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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 are some Q/A with [...]

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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 blocked mibbit though [...]

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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 that [...]

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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 (while many distributions are [...]

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