Re: [fsug-tvm] i did not like ubuntu 9.10 how to downgrade with out problem
As a derivative of 'Debian Sid', Ubuntu can't me as much stable as Debian. But it has all bleeding-edge packages. But, the fact is that, Ubuntu is stable for normal use. As in the case of Ubuntu 9.10(karmic koala), there are so many issues reported mainly with Nvidia ATI dispaly cards. You can search for your problem in http://ubuntuforums.org and get the answers. For the past few months i've been on ubuntu 9.10 and I'd say its very stable. I had some minor issues in the first week, which was sorted out. I can say ubuntu works great on dell xps systems with nvidia graphics cards. My friends also use ubuntu (similar laptop specs) NO matter what ppl say I say ubuntu is a cool linux distro and is stable- enough for any user ( maybe not for the ppl who'd go berserk if the system ever crashes ). The next release, Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx) is an LTS(Long Term Support) version. Normally it is supposed to be more stable than other versions. Cant wait for that. :) -- Regards, Yadu Nand B -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
[fsug-tvm] GECB magazine
We need articles related to foss and articles which will encourage others to use free software -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
Re: [fsug-tvm] GECB magazine
May I know for what it is??? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:13 PM, vineeth kartha vineeth.kar...@gmail.comwrote: We need articles related to foss and articles which will encourage others to use free software -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
Re: [fsug-tvm] i did not like ubuntu 9.10 how to downgrade with out problem
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Yadu Nand yadudoc1...@gmail.com wrote: The next release, Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx) is an LTS(Long Term Support) version. Normally it is supposed to be more stable than other versions. Cant wait for that. :) Me also. The most attractive feature of Lucid is 'Me Menu'!. I'm planning to organise a 'release party'. If the folks here are interested, we can make that!. We can register the event in Ubuntu India Community http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/Lucid_Release_Party http://twitter.com/MaheshMohanMU http://www.google.com/profiles/maheshmohan.mu -മഹേഷ് മോഹന് എം.യു -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: GECB magazine
students??? I don't get what you are planing...Kindly give more details while you mail... On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:37 PM, vineeth kartha vineeth.kar...@gmail.comwrote: well we issue this magazine to our students to create an awareness in them about free software -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: GECB magazine
I think this may be usefull for you...I will give you two artices...Read it and take the one which you need... And sorry if you don't like any two of my articles... More and more people are discovering free software. Many people only do so after weeks, or even months, of using it. I wonder, for example, how many Firefox users actually know *how free* Firefox really is—many of them realise that you can get it for free, but find it hard to believe that anybody can modify it and even redistribute it legally. When the discovery is made, the first instinct is to ask: why do they do it? Programming is hard work. Even though most (if not all) programmers are driven by their higher-than-normal IQs and their amazing passion for solving problems, it’s still hard to understand why so many of them would donate so much of their time to creating something that they can’t really show off to anybody but their colleagues or geek friends. The first myth is that free software programmers are all starving. Many people don’t realise that a lot of free software programmers are actually paid to do their work. They are definitely lucky: they might be employed by a big company like Red Hat, that has never disappointed in terms of licensing and patch submissions. Or, they might work as contractors on specialised modules, on the basis that their code will be available to others; this happens a lot with the CMS Drupal, which we use for Free Software Magazine. On the other hand, for every (more or less) paid free software programmer there are many more who aren’t. They do it because they either need/want something that doesn’t exist (or, it does exist, but they need/want it done in different way), or because they just love programming and being part of a fantastic, enormous and ever growing community. Paid or unpaid, company or private programmers, the question remains: why do they do it? The answer, as amazing as it sounds, is “convenience”. It’s better, and more importantly cheaper, to develop free software. A good example is Red Hat, which created Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). RHEL is based on thousands of pieces of free software, as well as extra packages that are developed internally. Unlike many of their less successful competitors, everything—even the custom software they’ve written—is released under the GPL (or another license which is ultimately based around the idea of being able to share the code). By releasing everything under the GPL, they basically get thousands and thousands of beta testers who test their code and send patches back to make sure that things get fixed. (For those who aren’t developers: a “patch” is basically an improvement to an existing piece of code; it’s basically a modification to an existing program, in order to fix problems or extend functionality). If Red Hat didn’t release the code, they would have to spend enormous amounts of money to do what they do—and it wouldn’t be half as good. What about CentOS, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone which uses Red Hat’s source packages and doesn’t require you to have a support contract with Red Hat in order to use it? I am sure CentOS “costs” Red Hat decent amounts of money in terms of lost revenue; however, I also know that it actually helps Red Hat’s sales (I, personally, know of two different companies that started out with CentOS and “upgraded” to RHEL), and creates an army of system administrators who are used to CentOS and are going to pick Red Hat Enterprise Linux when their company wants a supported operating system. It’s a bit like paying for advertising, really. I talked about patches… why would all those people send patches back to Red Hat? Because it’s better to do so. Take Apache, for example. If your company runs Apache on its servers, you, of course, need it to work right. Now, if it doesn’t and you find a bug, you can report the bug to the Apache developers. However, the bug might be one that will only affect a small minority of users; this might mean that it will have a very low priority for the developers. If it’s important enough to you, you might decide to try and fix it yourself or, perhaps, pay somebody else to fix it. If you send your patch back to the Apache developers, you will know that the bug will be fixed in every new release of Apache, so you won’t have to keep fixing it every time you upgrade to a new version. Not only that, but everybody else who uses Apache will benefit too. Your patch will be checked over by amazing developers, improved, discussed and improved some more. On the other hand, if you decide that you want to be greedy, and you don’t submit the bug, you will have to re-apply it every time a new version of Apache comes out—and hope that the your patch still works each time. You will also have to settle for a patch that hasn’t been peer-reviewed and, therefore, could (err… will), itself, be buggy. This is also true when you apply patches that would give your company a so-called “competitive
[fsug-tvm] Flash Player for Ubuntu
Hi, Somebody please comment on how to play *.swf* in Ubuntu 9.04 -- Regards VIPIN KUMAR.V -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
Re: [fsug-tvm] ubuntu 9.04 keyboard not detected while installing............
friends i dont know how to turn of keypad in or change acpi apic u can help understanding this procedure. but i am really need of installation urgently On 2/23/10, athithyan ac athithya...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:52 PM, raghu ram raghuramsusa...@gmail.comwrote: friends, i tried to install ubuntu 9.04 in lenovo laptop, while installing i am not able to move mouse from pad and nothing i am able to type for partitions when i connected external mouse it is working but not keyboard then how can i install ubuntu 9.04?? Before using the pad,turn OFF and ON your keypad using the fn key.That worked for my friend. -- srihari -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en I too experienced that problem.. Inorder to resolve it change acpi apic to off at the time of installation itself.. it is also possible to change it in terminal by resolving IRQ conflicts.. But i dont know how to do it.. Freedom Rulz -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -- Susarla Raghuram Research Fellow Space Physics Laboratory Vikram Sarabhai space center Thiruvananthapuram. 695022 -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
