November 2, 2008 – 5:24 pm
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 [...]
September 3, 2008 – 8:31 pm
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 [...]
August 25, 2008 – 1:31 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 20, 2008 – 11:01 pm
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 [...]
February 8, 2008 – 2:41 pm
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 [...]
February 5, 2008 – 4:29 pm
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 [...]
January 24, 2008 – 2:01 pm
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 [...]
January 21, 2008 – 2:13 pm
Some finally here comes an awaited event which all of you might be waiting “Linux Install Fest”. Many of our friends have approached with their laptops/desktops to get Linux installed on their system. We came up with a noble idea, “Why not organize a Install Fest where all people can bring their laptops and we [...]
January 1, 2008 – 4:16 am
THE MYTHS
The first problem which people face while switching over to Linux is the “unavailability of softwares” as they claim. They just try to run their windows installer/setup file and end up with frustration saying “Linux is so incompatible!” Is it really so? Linux is not a clone of Windows. Then how come you expect [...]
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