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 Mr. Harshal Arolkar.
Behalf of VGLUG I got chance to have small Q/A with Mr. Harshal
Arolkar ( He is a part of committee and played lead role in
designing the text book for Gujarat 12 th standard Computer
subject ). Due to their team efforts now open source is a part of
computer subject in 12th standard in Gujarat. */
Don’t you thing this is a great moment for all who are promoting
Linux and opens ource and a major step in Gujarat for Open source
movement ??
Excited !!! well here are the questions the answers are at
http://www.vglug.info/q-with-mr-harshal-arolkar-gujarat-education-board-12-standard-computer-subject-open-source
Although after some conversation I added few more questions.
Many many Thanks to Mr. Harshal Arolkar.
–
Nilesh Vaghela
ElectroMech
Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner
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.
- irssi Command line client
- xchat (Gui)
- mibbit.com (browser based, ION users will probably need to use this. ##C has blocked mibbit though
)
The above mentioned clients should be present in the repos of the Linux distro you use.
- Beginner commands
- Advanced commands
Googling for “IRC commands” or “IRC tutorial” will gove you all the info you need to get started.
- Channels you should start roaming around on : #linux, ##C , #python etc.
There are a lot of helpful and knowledgable people on these channels and you can clear your doubts etc. here. Do not hesitate to ask them thinking,”Should I??”. Just ask and they’ll help you out.
Again, please google to find more channels.
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 allows you to upgrade to the latest Release without having to do the above mentioned steps. It only downloads updates to packages that you have installed on your system in the background, and runs the final upgrade once this is done. Hence, it saves time, bandwith.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade
https://fedoraproject.com/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade
There’s also the “icon way” of upgrading, ie, no terminal needed.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg00255.html
The LUG will have the DVD media too. Interested people may please contact us.
The F11 preview DVD is available with us. Please refer :
http://forums.lugmanipal.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=1414#p1414
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 planning on making
ext4 the default in the near future, some recent releases have chosen to
keep it optional this time around). The Fedora team says that aside from
ext4 performance enhancements, Leonidas users will be treated to faster
boot and shutdown procedures, an automatic font, codec and clipart
installer, and the DeviceKit device management tool designed to work
with (and sometimes stand in for) hal. Fedora 11 users can also look
forward to updated versions of the KDE, GNOME, and Xfce desktop
environments, improvements in direct rendering, and better volume
control and power management tools.”
For more reading on the F11 release..
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3817686/Red+Hat+Fedora+11+Focuses+on+the+Linux+Desktop.htm
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_11_preview&num=1
http://www.h-online.com/open/Preview-of-the-Fedora-11-Linux-distribution-with-new-update-function–/news/113170
http://www.osnews.com/story/21388/Fedora_11_Preview_Release_Announced
http://ostatic.com/blog/history-and-releases-are-cyclical-this-is-fedora-11
The following one talks about the alpha release
http://linuxsysconfig.com/2009/03/fedora-11-preview/
For more from fedoraproject.org on F11 :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F11_schedule
The screenshots and tour page is UP!..
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour
Screenshots of the beta:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-11-Beta-Screenshot-Tour-108264.shtml
The Indepth features of F11 can be found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F11_in-depth_features
Playing Multimedia on F11 :
https://fedoraproject.com/wiki/F11_User_Guide_-_Playing_Multimedia
Most of the credit for the links is Rahul’s from the Fedora Marketing list..
Some screenshots:
April 25, 2009 – 12:55 pm
Ubuntu 9.04 was released on 23 rd April .
If anyone is interested they can take the i386 live-cd iso from me.
March 21, 2009 – 11:43 am
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
LUG Manipal is organizing a Linux Open Week sponsored by Fedora from 23rd-28th and 30th March. As the name says, this event stretches for one whole week. It is aimed at increasing awareness about FOSS and also how linux can be useful for people from all spheres of life rather than just a handful of programmers and developers. Keeping this in mind, we have planned the following
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An installfest spanning two days for those yet to find a foothold in the linux world. The distro to be installed is Fedora 10 Cambridge.
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A user’s day which would consist of sessions taken by various LUG members on different softwares like office suites, productivity tools etc. available on the linux platform that’d help the new users in making the transition from Windows to Linux.
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Another couple of days have been devoted to Developer’s Day which would be about getting interested programmers started off with development in the Linux environment. It’s no secret that Linux is the development environment of choice around the world because of it’s open nature and no self-respecting programmer in Manipal would want to miss out on these two days!
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Finally, the last day would be a Hackathon to bring out the hacker in the participating coders. They’d be trying to make a firefox extension for a certain web service which would be decided on the spot. Needless to say, it’d be fun. The choice of the software to be hacked on remains flexible though and the enthusiasm and the coding expertise of the participants will also be taken into account
Do checkout the event wiki page for further details.
These are the awesome posters that have been put up around Manipal for the Open Week promotion and kudos to Sheeladitya for the awesome work
A talk on search engines and a troubleshooting session were the reasons
for the gathering on the 25th and the 26th of February 2009.
The aim of the talk was to give a brief account on everything related
to search engine technology.It started with an introduction to search
engines and then went on to tell about the different types of search
engines technologies.Then we focused on the Google search engine
architecture.After that SEO’s techniques were discussed and Google’s
webmaster tools was shown.Now the final topic of how to get the best
results out of Google’s search engine with the knowledge of some
operators was covered.This is what the talk consisted of.
The reason for the troubleshooting session on the second day was for
users facing problems while operating Linux.Users discussed their
problems and were solved one by one.Some of the common problems
included users were facing is to get the package manager working using
our colleges proxy server. Next, they were shown how to install
packages manually in linux. This topic proceeded with a small discussion
on how to clear the dependencies.Then we had a quick glance through the
different shells and desktop environments in linux. The session ended
by showing the users how to run C and C++ programs on linux.
February 21, 2009 – 1:58 pm
Python Workshop slides have been uploaded and can be downloaded
Python Workshop Slides 1
Python Worshop Slides 2
We thank everyone who attended the workshop and Happy Hacking…..
January 25, 2009 – 10:45 am
Python Workshop Poster
LUG Manipal is organising a workshop on Python, which is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. It comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.
The workshop requires no prerequisites, even knowledge of C is not required, it is aimed at people interested in beginning programming with Python.
There is no charge for the workshop and no registration is required, everyone is invited.
People using Windows are requested to Install the Following Software before coming to the workshop
1) Python 2.6.1 from here
2) Notepad++ from here
Note: These will also be distributed on the first day of the workshop, If you are not able to install/download them you can get them there…
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