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OpenSource in class XII syllabus!!

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 [...]

IRC commands

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 [...]

Preupgrade : Upgrade to F11 without downloading the entire DVD

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 [...]

LUG meet on 13/08/2008

We scheduled a LUG meet on the above mentioned date at 5:30 PM in NLH 404 (that led Ankur to include a nice pun in the poster) which had to be later shifted to 405. Both rains and the nuisance created by some members of a certain club taking down our posters in a lot [...]

Forums Update

Hi all,
I’ve hardly noticed any activity on the forums. It could be due to the fact that guests were not allowed to view the forum and that scared everyone away I’ve squashed the bug and now you can view the forums and read posts without logging in. To comment, post or send a [...]

Things To Know

Here is another series of Things to know

Open SUSE 11 released
Wine 1.0 Released
Banshee 1.0 released
Firefox 3.0 released and makes a world record

Looks like this is a vey release full Time………

Java is completely open now

At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun [...]

Things you should know

Its been a long time since i have posted on LUG’s Blog coz i have been bit busy sorry for that, but now i have decided that apart from creating all the posts and writing stuff on my on I will start giving out links to outer blogs/sites which have some good articles so here [...]

LUG officially registered

Our LUG has been included in the official list at linux.org . Check it out here

Forums

Hi all,
As promised, the forums are up @ forums.lugmanipal.org.

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