[ilugd] [Commercial] Consultant / trainer for Liferay, Moodle

2008-09-29 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
Hello List, There is requirement of a consultant / trainer for setup, management, usage, maintenance of servers based on : Liferay Moodle all of it on Linux platform using Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL and related technologies. The requirement is in Delhi, but the client is willing to get

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
I'd say that the 'Canonical' aspect of Greg's talk has over shadowed a much more pertinent take-away from it - that contributions to the upstream is a pretty good way to get things done (or, control destiny). In fact, this message could work out nicely in events where iLUG-D organizes,

[ilugd] Lyx, My Beautiful GNU/Linux, Mind-Maps, and DP

2008-09-29 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
Videos from Software Freedom Day at BITS Pilani Goa centre... Lyx ... and all that LyX is a document processor following the self-coined what you see is what you mean paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care about the

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Gaurav Mishra wrote: perhaps you would then also be convinced that OSX is the future ? No , I am not Thats interesting, since most of the claims made by both sides on that line are quite identical. atleast the ones that I have come across. Any other pointers how many apps have they

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: RH and Novell (SUSE) choose easy target where they can compete - Canonical choose much much harder target and yet is delivering good results. So who is coward then?? Thats just nonsense. I dont see how supporting more devices, running a better memory management routine

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: [snipped the quotes from Greg's blog] And this response brings me back to my main point of my talk, which most people seem to have missed as they were upset at me pointing out Canonical's lack of upstream contributions. And that point was, and still is: Developers who

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaurav Mishra wrote: Hmm, That is a counter question ?, I don`t research on what ubuntu is making and what is open in that ? Will still love to know about your claim Well i have followed mark`s mail on launchpad so i

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: RH and Novell (SUSE) choose easy target where they can compete - Canonical choose much much harder target and yet is delivering good results. So who is coward then?? Thats just nonsense. I dont

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Gaurav Mishra wrote: The question i have put was in response of your claim of Canonical`s working on many closed source proprietary stuff , I think that`s a vague statement and contains no validity if not backed by any proper pointers. really ? did you look ? how many open source projects

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Gaurav Mishra wrote: By targets he meant market structure not development targets. I'd love to see you provide a detailed explanation on that. Eg. how would support for my arc-1220 or the webcam be oriented to the market structure and not a development target. What *is* the difference anyway ?

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaurav Mishra wrote: IMO Canonical and Ubuntu brought Linux Desktop OS in mainstream atleast in my part of country. 100% of newbies and 80% desktop users i know use ubuntu. really ? did you look ? how many open

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Gaurav Mishra wrote: really ? did you look ? how many open source projects have they been working on that are now gold ? It`s not about number of projects , It`s about complete package , usability and experience they provide. Go through this http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/162 to

Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-29 Thread Shrinivasan T
2008/9/23 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Friends. The laptop provided by ELCOT is preloaded with OpenSuse and Ubuntu linux. But most of the people dont know how to use them. They struggle a lot little little things like bluetooth, installing apps, games, etc It will be so nice, if we

Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-29 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:49:59 +0530 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/23 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] They simply wipe the hard disk and go for windows. There is no userguide or manual. The video tutorial in tamil and english is not compitable with KDE. They search

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaurav Mishra wrote: really ? did you look ? how many open source projects have they been working on that are now gold ? It`s not about number of projects , It`s about complete package , usability and experience they

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread PJ
Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [re: ubuntu] how many open source projects have they been working on that are now gold ? Bear in mind that while GPL requires you to publish source of distributed code, it does not require you to contribute back upstream. That's a funda- mental part of

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Bibek Paudel wrote: IMO, Ubuntu came very late in the scenario when the Linux kernel had achieved more or less a polished state. Redhat, Novell etc contributed for it. This is patently untrue -- look at the number of lines of code -- pr patchsets -- going into

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Bibek Paudel wrote: IMO, Ubuntu came very late in the scenario when the Linux kernel had achieved more or less a polished state. Redhat, Novell etc contributed for it.

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Mehul Ved wrote: Also his arguement was, being run by one man, who may tomorrow change his mind and stop support to Ubuntu, then what? I don't agree to this point at all. Ubuntu is where it is because of it's community. Absolutely, and

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is called Debian. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are allegations that Canonical is taking away a lot of Debian developers, hiring them for ubunt,

[ilugd] Invitation to The National Public Meeting on Software Patents

2008-09-29 Thread Praveen A
*Please Circulate widely* On behalf of the organizers, Free Software Users Group- Bangalore cordially invites you to The National Public Meeting on Software Patents ==Venue== 2nd Floor, Ecumenical Resource Centre, United Theological College, Millers Road,

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Praveen A
2008/9/29 Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/145 , Shows some examples of how launchpad has increased bug fillings which thus resulted in better bug-fixing and better stable OS. The point here is, even though Ubuntu get to use all the good stuff that most

[ilugd] In Debian Lenny, VLC can't play AVI

2008-09-29 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Dear friends, I recently installed Debian Lenny (network install), but I am unable to play DivX or avi files. It could play mpeg files though. Also, can someone please share his working source.list list for Lenny? Regards -- Swapnil Bhartiya http://ybfree.blogspot.com/ Mobile: 09910956518

[ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-29 Thread M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD
Hi Every Body, Could you dare to challenge if redhat puts its logo and art work at your property and products and claim trademark ownership rights ? in the similar way would you object redhat which has put its logo and art work in RHEL Linux distribution and claimed the trade mark product

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-29 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2008, M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: Could you dare to challenge if redhat puts its logo and art work at your property and products and claim trademark ownership rights ? in the similar way would you object redhat which has put its logo and art work in RHEL Linux

Re: [ilugd] In Debian Lenny, VLC can't play AVI

2008-09-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Swapnil Bhartiya writes: I recently installed Debian Lenny (network install), but I am unable to play DivX or avi files. It could play mpeg files though. Also, can someone please share his working source.list list for Lenny? I recommend the w32codecs package from Debian Multimedia. Here are

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-29 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2008, M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: snip ... This topic was discussed in this mailing list a few weeks ago. Please search through the mailing list archives. -- Arun Khan ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] In Debian Lenny, VLC can't play AVI

2008-09-29 Thread shantanu goel
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Swapnil Bhartiya writes: I recently installed Debian Lenny (network install), but I am unable to play DivX or avi files. It could play mpeg files though. Also, can someone please share his working source.list list for

Re: [ilugd] In Debian Lenny, VLC can't play AVI

2008-09-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:34:11AM +0530, shantanu goel wrote: I recommend the w32codecs package from Debian Multimedia. Here are the sources.list entries: http://debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php But I think VLC doesn't require any codecs to be installed separately. Isn't that the

[ilugd] Interesting Article on Server Migration with Linux

2008-09-29 Thread Vikram Ranade
http://weblog.infoworld.com/venezia/archives/018446.html Visit us at: Power Generation Water Middle East (PGWME)- 2008 ~ Abu Dhabi,October 26~28, 2008 Middle East Electricity Exhibition (MEE)-2009 ~ Dubai-UAE , February 8~10, 2009 ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Sep 29 2008, M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: Could you dare to challenge if redhat puts its logo and art work at your property and products and claim trademark ownership rights ? in the similar way would you object redhat which has put its logo and art work in RHEL Linux

[ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-29 Thread narendra sisodiya
Can somebody make a script based on this command to take screenshot while installation of any Linux OS * Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 * mount a external drive or any unused partition * xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng Screenshot1.png * You need to modify it for taking screenshot from command line, need to