Re: [ilugd] Software Freedom Day Celebrations at JIIT University

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/29 Angad Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Here are all the photos from JIIT's SFD celebrations: > > And I hope all that action pushes more students to open their mind. > Yes we hope so too. We have to keep the momentum

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > So, I am bringing this issue to the lista and have people's opinion as to > how much Canonical has contributed and how wise is the decision to use > Ubuntu? I'd say that the 'Canonical' aspect of Greg's talk has over shadowed a much more pertinent take-away from it - tha

[ilugd] GNU/Linux primer

Hi all, I made an attempt at making a GNU/Linux primer at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/gnulinux-primer/ To put it simply, just something which tells newbies what it is all about without getting technical. What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do y

Re: [ilugd] Software Freedom Day Celebrations at JIIT University

2008/9/29 Angad Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here are all the photos from JIIT's SFD celebrations: And I hope all that action pushes more students to open their mind. -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: I know most of people do not follow

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

Hi, IMHO, Canonical has contributed a lot to the open-source community by making Linux available to a large number of people. Swapnil said: > And the "Linux desktop install base" is important bit. And that is I think one of the major contributions of Canonical. It has helped in reaching out to p

[ilugd] Software Freedom Day Celebrations at JIIT University

Hi all, Here are all the photos from JIIT's SFD celebrations: http://picasaweb.google.com/angadsingh007/SoftwareFreedomDayDay0 http://picasaweb.google.com/angadsingh007/SoftwareFreedomDayDay1 http://picasaweb.google.com/angadsingh007/SoftwareFreedomDayDay2 There's a short video clip we shot at t

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

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. > I came across this comment on Linux Mag

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

Karanbir Singh 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. > > You are mistaken. The linux kernel gets hardware support, features, > stability fix's and fe

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gaurav Mishra wrote: >> Example of such softwares (except launchpad, i have read the >> explanation of mark on making launchpad closed source right now and i >> think i am convinced) > > perhaps you would then also be conv

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

Gaurav Mishra wrote: > Example of such softwares (except launchpad, i have read the > explanation of mark on making launchpad closed source right now and i > think i am convinced) perhaps you would then also be convinced that OSX is the future ? > Any other pointers how many apps have they w

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: >> Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is >> called Debian. > > There are allegations that Canonical is taking away a lot of Debian > developers, hiring them for ubunt, which affects Debian development. Is that > correct, Karan ji? I dont know. But it s

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Anyway, none of what Greg spoke about or posted is incorrect. > > What is also true is that most of the software and code efforts at > Canonical are to build and develop close source software. >

[ilugd] Chromium : An open-source browser

Just a FYI,that i read so wanted to share. Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser. For more: http:

[ilugd] [ILUGD] OSS CAMP Day 2 under Camera

Hi All, Here are some of the pics for the day 2 of OSS Camp Delhi held at IIT Delhi.Please follow the link and if there is some issue with the album ,please do revert me back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Thanks Saurabh ___ ilu

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

> 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, which affects Debian development. Is that co

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

> > if you believe the nonsense you wrote here Swapnil, you know neither > Greg nor open source software. > Dear Karan ji, I don't know whether what I wrote up there was nonsense or senseless. I received an opinion mentioning Matt Zimmerman

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > swapnil, sometimes a frustrated human says much without knowing a little > about(right now its you). if you got time, your valuable time, please move > your as* and look at launchpad. Remember , you should try to look and find > light, rather than complaining the darkn

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

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. You are mistaken. The linux kernel gets hardware support, features, stability fix's and feature additions all the time - no

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

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 the technical community around Ubuntu is c

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Thanks a lot for the two links and you are very correct being a Novell > employee, and since Ubuntu is pain in ass (as it is more popular and in turn > making GNU/Linux popular among ordinary usersm thus stealing Novell's > market) of Novell he focussed only on criticizing

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

--- On Sun, 28/9/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor > To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > Date: Sunday, 28 September, 2008, 12:52 PM > swapnil, sometimes a frustrated human says muc

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

swapnil, sometimes a frustrated human says much without knowing a little about(right now its you). if you got time, your valuable time, please move your as* and look at launchpad. Remember , you should try to look and find light, rather than complaining the darkness. * *sorry for top, posting,