Linuxers October 2007

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introduction to Inkscape -Graphic Design and publishing with Free / Open Source Software
by Vidyadhar Gadgil 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introduction to > Inkscape -Graphic Design and publishing with Free / Open Source > Software > From: Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 > 21:00:21 +0530 Don't know where this subject line is inherited from, the discussion seems to have strayed way off. Anyway, since this is my first post on this forum, I will refrain from tampering with it. > It is surprising that after being a power user and an expert in > Linux, you still have a Windows partition in your system and it is > used too. If linux experts ( I mean all experts) find Windows crappy, > then why do they still have the partition in their systems? Don't know about 'experts', but for ordinary folk like me, many of us have to deal with clients who work with proprietary software and sometimes want stuff in proprietary formats. Like, when some work is needed on an Indesign file, there is little choice for me but to go to Windoze. Thus, while I hate it and rarely go there, that partition stays undisturbed on my comp., ready for use when needed. Free software fundamentalism to this extent would mean some serious pain -- paapi pet ka sawaal hai! -- Question everything -- Karl Marx

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Help on Linux Clustering
by Neelesh Gurjar 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

>jtd wrote: >A cluster are available for for high availability, load balancing, >disk space, parallel processing etc. What is it that you want the >cluster to do? reply to DJ's questions and we will get a fix on what >u want. I want clustering for parallel processing. >From your description it seems that you require just nfs / samba for >file sharing. DHCP and NFSboot for diskless booting and a proxy / >firewall / mailserver for the internet. If you use local resources of >the clients and stagger booting you can get away with puny servers. >Look at drbl on sourceforge. I have done thinclient setup with using LTSP4.2. I have given detail info in my previous post. > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > how many workstations in total? They have 50 client computers on one server. All clients are diskless. Server has FC4. Thanks n Regards, NeeleshG

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introduction to Inkscape - Graphic Design and publishing with Free / Open Source Software
by Prashant Verma 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

At 12:51 AM 10/22/2007, Chetan S wrote: >On 10/17/07, Puneet Lakhina <puneet.lakhina(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/15/07, Rony <> wrote: > > > > > > There are many such instances where one > > > is compelled to use the Windows platform to get their work done. > > > > > > Any suggestions on which others softwares are available for Linux-Windows > > video conferencing? > >I sense a hijack , but wengophone works nicely. I, for once, welcome our thread hijacking overlords.

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introduction to Inkscape - Graphic Design and publishing with Free / Open Source Software
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com> Date: Oct 10, 2007 12:54 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Introduction to Inkscape - Graphic Design and publishing with Free / Open Source Software To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> Hi all, We need to design icons, buttons, graphics for our web-pages, blogs, user interfaces for software projects done. And it is really simple to do so using a fantastic tool called Inkscape. Typically this goes under user-experience engineering and design, a critical part of the software development industry. So, if you are interested in teaching yourselves how you can do the same, following this blog regular and practice according to the tutorials - http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/ This blog is the aggregation of some of the top guys working in the field. So, in a way, if you start following their advice you will be learning from some of the best. And who knows, one of you may just turn out to be the next graphics design and user experience guru from India! cheers, -indra _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Re: Need Help on Linux Clustering
by Neelesh Gurjar 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hi, >Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > 1. Purpose of the old Windows machines They were using old windows machines for Excel, Word, Tally, two accounting softwares developed in VB and access. Which we still need to convert for linux. > 2. What are their requirements? I didnot get you properly. However, these all applications or their replacement should run properly on Linux. This is their basic requirement. > 3. What are their _expectations_ from the Linux machines? same as above > 4. What would be the job of the other 46-47 machines? They will be used as thinclients. All users will work on those machines. They will bootup on server. > 5. What kind of cluster are you looking at? I heard that Google uses normal computers as a server. So I thought of this, instead of using single server we will use normal PCs. May be it is called paralle processing cluster. > 6. Define: "their collective output"? Their collective output means if i am using 3 computers of 1 Ghz processor and 512 MB RAM each. Then after clustering I should get power of 3 Ghz & 1.5 GB RAM. > 7. What infrastructure do they have? Do they have a n/w? yes they have 100MB/s network. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Need Help on Linux Clustering
by Neelesh Gurjar 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi, I work in NGO. They are migrating from windows to Linux. They can't spend so much money on servers. They have around 50 PCs. So I want to setup cluster on 2-3 PCs or more than that for setting up server. I am excepted to get their collective output. So that it will be compatible with one server. I heard that it can be done with Linux Clustering. Do anybody have any idea on this ? Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Biggest Linux Event of Central India - LinuxIndore-2007
by Prabhat Sandheliya 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Hi Linuxers, LUG Indore proudly announce the Biggest Linux Event of Central India - LinuxIndore-2007. All are welcome. Details of the event and its history can be found on on http://linuxindore2007.com Hope to see you guys there ! -- Prabhat Sandheliya Moderator - LUG - Indore --------------------------------------------------------------------- Promote Linux - Join mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore (Linux Users Group - Indore)

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Triband through USB - Ubuntu 7.10
by Roshan N Baladhanvi 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

If you are a MTNL Triband user and want to connect to the internet through USB, Ubuntu 7.10 will automatically detect the network through the USB. However, one would have to add the DNS servers in order to get started. (Kubuntu 6.06 (and later), though, could do it out-of-the box - See the K effect ;) ) Please see the http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Broadband_Howto#MTNL_Triband page for details. (Somehow, pppoeconf never worked for me on Triband - not even on Kubuntu). http://www.ubuntu-in.org

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Suggest any bug sheet management tool.
by Bhavesh Kamani 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Hi Team, Can someone suggest any good, open source bug sheet management tool which can maintain data of all the bugs, states and info like status update, priority, severity, etc. Thanks, Bhavesh.

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Ubuntu 7.10 Alternate CD
by Roshan N Baladhanvi 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

List, Since the wiki is down and I managed to collect a few ISO last week, I'll post it here. I have Ubuntu 7.10 Alternate CD (Ubuntu) for those who would like to upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 without wasting bandwidth. I also have Knoppix 5.1.1 (version number may be wrong). http://www.ubuntu-in.org

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