Re: [ilugd] linux-libre kernel. fork?

2008-05-29 Thread Praveen A
2008/5/28 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED]: . But do you care if you don't have to flash firmware from the software, but rather it is pre-programmed into the hardware. And what difference does it make, from firmware being loaded at runtime, or flashed at the time of manufacture ?

Re: [ilugd] linux-libre kernel. fork?

2008-05-29 Thread Praveen A
2008/5/28 Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try to put together the resources to fork the Linux kernel. There is already one - it is called deblob http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/ I don't know how starkly I can say this, but I will try: Linus doesn't owe anyone shit,

Re: [ilugd] linux-libre kernel. fork?

2008-05-29 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praveen A writes: Praveen 2008/5/28 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED]: . But do you care if you don't have to flash firmware from the software, but rather it is pre-programmed into the hardware. And what difference does it

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-29 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
[snip] How much did it cost in India? did you check if Eee PC 900 is also available there? share some info about how did you make USB stick bootable; people install ubtuntu even on SD cards. later have 20GB and its hard to get hold of one in UK. I think there are better configurations

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2008-05-29 Thread nkapoor
Fri 30-May-2008: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events: 72 = New Discussion forum postings: 3 Total postings: 996

[ilugd] Linux Laptop Lessons, Suggestions and Tips Needed-- Is Dell da best choice ?

2008-05-29 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi Folks... Was leching at a advert for a Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop with 2GB of RAM Core 2 Duo Centrino Processor for Rs 35,900 and Vista Home Premium installed. Was also looking thru Shivkumar's recent post abt a Rs 17000/- ASUS solid-state (meaning: without hard-disk) Laptop with Xandros Linux