dear all,
finally! the exciting news and development i've been waiting to see happen,
all through 2008.
will the story of the pc versus mac, and the macOS versus windowsOS,
repeat all over again?
despite cutting my teeth on apple and macs, i am all for android.
here is a first heads-up that
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finally! the exciting news and development i've been waiting to see
happen,
all through 2008.
will the story of the pc versus mac, and the macOS versus windowsOS,
repeat all over again?
Can't say for sure.
despite cutting my teeth on apple and macs, i am all for android.
here is a
On Friday 24 October 2008 14:00:23 Linux Lingam wrote:
a closed proprietary paradigm won't make a digital handheld in the
age of freedom.
apple hubris all over again.
except this time, the world has learnt its lessons
even if apple hasn't.
thus we'll be wary of microsoft-like predatory
On Friday 24 Oct 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
So the only argument left to fight about against Apple is the
philosophical angle, one that has always been the toughest to get
across.
You have only the philosophical angle if you restrict yourself to FSF's
views. If you take the
dear all,
for those who missed the stimulating sessions with yves degoyon of giss.tv,
have just jotted down my impressions here, posted with his photos:
http://niyam.com/blog/gnulinux/2008/kiss-your-tv-goodbye/
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niyam bhushan
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[snip]
well, i don't understand why the subject-line had to be changed. it's
all relevant.
secondly, we all tend to forget the mac hardware is an excellent
device on which to run debian and especially ubuntu. that's what you
see most people do at foss conferences.
great and well-engineered
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my conclusion:
the human hand was designed to also unclench its fist, open its palm,
and give and receive.
a closed proprietary paradigm won't make a digital handheld in the age
of freedom.
apple hubris all over again.
On Friday 24 October 2008 16:21:10 Raj Mathur wrote:
On Friday 24 Oct 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
So the only argument left to fight about against Apple is the
philosophical angle, one that has always been the toughest to get
across.
You have only the philosophical angle if
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:47:08PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Unix-better-than-windows moot. On top of this, a significant number of
well known FOSS folks use Macs. I have seen photos of FOSS conferences
where most of the people were using Macs.
Don't totally discount them; at least
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Kumar Appaiah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:56:44PM +0530, shantanu goel wrote:
I have some concerns about the open-ness of android. I've been reading
that barring the kernel part, most of the things developed over it are
licensed under
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:26:22PM +0530, shantanu goel wrote:
My concern is a bit with this philosophy in general and much more with
Android in particular. This is because while for other computer based
sw we would generally see an ASL/BSD based product being picked up by
both kinds of
secondly, we all tend to forget the mac hardware is an excellent
device on which to run debian and especially ubuntu.
Mac only looks good. I used to use G4 for film editing and it used to crash
if you open Word while you work on FCP.
that's what you
see most people do at foss conferences.
Is this the best documentation for KDE-4.1 system administration?
http://techbase.kde.org/SysAdmin
and is it available in pdf format?
or I may have to convert it
Best
A. Mani
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Ha..Good one Shantanu Sir..
It feels as though ILUGD has become some sort of Communal Discussion Forum.
Although the a ligations put forward by Ballu Bhai ..would have been pretty
true , if Thakrey would have promised to ban the use MS Office in
Maharashtra and would have said Why the hell should
Hi
But i had recently read an article that Google is again trying something
fishy about android to increase its commercial appeal. I may be wrong about
but that was apple's notion.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/13/google_android_flaws_pushing_software_firms_towards_iphone.html
I feel
On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Shiv wrote:
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I cannot find any FOSS iPod Manager. Can anyone help?
Well, one of the options is not to use the Ipod because of its
restrictive nature!! Other devices like those from Creative, Cowon
and even Mio are linux-friendly and are well
Looks like Google has imbibed enough wisdom about screwing developers
from Apple. If you write a FOSS application you may be be able to use
all the features of the Android. And G reserves the right to remotely,
unilaterally disable applications on your phone if they (G) don't like
them:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like Google has imbibed enough wisdom about screwing developers
from Apple. If you write a FOSS application you may be be able to use
all the features of the Android. And G reserves the right to remotely,
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