Linuxers June 2010

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[OT]BOSS ad by CDAC & NRC-FOSS
by Easwar Hariharan 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi list, Just saw a glimpse of an ad for BOSS (the 'desi' Linux distro) by CDAC & NRC-FOSS. Was gone just after I realized what it was. Quite a pleasant surprise. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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Animation , gnu/linux and truth
by shreekant bohra 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi I always come across discussion about gnu/linux not being good for design and animation, here is some eye opener . Dreamworks, the worlds largest movie production house uses gnu/linux more than anything else. Check out http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9653 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803 Cheers -- Shree Kant Bohra Let the Source be open www.geekybuddha.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] List of FOSS Events in India
by Sanket Shah 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Well the avg user will hav a shifty set of speakers and no requirement... and I was talking in their regards only. High end stuff would mean better skills and hence other softies, the noob user doesn't mix audio or do shitload video edits... they want something that plays songs, blends with portable players, loads pics and videos frm devices and such stuff. Highend multimedia works is a totally diff thing and not in question here... Syncing devices on Linux is still a nightmare. Even android phones based on Linux are not easily synced with Linux. This is the basic stuff people require bfr doing audio video mixing and other "professional" stuff... On 4 Jun 2010 17:02, "jtd" <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote: On Friday 04 June 2010 16:22:58 Sanket Shah wrote: > Well multimedia is screwed on updates in ubuntu... Multimedia as in professional Multimedia was always miles ahead of doze. Listen to a puretone on linux and listen to the same on doze. Oh well maybe one's ears are a bitwornout. Use a distortion meter and you will know. Playing mp3s on tinpot speakers is not mutimedia. It's time pass. Nonetheless i havent had a problem with tinpot multimedia since 2002. > > CAD is very nascent. The softwares compare very badly to paid ones > like autocad etc. Ah the drafting package masqerading as cad. > And availability of older versions freely is also > preventing switches. I looked for alternates... IMO R & D requires stuff that industrial guys dont even know about. So that would put the R&D stuff 5 years ahead of the industry. > Accounting is kinda disappointing but projects are running in > rudimentary states. I'm sure it ... -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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List of FOSS events in India
by Suhit Kelkar 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

===Begin Quote=== goodbye - was nice knowing you ;-) -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC ===End quote=== Is that a threat? How often have you made personal comments on this list yourself ? But you're still here, Kenneth.

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Fwd: [fsf-community-team] Great victory for Free software in Quebec, Canada
by shreekant bohra 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fabian Rodriguez <magicfab(a)member.fsf.org> Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM Subject: [fsf-community-team] Great victory for Free software in Quebec, Canada To: FSF Community Team <fsf-community-team(a)gnu.org> Hi all, I am a bit short on time but I just wanted to share these news: Quebec broke law in buying Microsoft software http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/03/quebec-microsoft-lawsuit.html "Quebec's government broke the law by buying software from Microsoft without considering offers from other vendors, the province's Superior Court has ruled. The government's procurement agency acted illegally in spending $720,000, beginning in the fall of 2006, on the migration of 800 workstations to Microsoft software, including Windows Vista and Office 2007, Judge Denis Jacques ruled in Quebec City on Thursday. The government did not perform a "serious and documented search" for alternatives, which it must do with any expenditure over $25,000, he said. The decision was in regards to a suit filed in March 2008 by Savoir Faire Linux, a small Montreal-based firm that deals in open-source software. [...]" Digg: http://digg.com/d31Sx63 Original blog post and full PDF with judgement (French): http://blogs.savoirfairelinux.net/cyrilleberaud/2010/06/le-jugement.html Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez FSF Member #3877 http://wiki.facil.qc.ca/FabianRodriguezEn ____ Freeform discussion: irc.gnu.org #fsf Sharing news and links: #fsfct http://identi.ca/tag/fsfct How to use this list: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Workflow -- Shree Kant Bohra Let the Source be open www.geekybuddha.org GPG Key Fingerprint - D2E1 A688 FC61 C3F5 DFE5 F972 4E7F 1243 6E23 5F22

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 86, Issue 10
by Suhit Kelkar 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

==Quote== please take personal comments offlist -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC ==EndQuote== Certainly not, if such comments are pertinent to the usage of the list. So, you can hand out but can't take, eh? Suhit Kelkar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] List of FOSS Events in India
by Surya Sharma 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Comparisons of events apart, if anyone here wants to team / volunteer for a Mumbai event, I could propose to my principal after we have a draft. We have had a mini Foss event under JTD, with just 8 - 10 students, and I don't know if it would quantify as a success, but I don't think there's a harm in trying again. Surya Sharma buzz(a)suryas.info 9920482321

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List of FOSS Events in India
by Suhit Kelkar 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

You make it real hard to respect 'old farts', old Kenny G. Cribbing and putting people down is all that you do on the list. You've been vitiating the atmosphere here for how many years now? What sort of trip are you on and where do you get off? Suhit Kelkar

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top and bottom posting?
by Suhit Kelkar 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

==Begin quote== > > there you go. my 'input'.. be polite.. sarcasm would irk the grandsons as > well > please avoid bottom posting ==end quote== When tea's nothing to complain about, start whining about the cup. Regards

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[OT] which laptop should I buy
by Mukesh Yadav 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me. Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox ( atleast 20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can only run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though I use xubuntu. OS :- Kubuntu. -- Regards Mukesh Yadav

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