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[Fsf-friends] The GNU/Linux Commands Dictionary by Santhosh Thottingal
by Praveen A 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Hey all, My friend Santhosh has written a book 'The GNU/Linux Commands Dictionary'. I've attached the pdf file. Go through it and sent feedback to him at santhoshthottingal at yahoo.co.in Regards Praveen A -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com My Weblog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/pravi Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Rediscover the web ! Get firefox at http://www.getfirefox.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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SLYNUX -- Sarath Laxman's Linux website
by Praveen A 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Check out this site www.slynux.co.nr Regards Praveen A -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com My Weblog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/pravi Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Rediscover the web ! Get firefox at http://www.getfirefox.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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FreeSoftwaremagazine.com
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Issue 1 Volume 1 of this new magazine has just hit the (cyber)stands. And, don't be too surprised, you're free to download a copy too of this 78-page publication. Some of the articles in the first issue: o File formats; format wars (Marco Fioretti) File formats: the past, the present, a possible future o XML: The answer to everything? (Kay Ethier, Scott Abel) This article weighs the pros and cons of XML for some applciations (publishing) and explores why it is the best possible solution for many programming and publishing needs. o Free file formats and the future of intellectual freedom (Terry Hancock) Information as property may be served by closed file formats, but the freedom of information requires free formats. o Creating the Free Software Magazine (Tony Mobily) A long path that takes us to the very beginning of this project. o Mac OS X: Welcome to the jungle -- a look inside the Mac OS X software ecology (Chris J Karr) o The magic of live CDs (Harish Pillay) What are live CDs, and how do they work? o Every engineer's checklist for justifying Free Software. It's not just about 'no licence fees' (Malcolm D Spence) o Smarter password management (John Locke) How to handle your passwords without getting lost o The content tail wags the IT dog (Daniel James) Without hardware and software, there would be nothing for digital media to be created on, or used with. And yet the content industry attempts to tell the far larger IT industry what it can and cannot do. o Motivation and value of free resources. Wikipedia and Planetmath show the way (Aaron E Klemm) o It's all about freedom (Christian Einfeldt) Freedom is free software's competitive advantage. o The Commons (Dave M Berry) The Commons as an Idea -- Ideas as a Commons o Let's not forget our roots (Free Software is not just about cost or stability; it's a movement that mustn't forget the principles which made it possible) Tom Chance. A PLANT NEEDS WATER TO GROW! Free Software Magazine -- by subscribing you will be supporting a magazine which believes in Free Software. All our articles are released under the GNU free documentation license, enhancing existing information on Free Software. Download your copy today from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com Subscriptions open! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://goabooks.swiki.net * Reviews of books on Goa... and more

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4
by fjsylvester＠marketweighton.com 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

happy new year friends fjsylvester

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[Fsf-friends] FLOSS into the Mayan languages... and a LatAm distro based on Gentoo
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Ola, here's some news from Latin America... Julio Cesar Gonzalez of LUGUSAC <juliocgc(a)fisica.usac.edu.gt> writes in to say that they have got "organized as a Linux Users Group, currently pursuing to be a Technological Foundation. The mail list is open and can be reached at: http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/lugusac and our site is at http://www.lug-usac.org Says Julio: "We are the forge of several projects, maybe the most interesting 'Proyecto Luciernaga', on translating FLOSS into mayan languages, (see it at http://luciernaga.berlios.de ) and "Proyecto Mayix", the very first Central American distribution based on Gentoo -- http://www.mayix.net " In the first half of 2005, this team expects to partner the creation of a GNU/Linux Users Group in the west highlands (Quetzaltenango, native name Xelaju), their site will be at http://xelalug.linuxserver.at/ Says Julio, whose based in Gautemala: "In Central America the major interest on FLOSS is here in my country (Guatemala) and in El Salvador. Some LUGs in Belize and Honduras." He, together with several friends, formed a GNU/LUG at their university three years ago. Their Mayan language project incidentally is an inter-institutional project, also involving groups such as the "Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum" (Nobel Peace Price, 1992) and "Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala" (national autority for mayan languages)." According to Julio, they're currently working on the translation of OpenOffice.org Writer 1.1 into the Mayan language k'iche'. He adds optimistically: "After that, we'll produce the OpenOffice.org suite in all the major Mayan languages, a web browser and, eventually, a Live-CD with a Mayan-languages GNU/Linux distribution." We wish these big and ambitious plans all the very best. If you could support in any way, get in touch with Julio Cesar Gonzalez Cordon <juliocgc(a)fisica.usac.edu.gt> who says: "It's exciting to share, to learn, and to build another world with you!". FN Related URL: Fisired (http://fisica.usac.edu.gt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://goabooks.swiki.net * Reviews of books on Goa... and more

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GNU/Linux Users Calicut Website
by Praveen A 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Hi all, We are happy to inform you the launch of GNU/Linux users group Calicut (glugc --pronounced gee-lug-see). Check out the site at http://glugc.nitc.ac.in Regards Praveen A A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com My Weblog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/pravi Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Rediscover the web ! Get firefox at http://www.getfirefox.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Re: [Fsf-friends] sly stories
by CK Raju 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

--- "V. Sasi Kumar" <vsasi(a)hotpop.com> wrote: If he had studied in a government school, or had seen the IT text books for SSLC, he would have understood what free software is. I understand that he is in a CBSE school. We need to put pressure on CBSE to bring free software into their IT education. -- I think the dangers of such proprietary technologies creeping into the curriculum are much beyond that what we usually imagine. For instance, see this feature of Micro$oft. "...Project Shiksha Highlights Microsoft in partnership with State Governments to deliver comprehensive, leading K-12 IT curriculum as prescribed by the standards bodies Student scholarships to recognize India’s top students who drive innovation through technology A teacher scholarship program to recognize and reward India’s leading teachers committed to delivering world-class education An online community for teacher collaborations, best practice sharing and honing of skill sets..." (full story at http://www.microsoft.com/india/education/pil/shiksha/ ). Read our Chief Ministers details on amending Curriculum on an annual basis (after he visited Technopark, TVM in Nov 2004), and the seriousness would increase. (A response to that story is at http://www.indiavarta.com/Opinions/index.asp?Category=opinion&mesgId=32757 ) Rgds, CK Raju _____________________________________________________________ LinuxTimes.Net --> Open Source to everyone.

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Indian Free-gis mailing list
by sajithvk 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Friends, Geographic Information Systems are powerful tools for organising and processing geospatial data. The use of this software is increasing in our country, especially since the availability of satellite imageries makes it a very useful tool in planning. However, most of our institutes use proprietary GIS applications, which are very expensive, in addition to being restrictive. Many people are not even aware of the availability of equally or more powerful Free Software applications like GRASS. So we formed an email group for Free-GIS related discussions. This email group was formed to promote the awareness and use of such applications, and to help new users to become familiar with them. Please see http://gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-gis. We invite you to join the group and contribute to our efforts. List Admin

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FLOSS meet at NIT Calicut -- site temporarily moved
by Praveen A 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

There has been some problem with our website [http://glugc.nitc.ac.in]. We are trying to sort it out. For the time being check out the page in our main site. http://nitc.ac.in/nitc/static_files/floss/index.html Regards Praveen A -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com My Weblog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/pravi Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Rediscover the web ! Get firefox at http://www.getfirefox.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Article from The Hindu: Sent to you by Praveen A
by thehindu＠web1.hinduonnet.com 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

I hope you'd like this. ============================================================= This article has been sent to you by Praveen A ( pravi.a(a)gmail.com ) ============================================================= Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/edu/2005/01/11/stories/2005011100200400.htm) Education Plus    Kerala    YOUNGACHIEVERS A whiz-kid's tryst with Linux What do people do when they hear that doing a particular thing is very difficult? Most of them try to avoid it. But some people meet the challenge headlong. Sarath Lakshman a Standard X student of the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School, Mahe, belongs to the second category. A challenge Until 2003, Sarath had never used Linux, computer operating system (OS). He had heard about it, though. When he repeatedly heard from various people that Linux was not an everyman's OS and that operating Linux requires more than a casual knowledge of computers, Sarath saw a challenge staring him in the face. His answer to that challenge was `SLYNUX' - or in other words `Sarath Lakshman's Linux'. The story of Sarath's achievements using the computer begins some time back. Even as a child, Sarath was interested in science and technology; the young scientist demonstrated this by prying open household electronic gadgets and tinkering with them. When he reached Standard VIII and started learning about computers as per the syllabus designed by the IT@School programme, he got hooked to computers. E-periodic table One day, in Standard IX, when the Chemistry teacher was taking a class on the periodic table, it struck Sarath that computers could be used to teach the periodic table in a much more interesting way. This resulted in the development of the `e-periodic table' - software that helps the student to learn the positions of elements, their atomic numbers and so on. This software turned out to be a hit with the students of his school. When officials of the IT@school got wind of this, they got in touch with Sarath and asked him whether he would give the copyright of his software to them. Sarath was only too willing and a few days later had the satisfaction of seeing his `e-periodic table' in the resource CD for the Standard X IT@School sent to all schools in the State. New software As far as Sarath was concerned, this was only the beginning. "I then thought of developing a software that would help students learn the basics of electronics - my childhood passion. I began working on this and eventually came up with `Electronic Studio MX', which uses animation to explain basic concepts in electronics," he told The Hindu-Education Plus. With two successful projects under his belt, Sarath turned his attention to Linux - something he had always been told was very, very difficult to operate. Initially, Sarath installed a popular version of Linux, on his computer. Soon, he saw that what he had been told about Linux was not too much of an exaggeration. " I found that this OS was very good in matters of security and smoothness of operation. But I found that the average user would be confused by the names given to programmes in Linux. The fact that Linux uses inter-dependent system files excited me and convinced me that I could make this OS simpler and easy to comprehend," he explained. SLYNUX Sarath said he was also particular that his version of Linux should be operational from a live CD - that is, it could run even without being installed in a computer. Next, he went about devising the SLYNUX desktop to closely resemble the normal Window's desktop. This way, he ensured that anybody who is familiar with Windows could easily switch to using SLYNUX. Sarath says that anybody who uses his OS would have the advantage of getting a lot of pre-installed programmes. "Normally, there are very few programmes in Windows OS. You would have to pay for getting more programmes installed or else pirate the same. For instance, SLYNUX has a pre-installed SLYNUX media player and a Linamp player. So, the user can play VCDs and even DVDs using the programme `Xine'," he said. That is not all. SLYNUX also has a multi-purpose messenger programme that can be used for MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber and IRC messaging services. SLYNUX also has Mozilla Firefox, which can be used to access the Net. "Another major feature about my OS is that it supports internal modems; something that other Linux versions normally don't. It can also access most of the file types used in the Windows OS. In addition to this, SLYNUX also supports Malayalam fonts. I have even included an on-screen Malayalam keyboard," Sarath said. By providing a flash player plug-in, a CD-burner software and a `paint' programme, Sarath has also made sure that his OS is pretty strong on the multi-media front. He recommends at least 256 MB of RAM to get the best out of his SLYNUX CD. Marketing Sarath says he hopes to market SLYNUX, which he took only seven months to develop. "I will retain this as an open software. I would like to see more students using this free software. If we can have something free, why spend lakhs of rupees purchasing proprietary software," he asked. The answer would have to come from policy makers who handle IT education in the State. As this `young achiever' points out there is no institutionalised support in the State to people like him who set out to make things easier for others; for, there may be others - as yet unseen flowers - who are capable of similar feats, if not more. Sarath can be contacted at `sarathlakshman(a)yahoo.com G. MAHADEVAN Photo: S. Gopakumar Copyright: 1995 - 2005 The Hindu Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the consent of The Hindu

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