FSUG-Bangalore February 2009

fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in

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FOR FSUG-BANGALORE: The Tor Project is a Free Software project that helps defend against traffic analysis.
by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया] 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hi all: Just a note to say that some techies are passing through Bangalore in connection with http://www.informationactivism.org Please see if you'd like to link up with them, ask them if they have an extra day to spare and maybe even talk in the city. Just a thought. Some of those passing through are: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob(a)appelbaum.net> TOR project Patrice Reimens <patrice(a)xs4all.nl> Floss-opher Michel Mach CiviCRM/Social Source Foundation *michal(a)civicrm.org* Among others too.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] <fred(a)bytesforall.org> Date: 2009/2/2 Subject: The Tor Project is a Free Software project that helps defend against traffic analysis. To: GFD <goa-floss-developer(a)yahoogroups.com> CAMPERSpeak: Wikileaks is the absolute most important project on the globe -- JACOB APPELBAUM Submitted by fredericknoronha on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 10:57 *[image: Jacob Applebaum]* *Jacob Appelbaum says a hello from Calgary, Canada.* *FN: Activist, artist and hacker. Photographer, and writer of Free Software. How do you combine all these many roles?* I try to balance all of my roles to create a sense of meaning in life. I try to document things with my camera and I try to write software or work on projects that will create the change that I want to see in the world. *FN: Tell us why you chose to come?* I attended the summer source camp in Croatia many years ago. I found the camp to be a really wonderful event with wonderful people. Many of the friendships that I forged many years ago are still very strong. When I saw that this new camp was happening, I jumped at the opportunity to attend. *FN: Could you tell us briefly about the Tor project? Is it known here in South Asia? Will your participation at Bangalore help you link up with interested others?* The Tor Project is a Free Software project that helps defend against traffic analysis. It's a privacy tool that is utilized by everyone from human rights activists to normal people seeking control over their personal information. The best description is written here: https://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en I am hopeful that participation in Bangalore will lead to training more users on how to properly use Tor, to better understand the needs of our users and hopefully to help grow the Tor network. *FN: What's this concept of Open Source intelligence gathering? Are its results visible anywhere?* Open Source intelligence is a method for processing public and known information into something useful. Usually this is accomplished by aggregating many sets of freely available data into something that allows for an actionable result. It's possible to see results from this in fund raising from non-profits (finding the right donors), data mining and de-anonymized datasets (netflix, aol search queries) and even with direct governmental responses from fourth estate groups such as wikileaks. *FN: Give us an example of your work that you are proud of?* I am proud of helping to deploy the Tor Browser Bundle for users: http://torbrowser.torproject.org/ I'm also proud of helping develop other parts of Tor and Tor related utilities. I am also proud of my role in starting the Cold Boot project: http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ And with my role (announced two weeks ago) in helping to create the first rogue certificate authority: http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ *FN: What is the main goal of your campaign or work?* My general life goal is to create the very best secure, privacy conscious communications tools. I strive to attack systems to improve them; from the disk crypto we all know and use, to the real time crypto systems we rely on for our own security. *FN: How do you see your work empowering other campaigners?* I ensure that I only work on Free and Open Source software, I publish all of my results openly. I strive to keep myself free from any corporate interests beyond what is responsible. *FN: What's the biggest challenge you have with handling information?* Actually understanding it to the fullest extent of my abilities. With information houses like Wikileaks, I see things that are very difficult to understand without proper context and sometimes supporting data. *FN: Which are the areas of the globe which seem to use the tools of Info Activism most effectively? And why?* I think that I see Europe and South America has having a very active and relevant Indymedia scene. They seem to not only offer an alternative to the main stream corporate media, they seem to have an audience. I do think that at the moment, Wikileaks is the absolute most important project on the globe. They seem to be focusing on things that are unbelievable and yet they hold the proof for everyone to see. They don't filter it for content with the exception of protecting the source by removing metadata. *FN: Your previous affiliations are interesting. Which did you find most engaging? Why?* I found Greenpeace to be the most engaging. I'd never met so many diverse people in one group before working with Greenpeace International. The problems were top notch and the people involved were brave effective activists with big hearts. » - fredericknoronha's blog <http://www.informationactivism.org/blog/10> - Login<http://www.informationactivism.org/user/login?destination=comment/reply/36%…>or register<http://www.informationactivism.org/user/register?destination=comment/reply/…>to post comments -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 George Burns - "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."

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Fwd: [MyLUG #620] Re: Lenny release party
by Praveen A 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Shashishekhar S" <mankuthimma(a)gmail.com> Date: Feb 19, 2009 11:38 PM Subject: [MyLUG #620] Re: Lenny release party To: <mylug(a)googlegroups.com> A small correction, Original > > Venue : M/s. Informedia Technologies, Kalidasa Road, Mysore > Date : 23.02.2009 > ... Read as > > Venue : M/s. Informedia Technologies, Kalidasa Road, Mysore > Date : 22.02.2009 > Time : 10.30 a.m. > Contact : 0821-4288765 -- - Shashishekhar S PS: Thanks to Pavan PG/Varun V Naik for pointing it out --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to mylug(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylug+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mylug%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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Fwd: [MyLUG #619] Lenny release party
by Praveen A 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sridhar M.A. <mas(a)mylug.org> Date: 2009/2/19 Subject: [MyLUG #619] Lenny release party To: Mysore LUG <mylug(a)googlegroups.com> Hello All, I am sure that most of you are aware of the release of Debian GNU/Linux v.5.0, a.k.a. Lenny, on Feb 14, 2009. We now have downloaded all the five dvd images and plan to hold a release party this Sunday. The agenda of the meet can be 1. Install the system on a machine. Shashi has agreed to provide one for the purpose. Anyone else who wants to get lenny installed on their machine can bring one. 2. People can make copy the iso's and/or dvd's. Interested persons should bring the blanks. 3. Discuss things related to debian, etc. Please RSVP about your participation so that proper arrangements can be made to seat everyone. Venue : M/s. Informedia Technologies, Kalidasa Road, Mysore Date : 23.02.2009 Time : 10.30 a.m. Contact : 0821-4288765 Hope to see you all on Sunday. -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmdiagACgkQKmnV2PajWTXV9ACgyirbrt9hTKnfRmggQR8cQIVF O+cAoMkCYoo5dycvULMdXe8GXJHlShKg =vhE+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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KDE awarded Desktop Environment of the Year 2008
by Amit Surana 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Hi all, Mailing List seemed to be very dry nowadays. So sending some known yet good news :) This will kindle more KDE enthusiasts !! KDE has been awarded Desktop Environment for Year '08 by LinuxQuestions.org community. Its real prestige for such a great Open Source project. Please read on: http://blog.suranaamit.com/2009/02/kde-desktop-environment-of-year-2008.html For more details on all Open Source projects which got community award is : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2008-linuxquestions.o… Cheers, /A -- Regards, Amit M Surana http://blog.suranaamit.com/ http://gmfdoc.suranaamit.com/

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ILUG Cochin Meeting on Sunday, February 22
by Sreenadh H 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community, ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 22th February 2009 (4th Sunday of every month). The Details are as follows Date : 22/02/2009, Sunday Time : 2pm - 5:30pm Venue : Internet Club IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg, Broadway Enclave Broadway, Kochi-682031 i.e. Behind Allappat Super Shoppe, On top of SBT Treasury wing, Technical Presentations 1. Command Line Applications and Shell Scripting 2. Learning Programming with Python. A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/ Feel Free to call the numbers below for any further information Tel:+91 9995717112 ( Coordinator ) Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue ) Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue ) Details :: Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement. Discussion on Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software. We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics. This is important for new users. Technical presentation 1 : Command Line Applications & Shell Scripting We continue our initiative of grooming teachers to teach Free Software effectively in Schools. This month also we have planned sessions that would help teachers in this regard. http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2008-Dece… http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2009-Janu… The media has also been supporting our campaign for bringing teachers closer to the Free Software Community. http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/26/stories/2008122650810200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/23/stories/2009012357890200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/12/stories/2009021250610200.htm Last month we had some presentations on the command line Interface and its possibilities. This month we continue this by teaching few command line based applications like Mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). We will also talk about automating command line prompt based activities using Shell scripting. Technical Session 2 : Learning programming with Python. www.python.org Python is one of the most versatile languages of the modern era. This has mainly due to the vast collection of modules built by the community. Python has been used in situations ranging from real time applications to simulation programs. From the website ""Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code."" Python is one very useful language that has vast possibilities in the field of education. Although programming is taught to students in the curriculum, Python can be taught as a full fledged programming language since its very easy to learn the basics. We will touch upon the following basic elements with respect to the second session : - Programming Languages - What and How - Python as a language - Basic Python program - Python Modules - Python libraries and extensions - Possibilities of teaching Python in Schools. We will address the common difficulties faced by teachers and provide guidelines for dealing with issues. We expect a better turnout of teachers for this meeting. We have already invited IT Coordinators of various schools. All the members in Mailing List are also requested to spread the word about this meeting among the teachers from all streams. It may be worth to forward this mail to other lists as well. Meeting posters are available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/50/1/ We hope more people from the community will make it to the meeting. This will enable a very exciting interaction with the teachers and free software community. We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting!!! Hoping to meet you all on Sunday Thank You

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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released
by Anivar Aravind 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Lets plan a gnuz grazing and Release Party Anivar --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar(a)debian.org> Date: Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM Subject: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released To: debian-announce(a)lists.debian.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released press(a)debian.org February 14th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of twelve architectures are supported: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386), IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm, armel), IBM S/390 (s390), and AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64). Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" adds support for Marvell's Orion platform which is used in many storage devices. Supported storage devices include the QNAP Turbo Station series, HP Media Vault mv2120, and Buffalo Kurobox Pro. Additionally, "Lenny" now supports several Netbooks, in particular the Eee PC by Asus. "Lenny" also contains the build tools for Emdebian which allow Debian source packages to be cross-built and shrunk to suit embedded ARM systems. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" includes the new ARM EABI port, "armel". This new port provides a more efficient use of both modern and future ARM processors. As a result, the old ARM port (arm) has now been deprecated. This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, LXDE 0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox), Icedove 2.0.0.19 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), PostgreSQL 8.3.6, MySQL 5.0.51a, GNU Compiler Collection 4.3.2, Linux kernel version 2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9, Samba 3.2.5, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0, PHP 5.2.6, Asterisk 1.4.21.2, Emacs 22, Inkscape 0.46, Nagios 3.06, Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (dom0 as well as domU support), OpenJDK 6b11, and more than 23,000 other ready-to-use software packages (built from over 12,000 source packages). With the integration of X.Org 7.3 the X server autoconfigures itself with most hardware. Newly introduced packages allow the full support of NTFS filesystems and the use of most multimedia keys out of the box. Support for Adobe(R) Flash(R) format files is available via the swfdec or Gnash plugins. Overall improvements for notebooks have been introduced, such as out of the box support of CPU frequency scaling. For leisure time several new games have been added, including puzzle games as well as first-person shooters. Also notable is the introduction of "goplay", a graphical games browser offering filters, search, screenshots and descriptions for games in Debian. The availability and updates of OpenJDK, GNU Java compiler, GNU Java bytecode interpreter, Classpath and other free versions of Sun's Java technology, into Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 allow us to ship Java-based applications in Debian's "main" repository. Further improvements in system security include the installation of available security updates before the first reboot by the Debian Installer, the reduction of setuid root binaries and open ports in the standard installation, and the use of GCC hardening features in the builds of several security-critical packages. Various applications have specific improvements, too. PHP for example is now built with the Suhosin hardening patch. For non-native English speaking users the package management systems now support translated package descriptions and will automatically show the description of a package in the native language of the user, if available. Debian GNU/Linux can be installed from various installation media such as DVDs, CDs, USB sticks and floppies, or from the network. GNOME is the default desktop environment and is contained on the first CD. Other desktop environments - KDE, Xfce, or LXDE - can be installed through two new alternative CD images. Again available with Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 are multi-arch CDs and DVDs supporting installation of multiple architectures from a single disc; and this release adds Blu-ray Discs, allowing the archive for an entire architecture to be shipped on a single BD. In addition to the regular installation media, Debian GNU/Linux can now also be directly used without prior installation. The special images used, known as live images, are available for CDs, USB sticks, and netboot setups. Initially, these are provided for the amd64 and i386 architectures only. The installation process for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been improved in many ways: among many other improvements, support for installation from more than one CD or DVD has been restored, firmware required by some devices can be loaded by using removable media, and installations via Braille display are supported. The installer boot process has also received much attention: a graphical menu can be used to choose front-ends and desktop environments, and to select expert or rescue mode. The installation system for Debian GNU/Linux has now been translated to 63 languages. Debian GNU/Linux can be downloaded right now via bittorrent (the recommended way), jigdo or HTTP; see Debian GNU/Linux on CDs [1] for further information. It will soon be available on DVD, CD-ROM and Blu-ray Disc from numerous vendors [2], too. Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 from the previous release, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed "Etch") are automatically handled by the aptitude package management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree also by the apt-get package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux systems can be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes [3] for possible issues, and for detailed instructions on installing and upgrading. The release notes will be further improved and translated to additional languages in the weeks after the release. 1: http://www.debian.org/CD/ 2: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors 3: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes Dedication ---------- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways. He has maintained several packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures. He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a member of the Debian Installer team. His contributions reached far beyond the Debian project. He also worked on the MIPS port of the Linux kernel, the MIPS emulation of qemu, and far too many smaller projects to be named here. Thiemo's work, commitment, broad technical knowledge and ability to share this with others will be missed. Thiemo's contributions will not be forgotten. The high standards of his work make it hard to pick up. About Debian ------------ Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, developed by more than a thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model make it unique among GNU/Linux distributions. The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract, and its commitment to provide the best operating system possible. Debian 5.0 is another important step in that direction. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press(a)debian.org>. -- 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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help regarding configuring Eclipse on linux
by Prabodh CP 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hi Can anybody send me details regarding installing Eclipse for C/C++ devolopment on Linux (possibly on MAndriva or Ubuntu) especially as to configure the compiler in it Thanks in Advance Regards Prabodh

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Eclipse , do u really need it ?
by Hemanth H.M 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hey , u can a better alternative # sudo apt-get install geany http://www.geany.org It's good , and if you do not have any specific reasons for going into Eclipse , you can try this , its light weight , easy and fun -- 'I am what I am because of who we all are' http://www.ubunt2.blogspot.com -- Hemanth HM

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Cuba launches it's own Linux variant
by Raghu 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51A77S20090211

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Invitation to FossConf-09
by Brightwin 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Hi, In association with Indian Linux User Group of Chennai and National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source software, Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai,Tamilnadu is hosting a 3 day National level conference on Free/Open Source software on feb 27, feb-28, and march-1. The objective of the conference is to create an awareness among students and common people about the importance of using Free/Open source Software. The conference will host talks by eminent foss speakers,demo stalls emphasizing the importance of free software technologies, projects and research presentations on foss and foss based contests. The registrations for the conference either as speakers or as student delagates presenting projects and demo stalls is open.You can register at http://fossconf.in The entry is free and all are invited for the conference. regards, Fossconf team ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using TCEMail Service. Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai - 625015 (India)

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