsystems for UDS$ 1 Billion. · Ingres and SugarCRM are expected to go IPO this year, and despite being open source firms, they are the darling amongst tech investors and analysts. · Indian IT giants, like Satyam and TCS, have started releasing open source projects. · Many SME-IT firms have witnessed growth of over 100-percent in the last three to four years, while working in the Linux/Open Source space. The Specifics: Date: 12th February '08, 10 am to 6 pm Venue: The Taj Westend, Banglore Deadline for registration: 7th February '08 Entry Fee: Rs 5,000 (including service tax 12.36%) Pay to: EFY Enterprises Pvt Ltd For queries: Call Ruchira or Manu at 011-26810601, 02, 03

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Creating opportunities for Linux imlementations
by Sudhir Gandotra 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Friends, We have been making various attempts to create opportunities for Linux deployments and have met with mixed successes. Recently, thinking that RTI can be used as a tool for entering the Government sector, we used this tool and have stopped/postponed one implementation, where we feel Linux can be the option, whereas the user has opted for win$ only. We feel that a small group, what is also called a "special interest group" could be created that can take up this activity strongly. After the RTI is filed and the response received, there is need of a follow-up that would involve technical expertise, which the members of this group can provide and this activity can then move forward. If there is interest in it, please get in touch with me. I am at Delhi and the first case we have got is in delhi itself. Due to legal reasons, its good not to take the name here at this stage, but, this can be a very good beginning for Linux entering into areas that are kept away from it by the "smart fellows" (actually, we may better called them bribed fellows). This activity, can not only give a good name to the LUGs but also make a real difference in the environment. There may be soon the need of filing cases and taking the matter to a level where the decible level of sound about Linux can grow real big, for the environment to notice it in a very interesting manner. Once we do some tests at one location, then they can replicated all across the country. RTI can be very interesting for this. With best wishes for Unity in thinking, feeling and action. Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 IIPL: B-220/2, 2nd Fl., Savitri Nagar, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India 1/G, Shrikrishna Sansthan Building, Bistupur, Jamshedpur 831001, India Phone : +91-11-26014670, 71, 72. Fax : +91-11-26014672 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Legal.Software @ Fractional Cost : http://kalculate.com http://www.openlx.com/openlx.html - Linux from India for your PC http://openlx.com/features.html - OpenLX Linux features You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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