Linuxers January 2006

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Minutes: Mark Shuttleworth's talk at IIT-Bombay

by Anurag

*Minutes of Mark Shuttleworth's talk at IIT-Bombay* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held an additional GLUG meet in january at KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth interacted with the GLUG members and shared his views and ideas regarding ``Free Software'' and how it made a perfect business sense. This talk was attended by about 60 people coming from all over the country. Falling short of time, Mark Shuttleworth quickly talked about the following points, apart from answering questions. * Community and its background: Before starting his talk, Mark was eager to know about the Mumbai's GLUG community, its background.. since every GLUG is unique in its own respect. He then talked about his own background and about his ventures. * Ubuntu Organisation Structure: Mark talked about how ubuntu project started and what its goals are, how Ubuntu project is different from Debian yet how both still manage to collaborate with each other, how latest packages are adopted from upstream to make Ubuntu's archives always fresh. * Business Sense: Quoting Mark's own words, ``... knowledge and software are copyable. Their value or quality does not decrease when it is shared..'' According to him, this makes a perfect business sense. Ubuntu project, and all the best things that they produce, will always remain freely accessible to the entire community, individuals or large companies alike. Canonical is in a self sustaining business since it provides software services to organisations which are willing to hire them. Canonical has tied up with LPI and plans to start certification programs for Ubuntu professionals. * Free CD distribution: Mark answered several questions related to free software distribution and the rationale behind it. There are several parts of world where internet access is extremely costly. Free CDs therefore have an important role to play. Some questions were asked about the free CDs that Canonical ships worldwide and how some people tend to misuse the resources. Mark then recalled an incident wherein a `gentoo' fanatic tried to drain out Canonical's money by ordering 500 CDs. * Dapper Drake Preview: Mark gave a brief idea about the upcoming ubuntu release codenamed `Dapper Drake' and why it is going to have a 3 year(desktop)/5 year(server) support cycle and security updates. Dapper is also a distribution which is going to be certified by third party application providers like IBM. Starting from Dapper release, users will have the luxury of a GUI installation program and a single CD which acts as both live and installable. * Freedom Toaster etc. Answering a question related to Freedom Toaster, Mark explained the entire concept behind it and how the whole idea came into a reality during a brainstorming session. We couldn't talk about his space travel however due to lack of time. - tea break Mark personally autographed on Ubuntu CDs and stickers and posed for group photos. Though he left on time since he had to catch a flight, but GLUG members continued to interact till tea lasted :) ---- *Details of next GLUG meet: Date: 12 February 2005 -> Agenda : to be decided -> Location: Some other garden probably. * Presentation slides: Presentation slides of Mark's talk will be available from the glug homepage. * Pictures: http://db.glug-bom.org/pics/ <Gallery2 Photo Album> http://www.glug-bom.org/pics/ <Classic Apache style> Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

17 years

networking help: Allowing inbound ssh requests. (MTNL router)

by Abhishek Daga

Hello folks, wondering if anyone has tried this and has worked for them? Need someone from the outside (remote location) to access a *nix machine here. Setup is: MTNL Triband (no static IP assigned to me.). Using Dlink DSL 502 router. LAN IP being 192.168.1.1. WAN IP is what the outsider would use to get in. Connected to Netgear Router. (WAN IP = 192.168.1.2, LAN IP = 192.168.0.1). Machines are connected to this netgear router as 192.168.0.X) Earlier when I had Tataindicom broadband with a static IP, the only configuration was required at the netgear router level where i did port forwarding of the service to the desired machine. The TATA router had a different interface and a bridge was enabled there. I do not see a similar option here with mtnl. I tried to allow under advanced--filters, inbound access to the router IP (192.168.1.2) since this is the one connected to the mtnl dsl router. It says ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by host. Telneting to same IP gets me to the mtnl router (linux box) with no worries. Is it possible to ssh to any machine of mine with the current setup? thanks! -abhi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

17 years, 1 month

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next LUG meeting?

by Philip Tellis

Sometime Today, A cobbled together some glyphs to say: > Please enable javascript in your browser. HBCSE site wont bite :) Its what about lynx users? Philip -- - "It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything!" - "It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant." - "You see?" (Men at Arms)

17 years, 1 month

Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux

by Rishi

Hi Anyone knows of any Branded (HP/IBM/Dell etc.) Server that supports Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) I need to order a server for a customer with the following specs or higher. CPU: P-IV RAM: 512 MB HDD: 160 GB I need the following to work. (a) 1024x768 Resolutin Display for X Windows (b) Network card for accessing the Network (c) Disk Controllers / Drives for accessing and partitioning the hard disk. Thanks Regards -- Rishi

17 years, 1 month

MySql server on RHEL AS 3.

by Nadeem M. Khan

Dear all, When I try to start mysqld by service mysqld start, I get "mysqld: unrecognized service". I selected "Everything" during the RHEL installation, so all packaged must have been installed. When I do the same on RH9, mysqld starts successfully and I get the mysql shell. I also tried this on RHEL 4, but get the same error as on RHEL 3. I did a locate mysql and found lots of files containing "mysql", but nothing called "mysqld". Is there an issue with RHEL and the mysql server? Do I have to install it separately? Regards, NMK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries

17 years, 1 month

Mouse help

by manish mallan

hi Thanks for your replies on "suggest motherboard". I bought MSI K8MM-V. its working fine under linux. But my GIGABYTE Optical Mouse (GK-6PB) is not working under linux. Its works under windows. My friend has DEXXA optical mouse, it works fine on linux on my system. But the gigabyte mouse behaves the same way on my friend's pc. I tried it on Kubuntu (breezy) and Knoppix 3.9. I would be grateful if somebody can suggest me a solution. Manish

17 years, 1 month

Need an App to run on Linux? Request it here!

by SeekingGyan

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16646.html <snip> If you've got any critical applications that you MUST be able to use on Linux, please take a minute to let us know what they are. We'll monitor the submissions to see what the most popular requests are, and do what we can to nudge the vendors in that direction. Together, your voices will count for more than they would separately. Note: If you have more than one product to request, you'll need to fill out a separate submission form for each one. We may contact you via email for additional information if your request is particularly intriguing. </snip> Regards Harsh

17 years, 1 month

Experiment 3310

by Puneet Lakhina

Hi, i have a sort of in barely in working condition nokia 3310 with me that I am not using. So i was thinking if i can perform any Linux related experiments on it like porting a bare minimum version of kernel on it. Selling it wont fetch anything that the experiment might teach me. So if u guys have any suggestion, criticisms (knowing the list, these will be a fare share ;-) ) please shoot them. And if anybody has a bit of spare time on weekends.. we can collaborate as i have no experience in stuff like device drivers and kernel hacking. thanks -- Puneet

17 years, 1 month

Next LUG meeting?

by Venkatesh Hariharan

Anurag said: >Next meet is probably at HBCSE on 19th Feb. Keep in touch with the >list as venue/topics are discussed here itself. If members of this LUG are interested in certifications, I can check with the head of Learning Services at Red Hat to give a (non-salesy) overview of Red Hat's certifications and the new programs that are being launched. This can be a 30-40 minute interactive session. Venky

17 years, 1 month

Next LUG meeting?

by Krishna Kumar

Hello everybody, Would anyone be able to let me know when the next LUG meetinmg, in Mumbai is, and where ? Thanks a lot, Regards, Krishna

17 years, 1 month

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