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

• Clients

1. irssi Command line client
2. xchat (Gui)
3. 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.

• Commands

1. Beginner commands
2. 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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

There are lot of things that need to be done so if you are willing to help plz contact lugmanipal[at]gmail.com

PS – this is just an initial announcement, detailed announcement will be made after things are finalized….

Hoping for a good response!!!

Linux Users Group

Manipal

presents

Linux Install Fest

• LUG Manipal is holding an Install fest on 23^rd and 24^th 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 installation will be done.

• Students who missed out the first LUG meet are specially invited in this pre-install fest day.

   

NOTE : Please bring your Laptop on both days.

Please bring a BLANK DVD on Pre-install fest meet i.e. 23 Jan, Wed.

Venue: NLH 303

Date: Pre-Install Fest on 23^rd January(Wed)

Install Fest on 24^th January (Thurs)

Time: 5:30PM

Charge: FREE

Website: www.lugmanipal.co.nr

Contact:

Ankur Shrivastava: 9901726825 queries.lugmanipal@gmail.com

Manish Sinha: 9844411705

Ayush Pranshu: 9448984741

/ – Root directory that forms the base of the file system. All files and directories are logically contained inside the root directory regardless of their physical locations.

/bin – Contains the executable programs that are part of the Linux operating system. Many Linux commands, such as cat, cp, ls, more, and tar, are locate in /bin

/boot – Contains the Linux kernel and other files needed by LILO and GRUB boot managers.

/dev – Contains all device files. Linux treats each device as a special file. All such files are located in /dev.

/etc – Contains most system configuration files and the initialisation scripts in /etc/rc.d subdirectory.

/home – Home directory is the parent to the home directories of users.

/lib – Contains library files, including loadable driver modules needed to boot the system.

/lost+found – Directory for lost files. Every disk partition has a lost+found directory.

/media – Directory for mounting files systems on removable media like CD-ROM drives, floppy disks, and Zip drives.

/mnt – A directory for temporarily mounted filesystems.

/opt – Optional software packages copy/install files here.

/proc – A special directory in a virtual filesystem. It contains the information about various aspects of a Linux system.

/root – Home directory of the root user.

/sbin – Contains administrative binary files. Commands such as mount, shutdown, umount, reside here.

/srv – Contains data for services (HTTP, FTP, etc.) offered by the system.

/sys – A special directory that contains information about the devices, as seen by the Linux kernel.

/tmp – Temporary directory which can be used as a scratch directory (storage for temporary files). The contents of this directory are cleared each time the system boots.

/usr – Contains subdirectories for many programs such as the X Window System.

/usr/bin – Contains executable files for many Linux commands. It is not part of the core Linux operating system.

/usr/include – Contains header files for C and C++ programming languages

/usr/lib – Contains libraries for C and C++ programming languages.

/usr/local – Contains local files. It has a similar directories as /usr contains.

/usr/sbin – Contains administrative commands.

/usr/share – Contains files that are shared, like, default configuration files, images, documentation, etc.

/usr/src – Contains the source code for the Linux kernel.

/var – Contains various system files such as log, mail directories, print spool, etc. which tend to change in numbers and size over time.

/var/cache – Storage area for cached data for applications.

/var/lib – Contains information relating to the current state of applications. Programs modify this when they run.

/var/lock – Contains lock files which are checked by applications so that a resource can be used by one application only.

/var/log – Contains log files for differenct applications.

/var/mail – Contains users’ emails.

/var/opt – Contains variable data for packages stored in /opt directory.

/var/run – Contains data describing the system since it was booted.

/var/spool – Contains data that is waiting for some kind of processing.

/var/tmp – Contains temporary files preserved between system reboots.

People have a myth in mind that Linux is still command line. So the event started off with the Vista-Ubuntu Compiz video. Shubhendra first showed them the effects of Vista and the whole crowd was quite astonished that such effects were really possible? We asked them how much of RAM you require for them? Hardware requirements? Answers were- “Minimum 1GB RAM”, “2GB RAM for proper aero effects”, “Dedicated Graphics card” and many more. Next we showed them the Beryl-CompizFusion effects on Ubuntu. Now people didnt know to say next. We again asked for hardware requirements. This time we got replies like “1GB RAM”,”512MB RAM”, “Graphics Card”. No buddies! It runs on 512MB of RAM without even a Graphics Card. Next I showed them the same effects on my laptop to prove that they were not false. The greatest myth regarding Linux was cleared.

Next was my turn. I know the section was a bit boring since I had to speak on the Open Source and Free Software philosphy. This was the arena where we all three tried hard to explain the people what it really is !! Next I told them the history of Linux in the hope that it would turn out to be interesting but it proved to be more disastrous. It became too technical. Well, leave it.

The last and most important part was the questionnaire round. People kept asking the questions like they had sessionals the next day. This was the place where as first year guy “Ankur Shrivastava aka OS” jumped in. Till now he had been controlling our presentation slides. Now we all four tried our best to quench their thirst of knowledge. Some people did ask foolish questions, but we do know the importance of patience.

Before concluding, we asked those people to stay back who really wanted to get involved in this work. We would be building website relating to LUG,Manipal. We plan to have blog,CMS, Wiki and forums on the site for the betterment of general public. To out expectations more than 30 students stayed back to register themselves. All of them have been assigned the work and now I hope on the first Saturday of next semester we can hold an install fest for letting people work on this hot-hot thing