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OpenSource in class XII syllabus!!

May 22, 2009 – 2:57 pm

A great, great mail at the Ambassador’s mailing list. A big step in the OpenSource movement. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-May/msg00311.html Dear All, I thought let me share you the efforts of people like us and success story , the introduction of open source mainly LINUX is now part of official syllabus of Gujarat 12th standard computer subject. Here [...]

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IRC commands

May 19, 2009 – 1:14 am

In view of the upcoming IRC activity anticipated by the group, here is a post with a few links to IRC (Internet Relay Chat). Thanks to Manish for pointing the need of a post out. Clients irssi Command line client xchat (Gui) mibbit.com (browser based, ION users will probably need to use this. ##C has [...]

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Preupgrade : Upgrade to F11 without downloading the entire DVD

May 6, 2009 – 1:30 pm

This has been around for quite sometime now. This post is intended to make everyone aware of Preupgrade’s existence and to answer any queries regarding it. What is Preupgrade? Downloading a new Fedora release, burning the DVD and reinstalling the entire thing is very time taking and requires enough bandwith . Preupgrade is an application [...]

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F11 release build – up

May 2, 2009 – 5:02 pm

Here’s a post on links to the upcoming F11 release .. Most of it is from the marketing list.. I did add a few though… http://ostatic.com/blog/history-and-releases-are-cyclical-this-is-fedora-11 “The Fedora Project is rolling out some impressive new features and functions with Leonidas. One of the most notable is the use of ext4 as the default file system [...]

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