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Author Archives: Manish

LUG Manipal Facebook Fan Page

For all those people who have been actively involved in LUG Manipal, people who are excited to be a part of it or anyone who is even remotely interested inĀ  FOSS, I created the Facebook Fan Page for Linux User’s Group, Manipal on 6th October.
Join it ASAP so that you can get updates regarding any [...]

LUG Manipal Mailing Lists

As we spread our wings and enlighten people about the benefits of Open Source and the associated freedom, we add another feather in our cap. This time its the mailing list which is widely known as a chief source of communication for any Open Source project to survive and sustain.
We start off with just one [...]

LUG Manipal’s first anniversary

Hi friends,
I am really pleased to tell you that we celebrated the first anniversary of LUG Manipal on 31st of October. As you might expect, it was without any pomp and glory, but wishing each other of the hard work they undertook to make the group and the FOSS philosophy to the general public.
Rewinding my [...]

MobiVision Workshop

LUG is back with a bang, this time on Mobile Programming featuring Python on Series 60 and Android. We are always committed in promoting Open Source and free software to the general people. This is another step to achieve our goal.
The workshop started on 1st of September, it was really heartening to see such a [...]

How to learn Linux – Part I

This is probably the toughest question which I have ever faced in my life. Linux isn’t a programming language or networks paper where you have tabulated contents or a language specification. Its something more than that. Sounds Weird? Isn’t it?
To learn Linux you don’t need pen-copy and other stationary at your disposal. Just a cool [...]

PHP Competition

LUG Manipal brings out a new competition open for all students of MIT- ” PHP Competition”. The first round will include Multiple Choice Questions with only one correct option. There are not registration charges and registration is also not required, its like a walk-in-test. You may need to enter your name in a sheet provided [...]

Web Design and Development Workshop

LUG, Manipal is organizing a Web Design and Development Workshop for students of Manipal next week starting 25th March,Tuesday. Our main focus will be to promote Open Source Technology for Web Development and Design. This workshop can be viewed as Workshop no 1 covering Module 1 of the total web design workshops we intend to [...]

Workshop on “Using Linux”

Linux Users Group, Manipal is organizing a workshop on “Using and Managing Linux”. The Event is scheduled to be held on 8th and 9th February, Friday and Saturday. The venue is NLH 303 and all the people interested in attending are expected to be seated by 5:30PM sharp. Everybody is requested to bring their laptops [...]

LUG Manipal now has a wiki

LUG is a collaborative project with people coming from all walks of life to work to work together for a common project or cause. Inspired by Wikipedia’s success as a collaborative project we thought of having a wiki at our site so that we can have a platform for working together. We can have vast [...]

Linux Install Fest is a hit

After a long awaited time, finally the Install fest started off on 24th January. Since this Install Fest was scheduled to be held for two days. Yesterday we people guided the people to defragment their hard disks, scan disks for erros, laptops batteries charged all those necessary stuffs.
We had collected DVD’s from all of [...]