[ilugd] Fwd: Fedora 9 Bug Day-v0.1 :: Monday, November 19, 2007

2007-11-16 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Poelstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Nov 2007 09:31 Subject: Fedora 9 Bug Day-v0.1 :: Monday, November 19, 2007 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings, This is an invitation to all community members to join us for our first Bug Day of the Fedora 9

[ilugd] Fwd: The KDE-SIG needs (your) help

2007-10-29 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sebastian Vahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30 Oct 2007 03:45 Subject: The KDE-SIG needs (your) help To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a request for participation:

[ilugd] Announcing Opyum 0.0.3 for Fedora

2007-10-26 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the second stable release of Opyum, the Fedora Offline Package Manager, version 0.0.3. Opyum (pronounced 'opium') provides a set of tools to enable users, who do not have a good network (eg., Internet) connection at their ready disposal, to easily install new packages or update

[ilugd] Call for Participation in Fedora Project Day at FOSS.in 2007

2007-09-12 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
It gives me pleasure to say that the Fedora Project's application [1] to host a Project Day at FOSS.in 2007 [2] has been accepted by the organizers. However we now have to carry the burden of ensuring that we produce many Indian contributors to Fedora in particular and FOSS in general. This means

Re: [ilugd] List etiquette

2007-08-27 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Before you flame me, please read the sig. quoting previous emails in an otherwise top-posted email -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the

[ilugd] Announcing Opyum 0.0.2.

2007-08-19 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the first stable release of Opyum, the Fedora Offline Package Manager, version 0.0.2. Opyum (pronounced 'opium') provides a set of tools to enable users, who do not have a good network (eg., Internet) connection at their ready disposal, to easily install new packages or update

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package freeciv via yum. freeciv requires libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit) which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question is, why 'rpm' installed a package without installing all its dependencies ? Or it is a

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Which version of RPM and Yum are you using? $ rpm -q yum yum-3.2.1-1.fc7 You should consider updating to yum-3.2.2-3. There were a lot of bugfixes recently. Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu ___ ilugd mailinglist

[ilugd] Smolt

2007-07-18 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/11995.html Smolt is the opt-in hardware profiler for Fedora and while the initial focus was on Fedora, Smolt is derived from RHN client tools and is based on HAL and has always been portable to other Linux distributions and possibly other operating systems

[ilugd] Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 released.

2007-07-14 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the release of the Fedora Offline Package Manager (RUM) 0.0.1. This program is meant to enable users who do not have a viable network connection to manage their packages, ie. install new ones and update existing ones, through the standard package management framework used in

Re: [ilugd] Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 released.

2007-07-14 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
sound good. Just wondering if there is a specific yum version dependency here ? Essentially, how well will it work with yum-2.4.x ? Most of the code is dependent on the core Pirut modules. Apart from the small patch that I had mentioned (committed in Pirut CVS), it works fine with Pirut 1.3.7

[ilugd] Fwd: Please Read: Need help in replacing music in Fedora package

2007-07-09 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Jul-2007 02:33 Subject: Please Read: Need help in replacing music in Fedora package To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello interweb. I need help. (This is

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-30 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
For your information, NIT Hamirpur's computer centre runs _only_ on Ubuntu 6.06. It is maintained by the local GLUG (http://glug-nith.org/). how many comps, here? 25 in the computer centre and 20 more in the laboratories. This excludes all dual-boot setups. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-29 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
[OT] Anyways, FYI, VJTI (http://vjti.ac.in/) in Mumbai does have its internet browsing centre dual booting with Ubuntu 7.04. (Centre for NRCFOSS-Mumbai node too) The server setup is in process to support Windows and *buntu client machines. :) [/OT] For your information, NIT Hamirpur's

Re: [ilugd] Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-04 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Gaurav Mishra wrote: Greetings to all, We are hosting a Linux Installfest in our Bi-Yearly Technical fest Jagriti. In which we are going to install Ubuntu edgy along with multimedia Capabilities and some hand picked software(which can be done as the person requests) on the participant`s

Re: [ilugd] RMS' visit to NIT Hamirpur

2006-10-16 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (http://stallman.org/) will be giving a public lecture in National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh on the 25th of October, 2006. Good One!! Thanks. Will you be attending? Regards, Debarshi -- India is not, as people keep calling it, an

[ilugd] RMS' visit to NIT Hamirpur

2006-10-13 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (http://stallman.org/) will be giving a public lecture in National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh on the 25th of October, 2006. The proposed topic for the talk is Free Software, Free Society. This would take place immediately after Dr. Stallman is