October 6, 2009 – 9:04 pm
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 in 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 event, any worthy news related to FOSS or just anything which you want to share with the follow FOSS enthusiasts. You can contribute to it by
- Become a Fan of LUG Manipal
- Discuss anything useful on Discussion tab of the Fan page
- Post links related to anything FOSS which do affect the larger community
- Create Events and invite them to attend it.
- If you took any photos during any of the LUG Meet/Workshop/Meetings, do upload them on the Fan Page’s album.
Lastly you can promote LUG Manipal by adding this badge on your website. The HTML Code for the same can be found out from here
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</script><script type=”text/javascript”>FB.init(“f83ca3350173b99bf34091c463dce8b0″);</script>
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<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manipal-India/Linux-Users-Group-Manipal/146702001478″>
Linux User’s Group, Manipal on Facebook</a>
October 6, 2009 – 1:07 am
LUG Manipal is organising a Linux Install Fest aiming to introduce GNU/Linux to people who haven’t experienced a type of operating system which is crash-free , virus-free , with power of absolute customization and which is also being used by Google , NASA ,NSA and others.
This will be a 3 days install fest Starting on 6th of October 2009 at 5:30pm at NLH 103 MIT.
Distro – Ubuntu 9.04
We are providing with a re-mastered Ubuntu 9.04 which contains the commonly used packages .
6th – Introduction to OpenSource and GNU/Linux and Preparation for Install Fest ( Burning of DVD’s and defragmentation )
7th – Installing Linux (Ubutu 9.04 ) and explaining the basic softwares ( VLC, Gimp,Rhythmbox ,OpenOffice,Synaptic, Geany, Gedit,Transmission,Brasero,Pidgin,gcc/g++ )
8th -Talk about various open source projects like Firefox etc .
*Please come with your laptop and 1 BLANK DVD
NOTE : You can have Windows and Linux both simultaneously running on your laptop.Also ,there will be no problems with your warranty .
September 27, 2009 – 6:10 pm
So, Techtatva is over, and so are the second sessionals, and there is finally some more time to devote to the things we have been trying to find time for. So, what better time for picking up on the fundamentals of the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Movement? What better time to break free?
So we bring to you the Introductory Meet for LUG Manipal. It’s completely free and everyone is invited! We will be covering the reasons you would want to use linux, dispelling myths about it and in general increasing your Tech Awareness. Here is a brief gist of what we will be doing:-
1) Introduction to the FOSS Movement & the motivation behind it.
2) Introduction to the Linux operating system.
3) Clarifying the LUG’s internal structure and how you can be a part of it.
4) What you get out of being a part of it.
This is going to be no workshop or class. This is a meet with a difference. Everyone attending is on an equal platform, and they can express their ideas without any other considerations. There will be a free interflow of ideas and knowledge, and youll learn quite a bit. Come down and find out what “freedom” is about!
Date:- 1st October 2009
Venue:- NLH (Academic Block 3)
(The exact room number will be put up at the Venue)
It all started with a failing Student’s Teacher Feedback System, designed by few fourth year students of college, in oct-nov 2008 the system was not able to scale and everything was reverted back to paper, it was then when i was contacted by a teacher from my Department ( Information and Communication Technology ), regarding if i can improve it,
i asked DJ if he wants to join me and after few weeks of coding there it was Manipal university’s first (working) Feedback System, when the point of hosting it came, i was surprised to find Manipal University has no Linux servers, i mean come on no Linux what are you people click sys admins, then we decided to setup our own server in the department, thus giving Manipal university its first Linux ( fedora 10 ) server.
currently it just hosts the Feedback System, but we are planning to use it as local ( internal ) fedora repository mirror, we need permission from the WiFi provider ION because almost all the students use only WiFi and not LAN, last time we tried we were denied by saying ” You are a threat to our network “, lets see how it goes this time. we will also require people to manage it but i think this can be handled very well by LUG Manipal, some pics
Fedora 10 server in Manipal
Fedora 10 server in Manipal
PS – i am looking for a way to convene them that setting up a mirror will be helpful for them as well as students can anyone suggest me how to go about it??
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
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