The meeting was held at West Bengal University of
Technology for the second
consecutive time in 2 months. The attendance was more
than last time.
Members present:
1. Akhil Kumar
2. Sudhansu Kumar
3. Aseem Shakuntal
4. Rahul Bhanti
5. Vivekanand Sinha
6. Ashish Sinha
7. Budwaditya Banerji
8. Deepak Bhatia
9. Dhirendra Kumar Jha
10. Asit Laha
11. Sudipta Kumar Pal
12. Subrata Bhattacharya
13. Nirmalya Lahiri
14. Saugata Ghosh
15. J. P. Mathew
16. Satish Mohan (Redhat)
17. Jatin Nansi (Redhat)
18. Joydev Lahiri
19. Abha Sinha
20. Dipti Joyti
21. Ritesh Sinha
22. Puneet Paneri
23. Kundan Ram
24. Neel Rakshit
25. Shatrughan Pal Singh
26. Shilpi Shreyasi
27. Bharti Chandra
28. Aparna Preyadarshini
29. Tanaya Chakraborty
30. Praveen Kumar Pandey
31. Jyotirmoy Dutta Chaudhuri
32. Subhamoy Mukherjee
33. Prosun Pradhan
34. Nilanjan Banerjee
35. Neha Verma
36. Vaishali Khanna
37. Shweta Gupta
38. Amit Kumar Kranti
39. Amit Kumar
40. Debashish Das
41. Dinesh Kumar Dubey
42. Mukesh Kumar Sinha
43. Manish Kumar
44. Ravi Ranjan
45. Amrish Kumar
46. Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
47. Arup Kr. Ghosh
48. Indranil Das Gupta
49. Arun Philip
50. Sabak Segra
51. Nitesh Kumar
52. Vaibhav Kumar Gupta
53. Hemanta Lagoo
54. Sourav Chaudhuri
55. Abhimanyu Singh
56. Vivek Singh
57. Pabitra Kumar Sahoo
58. Chandra Kant
59. Ajeet Kumar
60. Sudipta Sarkhel
61. Joydeep Banerjee
62. Arnab Biswas
63. Manish Kr. Singh
64. Daya Shankar Ojha
65. Mr. X [NB: handwriting_parser_failed();]
66. Suman Shekhar
67. Ashutosh Kumar
68. Manish Kr.
69. Indrani Dey
70. Rahul Majumdar
71. Awdhesh Chandra Prakash
72. Abhishek Kumar
73. Nitesh Vyas
74. Abhinav Ranjan
75. Debarshi Auddy
76. Ritesh Sinha
77. Amit Khanna
78. Anubhav Kushwaha
First Indranil gave an introduction to Kolkata LUG.
Due to the on going
Infocom and Redhat's participation there, the no. of
members in Lug has increased
considerably over the last few days.
Also, the WBUT will also be hosting a local
mirror for all the popular Linux distributions like
Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, etc.
It will be setup soon.
Then there was a presentation on Open source
philosophy and
Free Software foundation by a 4th year student of
WBUT.
- * Please forgive me I cant recall his name. bad
sector in my brain :(* -
He explained why Open source is better than
proprietary software and wny
people should try to shift to it.
The main attraction of the meeting was the
presentation by
Satish Mohan and Jatin Nansi of Redhat.
Satish's presentation was on Redhat strategies, their
history,
their secret behind success and what made them the
most popular
distribution in the world.
The main idea behind the Fedora project is to get the
community involved.
It gives the users to try out the latest and sometimes
not so stable
technology. Since Fedora releases always contain
bleeding edge technology
its not recommended for the entrprises or production
environments.
Where stability is the number one priority Redhat is
offering their
Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) whose latest release is
3.0
Although the kernel versions of Enterprise releases
are slightly older than the latest release
versions, they are more stable and bug free.
Some of the software that Redhat is currently working
on are :
An LDAP server which has more features than open ldap
and comparable
to Microsoft ADS or IBM iPlanet.
Redhat Application server which is based on J2EE
platform and runs on
gcj. So it will not require Sun java or IBM java.
Redhat Developer suite based on eclipse 2.1 framework.
It has an RPM/SRPM plugin
which would be quite useful for packaging.
A web based Linux management tool.
He also talked about some Virtualisation technologies
where
the actuall physical location of the file object will
be transparent to
an application.
The release cycle of RHEL is approximately 12 to 18
months.
Each enterprise release is supported for the next 7
years.
The next release will be RHEL 4.0 which will have more
stress on
security (Security Enhanced Linux or SE Linux will be
the default).
By 2006-2007 they will release RHEL5.0
The presentation was followed by a good interractive
question answer session.
After Satish's presentation Jatin gave a presentation
on 4GL (4th generation languages)
like perl, python, ruby, PHP, bash, etc.
Although one might first think these are slower than
3rd generation languages like
C, C++, yet in the practical scenario in many cases
they are more faster.
Thats because a lot of memory management and
optimisation is in built
in these languages. The programmer focuses on the core
logic rather than
low level things like memory allocation/deallocation,
handling NULL values, etc.
One of the important things that was supposed to be
discussed in details in the meeting
was how to use more open source in the labs of
universities.
Due to time constraint it could not be discussed in
detail.
This will be taken up in the mailing list soon and
suggessions are wanted form everyone on the list.
Everyone reading this - Please give your views.
Towards the end of the meeting Shankarshan announced
that the first Bengali book
entirely on Linux will be available in the market
soon. Whats more - it also comes with a CD.
Its called LINUX SIKSHA O PROYOG written by Swarup
Sengupta.
Dipankar da is also writing a book but Swarup has
beaten him in the race.
The focus of the two books are different. Swarup's
books is more at a beginners level
and Dipankar da's book will be slightly more
technical.
Indranil announced that they are coming up with a new
distro called
GRIND. (Grand Indian Distribution). The main featurs
of the disto is its
component beased design. Its analogous to a pizza
where there is a common base
and the toppings keep changing according to the
customers preference.
At the end of the long meeting which lasted more than
3 hours Shankarshan
distributed Fedora Core 3 CDs to the students of WBUT.
Unfortunately
there were only 20 not enough for each participant.
But thats enough
if they share among each other.
The meeting fianlly ended at anbout 8:30 pm.
Hope to have a meeting every month. Finally we found a
lasting venue !
Please feel free to add if I missed something.
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