Linuxers January 2007

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Re: A Linux Brochure.
by Vickram Crishna 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

--- Rony wrote: > Is it ok if I use a full page A4 portrait brochure? > That way I gain more > trying space than the landscape one with muliple > columns, as they need > spacing too. I need space for pictures too. Is a > normal A4 page good > looking for presentation? It will work fine, designwise. If you use an expensive glossy paper for the cover, it will look much smarter and give the finished job some stiffness (while the paper is relatively expensive, it may not add much real cost if the quantities are small). Re the earlier suggestion by someone to print 4 or 6 or 8 pages and paste them, there is a technique of magazine/book assembly where the pages are stuck on the edge (perfect binding). There are two ways of doing this: one being that some service centers have small perfect binding systems (can't really call them machines) for very small run corporate brochures and reports, the other is to do it manually using Fevicol or a cheaper substitute (but they don't come in nice clean tubes). The perfect binding systems are better because they use a more flexible glue. Vickram Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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what comprises the GNU operating system
by Kenneth Gonsalves 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

There has been a lot of discussion of GNU/Linux versus Linux. I am not clear on one point. It is said that GNU is the operating system and Linux is the kernel. I have been going through Stallman's essays and FSF literature for the past few hours and am unable to come up with an answer to this question: What precisely are the applications/tools that comprise the GNU operating system? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Conversion to GNU/Linux
by Debarshi Ray 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

>From the fsf-friends list. Maybe someone here can help. Cheerio, Debarshi Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:00:00 -0800 (PST) From: Krishna Pagadala <krishnaact(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [Fsf-friends] Help needed in Chennai To: fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: <998564.67900.qm(a)web52604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi All, One of the non-profits in Chennai that I work with wants to convert 5 computers from Windows to GNU/Linux can somebody help them? Helping will involve installing and configure a GNU/Linux system. I think that they will need one CD of TheOpenCD http://www.theopencd.org/download I am suggesting that they go with Kubuntu, does anybody have install and live CD for Kubuntu? Regards, Krishna -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] what comprises the GNU operating system
by Vickram Crishna 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

--- Vihan Pandey wrote: > > > Wikipedia is a good example. They use GNU FDL > license, we didn't ask > > > them to call it GNUpedia. In fact the original > gnupedia project was > > > abandoned in support of wikipedia > > > > not true. it was abandoned because it went phut. > which is what is > > going to happen to hurd also. > > > Only time will tell. If the world needs a a > distributed nano kernel > tomorrow, where else will they look? > How does that matter? At the rate the 'organised' world is destroying the earth's natural wealth (species etc) you think anyone (with enough money to do something) cares about losing the incomplete efforts of thousands of sincere people? Don't forget that the Germans knew how to extract liquid fuel from coal 60 years ago - we wouldn't have such disastrous war and suffering if we had easily available fuel today. What's a better OS compared to that? Vickram Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[OT] reverse-engineering pacenet password is unethical?
by rohit bhute 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

I would like to lodge a strong protest with the admins of ILUG-BOM over this member's behaviour : <http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Talk:Broadband_Pacenet>. He (she?) has deleted all traces of matter pertaining to decryption of Pacenet's password and inserted standard sales talk in its place. I have not undone this as I want to know whether doing so is "illegal" as the user 'Pacenetrules' claims. Perhaps we need to get a LUG meet arranged with these fanboys and ISP heads. Why should users of non-windows opeating systems bend over backwards to rightfully get what they have paid for? -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org/

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A Linux Brochure.
by Rony 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hello All, I am planning to start the DTP process after some days so please provide your inputs by the next 7 days. Please do check out the last paragraph on why linux is not popular and check if anything invites trouble from manufacturers or if anything extra needs to be added. The first paragraph about contributions and licences appears to be balanced so no further editing may be required. I am actually going to distribute these brochures so please help in getting the page contents finalised within a week. Another important thing is.......what about mentioning this list in the brochure and do we have any logos to go with it. I want to show it as a LUG-BOM effort. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Brochure_Quick_Guide Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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