Linuxers May 2013

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Long time Debian developer Ray Dassen died
by Siji Sunny 28 May '13

28 May '13

Long time Debian developer Ray Dassen died on May 18. Ray was a Debian Developer for an incredible 19 years. He joined the project in 1994, and continued to be an active contributor until recently. Ray was one of the founding members of the Debian GNOME team, his friendliness and willingness to help fostered a spirit of collaboration within the GNOME team. He continued his involvement within Debian as the maintainer of several packages, most notably the Gnumeric spreadsheet. Ref:http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130523 -- Siji Sunny

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Is having too many Linux distros a problem?
by Priyanka Sarkar 22 May '13

22 May '13

Dear All, A lot of debate happened on our FB wall on the topic 'What are the advantages & disadvantages of having multiple Linux Distros?'. Here is the link https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceForU?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=101516…. We are planning to do a story on the same and we would really appreciate if you let us know your thoughts on *'Is having too many Linux distros a problem?*'. Please share your views on what you think on this. Regards, Priyanka

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is having too many Linux distros a problem?
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 20 May '13

20 May '13

-----Original Message----- We are planning to do a story on the same and we would really appreciate if you let us know your thoughts on *'Is having too many Linux distros a problem?*'. Please share your views on what you think on this -- Could you describe the problem? Regards, Rony.

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[JOBS/INTERNSHIP] Openings for Junior Linux System Administrators
by Arun Khan 18 May '13

18 May '13

Position: Junior Linux System Administrators. No. of Openings: 2 Experience: One (1) to two (2) years experience with Debian 6/7, CentOS/RHEL 5/6, Ubuntu 10.04/12.04 server. Must be comfortable with: 1. Command line - no GUI for administration. 2. Shell scripting (sh/bash) 3. Remote administration with ssh 4. Grub, 5. Deb and RPM package management, 6. Network tools like tcpdump, wireshark, iperf, ... 7. Virtualization (Linux KVM, VirtualBox). 8. DNS (bind), DHCP Working knowledge of the following very helpful a. Directory Services (LDAP+Kerberos) b. Samba 3/4 c. FTP (vsftpd) d. Messaging (email + calendaring) - postfix, dovecot, roundcube, kolab e. Proxy server / Captive Portal f. Trouble ticket system Besides the above, the Candidate must be A. proficient in written/spoken English; some interaction with overseas colleagues. B. self motivated problem solvers - you are expected to resolve IT related issues on you own and escalate only those that are beyond your control. C. Taking and following instructions with diligence. Education/Certification: None. Application of Mind (knowledge) a *must* Location: Mumbai, Western suburbs Relocation: NONE. How to apply: Please send your professional bio data (ODT/PDF/RTF/TEXT formats only) to hr <at> silverarc <dot> biz with subject line as follows "[JOBREQ NO 20130518] Junior Linux System Administrators" Please note that any candidate who does not follow the above instruction, disqualifies him/her self automatically. Please circulate this among your friends/colleagues who may be interested. Thanks. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 12 May '13

12 May '13

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Supreet Sethi <supreet.sethi(a)gmail.com>wrote: ... > Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? > Thank you Supreet, for inspiring me to investigate the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. I think I have guessed the true identity: http://ownlifeful.blogspot.com/2013/05/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto.html Cheers, - Ashwin. ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/

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Free Software Movement Maharashtra - Outcome of preparatory meeting
by Vikram Vincent 10 May '13

10 May '13

Free Software Movement Maharashtra - Outcome of preparatory meeting The preparatory meeting for formation of 'Free Software Movement Maharashtra' was a success. The meeting was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on 4th May 2013. 44 people participated in it. The agenda of the meeting was: 1. Discussion on the importance free software and knowledge as a commons 2. Discussion about the need for a movement in the free software domain 3. Forming an organising team to take forward activities in Maharashtra 4. Listing and approving of action items for the next few months The participants were welcomed by Vikram Vincent, Member, General Council, FSMI and Prof. Puru Kulkarni moderated the session. Prof. Kannan Moudgalya inaugurated the first agenda point by talking about the FOSS initiatives at IITB and the efforts to connect with the teachers and students from all over the country. Prof. D.B. Phatak explained about the role of Aakash and the need for large scale efforts to localise knowledge. He raised several points of importance, two of which are the need to create strong business ecosystems in the FOSS domain and the need for the end users to have the freedom to choose the products and services they want. Dr. T. Jayaraman of TISS highlighted the efforts of TISS in opening up knowledge and the challenges that arise out of such initiatives. He extended support both from himself personally and also of his colleagues at TISS for furthering the free software movement. Dr. Vivek Monteiro spoke a few words on the universalisation of knowledge. Venkatesh Hariharan of Knowledge Commons intervened in the discussions and provided the theoretical framework for knowledge as a commons. Kiran Chandra, General Secretary of FSMI, detailed the need for a strong people’s movement in the free software domain. He emphasised on the guiding principles of FSMI which allowed it to take up issues of human concern and society. The recent mandate of AICTE (to all its institutes) to implement Microsoft's Office365 suite of collaboration tools was discussed. A link to AICTE's announcement is here: http://www.aicte-india.org/downloads/AICTE_notice%20_3_.pdf Kiran Chandra pointed out FSMI's response to this, which is available at the following link: http://fsmi.in/content/fsmi-representation-aicte-against-deal-microsoft The possible effects of the implementation of the mandate to use Office 365 were discussed and there was unanimous agreement towards demanding reasons for the same from AICTE, through legal means and using RTIs etc., along with an agreement to oppose such an initiative. The meeting then called for volunteers to form a core team who would drive the activities for the next few months towards initiating the Free Software Movement Maharashtra. A team of 18 members was created, and Dr. Puru and Vikram will coordinate the same. The members of the organising team are Dr. T. Jayaraman, Mrunmayee Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Nikita Belavate, Rahul Maganti, Deepak Pacha, Arun Khan, Siji Sunny, Kiran Eranki, Prof. Shishir Jha, Dinesh Jain, Rahul Muttu, Pradeep Mohandas, Krutikaa Jawanjal, Karthik Nadar, one for ERP-next. The meeting had representation from several organisations such as IITB, TISS, FSMI, Wikipedia, Knowledge Commons, DA-IICT, ILUG-BOM, Somaiya and other colleges. The ‘Free Software Movement Maharashtra' with the domain name of http://fsmm.in was declared functional. The following points were chosen as action points in near future: 1. FOSS sessions in colleges and schools 2. GNOME Marathi popularisation and supporting respective groups already working in this domain. 3. Office 365 4. Any other that may be feasible as and when opportunity arises. Photographs of the meeting. Courtesy of Venky https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/116931769998801651977/albums/58745079553…

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by Abhijit Navale 09 May '13

09 May '13

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Fwd: AICTE Removes mandatory clause
by Vikram Vincent 07 May '13

07 May '13

Cross-posting 07/05/13 Hyderabad In favour of Publication Sub :AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing Office-365. A delegation from the Free Software Movement of India and other groups have submitted a representation demanding the revision of the decision of the AICTE making the usage of Office-365 mandatory on the 30th of April 2013. A group of young parliamentarians led by P Rajeev also made a representation to the AICTE chairman raising concerns that were similar on 07-05-13. The signatories include Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Sitaram Yechury, KN Balagaopal, PK Biju CP Narayanan, Prashantho Chatterjee, Tapan Sen, Dr T Seema and MP Achutan. We understand that the AICTE has now agreed and is removing the mandatory clause from the notice. We welcome this decision. However, we demand that AICTE should revise the decision of using Office-365 totally, as it is not in the interest of the students, institutions and colleges. AICTE as a public funded body should not engage in supporting proprietary systems. We also thank all those in the academia, intellectuals, developer community, policy makers and parliamentarians who have taken it up with AICTE for revising the decision.

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Fwd: Debian 7.0 Wheezy released
by Kartik Mistry 05 May '13

05 May '13

Enjoy! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Francesca Ciceri" <madamezou(a)debian.org> Date: May 5, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: Debian 7.0 Wheezy released To: <debian-announce(a)lists.debian.org> Cc: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released press(a)debian.org > May 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud > to present its new stable version 7.0 (code name "Wheezy"). > This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as > multiarch support [1], several specific tools to deploy private > clouds [2], an improved installer, and a complete set of multimedia > codecs and front-ends which remove the need for third-party > repositories. > > 1: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110726b > 2: http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425 > > Multiarch support, one of the main release goals for "Wheezy", will > allow Debian users to install packages from multiple architectures on > the same machine. This means that you can now, for the first time, > install both 32- and 64-bit software on the same machine and have all > the relevant dependencies correctly resolved, automatically. > > The installation process has been greatly improved: Debian can now be > installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired people > who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a > huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 > languages, and more than a dozen of them are available for speech > synthesis too. > In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and > booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no > support for "Secure Boot" yet. > > This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: > > * Apache 2.2.22 > * Asterisk 1.8.13.1 > * GIMP 2.8.2 > * an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4 > * GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.2 > * Icedove 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird) > * Iceweasel 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox) > * KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.8.4 > * kFreeBSD kernel 8.3 and 9.0 > * LibreOffice 3.5.4 > * Linux 3.2 > * MySQL 5.5.30 > * Nagios 3.4.1 > * OpenJDK 6b27 and 7u3 > * Perl 5.14.2 > * PHP 5.4.4 > * PostgreSQL 9.1 > * Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3 > * Samba 3.6.6 > * Tomcat 6.0.35 and 7.0.28 > * Xen Hypervisor 4.1.4 > * the Xfce 4.8 desktop environment > * X.Org 7.7 > * more than 36,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 17,500 source packages. > > With this broad selection of packages, Debian once again stays true to > its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for > many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from > development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web, or > storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts > like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in > Debian's archive ensure that "Wheezy" fulfills the high expectations > that users have of a stable Debian release. It is rock solid and > rigorously tested. > > You can install Debian on computers ranging from handheld systems to > supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine > architectures are supported: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / > Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle > SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), > Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (31-bit s390 and 64-bit s390x), and ARM > EABI (armel for older hardware and armhf for newer hardware using > hardware floating-point). > > Want to give it a try? > If you want to simply try it without having to install it, you can use a > special image, known as a live image, available for CDs, USB sticks, and > netboot setups. Initially, these images are provided for the amd64 and > i386 architectures only. It is also possible to use these live images to > install Debian. More information is available from the Debian Live > homepage [3]. > > 3: http://live.debian.net/ > > If, instead, you want to directly install it, you can choose among > various installation media, such as Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs, and USB > sticks, or from the network. Several desktop environments — GNOME, KDE > Plasma Desktop and Applications, Xfce, and LXDE — may be installed > through CD images; the desired one may be chosen from the boot menus of > the CDs/DVDs. In addition, multi-architecture CDs and DVDs are available > which support installation of multiple architectures from a single disc. > Or you can always create bootable USB installation media (see the > Installation Guide [4] for more details). > > 4: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual > > The installation images may be downloaded right now via bittorrent [5] > (the recommended method), jigdo [6], or HTTP [7]; see Debian on CDs [8] > for further information. Wheezy will soon be available on physical DVD, > CD-ROM, and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors [9], too. > > 5: http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ > 6: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which > 7: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ > 8: http://www.debian.org/CD/ > 9: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors > > Already a happy Debian user and you only want to upgrade? > Upgrades to Debian 7.0 from the previous release, Debian 6.0 (codenamed > "Squeeze"), are automatically handled by the apt-get package management > tool for most configurations. As always, Debian systems may be upgraded > painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly > recommended to read the release notes [10] as well as the installation > guide [11] 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. > > 10: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes > 11: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual > > > About Debian > ------------ > > Debian is a free operating system, developed by thousands of volunteers > from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. The Debian > project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the > Debian Social Contract and Free Software, and its commitment to provide > the best operating system possible. Debian 7.0 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>.

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Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013
by Uday Khedker 03 May '13

03 May '13

Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013 (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-13) Organized by: GCC Resource Center (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc). Venue: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in). Dates: 29 June to 3 July (Saturday to Wednesday) 2013. Registration starts on: Wednesday 1 May 2013 Registration closes on: Friday, 31 May 2013 Our apologies if - you have received multiple copies of this notification, or - if this notification has reached you erroneously. Please forward this to people who you think might be interested. If you would like to avoid receiving further emails, please reply to this mail by adding the word REMOVE in the subject line. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : Office - 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct) Res. - 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 8717, 91 (22) 2576 8717 (Direct)

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