[fedora-india] Project FOSS properly - was [Re: request for speaker for our FOSS festival Mukti 2010]
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:55 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: When I left college last year, there were 2 competing trends that my batch had infused. One was free software, where Shreyank and I had made some inroads, and the second was TopCoder or similar online programming judges where Swapnil Sonawane and Rajat achieved milestones. As it turns out, Swapnil and Rajat ended up getting jobs on campus that paid the best (upto 3 times what Shreyank or I get!!). I might not be comprehending this properly. Why would participating in online coding contests be a deterrent to contributing to Free and Open Source Software ? Although, considering the part within parenthesis, if that is how it is projected, will obviously skew the participation in a way that nothing can counter. On this note, I would like to add something. Not related to the topic but related to the thing in brackets of Debayan's email. I agree money is very important but as 'i-feel-philosophical-today-susmit' points ot its a way you lead your life also matters. I wouldn't have quit my well paying corporate job to take up research. I would be easily getting 8L per annum now plus some overseas travel. yummy! Now I am a student and intend to go for a PhD which most 'MBAs' term it 'live-like-a-beggar' for 4 years. But well, I know I am developing the roots like a banyan tree to soar great heights. And its all about how you project. I think you have forgotten the '3-emails' sent by SM to dgplug list. I bring it up again. http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/11/03/foss-education-career-skill-development-the-relationship/ Regards, Aanjhan ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
Re: [fedora-india] Project FOSS properly - was [Re: request for speaker for our FOSS festival Mukti 2010]
I agree money is very important but as 'i-feel-philosophical-today-susmit' points ot its a way you lead your life also matters. If people realized this then the number of engineers (or poultry chicken) being churned out by India would go down by 80% and life would be so much more beautiful in so many different ways. Obviously life is not ideal, people do not realize this (maybe they never will), etc. etc.. Cheers, Debarshi -- One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an imaginary part. -- Andrew Koenig ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
Re: [fedora-india] request for speaker for our FOSS festival Mukti 2010
sankarshan wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Debayan Banerjee debaya...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to ask Arindam and Subhodip if they will be in Durgapur at the time of Mukti. Additionally, please ask what they would like to talk about and show-off during Mukti if they are in Durgapur. I suggest you check with Subhodip and Arindam because from what I have heard from IDG they have been called by TCS up to join at end of January and will be stationed in Ahmedabad. ~ Stephanie ~ ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
Re: [fedora-india] request for speaker for our FOSS festival Mukti 2010
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Stephanie Das Gupta stephaniedasgu...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest you check with Subhodip and Arindam because from what I have heard from IDG they have been called by TCS up to join at end of January and will be stationed in Ahmedabad. That is true. One thing I would like to add is that people are forgetting about our ever enthusiastic Ratnadeep. He is a Fedora contributor and is also a good speaker. Last I checked, he was working on the FedEx project and could very well get a hackfest organized around it. Copying Ratnadeep in case he is not going through the mailing list. -- Regards Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry...@gmail.com Sent from Bangalore, KA, India ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
[fedora-india] Upgrading gcc from source on Fedora / RHEL
Hello Is it possible to upgrade gcc on an older Fedora (F6, for example) or RHEL 5 system by compiling it from sources? My doubt is whether it will automatically replace with glibc or will I have to upgrade that too by compiling from sources? Or don't I need to bother about glibc at all? Somebody hinted that binutils will also need to be rebuilt with the new gcc. Is that true? Any help is highly appreciated. Syam ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
Re: [fedora-india] Upgrading gcc from source on Fedora / RHEL
Hi, --- On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Syam Krishnan sya...@gmail.com wrote: | Is it possible to upgrade gcc on an older Fedora (F6, for example) or RHEL | 5 system by compiling it from sources? \-- You can. If the dependency packages are compatible with the gcc you are upgrading you can re-use them, or you will need to re-compile the dependency packages themselves. --- | My doubt is whether it will | automatically replace with glibc \-- Replace? Whatever is installed on your system doesn't change unless you uninstall the packages. You can have multiple versions of a package installed in /usr/local, for example. --- | Or don't I need to bother about glibc at all? | Somebody hinted that binutils will also need to be rebuilt with the new | gcc. Is that true? \-- When building a gcc compiler, there are dependency packages. The development/release cycle of these dependent packages is independent of each other. So, not all releases will be able to produce a compiler for you. See Dan Kegel's matrix (for building cross-compilers), for example: http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.43/buildlogs/ SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
Re: [fedora-india] Upgrading gcc from source on Fedora / RHEL
On 01/09/2010 10:53 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, --- On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Syam Krishnansya...@gmail.com wrote: | Is it possible to upgrade gcc on an older Fedora (F6, for example) or RHEL | 5 system by compiling it from sources? \-- You can. If the dependency packages are compatible with the gcc you are upgrading you can re-use them, or you will need to re-compile the dependency packages themselves. Thanks for the info. I was trying to identify which are these dependent packages. glibc seems to be one. binutils too is perhaps sensitive to gcc/glibc version. Are there any other packages I should be specifically worried about? Syam ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
Re: [fedora-india] Upgrading gcc from source on Fedora / RHEL
Hi, --- On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Syam Krishnan sya...@gmail.com wrote: | Thanks for the info. I was trying to identify which are these dependent | packages. glibc seems to be one. binutils too is perhaps sensitive to | gcc/glibc version. \-- My points were relevant for cross-builds. But, there is no harm in trying to build gcc first, just to see what you might get. --- | Are there any other packages I should be specifically | worried about? \-- Also refer: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
[fedora-india] Can any one help regarding LVM in RHEL4
HI all, I am configuring a Redhat Cluster for horde mail. Each time I reboot the server the LVM gets unavailable. I have to run /sbin/vgchange -a -f Is there someone can help me regarding the issue? Thanks regards. Pradipta Kumar Dash -- Pradipta Unix/Linux BandIII [ R D Team ] *ASCII ribbon Sun Microsystem ( )** **- against HTML email X** ** vCards / \ * ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
