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Distributed Computing and MapReduce

Today I conducted a session on Distributed Computing. It mainly focussed on MapReduce and its open source implementation-Hadoop.
The session first covered a brief idea of why we need to have distributed computing since everything is driven by need.Then It covered how a distributed file system works.It focussed on the Google File System.A demonstartion of [...]

PYTHON WORKSHOP

LUG Manipal is conducting a workshop on python from 29th January. Python is a remarkably powerful and easy to learn, dynamic programming language. No prior experience is needed. We would be starting from the basics.
No Registrations required. Free of Cost.
Bring your laptops along

Ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 9.04 was released on 23 rd April .
If anyone is interested they can take the i386 live-cd iso from me.

Upcoming Releases (As of 21st March 2009)

2009-03-22: Frugalware Linux 1.0
2009-04-23: Ubuntu 9.04
2009-04-29: Mandriva Linux 2009.1
2009-05-01: OpenBSD 4.5
2009-05-07: BlankOn 5.0
2009-05-26: Fedora 11

Linux Install Fest (Poster)

Linux Users Group
Manipal
presents
Linux Install Fest
 

LUG Manipal is holding an Install fest on 23rd and 24th January to guide people in installing Linux on their systems. Complete basic guidance will be provided.

On pre-install fest, people will be guided about the installation, uses of Linux and more queries which they have.

On the second day [...]

LUG Manipal Logo’s

Hey friends here are some LOGO’s that were made by one of our group member Abhinit Kumar Ambastha please leave your comments as to which will be best for further use as Logo of LUG Manipal
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How to access Linux Partition through Windows

Hi Friends, i said on first meeting (10 Nov, 2007) that you can’t access Linux Partition through Windows but one of my friend Ameet Kaustav ( Black ) corrected me. There is a software called “Ext2IFS_1_10c.exe” ,The Ext2 Installable File System software has been designed and implemented by Stephan Schreiber, just run on windows [...]