FSUG-Bangalore October 2008

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translation of selected essays of RMS to Kannada - celebrating 25th anniversary of GNU project -27th sept 2008
by renuka prasad 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi all As part of GNU's 25th anniversary celebration , we are organizing few events 1. Translating Selected Essay of RMS in kannada Language. 2. GNU / Linux Installation Fest. 3. A small party ( cutting cake + other snacks ) I welcome all for this celebration -- interested ones can confirm here itself. For Event 1 . A team of 30 students and 11 faculties are formed and already few professional translators have agreed to review it and many more are joining is there any one who is interested to contribute in any form for any of the events above can reply to this mail as soon as possible ಕನ್ನಡ ಕುಲಬಂಧುಗಳೆ ಬನ್ನಿ ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸೋಣ, ಬೆಳೆಸೋಣ, ಹಾಗು ಇಂದಿನ ಮುಕ್ತ ಸಮಾಜದ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಶ್ರಮಿಸೋಣ, ಮುಕ್ತ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಬಂಧುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅರಿವು ಮೂಡಿಸೋಣ, ನಿಮಗೆ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮೊಂದಿಗೊಡಗೂಡಿ ರಿಚರ್ಡ್ ಸ್ಟಾಲ್ಮನ್ ರವರ ಪುಸ್ತಕ "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman " ದ ಅನುವಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿಸೋಣ.

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FSUG Bangalore wiki
by Anivar Aravind 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Dear Friends, As decided on the last GNU's Grazing, I migrated the Wiki of FSUG Bangalore to new media wiki and added a lot of extra stuff. Categorisation is still pending. Please take a look at http://bangalore.gnu.org.in and make your changes Web4all.in server by Kerala ITmission and SPACE provided the webspace (gnu.org.in also hosted on same server Anivar -- Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs. Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.

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LINUX II (Linux Kernel having Microkernel Architecture)
by Anoop Krishnan G 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Greetings to all freedom lovers !!! 10000 years ago man was not like this as he is now , a revolution had taken around him and in him , he had evolved these years ........... Now its time for another revolution inside LINUX ..... lets call it LINUX-II ..... The monolithic architecture had become age old now its need a change , we can start this change before the COPYRIGHT people starts this revolution , the COPYRIGHT people had already set for it .... so lets begin this revolution ...... "A LINUX WITH MICROKERNEL ARCHITECTURE" ............. lets celebrate freedom in a new domain of LINUX ...... Freedom lovers who is interested in this idea kindly contribute the vision ideas etc in my blog : http://anoopkrishnang.blogspot.com or feel free to contact me at anoopkrishnang(a)yahoo.in Greetings.............. Anoop Krishnan G Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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[Jobs][Commercial] Software Engineer positions at Red Hat, Pune (fwd)
by Anivar Aravind 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:47 PM Note: There are multiple positions for the description below. Red Hat is looking for an experienced engineer with a strong technical background to work on software engineering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The position requires working on system internals including creating tooling related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux system internals. Proficiency in creating and using APIs. Understanding of system ABI and standards are required as part of the role. Capable of working with upstream Open Source projects and building community around tools created. The current position of Software Engineer is expected to possess the following skills: * Demonstrated expertise in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering * Familiarity with init systems * Must be familiar with the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment * General awareness of RPM internals * General awareness of SystemTap or related tools * Familiarity with POSIX guidelines * Understanding of configuration management principles * Exposure to Free and Open Source Software Development Process * The candidate is required to have 1+ year of relevant work experience CV to be sent to careers-in at redhat dot com with 'Software Engineer' in the subject line. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -- Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs. Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.

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GNU/Linux may not be as bad as other, so called best OSs in terms of User Interface and Usability
by Madhusudan C.S 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hi all, I had read this mail a couple of months ago. Back then I just thought that it was a prank or a fake one. Recently I have been seeing this post surfacing on many trusted sites and Bill Gates' comment on the post makes me feel that it is authentic. http://gizmodo.com/5019516/classic-clips-bill-gates-chews-out-microsoft-ove… This post is dedicated to all those who still think Windows is the most User Friendly Operating System or Desktop to use. I think we can use this mail to convince those who still think GNU/Linux isn't user friendly. Along with this I think we should really do a demo of KDE 4.1, its coolness, Compiz Fusion and also GNOME's ease of use and other stuff like Synaptic which are so intuitive and really user friendly. We have been doing most of the latter part till now. But combined with such a strong response mail to Windows team by a person whom we hadn't imagined would do that, I think the campaign to make people realize the power of Free Software systems . Also I am sorry if any of you have mistaken, this neither has anything do against Micro$oft nor a campaign against Micro$oft. This is just one another point to convince those who are still in a dilemma to switch to GNU/Linux just because they think that Windows is more User friendly than GNU/Linux. No offences meant. -- Thanks and regards, Madhusudan.C.S Blogs at: www.madhusudancs.info Official Email ID: madhusudan(a)madhusudancs.info

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Configuring apcupsd
by shirish 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hi all, I bought an APC UPS about a month back. It took me sometime to understand how it works and since now I know a bit I decided to share the same . Have a look at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/configuring-apcupsd/ if you are thinking of having or buying a UPS. I'm not associated with APC in any way other than just being a customer . -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Indian political party turns to FOSS
by sujith h 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:10 PM Subject: [Fsf-friends] Indian political party turns to FOSS To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is India's largest political party, with around 20 million Ordinary Members and about 4 million Active Members. In June, BJP announced its goal to become one of the most high-tech political parties in the next two years, and free and open source software (FOSS) will play an essential role in this project. http://www.linux.com/feature/150549 _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends -- സുജിത് ഹരിദാസന് Bangalore http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Fwd: [smc-discuss] Fwd: Call for translations (Debian 5.0 "lenny" release notes)
by Anivar Aravind 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com> Date: 2008/10/23 Subject: [smc-discuss] Fwd: Call for translations (Debian 5.0 "lenny" release notes) To: smc-discuss(a)googlegroups.com ഡെബിയന്‍ ലെന്നി പ്രസാധനക്കുറിപ്പുകള്‍ മലയാളത്തില്‍ വേണമെന്നുള്ളവര്‍ കൈപൊക്കുക :) -സന്തോഷ് തോട്ടിങ്ങല്‍ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: W. Martin Borgert <debacle(a)debian.org> Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:26 PM Subject: Call for translations (Debian 5.0 "lenny" release notes) To: debian-i18n(a)lists.debian.org, debian-doc(a)lists.debian.org, debian-release(a)lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce(a)lists.debian.org Hi, sooner or later we will release Debian 5.0. When time comes. The release notes are far from being ready, but we need to start translations now. If you like to help: 1. Please reply to this e-mail (debian-doc list) stating your interest. I will coordinate translations to prevent double work. In the past we had translations for ca, cs, da, de, en, es, fi, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sv, vi, zh_CN, and zh_TW. My personal goal is to have the nine most widely spoken languages (zh_CN, en, hi, es, ar, ru, pt/pt_BR, fr, de) in. Of course, all translations are most welcome! The release notes are now distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. So will the translations. 2. Inform me, if you prefer full-text translation over po-file method. Default is po. Currently, only pt_BR uses full-text style. Inform me, if you intend to use any other encoding than UTF-8 and good reason why. Currently, all translation use UTF-8. 3. If you like to start, check out the release notes: $ svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/branches/release-notes/lenny You need to apt-get install subversion to do so. 4. Start the translation using your favourite editor. For po, you can use po-mode in Emacs or poedit or just vi. For full-text translation, you might try nxml-mode in Emacs or any other text editor, such as vi or gedit or whatever. Use the existing translation of the Debian 4.0 ("etch") release notes as a guide. We cannot easily re-use the translation, because the format changed from debiandoc SGML to DocBook XML and because it is the nature of release notes, that they change fundamentally from one release to the next anyway. But at least some parts did not change. Find the Debian 4.0 release notes here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes 5. Check your translation by running "make validate LINGUA=XY" with XY being your language code. If validation fails, you messed up the DocBook XML markup and need to fix it. For this mandatory step you need to apt-get install docbook-xml, libxml2-utils, make, and po4a (and probably more, I forgot). 6. For checking the complete document you can also run "make txt LINGUA=XY architecture=ABC" (text version) "make html LINGUA=XY architecture=ABC" (HTML version) "make pdf LINGUA=XY architecture=ABC" (PDF version) Replace XY with your language code and ABC with a valid architecture (one of alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, or sparc). For this (optional) step, you need to apt-get install xsltproc, docbook-xsl, w3m, dblatex, and xmlroff (and probably more, I forgot). 7. If you have write permission to the subversion repository, just checkin your translation. I trust you. But, please, before checkin, run "make tidypo". This helps to normalise the po files and keep diffs sane. If you do not have write permission, either file a bug against the pseudo-package "release-notes" and attach your translation as patch or send it me via e-mail. Whatever you prefer. 8. The release notes will change a lot until release. Sometimes it will be frustrating, if you just translated a paragraph and the next day somebody changes or removes the paragraph and your effort becomes void. Sorry in advance! Unfortunately, this is inevitable. Run "svn update" at least once a day, this will minimise surprises. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 will be the best release Debian ever made. Maybe it will not feature the best release notes we ever had, but let us have at least the largest number of translations! Many thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-i18n-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് - എന്റെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിനു് എന്റെ ഭാഷ സംരംഭം: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc വെബ്‌സൈറ്റ് : http://smc.org.in IRC ചാനല്‍ : #smc-project @ freenode പിരിഞ്ഞു പോകാന്‍: smc-discuss-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs. Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.

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[Cross-Post] [Ilugc] FOSS Activities in KLES College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum
by Parthan SR 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Ilugc] new LUG in Bengaluru Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:04:06 +0530 From: Srinivasan Sundararajan <srini.it(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> To: ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> References: <200810171514.26235.lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> On 10/17/08, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> wrote: > > hi, > > for those luggies who are in Bengaluru: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru/ I am visiting KLES's College of Engg., & Technology, Belgaum next week to give a talk on FOSS and discuss about their FOSS activities. They are keen on FOSS training workshops (for students and staff), projects, etc. Would like to put them in touch with LUG / FOSS community members who could help them. Bangalore LUG group might be ideal. Cotacts from others are also welcome. [They might be closer to Kolhapur where Kenneth had initiated lots of activities. But, for administrative purposes, they fall under Karnataka universities. We could also use them to initiate introduction of FOSS in curriculum in these universities, reach out to more colleges, etc.] Would welcome contact info and other suggestions. thanks and best wishes Srinivasan, NRCFOSS. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-request(a)ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" <gpg> 2FF01026 <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in

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Meld: excellent code comparison tool
by Anivar Aravind 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

Comparing and merging files with Meld With Meld you can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically). You can compare two or three directories and launch file comparisons. And lastly, you can browse and view a working copy from a popular version control systems such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaar, or Mercurial. http://www.linux.com/feature/61372 Anivar Aravind -- Any responsible politician should be encouraging a home grown Free Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs. Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.

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