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Beware ! freedom ahead...
by Arun M 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Beware ! freedom ahead... Crimson feet Magazine together with FSF India and Darpana Academy of Performing Arts will be organising a two day workshop on Free Software and Free Culture. Date: 5th 6th Feb, Venue: Natarani Theatre, Darpana Academy, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad

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[Fwd: [Ilugc] [Fwd] Invitation: FOSS brain-storming session with Min. of IT]
by Ramanraj K 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ilugc] [Fwd] Invitation: FOSS brain-storming session with Min. of IT Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 03:46:48 -0800 From: Suraj <suraj(a)symonds.net> To: ILUG-Chennai <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> fyi, -Suraj ----- Forwarded message from Sridharan Anand ----- From: Sridharan Anand Subject: Invitation: FOSS brain-storming session with Min. of IT Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:09:46 +0530 To: sanand(a)au-kbc.org User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Free/Libre Open Source Software Enthusiast, There is a committee of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India, that is visiting the AU-KBC Research Centre (http://www.au-kbc.org), MIT Campus of Anna University, Chromepet, Chennai, on Thursday, January 13, 2005, in connection with launching a programme on `HRD for FOSS Capable IT Professionals.' The committee would like to have a brain-storming session with all persons interested in FOSS from 10:30 AM -- 1:00 PM on the following issues: - -- Status of current usage of FOSS in Industry, Government, Education and Research, worldwide and in India. - -- Human resources needs in the FOSS sector in India and abroad. - -- Available FOSS human resources development programmes in the formal and informal sectors (in the world and in India). - -- Government's possible role in promoting FOSS in India. - -- Any other steps needed to promote FOSS in India. Kindly make it convenient to attend this meeting and give your valuable inputs so that the Ministry of Information Technology can formulate the necessary plans and schemes to further the cause of FOSS which you have been serving individually and collectively in a voluntary manner. Enclosed please find a note on the theme of `HRD for FOSS Capable IT Professionals' from the Free Software Foundation (India) for your information and comments. In case you would also like to circulate any note to the participants in this connection, please send the same to us. The meeting will end at 1.00PM with lunch. Please e-mail confirmation of your participlation to me (Mob.: 98410 26505) or Anand Sridharan (Ph. 2223 4885/2711/1034). Additional information on how to reach here etc. will be supplied to you on geting your confirmation of participation. Look forward to seeing you here on the 13th. Regards, Prof. C. N. Krishnan. Director. AU-KBC Research Centre MIT Campus of Anna University Chromepet, Chennai-44. (http://www.au-kbc.org) - -------- Comments sent by Professor Nagarjuna, Chairman, FSF (Free Software Foundation), India on the subject `HRD for FOSS Capable IT Professionals.' 1. What are the focus areas that need to be addressed by Govt. at national & international levels? Localization: Most urgent focus area should be to identify, encourage and support the already ongoing groups that are striving to localize (private IT solutions in Indian languages) the GNU/Linux operating system. How urgent this is becomes clear if we take into account the fact that currently only 4% people (based on the approximate english literacy) are capable of using computers, while our country has about 65% literacy. So far IT is enabling only the upper strata of the country. If we want our people to participate in this information age, making content available to Indian languages should be a top priority. In this regard, another serious matter: most of the already localized and digitized content in Indian languages is done in an unethical and inappropriate way, because the documents are encoded in proprietary standards (both at the level of font and data encoding). This is serious becomes clear if we know that this is not allowed in any other country except in India. Govt. must enforce all the industries who are presently in this market (including Govt's CDAC) to develop filters to covert all such documents in ISCII, TISCI and Unicode formats. (please see below our proposals on Encoding policy) Conversion of schools to FOSS: We should work towards the target of 100% FOSS use in schools 5 years from now, and before 2020. Starting now, we shouldn't install any new machines in schools/colleges and public institutions with non-free software. This will eventually solve not only HRD related issues for FOSS but also to nurture a good ethos within the learning institutes that shape future societies. Content Development: While this might seem not a related issue of FOSS, but FOSS practiced and demonstrated a unique model where people can generate and maintain content that they require on their own if they follow the wikipedia model (http://www.wikipedia.org) and other such community portals. We should not only create a mirror of sites like wikipedia in our country, but also should make efforts to create and translate the existing public content in Indian languages. This will also encourage a large number of Indians to contribute in such portals worldwide. Mirrors of Free Software: Indian mirrors (repositories that keep upto date versions of the software developed) must be created and located within the country for faster and sustained access. Internet: Internet is the nurturing media of swatantra software. It is difficult to visualize the success of free software without Internet. Providing faster and economical access to this facility particularly for public institutions will help support and sustain the movement further. Though not related to FOSS directly, we must have the network work within the country independent of the international backbone. Seriousness of this becomes clearer if we look at the fact that when our up front ISP's are disconnected to the international backbone, two people within a city in India may not be able to communicate with each other despite the fact that they are completely wired. This could be due to the non-availability of root DNS servers, and not a very clean routing of packets within the country.] Not having such an independent network may cause serious problems in case of international pressures. Having such a facility is crucial for a good bargaining power of a developing nation. China, I was told, has such a network which works independent of the international backbone. At the international level we should protect our freedom in matters related to imposing software patents. The current stand by India on this very important issue should be held strongly and no modification is required. We should withstand and stand on our feet and defend our independence in this matter without yeilding to the pressures of the so called developed countries and bigger financial powers to enforce software patents in our country too. 2. What policies / guidelines should be evolved to create a strong HRD in FOSS in India? Digital Encoding: A very important issue is to drive industry and all govt and other public bodies to encode all their documents in open standards (non-proprietary). E.g., exchanging and storing documents in MS Word should not be allowed, since these documents being binary not only propogate viruses with them making them vulnerable, but since the encoding method is not a standard and the companies change them in every next version merely (without any technical reason) to keep their users locked and continue to use their upgraded software. If we encourage such usage, then govt. is actually supporting a monopoly practice to flourish within the country. Alternatively, the document encodings be done in text, html, xml, pdf, rtf, in that order of preference. A similar policy for encoding spreadsheets, databases, audio, video etc. All digital encodings of public documents as a policy cannot be done in propreitary standards. FSF India wishes that we work towards enforcing this by bringing in other stakeholders and confederations like NASSCOM, FICCI, CII, MAIT etc should be alerted to take up this issue in the national interest. This will encourage good business ethos within the industry. We wish that Govt. take this initiative and lead. FSF India will provide any help to Govt. in this regard in arriving at a policy document. Curriculum: Second major issue for human resource development within the country is to plan in a major way to restructure the technical curriculum of schools and colleges within the country. What is happening now is no less than a crime: e.g., existence of brand names within the curriculum/syllabi at all levels (schools, colleges and universities). This is a direct endorsement of a particular company and a specific application. This is a serious issue and should be considered very urgent. We need to alert and bring together the policy makers of technical education immediately and ask them to remove all mentions of brand names in the syllabi. For example, eliminate Oracle and replace it by RDBMS, eliminate Exell and replace it by spreadsheet etc. This kind of secular syllabi will provide enough freedom also to the instructors to use what is available. When we went to schools and organizations to promote free software we were astonished to find such glaring omissions. We request that Govt. must look in to this matter. Keeping in mind that schools and colleges are the places where the trained technical persons are getting generated, it is here that we need to concentrate to create a secular technical curriculum. Please keep in mind that a large number or private IT training colleges are directly funded by major software companies to provide education only in a specific technology. If technical training is entirely left to private interests bigger companies will dictate what is good for the country and not the Govt. We should also monitor this area also, since many people opt for getting trained in such institutes. Swatantra Software Consortium: By inviting all the stake holders and confederations a consortium (similar to the W3C) should be formed to make informed decisions on technical and policy issues related to software and technical matters. Standards to be followed by Websites: Access to content available on the Internet depends on the delivery method followed by the content publishers. Most content publishers unknowingly support some specific encodings again proprietary, which will enforce the users to use a particular technology, again promoting certain business interests. A much bigger and broader issue is to drive towards a policy where no technology is allowed to be distributed (marketed) in a proprietary mode of delivery. Just as we seek our automobiles come with nuts and bolts we should demand that every software that is marketed must carry the source code along with the right to modify and distribute the software. This is going to encourage a lot of innovation, as is already evident within the FOSS world, within the country. This is the best way to achieve the self-reliance enshrined in our Constitution, and is the main focus of the 2020 vision of our Honarable President Kalam. Let people participate in shaping the technology of our society. Law mandating use of Free and Open Software and Standards in public affairs is necessary to enable wider and stronger use and adoption of FOSS. Just as the GNU Manifesto, and the GPL together laid a firm foundation for growth of free software, a clear statement of objects and reasons for using FOSS for Computerisation, with enunciation of it as legislation alone will enable use, adoption and evolution of workable solutions. A 'Computerisation [FOSS] Act' may help establishing public networks to handle routine transactions, using FOSS, with transparency at every level, for productivity and growth. Without this, there would be wastage of resources resulting in poor implementations not usable or workable. It is also necessary to have laws that compel hardware and software manufacturers to disclose technical specifications and details about their products to buyers, to enable interoperability and portability. For example, new AGP cards like NVIDIA are getting far more complex than the CPU, and it may become increasingly difficult to reverse engineer such complex hardware to make such devices accessible to free software. Selective disclosures to non-free software entities alone promote monopolies, and therefore harmful. Manufacturers should disclose full information about their products, which will also enable independent checking, testing and verification of product integrity and security. All research projects funded by the state should be made free and open to the public. FSF India has already elaborated the necessity for this in its recent memorandum addressed to CSIR. Software Patents Policy to be arrived at as mentioned in response to the first point. Keep reverse engineering legal. This is required till all the technology is not free. India should reject US pressure to prohibit free software to play a DVD, etc. Any attempt by other bodies that try to create policies that would limit what can the FOSS community can do should be resisted. One way is to play an active role in WIPO to block any proposed treaties that would limit what people are allowed to do with FOSS. For instance, the proposed WIPO Broadcast Treaty would do this. 3. Any other suggestions on the subject `HRD for FOSS capable IT Professionals'. If the above mentioned basic issues are addressed most of the ground work for creating FOSS professionals get created. Contests, Events, Festivals and awareness camps may be organized to enthuse the community to develop Swatantra software solutions. FSF India will help organizations that come forward to organize such events. Special projects for developing Swatantra software may be given to qualified professionals to develop the required software. Nagarjuna G. Chairman Free Software Foundation of India. http://www.gnu.org.in -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFB4RgNpd4Kqg0tCGoRAkcGAKCQBDIWBJrVztPMi90kR3sQDrrUSwCeP/lA vhFbOmsLIsbBv84XpYCRA60= =uCi9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ,-----------------[http://www.symonds.net/~suraj/]---o | Papanasam Sivan is also known as the "Tamil Thyagaiah" `------------------------------[suraj(a)symonds.net]---o _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-request(a)ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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Richard Stallman talking about the intersection of free softwareand politics (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- [Audio file available for broadcast] From: lotus <lotus(a)riseup.net> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:13:17 -0800 Archived-At: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/imc-audio/2005-0108-di Subject: [IMC-Audio] Audio of Interview with Richard Stallman IMC Radio Network Original article is at http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/3249.php radioActive sanDiego - Interview with Richard Stallman by lotus at radioActiveradio dot org Saturday, Jan. 08, 2005 at 3:06 AM This week on Resistance Remixed, DJ lotus interviews Richard Stallman. They will be talking about the intersection of free software and politics, the free software movement as a radical social movement, software patents, antifascism vs. anti-capitalism and the rise of nformation control technologies and policies. audio: ogg vorbis at 30.5 mebibytes http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/lotus-stallman-2004-1-6.ogg This show took place on Thursday, January 6th, 7pm, PST and is one hour long. This week on Resistance Remixed, DJ lotus interviews Richard Stallman. They will be talking about the intersection of free software and politics, the free software movement as a radical social movement, software patents, antifascism vs. anti-capitalism and the rise of nformation control technologies and policies. For more information on Richard Stallman, see http://www.stallman.org/ For more information on free software, see http://www.gnu.org For a previous indymedia interview with Richard Stallman, see http://www.scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/266/index.php © 2000-2004 IMC Radio Network. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the IMC Radio Network. http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/3249.php Please feel free to rebroadcast! lotus at radioActiveradio d0t org

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[Fsf-friends] New GNU+Linux distro from Argentina, RMS promotes it as 100% Free
by Praveen A 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Check this ! https://e.ututo.org.ar/indexee.html The ISOs are in gnu repository Praveen -- 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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[Fsf-friends] Richard Stallman talking about the intersection of free software and politics
by Anivar Aravind 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

[Audio file available for broadcast] From: lotus <lotus(a)riseup.net> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:13:17 -0800 Archived-At: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/imc-audio/2005-0108-di Subject: [IMC-Audio] Audio of Interview with Richard Stallman IMC Radio Network Original article is at http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/3249.php radioActive sanDiego - Interview with Richard Stallman by lotus at radioActiveradio dot org Saturday, Jan. 08, 2005 at 3:06 AM This week on Resistance Remixed, DJ lotus interviews Richard Stallman. They will be talking about the intersection of free software and politics, the free software movement as a radical social movement, software patents, antifascism vs. anti-capitalism and the rise of nformation control technologies and policies. audio: ogg vorbis at 30.5 mebibytes http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/lotus-stallman-2004-1-6.ogg This show took place on Thursday, January 6th, 7pm, PST and is one hour long. This week on Resistance Remixed, DJ lotus interviews Richard Stallman. They will be talking about the intersection of free software and politics, the free software movement as a radical social movement, software patents, antifascism vs. anti-capitalism and the rise of nformation control technologies and policies. For more information on Richard Stallman, see http://www.stallman.org/ For more information on free software, see http://www.gnu.org For a previous indymedia interview with Richard Stallman, see http://www.scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/266/index.php © 2000-2004 IMC Radio Network. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the IMC Radio Network. http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/3249.php Please feel free to rebroadcast! lotus at radioActiveradio d0t org

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Fund Raiser
by Sriharsha 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hello Mr.Arun, in continuation to the discussion at fsf-india mail list, I want to know if you currently have stock of any items that can be sold. If so, I would like to have the details (Description and Price). Thanks, Sriharsha. ps: I sent this to your personal mail, but did not get any response, so I am posting it here, so that anyone with appropriate knowledge can mail me back -- ***************************** * Sriharsha Vedurmudi * Software Engineer * * Redpine Signals Inc. * Gate #395, Plot 87,88 * Sagar Society, Road #2, * Banjara Hills, * Hyderabad - 500 034 * www.redpinesignals.com * * +91-40-23559911 (Office) * +91-98851-37338 (Mobile) *****************************

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[Fsf-friends] FREE multimedia software * dyne:bolic 1.4 codename LUMUMBA
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Jaromil will be visiting Bangalore in end-January 2005 for the Asia Source camp see http://www.tacticaltech.org -- FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 re all, i forward you the release announcement for the new version of dynebolic, the GNU/Linux multimedia oriented distribution i'm doing. I'll be carrying with me some copies and will be available to have workshops employing it for audio/video manipulation, network radio streaming veejaying and anything else we can come up with together ;) annunciazio'! annunciazio'! pepperepe'! pepperepe'! dyne.org productions proudly present: 8 8 8 o 8 8 8 .oPYo8 o o odYo. .oPYo. 88 8oPYo. .oPYo. 8 o8 .oPYo. 8 8 8 8 8' `8 8oooo8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ' 8 8 8 8 8 8 8. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 . `YooP' `YooP8 8 8 `Yooo' 88 `YooP' `YooP' 8 8 `YooP' :.....::....8 ..::..:.....:..::.....::.....:..:..:.....: :::::::::ooP'.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::...:::::: version 1.4 :: codename LUMUMBA ::::: 100% FREE MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM RASTA SOFTWARE FOR THE FREEDOM OF CREATION the complete system is free to download and copy, go on ____ _ http://dynebolic.org _ _____ ___ __ http://dynebolic.org __ ____ __ ___ http://dynebolic.org ___ ___ _ ____ http://dynebolic.org ____ __ and redempt yourself from closed source software ISO CD image of 610Mbytes :: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ? Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever! Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a VAST range of free software applications for multimedia production, audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer filesharing, web browsing, desktop publishing, word processing, cd burning, email, encryption, remote conferencing, funky games, a world atlas navigator and even more. Advanced features include: a complete environment with the most advanced multimedia applications available on GNU/Linux, automatic clustering joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, capability to work well on old PC (Pentium1 64Mb) and even XBOX game consoles, support to save and encrypt personal data and settings on a usb key. Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to promote free speech as a tool for the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge. for more information see: http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=features with screenshots http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=press past reviews http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=docs the manual and wiki :: WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? This release provides a major upgrade to software included and adds new useful applications, plus fixes some important outstanding bugs. Since the enormous success of the previous release, the suggestions of a growing number of users and the dedication of currently active developers Jaromil and Smilzo lead to this very stable release. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade! here the complete ChangeLog: = 1.4 major update "LUMUMBA" - Pure Data equipped with all major extensions: PDP, PiDiP, RRadical, grid, pique, bonk, choice, fiddle, freeverb, zexy, GEM-0.90, OSC and more (10x to Aymeric, Derek, Frank, Yves, Tom and PD!) - Blender-2.33a + Yafray-0.0.7 + Python game engine - LiVES 0.9.1 with Ogg/Theora and _many_ other codecs! - FreeJ-0.7.1 "BIKO" - RASTASOFTWARE! console remote controller (VJ over Ethernet) and Procedural Video Scripting: evolution from NLE systems - updated Linux 2.4.26, Alsa, OpenMosix and SquashFS-2.1 with improved efficience and wider device support including Zoran devices and most video boards - Xbox support up to recent versions and cromwell bios - Python is included with GUI extensions - Fix to modem connection, now fully functional - new software: Jamin-0.8, InkScape-0.39, poedit-1.2.5, KPhone-4.0.2, TimeMachine-0.2.4, tftp-hpa-0.38, Bomb-1.26, Pure-Ftpd-1.0.20, mlDonkey-2.5.22, Circle-0.41c, Aqualung-0.9b2, FLAC-1.1, iftop-0.17p1, Emacs-21.3, Seq24-0.5.2, Thunderbird-1.0, Chestnut-dialer-0.1, libtheora-1.0a4 - Mobilemesh wireless adaptive routing daemon see /usr/mobilemesh (10x to Elektra) - updated software: FreeJ-0.7.1, MuSE-0.9.1, ImageMagick-6, LADSPA, Jack-0.98.1, Blender-2.33a, Cinelerra-1.2.1, Gaim-1.0, GQview-1.4.3, isolinux 2.10, GEM-0.90, pd-0.37-4, Audacity-1.2.2, LiVES-0.9.1, BlueFish-0.13, EffecTV-0.3.9, MPlayer-1.0pre5, QJackCtl-0.2.10, Hydrogen-0.9, SDL-1.2.7, png-1.2.7, Xfe-0.72, libFOX-1.2.9, Firefox-1.0, Rezound-0.11.1beta, ogg-1.1.1, vorbis-1.0.1, Hydrogen-0.9.1, mjpegtools-1.6.2 - new games: Eboard, Racer and Eat The Whistle! tk-solitaire and Starfighter-1.1.1 plus the juicy updates for Wesnoth-0.8.6 - more documentation in the dynebolic user's manual - lectrobrain :: thk03 In case you have a DOCK (/dyne directory copied in your harddisk) you should upgrade it by using the one in this release - or when you boot the CD just answer YES when you'll be prompted to upgrade. : THIS IS RASTA SOFTWARE ! This software is about Resistance ina babylon world which tries to control and limit the way we communicate and we share informations and knowledge. This software is for all those who don't want to afford the latest expensive hardware to speak out their words of consciousness and good will, still offering a complete operating system with more features than some other proprietary system affected by viruses and full of spyware. This software is free, Jah Rastafari Livity bless your freedom! You should share this software for the good of yourself and your people, respect others and let them express, be free and let others be free. You are welcome to redistribute dyne:bolic in any way you like, to your friends and neighbours, to anybody who needs or is just curious to try, as you wish. The roots of Rasta culture can be found in Resistance to slavery. This software is not a business. This software is free as of speech and is one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom. This software is dedicated to the memory of Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Marthin Luther King, Steve Biko, Walter Rodney, Malcom X, Mumia Abu Jamal and all those who still resist to slavery, racism and oppression, who still fight imperialism and seek an alternative to the egemony of capitalism in our World. :: CONTRIBUTE TO DYNE:BOLIC ! IF dyne:bolic can be useful for you, you can also be useful to dyne:bolic! consider the possibility to get involved with development, contribute artwork and ideas, help with debugging and documenting and anything else can come to you in mind. ->>>> BUG REPORT ONLINE INTERFACE: http://bugs.dyne.org ->>>> JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST: mailto:dynebolic-subscribe@dyne.org ->>>> CONTRIBUTE DOCUMENTATION: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic (wiki) Furthermore, please consider that the dyne:bolic project is an indypendent effort relying on support from non-profit, grant-making and business organizations willing to sustain development of free and opensource software like this. Dyne:bolic relies on support from individuals like you to preserve, protect and promote the freedom it gives to its users. This new release opens a donation round which is much needed at the moment so please show your appreciation with a small act of generosity! thanks! :: GET SUPPORT AND CUSTOMIZED VERSIONS The dyne:bolic team is also offering commercial support: we can provide workshops, consulting services, customisations, setup and warranty for fitness to a particular purpose. If you need commercial support on dyne:bolic this is the way you can be 100% sure it will work for you. In fact, this is the sustainable model we are building around dyne:bolic to support our development and further research: we are following the best knowledge here principle and offer customisation and special support packages. For more informations see http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=cust and our workshop offer http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=workshop :: DEVELOPERS TEAM Denis "Jaromil" Rojo - mantainer of dyne:bolic, HasciiCam MuSE and FreeJ Alex "Smilzo" Gnoli - mantainer of the Xbox dynebolic kernel Silvano "Kysucix" Galliani - developer of FreeJ Antonino "Nightolo" Radici, Luca "Rubik" Profico and Angelo "Pallotron" Failla - developers of MuSE Federico "Bomboclat" Prando and Francesco "C1cc10" Rana for the bolic1 :: THANKS, WAVES AND CHEERS Thanks to the many people developing day by day the whole GNU/Linux system, they are thousands all around the world and it is impossible to include all of them here. ONE LOVE! Special Thanks to the OpenMosix project, Tom and the Blender crew, Salsaman for his valuable developments on LiVES, Dmp for the suggestions about Xbox, the amazing PD crews, Phillip Lougher for his great results in SquashFS 2, Albi for his suggestions and friendship, the linux-audio-dev programmers, the Twibright labs for Links2, the Xiph.org foundation, the squatters in A'dam and all others mentioned thru past present and future documentation of dyne:bolic! Great respsct to all dyne.org hackers, the FreakNet medialab and the autistici/inventati collective, ECN.org and italy.indymedia, the ASCII, the #mdp slum and the irc.freenode.net #dyne IRC channel, Metro Olografix, the Hackmeeting community, radio Ondarossa, New Global Vision and the great dynebolic mailinglist community. Thanks and greetings also to the individuals helping developers with their genuine solidarity, ospitality and humanity: Andrea Mayr, Armin Medosh, Jo van der Spek, Reni & Jogi, Matteo "blended" Scassa, Robert De Geuss, Gaby Wijers and many others understanting how much this is important to have keep such a project going. Thanks, A thousand flowers will blossom! :: DISCLAIMER This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Several redistributed binaries are copyrighted by the respective authors, it is documented in the accompanying manual of the distribution. dyne.org is available to provide the source of the included binaries upon request, all the included software can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license and, in some cases, the X/BSD license. For more informations refer to the web pages on http://dynebolic.org - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Cryptographically signed mail, see http://gnupg.org iD8DBQFB3jDDWLCC1ltubZcRAs+YAJwO+U601hpG79W2X21T84ZZgOviBwCglckQ b3W5dOqdgZmkJhyteCixS9c= =SuyN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Firefox Tips
by Praveen A 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi friends, Here are some tips and hacks to make your browsing more enjoyable experience. 1. How to use Firefox as a news reader or how to add a live bookmark If you see an orange button on bottom right corner of the page [For example in my blog go to http://www.livejournal.com/users/pravi] Click on it and you will get a menu to choose. [In this case choose RSS. Other cases you may get a list of feeds to choose] then the dialogue box will come to chose the folder to save. Select the position you want. Now from the bookmarks menu when you go to the link it will open as if a folder and the links are loaded live ! Even though most sites are configured properly you may come across sites which offer RSS feeds but now orange button on the bottom right corner. Go to manage bookmarks from bookmarks menu and choose add live bookmark and change the properties. The link can be obtained by right clicking on the feed link and selecting copy link address and pasting it to the bookmarks dialogue. [Note: In GNU/Linux you never need to ctrl+c and ctrl+v ! but select and paste using center click (the scrolling button or press both right and left button at the same time] To be continued ....... References 1.http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/ -- 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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Fund raiser
by Sriharsha 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hello Friends, I was browsing our site (fsf.org.in) and saw the "how you can help us" section. I have a little suggession, but am not sure if it is feasible at all. Anyway, here it is: 1. Is it not feasible to allocate some web space to users for hosting their home pages. There are two advantages of this: a) The domain extention will be something like.... "user.fsf.org.in" or "fsf.org.in/user" Whenever someone is visiting such a page, (s)he is automatically aware of fsf. (Also a little banner on the homepage will do no harm. b) This hosting can be done for a fee (the cost of actual maintenance + a significant amount for contribution towards fsf-i) I am ignorant about the procedures for such a thing, but Im sure it can be worked out. 2. Why dont fsf-i sell all those that fsf sells in USA (T-shirts emphasising free software, CD-ROMs etc.)? Cheers, Sriharsha. -- ***************************** * Sriharsha Vedurmudi * Software Engineer * * Redpine Signals Inc. * Gate #395, Plot 87,88 * Sagar Society, Road #2, * Banjara Hills, * Hyderabad - 500 034 * www.redpinesignals.com * * +91-40-23559911 (Office) * +91-98851-37338 (Mobile) *****************************

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RMS travel plan
by Arun M 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Here is the tentative plan for RMS's trip to India during Feb. 31st Jan -3 in Delhi. 3rd evening to Calcutta. 4th Calcutta 5th in IIT Kharagpur. 6-9th In Vellor and Thanjavoor. 9-10 Hydrabad 11th leaving for Ahmedabad. 11-13th in Ahmedabad. 12th meeting in Darapana Academy of Performing Art. 13th Meeting in IIM Ahmedabad 14-16 Delhi

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