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GoI assurance on GNU/Linux "fully implemented"?
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

http://164.100.24.167:8080/members/website/assu.asp?qref=198270 Government Assurance Details As On: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 SESSION/ASSURANCE NUMBER: 198/270 DATE: 13-03-2003 MINISTRY : COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MEMBER : FALEIRO EDUARDO MARTINHO SOURCE: QUESTION CLICK TO SEE QUESTIONS QUESTION NO: 2331 QUESTION TYPE: UNSTARRED SUBJECT : Free/open source software EXTENT OF ASSURANCE: Based on the deliberations had during the meeting held at New Delhi during December, 2002 on understanding the potential of free/open sources software in making IT affordable to the citizens ,Linux India Initiative has been identified as an effort to be included in 2003-04 plan of Department of Information Technology and has been included. Other follow up actions are being taken. STATUS: FULLY IMPLEMENTED EXTENSION NO: 2 EXTENDED UPTO: 30-11-2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org

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[Fsf-friends] NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Fwd:NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free SoftwareUsers group
by Praveen A 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

hello, can any one help NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group to conduct a workshop or awareness program on Free Software philosophy and GNU/linux? -----Forwarded Message----- From: Dileep M. Kumar <dileep(a)symonds.net> To: FSUG-Kochi-Discuss(a)symonds.net Subject: [fsug-kochi-discuss] [Fwd: NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group] Date: 27 Nov 2004 19:25:30 +0530 Any takers ? Regards -- Dileep -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NSS COLLEGE OF ENGG Free Software Users group Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:30:03 +0000 (GMT) From: santhosh thottingal <santhoshthottingal(a)yahoo.co.in> To: dileep(a)kumarayil.net Sir, We have a Free Software users group in our NSS College of Engineering,Plakkad, named as FOX-Free software and Open systems eXtended. We understood that most of the students not aware of the Free software movement and GNU or they are misunderstanding the meaning and the mission. In this scenario we would like to conduct an awareness programme in the form of a seminar or workshop. We think that you are used to conduct these type of programmes and you can help us. If you are interested please reply us in email. Santhosh T R, Coordinator-Fox club, Dept of Computer Science and Engg. NSS college of Engineering, Palakkad-678595. Email: santhoshthottingal(a)yahoo.co.in desert_orion(a)yahoo.com -- ~vimal -- --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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Indian Linux users cant see constitution in Hindi
by Sandip Bhattacharya 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

[Apologies for cross posting. Please take care while replying] Did you know that you can only see the official online version of the constitution of India in our national language - Hindi, if you use Internet Explorer? That is right. Take a look at the following link. http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/welcome.html I have been hunting down other GoI offenders and listing them at http://www.lug-delhi.org/HallOfShame/Websites Now dont go ahead and moan about difficulties of showing Indian languages on the web.The PTI hindi website (http://www.ptinews.com/bhasha/ptisite.nsf) shows that a standard based alternative already exists. We need more help from every body concerned to list the GoI and private financial institution offenders who discriminate against users of alternative and Free Operating systems from accessing information from our very own government! After all what is the point of evangelising Linux/BSD or whatever as an alternative to newbies if they see that every other web site in India openly discriminate against them? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * sandip(a)puroga.com Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home: http://www.sandipb.net PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 printk("NULL POINTER IDIOT\n"); linux-2.6.6/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_filter.c

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FSF and GNU, and other talks on Free Software
by Ramanraj K 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Recently, the ILUGC organised a demo day for IEEE [pronounced as I-triple-E] at the Central Lecture Theatre, IIT Madras. Brief minutes about the meet is available at: http://www.chennailug.org/meeting/minutes/yr2004/ilugc-112004.html My talk was on on "FSF and GNU", and the slides I used for the talk is available at: http://personal.vsnl.com/ramanraj/FSF_and_GNU.tar.gz [99K] The purpose of the talk was to briefly introduce FSF and GNU to an audience totally new to free software. I should thank Bharathi for organising the event, giving the opportunity and for choosing a nice topic to talk about :) Though I used OO Impress for the talk, I have converted the file for use with MagicPoint, a X11 based presentation tool. The presentation file (FSF_and_GNU.mgp) is just a text file which may be easily modified or improved. MagicPoint allows presentation files to be created quickly with a text editor, building with tag directives for embedding graphics, grabbing command outputs into foils for live displays during presentations etc. After installing MagicPoint, to start the presentation give the command: # mgp <file_name> Official home page of MagicPoint is at: http://www.Mew.org/mgp/ Shakthi Kannan, gave a presentation on "GNU/Linux Software Applications for Engineers and Tech Support" and is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/cyborg4k/ieee1104.tar.gz [1MB] released under the Creative Commons-Attribution/Non-commercial/ Shared-Alike Version 2.0 License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Sivasankar Chander also introduced Gnu/Linux to the audience, but I do not have the link to his slides. In all, about 30 IEEE members, 70 IIT-M Students, and few others attended the demo day workshop. __

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to anand babu. guile project
by ISAAC PRAVEEN 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Anand, Guile is pretty ineresting for sure. Are there anyoone working on it from India? isaac praveen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Babu" <ab(a)gnu.org.in> To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] any lisp programmers? Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:24:19 -0800 > > > http://www.gnu.org.in/mailinglists.html > Fsf-prog (FSF India Programmers List) is more appropriate list to > discuss this topic. > > ,----[ "ISAAC PRAVEEN" <satriani(a)linuxmail.org> ] > | Would like to know if there are any Lisp programmers, not essentially > | AI programming. I work on common Lisp and Scheme (the future exn > | language for GNU)! > `---- > Yes, I use GNU Guile for Scheme programming. I found Scheme much more > powerful and easer than Python. Some of my own projects (like GNU > FreeIPMI, Freehoo) uses Scheme. My desktop environment (GNU Emacs, > Gnus, Sawfish...) is mostly Lisp extensible. > > > ,----[ "ISAAC PRAVEEN" <satriani(a)linuxmail.org> ] > | Currently, writing an extension language called ACE-lisp for > | algebraic(symbolic) computing. Not a replica of maxima though! Just > | for fun. > `---- > I would very much recommend you to contribute it to GNU Guile project. > > -- > Anand Babu > Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends > Ph: 9886120247 Computing and Cognitive Neuroscience div. THE GAMMA MATRIX PROJECT Turing Lab Bangalore, India -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Learning to *use* free software
by Ramanraj K 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

>Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote: >--- Sriharsha Vedurmudi ><sriharsha.v(a)redpinesignals.com> wrote: >Is this "Project Shiksha" (Shiksha -> Teachin) or >'Project Siksha' (Siksha -> Punishment)? >http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/nov/25ms.htm >So, M$ is now kicking off with a colourful Trojan >Horse..... Generally, we cannot go by such unofficial reports which may be false or incorrect based on rumours. We would need to go by information from more authoritative sources. If the MOU is true, it is a very serious issue calling for swift action. Regardless of whether the MOU is true or false, we need to apprise the concerned officials with a few facts. It has taken a great deal of effort, enthusiasm and energy, of FSF, RMS, Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox and thousands of other developers, to create a totally free operating system, that is robust, secure and open. After more than two decades of hard work, we just have to take what is being served on a plate and eat it. The advocacy these days is more on merely *using* free software, that is much, much easier than *developing* free software. A government that cares for the welfare of its people would never ignore free software. Probably a memorandum could be addressed to the Govt of WB to take note of the free software movement, pointing to very fine examples from around the world, particularly Brazil, the whole of Africa, and Europe. The following report is particularly interesting: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Africa-Becoming-Vast-Frontier-for-Free-an… I am sure mere representations to the Govt. of WB should bring in desired changes, and PIL or other action would only come last of all, if necessary at all. Regards, Ramanraj.

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by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Wikipedia now feature Firefox in its main page ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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[Fsf-friends] Linux and windows face to face : Linux overtakes Mac on desktops
by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

There is a good discussion going on in spymac.com discussion forum in a thread started by me. It would be nice if you just go through it. Many arguments for an aginst free software and linux adoption is there. Also if you want to get an audience who don't know what linux is and who want to know what it is. It is ideal place to discuss. One important difference there is that majority on the forum use Mac OS X, very difficult to convert than Windows. they say it is secure ( It is Unix -- a BSD variant). They say it is powerful and userfriendly. It is worth signing up and join the discussions. All Free software evangelists come out and join me in this effort. http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=107392 Praveen A -- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Firefox on Wikipedia main page as Featured article
by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

See the Wikipedia Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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STORY:- Security Report: Windows vs Linux
by Praveen A 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Biting the hand that feeds IT This is a story published on The Register, the UK's leading IT news web site. You can find the original at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/ I saw this on The Register and thought of you. Enjoy! Security Report: Windows vs Linux An independent assessment By Nicholas Petreley Friday 22nd October 2004 07:26 GMT * Executive Summary * Busting The Myths + Myth: There's Safety In Small Numbers + Myth: Open Source is Inherently Dangerous + Myths: Conclusions Based on Single Metrics * Windows vs. Linux Design + Windows Design o Windows has only recently evolved from a single-user design to a multi-user model o Windows is Monolithic by Design, not Modular o Windows Depends Too Heavily on the RPC model o Windows focuses on its familiar graphical desktop interface + Linux Design o Linux is based on a long history of well fleshed-out multi-user design o Linux is Modular by Design, not Monolithic o Linux is Not Constrained by an RPC Model o Linux servers are ideal for headless non-local administration * Realistic Security and Severity Metrics + Elements of an Overall Severity Metric o Overall Severity Metric and Interaction Between the Three Key Metrics o The Exception To The Rule o Applying The Overall Severity Metric + Means Of Evaluating Metrics o Exposure Potential o Exploitation Potential o Damage Potential o Overall Severity Risk + Additional Considerations o Application Imbalance o Setup and Administration * A Comparison of 40 Recent Security Patches + Patches and Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Windows Server 2003 + Patches and Vulnerabilities Affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3 * CERT Vulnerability Notes Database Results * References * Footnotes Executive Summary Much ado has been made about whether or not Linux is truly more secure than Windows. We compared Windows vs. Linux by examining the following metrics in the 40 most recent patches/vulnerabilities listed for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.3: ... Keep yourself fully informed by signing up to receive The Register's daily or weekly newsletters http://go.theregister.com/k/newslettermf To read the rest of this story, find the original at http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/. --- A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org http://www.edathanattukara.com Visit me at http://www.pravi.tk

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