Re: [ubuntu-in] (no subject)

Good write up, but can be toned up a little. When you are addressing the audience, it always pays to keep their attention hooked. You would also benefit from keeping your target audience in mind. I am not sure but really don't know as to why the moderators allow external links to blogs to be p

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 11.04

Last heard, Unity had a lot of issues working with the proprietary drivers. As I understand, its a major release and a step away from the Gnome 2.xx in the previous version. If I were you, I would not install Ubuntu 11.04 because apart from the user interface, there is nothing new in the relea

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website theme decided

with, they would need ways and means to get aggregated content in one place. It would also be a strong case of more user interaction on the site. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Stereotactic <mailto:maill...@postinbox.com>> wrote: A much better idea would be to aggregate the content

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website theme decided

A much better idea would be to aggregate the content from Ubuntu focused web sites. This would avoid a lot of duplication of efforts. India specific news/announcements/support can be provided through forums/mailing list/IIRC with clear directions. Hope this helps. On 04/20/2011 06:37 PM, Nite

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

On 04/07/2011 07:57 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Ramnarayan.K > wrote: a registered LUG can request for CD's to be distributed by them. Yes, but how many new prospective users/fence sitters know about LUG's/Local vendors/wher

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

On 04/07/2011 01:59 PM, Kingsly John wrote: +++ Manish Sinha [2011-04-07 13:10:53]: In the long run, it would slowly compromise with the ideals of Debian and GNU. How? All I find is talk and no evidence. You know when we talk about Free we mean libre and not gratis. Please head to http://gnu

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

On 04/07/2011 01:10 PM, Manish Sinha wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Stereotactic wrote: On 04/07/2011 02:40 AM, Manish Sinha wrote: On 04/06/2011 07:53 PM, Stereotactic wrote: This debate can *never* be settled; so let it be. True. So don't bring it up again ever if you

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

On 04/07/2011 02:40 AM, Manish Sinha wrote: On 04/06/2011 07:53 PM, Stereotactic wrote: Yes. This is also a pointer towards a larger goal of moving towards an ecosystem. First, they move towards Unity instead of supporting Gnome, then they refuse to contribute much to the "code",

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

On 04/06/2011 06:04 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: As some one who did order a few different versions it is a Sad though but, allegedely true, i guess it has to come to an end some time and hopefully people will find others ways of distributing CD's, and as Canonical says technology has moved on :-) Y

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

But it doesn't scale up; thats what I heard. WP is engineered to be a blogging platform; unless you wish to go in that direction. Drupal/Joomla scales up well and I have worked on Drupal for some time; it's not difficult though. Still your call. Cheers and all the best!! -- ubuntu-in mailing

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

On 04/05/2011 09:48 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya wrote: Hi all, Mingo here. Ready to work on the new website. Now as you might know, the new website is going to be build upon wordpress, we need a decent wordpress theme. Now I had earlier given a rough site with a slider based orange wordpress

[ubuntu-in] RSSOwl

It has some nifty features; but it canno sync with Google Reader (as yet). I think Liferea does but well, so be it. The only good thing about RSSOwl is the newsfilters (something like you have for email), but it can get ungainly. All the effort, was seriously not really worth it :( Unfortunate

Re: [ubuntu-in] Help with installing RSS Owl

On 03/22/2011 05:54 PM, Manish Sinha wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Stereotactic wrote: Hi All, I am on Ubuntu 10.10 and need to install RSS Owl. Although it's easy to download and install (as on the web site instructions) but I am looking for a ppa so that any new updat

[ubuntu-in] Help with installing RSS Owl

Hi All, I am on Ubuntu 10.10 and need to install RSS Owl. Although it's easy to download and install (as on the web site instructions) but I am looking for a ppa so that any new updates or builds are automatically downloaded whenever I run the update command. This would make the management of

Re: [ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak

On 03/20/2011 01:17 PM, Nigel Babu wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Vishnoo > wrote: SNIPPED https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2010-August/thread.html The fun discussion from the last cycle. Oh, very informative! Thats why Ubuntu developers are n

[ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak

It seems to remind me of Automatix, the all (in) famous script that automated everything. Is Ubuntu Tweak really required? Why not ship with the enhancements built in? For newbies, Linux Mint has improved on the user interface to a large extent. Their package management has become better wit

[ubuntu-in] Apologies

Dear Mail Admin, Apologies for the double post which came in inadverently. Please remove and do the needful. Thanks. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu friendly datacards (dongle)

On 03/18/2011 10:21 PM, James Sebastian wrote: Dear All, I am looking for details on which datacards are supported on Ubuntu from different mobile service providers. Would be happy if any one can point any webpages listing them. I tried on http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/ but could not locate any

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu friendly datacards (dongle)

On 03/18/2011 10:21 PM, James Sebastian wrote: Dear All, I am looking for details on which datacards are supported on Ubuntu from different mobile service providers. Would be happy if any one can point any webpages listing them. I tried on http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/ but could not locate any

Re: [ubuntu-in] HP Lab-in-Box: delivering IT-enabled education to rural India

Thanks for bringing this press release to our notice. A computer lab is NOT the solution to the "education initiatives". And this is just a prototype. It would remain to be seen how this is deployed and how this actually impacts the end users. Apologies for being rather too direct, but fittin

[ubuntu-in] Mozilla India Launch party

These are great suggestions; however there is something more that needs to be done: 1) Mainstream media is still the dominant channel and if you plan for the "maximum exposure", it needs to be engaged effectively with the web campaign. It cannot be wished away and specifically the regional med

Re: [ubuntu-in] Invitation for OSSCamp Lucknow

This is a great effort to promote Open Source initiatives in Engineering Campuses across India. Keep up the good work guys. It's a good start and hope that the event is a great success. Cheers! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubu

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firefox/Thunderbird Global Menu Integration

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 05:06 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:39:29PM +0530, Stereotactic wrote: Hi All! Is there any way to get Firefox 4 (latest nightly build) and Thunderbird (3.1.9-Shredder) on Ubuntu 10.04? Everything works flawlessly; saves tonnes of screen space

[ubuntu-in] Firefox/Thunderbird Global Menu Integration

Hi All! Is there any way to get Firefox 4 (latest nightly build) and Thunderbird (3.1.9-Shredder) on Ubuntu 10.04? Everything works flawlessly; saves tonnes of screen space is really really cool. Any ppa? Any extensions? Any help would be more than appreciated :) -- ubuntu-in mailing list ub

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 11.10 to be called Oneiric Ocelot

On Monday 07 March 2011 11:35 PM, vikash agrawal wrote: It's spelt Oneiric but pronounced as Opencore? ;-) Thanks for sharing this John... I was wondering and it seemed like a tongue twister... Regards Vikash Just wondering whether we should really go "ga-ga" about the naming convent

Re: [ubuntu-in] Time to look inwards.

Thanks a ton Ram. Glad that you gave an excellent overview of the existing scenario. However, my contention is simple and again I reiterate that it is not the localization efforts alone that matter. It is creating something "new" that matters. And we sadly lack in either initiative. Let me g

Re: [ubuntu-in] USB Mobile Broadband Service

Great explaination Ram. Keep up the good work and a big thanks. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Time to look inwards.

review. I use Linux Mint (9) which is being maintained by a close group of individuals. This way, there is more granular control over the outcome of distro. Therefore, the existing mechanisms need to be worked out to deliver and a "new domain" is not the answer. As stereotactic m

Re: [ubuntu-in] [TUTORIAL] Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Customization Guide

On Saturday 26 February 2011 05:51 PM, Marius Nestor wrote: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-10-10-Desktop-Customization-Guide-186408.shtml -- Best Regards, Marius NESTOR Linux Editor-In-Chief Why this "promotion" on the mailing list? http://www.softpedia.com

Re: [ubuntu-in] Time to look inwards.

On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:23 PM, g...@sarai.net wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:39:50 +0530 Narendra Sisodiya wrote On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, stereotactic wrote: Hi All. C-DAC is promoting its BOSS Linux through newspaper advertisements. While it is a good thing, but mere

[ubuntu-in] Time to look inwards.

Hi All. C-DAC is promoting it's BOSS Linux through newspaper advertisements. While it is a good thing, but mere promotion is not good enough. I find their advertisements insipid (released through the Government of India machinery) and fails to communicate the importance of Open Source. On a

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need a feed aggregator

n desktop. On Sunday 20 February 2011 12:07 AM, Mehul Ved wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM, stereotactic wrote: Hi All, I need an offline feed aggregator which should also be able to output the URL. Here's what I have in my mind. 1) I feed in the RSS feeds from different sources. 2

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Is Available for Download

How is debdelta installed for Ubuntu? Is it system wide or for specific packages alone? On Saturday 19 February 2011 05:20 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Manish Sinha > wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:46 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote:

[ubuntu-in] Need a feed aggregator

Hi All, I need an offline feed aggregator which should also be able to output the URL. Here's what I have in my mind. 1) I feed in the RSS feeds from different sources. 2) Filter out the content using keywords. 3) The filtered content be available as an OPML file so that I can use it on my G

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Is Available for Download

Good thing because I haven't really used Ubuntu in a long time and rather prefer Mint (for the newbies) instead. On Saturday 19 February 2011 03:47 PM, Manish Sinha wrote: On 02/19/2011 03:36 PM, stereotactic wrote: Although not appropriate but Linux Mint has better option as far a

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Is Available for Download

Although not appropriate but Linux Mint has better option as far as the updates are concerned. It categorizes the updates which are core and necessary. You can always discard the updates you don't need (which are numbered as 4,5 and 6) and come lower down; indeed most of them are not even requi