[PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread ಓಂ
http://www.linux.com/feed/119751 Don't know why the subject line of the original link is so... Mandriva Linux 2008 is out and about :-) Looking forward to getting my hands on 2008 Look of Mandriva website has also changed... --

[PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Amit Karpe
Hi , Some one ask me to take care for legality of restricted formats . Please suggest me I want to include xmms and mplayer with all needed codec in CS Ubuntu Distro . Is this Legal in India ? If no them suggest me some alternatives . -- Regards Amit. --

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Amit Karpe wrote: Hi , Some one ask me to take care for legality of restricted formats . Please suggest me I want to include xmms and mplayer with all needed codec in CS Ubuntu Distro . Is this Legal in India ? If no them suggest me some alternatives . They are since patents on

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: They are since patents on software is not valid in India. However win32codecs aren't and you would need to use ffmpeg. You missed the IANAL bits :) but heh, that's more or less what it looks like. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/11/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking forward to getting my hands on 2008 I've tried the One 2008.0 KDE Live CD this morning. Nothing great IMO. My suggestion is to avoid it unless it is the only distro that supports your hardware etc which others like Ubuntu or openSUSE won't :-) I

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Amit Karpe
On 10/11/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit Karpe wrote: Hi , Some one ask me to take care for legality of restricted formats . Please suggest me I want to include xmms and mplayer with all needed codec in CS Ubuntu Distro . Is this Legal in India ? If no

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread ಓಂ
On 10/11/07, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking forward to getting my hands on 2008 I've tried the One 2008.0 KDE Live CD this morning. Nothing great IMO. That's probably more appropriate for me (nothing great) I don't like the learning

Re: [PLUG] we need web space for CS Ubuntu

2007-10-11 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/11/07, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now We need web space to host this . -- Sourceforge do allow hosting iso`s AFAIK] Nope, most likely they will reject the iso hosting. regards VK -- The hidden harmony is better

Re: [PLUG] we need web space for CS Ubuntu

2007-10-11 Thread Amit Karpe
On 10/11/07, Vivek Khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now We need web space to host this . -- Sourceforge do allow hosting iso`s AFAIK] Nope, most likely they will reject

[PLUG] Sessions @ IndicThreads Conference On Java Technology 2007, Pune, India

2007-10-11 Thread Harshad Oak
Dear Plug members, Please find below the list of speakers and sessions at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007. The conference has 2 parallel tracks and sessions on various facets of Java. Conference Dates - 26th and 27th October 2007 Venue - Symbiosis Infotech Campus,

Re: [PLUG] we need web space for CS Ubuntu

2007-10-11 Thread Amit Karpe
On 10/11/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amit Karpe wrote: Yes. They had rejected for hosting distro project . Try NRCFOSS if you think it is worth a shot Any concern person you suggest . So I can contact him . Thanks

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread ಓಂ
On 10/11/07, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried the One 2008.0 KDE Live CD this morning. Nothing great IMO. My suggestion is to avoid it unless it is the only distro that supports your hardware etc which others like Ubuntu or openSUSE won't :-) Actually need to upgrade to 2008 is

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/11/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually need to upgrade to 2008 is because finding new and improved (security holes plugged) packages becomes difficult so I endup updating to a new version every 1.5 year or later also to check if INDIC languauges support has improved... See my post

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Vishal Rao wrote: I was a Mandrake user and fan until they had problems, merged/renamed to Mandriva then pulled the free distro and started spamming me asking to purchase a club membership for advance access to new releases. Mandriva never pulled the free distribution and the club membership

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/11/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are since patents on software is not valid in India. However win32codecs aren't and you would need to use ffmpeg. Thanks . So we are free in India . Lets hopes India won't accept

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/11/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandriva never pulled the free distribution and the club membership has been open to everyone for a while now. Maybe I was mistaken but to me it looked like the free version was limited and was not made available for download immediately upon

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/11/07, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I was mistaken but to me it looked like the free version was limited and was not made available for download immediately upon release. Only paying club members could download the free version for a while after which the general public

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Vishal Rao wrote: On 10/11/07, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Mandriva never pulled the free distribution and the club membership has been open to everyone for a while now. Maybe I was mistaken but to me it looked like the free version was limited and was not made available for download immediately

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nishit Dave wrote: Don't the free version users have to rely on the Penguin Liberation Front repositories for updates and packages? It was so till Mandriva 2007, AFAIK. Nope. The updates were available to everyone. PLF is a third party repository which provides some legally dubious

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Amit Karpe wrote: On 10/11/07, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Amit Karpe wrote: Hi , Some one ask me to take care for legality of restricted formats . Please suggest me I want to include xmms and mplayer with all needed codec in CS Ubuntu Distro . Is this Legal in India ? If no them

Re: [PLUG] JDK for CS Ubuntu

2007-10-11 Thread ritz
Hello On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:38 -0400, Amit Karpe wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install Java Dev. Kit ( JDK ) for CS Ubuntu . As I have limited space , I don't want to use Sun-Java5-jdk . I had gone through https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java and

[PLUG] [OT] Zend PHP5 cert. in Pune - where?

2007-10-11 Thread Kapil Kaisare
Greetings, all. Does anyone know of a testing centre in Pune for the Zend PHP5 certification exam? vue.com doesn't give any information, while Google doesn't help either. -- Kaisare, Kapil Sadashiv --- Codito, ergo sum --

[PLUG] Kapil Kaisare wants to chat

2007-10-11 Thread Kapil Kaisare
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