Re: [Ilugc] Students Project - suggestions
Dear luggies >Consequent to the interest ILUGC has generated among students, I am getting >lot of request for suggesting proects. > >In some colleges, they have decided out-and-out FOSS based projects. > >Please suggest projects ideas. > >Please keep in mind the constraints > >a. The projects are not fulltime for B.E students >b. Most will have only preliminary knowledge - but can pickup fast. >c. Should point out resources available on net > > >Raman.P > The following list of OSS projects could be useful for students to learn and implement the technologies for real-life situations. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (For Storage/Remote Backups) BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. http://cult-thinclient.sf.net (For Network Computing) Cult is an Open Source software-only network bootable thinclient Operating System that provides a complete solution for thin clients, PCs or virtualized hardware http://www.gnokii.org/ (For Mobile Communication) gnokii provides tools and a user space driver for use with mobile phones under various operating systems (most testing is done under Linux but also Solaris, *BSD family and MS Windows families are known to work). http://beagleboard.org/ (For Embedded Systems) Beagle Board is an ultra-low cost, high performance, low power OMAP3 based platform designed by BeagleBoard.org community members for embedded development And finally, I have downloaded Fedora-9 Everything Source Repository (more than 6000+ software packages) as Source RPMS, and if students were interested in getting this, pl write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Mandriva 2009 DVD for i586 and x86-64 available
Hi, If anyone in this list is interested in getting the latest Mandriva 2009 Free edition for i586 / x86-64 in DVDs, pl. write to me offlist. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] how to install nic driver
Subject: [Ilugc] how to install nic driver Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:24:36 +0530 hi > >In my office, using redhat 5, > >our system not detecting nic card. chipset is realteck. > >where i find the driver. how to install driver in redhat 5. It seems your NIC is Realtek-8168 and not regular Realtek-8169. RHEL-5 doesn't seems to support 8168 ID. To check whether your NIC is supported by RHEL-5, attach the output of the following commands to help you further. 1. lspci -n 2. modinfo r8169 S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Anna University syllabus
Hi, > >Can anyone provide me (reply offline) with a soft-copy of the Anna >University syllabus? I am able to only find the list for ECE for >semesters 3rd-8th here: >http://www.annauniversity.info/Syllabus/ECE200433.htm > >Thanks! > >SK > Hi, Here, you can find all the details about Anna University syllabus. http://www.annauniv.edu/academic/3-8AnnualPattern-R04/ Regards Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Looking for Freelance developers to customize GNU GRUB
Dear Luggies, we are looking for a freelance developer to customize GNU GRUB bootloader (Ver 0.97) to enable PXE Network booting support for Gigabit Ethernet Controllers (based on Adam Lackorzyński Netboot patch) and Graphical Bootsplash Theme used in SuSE Linux. http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/grub/0.97/ http://forgeftp.novell.com/ftp/sledsource/SLED-10-i386-srpms/src/grub-0.97-16.1.src.rpm If anybody in this list is interested in doing this customization, pl. contact me offlist to [EMAIL PROTECTED] S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Diploma candidates required for Technical support
We currently require two Diploma candidates (C.T / I.T.) with experience in computer hardware servicing / networking / linux installation, configuration etc. pl. send your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] hii
>How to install yahoo messenger in ubuntu 7.10? >I have download the yahoo messeneger 1.0.4_1 & try to install this but some >error messege is displayed. the messege is > Error:Dependency is not satisfible:xlibs > You may also try the following Yahoo Client for Linux (deb package is available for ubuntu 7.10) It supports Voice chat, webcams, faders, 'nicknames', audibles, avatars, display images, and more. http://gyachi.sourceforge.net/intro.shtml Download at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=158490&package_id=177556&release_id=551575 Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT]/Commercial - Freelance Linux Trainers / technical support engineers wanted
Hi, Presently we are looking for Freelance Linux Trainers and Technical support persons (preferably RHCE certified) to conduct/co-ordinate Linux training programme in colleges. If anyone in this list is interested, they may write to me offlist linuxbas...@gmail.com / opensou...@vsnl.net S. Baskar LinuXpert Academy ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS workshops in February conducted by LinuXpert Systems
Dear All, LinuXpert Systems has been conducting two FOSS workshops in February and One day Linux Training Program in the following Engineering colleges. Linux Training Program 1. Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai January 27th (Tuesday) FOSS Workshops 1. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi February 5th (Thursday) and 6th (Friday) 2. Krishnasamy College of Engineering and Technology, Cuddalore February 27th (Friday) and 28th (Saturday) Few more colleges are also interested in conducting FOSS workshops and Linux Training, and we will update them when its confirmed. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Why FOSS for Education ? http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com Proprietary software in education is very much worse than computer viruses. Computer Viruses just corrupts our data, Proprietary Software in Education destroys all our creativity. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] fossconf -09 - Feb 27,28,Mar 1
>> Date: Feb 27,28 and Mar 1 - 2009 >> Venue: Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai (tce.edu) >> > > With just one month around, organising is going to be really >tough. Would have been better if it had been sometime in July, wherein >we have enough time to organise(and no exams/vacations to hinder) and >better having it in September as it will not collide with SFD. > On the same days Feb 27, 28, we have FOSS workshop program in Krishnasamy College of Engineering and Technology, Cuddalore region and most of the staffs from other engg. colleges were invited for the event and I am unable to participate for the first 2 days, and let me try to come and join on March 1st. S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Windows based FOSS software DVD for fossconf '09
Dear Luggies The following list of FOSS softwares for Windows platform is being provided freely (14 GB on 4 DVDs) for Academic Institutions participating in fosscont '09. http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/winfoss.pdf If anything to be added, pl. let me know. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Note: The Free DVD's are only for Academic Institutions and not for individuals. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Windows based FOSS software DVD for fossconf '09
>Check closely the license of the software. Google Desktop is not FOSS >for instance. You might also want to avoid duplicates of the same type >of software. > Thanks for pointing out, and I will remove the duplicates of same type and also remove which is not under FOSS compatible licenses and will upload the modified file soon (including the type of license name against each software) http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need a Library Management System
Hi, > >--- On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Shrinivasan T > wrote: >| I need a nice web based library management system for a college. >| >| Is there any FOSS project there? >\-- > >Koha: >http://www.koha.org/ > >SK Try this, but not web based http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Printer driver package
> I found an EPSON LQ 1150 printer driver source rpm of >FC4. Is it possible to use in FC10? > >-- > >Padhu, >Pollachi. > > Get new PPD file from http://www.openprinting.org/test/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-LQ-1170 S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Mepco got Enlightened!
Hi, >I just want to share what happened in mepco this weekend, > >The Computer Society of India of Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi >organized a two-day workshop, "Innovate 09", on Free/Open Source Softwares >on February 21 (Saturday) and February 22 (Sunday), 2009 in the college >premises. Mr. S.Baskar, CEO of LinuXpert Systems, Chennai and Mr. Ravi Jaya, >free-lance trainer conducted this training programme. This event recorded a >total of 382 participants comprising of students from various colleges in >the vicinity of Mepco schlenk Engineering college. > >Name of the CollegeTotal No. of Participants > >1) Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi168 >2) Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Sivakasi110 >3) Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil90 >4) Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti7 >5) Karunya University, Coimbatore3 >6) SCAD Engineering College, Tirunelveli2 >7) PSNA Engineering College, Dindigul1 >8) Dr. Sivandhi Adithanar Engineering College, Tiruchendur1 > >Total 382 students > >Before the commencement of workshop, we had installed Fedora-10 distribution >in four labs comprising of nearly 140 machines using >the FOSS-Lab Server provided by LinuXpert Systems. > >On day one, around 345 students attended the session which dealt with the >introduction and basics to the Linux Operating System like Linux >installation, Introduction to FOSS, Basic Linux commands, Introduction to >LAMP/MySQL, Web Development with PHP and Apache HTTPD Web Server in Linux. > >On day two, around 275 students participated in the session which included >Shell Scripting, PERL Programming, Python scripting, Virtualization and >MySQL Administration using PHPMyAdmin. > >The workshop accomplished the aim of providing a spark of knowledge about >FOSS into the minds of the students... > The message received from HOD of CSE, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi fromDr. K.M to linuxbas...@gmail.com, opensou...@vsnl.net, pgo...@mepcoeng.ac.in dateMon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM subject Thanks you for interacting with faculty members Dear Sir We thank you for motivating our faculty members into the era of Open Source on the occasion of your participation in linux workshop organized by CSI on 21-2-2009. We would like to promote the Open Source. Please give some guidelines for the slow transformation into Open Source System. with regards and thanks Dr.K.Muneeswaran Professor and Head Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi Mepco Engineering College Post-626 005, Virudhunagar Tamilnadu, India web : www.mepcoeng.ac.in S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Commercial: Debian Lenny 5.0 All Binary DVD's available
Dear all, Debian Lenny 5.0 latest stable version is available in 5 DVD's. Interested people may contact me offlist to linuxbas...@gmail.com / opensou...@vsnl.net. Total cost of 5 DVD's: Rs.400/- S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Note: Those who need ISO's can also get from us. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC
>Recently, >I obtained the permission to install free Oses in 3 systems in my Lab. I am >planning >to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on >1. >(I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are >rock solid. But >I doubt if we need such a Rock Solid distro where kids might want the latest >toys. >Also Debian Squeeze is a choice which I have not ruled out yet.) > >Given that 10 out of 10 (:P) machines are using more cycles battling viruses >and trojans >on the current Windows XP install, I feel that this will be a welcome break. >Also, it will >give some students of the current pre-final year to embrace a F/OSS final >year project. > >I am planning on the current software configuration (The systems are P4 3.0 >GHz machines >with 512 mb RAM) > Hi, Our FOSS Lab Server might help you to implement a FOSS network in your college. It's a preconfigured server (not big enough and looks slim, people often told me, looks like a DVD player) to remotely install any of the community distros like Fedora-10 for i386 (nearly 20 GB of fedora repository + rpmfusion) + 15 GB of source code of Fedora-10 Debian Lenny 5.0 for i386 (latest stable version nearly 20 GB) + 18 Gb of source code as 4 ISO's OpenSUSE 11.1 for i386, x86-64 Mandriva 2009 for i386, x86-64 CentOS 5.2 for i386, x86-64 K12Linux Based on Fedora-10, Fedora-9 Ubuntu 8.10 for i386, x86-64 FreeBSD 7.1 for i386 NetBSD 4.0 for i386 and much more TLDP (Full website) + Linux Gazette online magazine All GNU Documentations (more than 1 GB) Linux Kernel source code (Historic version 0.01 to 2.6.28.7 - the latest): 27 GB Windows based Free / Open Source Softwares (Nearly 12 GB) http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/winfoss.pdf Small Linux distros (like, smoothwall, ipcop, thinstation, openfiler, freenas and several others) The overall collection of latest distros comes around more than 300 GB. We have installed Fedora-10 distro in the following colleges recently using our FOSS Lab Server which is being provided free for one day while conducting FOSS workshops. Easwari Engineering Colleges, Chennai - Fedora-10: 65 computers, CentOS: 30 computers Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi: Fedora-10: 140 computers (installed in just 6 hours) Hindustan Engineering College, Padur: Fedora-10: Nearly 70 computers Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram,: Fedora-10 about 60 Computers Krishnasamy Engineering College, Cuddalore: Fedora-10 in 30 computers The complete Fedora-10 repository with rpmfusion is provided and setup (in their own servers/machines) in all the above colleges. If any colleges in Tamilnadu (engg./arts, science/polytechnics) willing to setup FOSS lab, we can provide our FOSS lab server free-of-cost for one day, were they can install around 200 machines in a day. If any colleges interested, pl. write to linuxbas...@gmail.com / opensou...@vsnl.net Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Chennai. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] FossConf 2009 Prize
>> > >> > Good decision. >> > >> > Can we increase the prize money, by getting sponsors from among members? >> > >> > If agreed I will donate Rs.1000/- >> >> I have already committed 2000 - please indicate how and where the money can >> be paid > >and the prize money is now 6K LinuXpert Systems donate Rs.1000/- for the prize money and it will be paid on second day, i.e. Feb '28 (on Feb '27, I am doing a program on FOSS in Krishnasamy College of Engineering, Cuddalore). S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] FossConf 2009 Prize
> >Fine. Tmrow night, Myself, Raman and Amachu are going to Mdu. Amachu will be with me for Cuddalore program on Friday, and we both will come to madurai on saturday morning. I am >not sure about the possibility of the collecting the money before >Friday. So I decided to give the money on behalf of all. KG and >Baskar, I will collect from you in FossConf. I will give my amount on Saturday when I come to fossconf. Others Plz send me a >mail, we will decide the mode for collecting the money. > S. Baskar. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09 - kudo's to Madurai school students
Hi all, During fossconf '09 TVS Matriculation School and Sri Vidyalayam Matriculation School, Madurai had sent a clear signal to proprietary software giants that, proprietary softwares is on its way out soon to disappear and we all should congratulate for their efforts who have done a commendable job during the fossconf'09 on all the three days. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக்கப் பட் டறை
>If there is any suggested way to post in Tamil or English let everyone >follow it. > >To my knowledge there are people who are not able to post properly in >english get some sarcastic comments here. We can allow them to ask their >questions in the state language(here tamil). Yes, it is almost true, many ilugc members who can speak/write in tamil well, are not able to post properly in english fearing of comments and never post their questions/problems at all. So, they should be allowed to ask their questions in the state language (as said tamil here). > >*Solution for this issue : * >*Thread specific:* >*Thread strarting : *Let the thread starter post in the language he knows >more - tamil or english. If he knows both lang(eng & tam) let him add the >translation or else some one who is proficient in both languages post >translation. Really an excellent idea and this would allow so many newbies to think about posting their problems/doubts of any kind without worrying about language problem. Initially people should help in translating the thread to english. >*Thread replies :* Replies can be both in English and tamil. If the >translation from tamil to english or english to tamil is needed, whoever has >free time can post replies in the thread with translations(I dont know >whether this will be feasible). > If members accepts the above, this should be feasible. > >I posted the above to come to a conclusion let us not start a war from here. > regards S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Help required for Hindustan University to retrieve data
Dear All, This mail is being sent by LinuXpert Systems on behalf of Hindustan University, Kelambakkam reg. a data recovery problem in SCO Unix Server. Message by Chief Librarian, Hindustan University: -- We have to recover the data available in the magnetic tapes. We used the HP DAT Tape Drive External C1556D/6 Pin SCSI which has some problems. Any people in chennai who can retrieve the data/provide the tape drive may please contact Mr. Viswanathan : 9840927690. -- Even though this message is irrelevant to this mailing list, they are in urgent need to recover the data from the tape. If anybody in this mailing list could help them on the above said problem, it would be helpful. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Looking for live cd/distro supporting eafs/htfs filesystem
Hi all, I need to recover data from a SCO Open Server 5.0 harddisk which uses EAFS/HTFS (not NTFS) filesystem. I didn't find any linux distro which supports this kind of filesystem to mount from linux. Any pointers would be helpful. S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
Hi All, After several months (possibly years) of efforts, LinuXpert Systems has developed a complete FOSS Lab server to meet the demand of Academic institutions to teach FOSS using all the latest FOSS software collections available on the internet including several new GNU/Linux distribuions, linux kernel source code, 300+ foss softwares for windows, 15000+ cpan archives, complete wikipedia, extensive documentation like TLDP, GNU docs and other software manuals (in Text, HTML, PS, PDF formats) with several pre-built features required for academic institutions while teaching FOSS. For Complete details about the foss lab server http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/fls.pdf Any comments would be appreciated and helpful for further improvement. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
> >What is the cost of the whole setup or you just deal in Softwares ? > The whole setup including hardware costs Rs.75k (including our commercial thinclient software). The hardware box: Intel Atom processor+MB 2GB RAM 1TB HDD UMPC Cabinet 1 Onboard VGA, Ethernet, 6 USB Ports, 2 PS2 Ports For academic institutions two days of free training (for teaching / non-teaching staffs) about FOSS software development. S. Baskar >-Satya >http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam >___ >To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with >"unsubscribe " >in the subject or body of the message. >http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Meet - Mar 28th 3PM
> >Why don't we organize an event where we'll go to various >colleges/institutions and promote linux? Of course, the time >constraint is there. But we're a good number, aren't we? At least, we >can try and make it a point to convince atleast 1 person every two >weeks or so.. :) > And one more FOSS workshop in Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram on April 4th (Saturday) by LinuXpert Systems. If anyone in this list is willing to promote foss/linux in rural areas, they may contact me offlist. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>Did you visited NRCFOSS-AUKBC stall?. >We dedicated a separate PC for our FOSSLab Server and given the demo for all >the visitors for the whole three days. > Does NRC-FOSS commercially providing the setup for institutions alongwith the hardware box or has any institutions already using your foss lab server. just require for information purpose only. S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>Baskar has come up with a version of FOSS Lab Server -- as he felt that the >colleges has a need for it. Yes, we have built our own FOSS Lab server realizing the need for it after a lot of interaction with many technical institutions in Tamilnadu (nearly 300 institutions in the past 6 years) >He had also asked me about NRCFOSS FOSS >electives and I presume he had picked up the info from the relevant web >pages. Again yes, some of the info has been picked up from NRC-FOSS pages. If Mr. Prakash feels for that, then I apologize for using that info. > >Just as there are many linux distros, some of us could come up with >different ways of providing material to colleges. Of course, the perspective >might differ. > Over the period of 8 years, I have collected these software mainly providing for educational purpose and also I have distributed more than few thousands CD/DVDs freely for many academic institutions, whereever I used to go. I download nearly 4GB per day, and now we have about 5TB of FOSS software collections, including the latest release of LInux kernel 2.6.29 and all top distributions listed in www.distrowatch.com Many organizations/institutions/individuals contact us, after visiting the following URL http://www.chennailug.org/wiki/?title=CDs_for_Grab#Pazhavanthangal >the one thing we have in common with him is the understanding that "download >from net" may not be viable option at many places. That's the main reason behind developing our own FOSS Lab Server. > >we are working in the realm of free/open source software. anybody could >build afresh or from existing material. > >from my point of view, the USP of Baskar is that he could reach out to >colleges. In fact, we had briefly discussed about how NRCFOSS could support >his visits. The FOSS Lab Server has been demonstrated to more than 20 colleges as of now in the past 3 months and also received few orders for them. (our FOSS Lab Server is backed with commercial support for 3 years including updates). Since we have been in a transition stage, the discussions were >ongoing and I suggested that he should also meet up with Prof CNK. [the fact >that I was moving off to C-DAC was also a minor factor]. > I had already discussed with Prof. CNK in his office and showed our product to him and explained about the features in it. >we have to seek collaboration, not collision. > We do seek collaboration and not collision. To Mr. Prakash A.S LinuXpert Systems has been providing FOSS solutions/support for educational institutions since 2003 (even before NRC-FOSS, which was started in 2005) and we have already developed many products for educational needs and now the FOSS Lab Server is one among them. With regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Meet - Mar 28th 3PM
> >We (I mean ILUGC) being an informal organisation the best is to do >a.College seminar/workshop etc. So far we are doing mostly in engg > colleges. We should catch Science and polytechnics also. It's almost true that most of the seminar/workshop programs is being done only in engg. colleges. Last week monday, I went to a Arts and Science college near Arcot to meet the CS HOD (who is also my well wisher). He requested me to give a talk about FOSS and its importance to their PG students (M.C.A, M.Sc. IT). When I expressed my willingness, within less than 10 minutes he gathered around 50-55 students and informed about the activities of me and company and after that, I gave a talk about one hour in the class room and also showed some demonstration on FOSS tools to students and staffs. Finally, HOD introduced me to the principal and the principal was inspired to know about the benefits of FOSS and questioned HOD, when everything is available freely, then why they are purchasing proprietary softwares and also assured to use FOSS tools from the next academic year. The sys. admin of the college installed codeblocks with GCC for windows (replacing Turbo-C) and MySQL for windows in few machines, when I was there. So, as Mr. Raman says, more importance has to be given for Science colleges and Polytechnics. Many of my programs were also in Arts, Science colleges and Polytechnics (and especially in many rural areas). http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com >c.Each member does something in his sphere of influence. For doing a single day program for just 6 hrs in Ramnad, our ILUGC member Mr Ravi Jaya travel about nearly 1000 km from Bangalore to Ramnad and back. (Thanks Ravi) I am sure that, FOSS has reached many colleges here than any other state in INDIA. >e.We should identiy, motivate (if needed support financially) > talented students like sudharshan, sivaj, selva etc, so that > India contributes to FOSS, instead of just a consumer. All our programs were not just showcases about FOSS, but also to identify, motivate young talented students to contribute to FOSS. >f.Schools require some attention from us. There are lot educational > tools in FOSS unutilised by us. Based on fossconf experience where > two schools did exceedingly well, I feel we should focus here. >From now, the focus should be more on schools (more than 4500 Higher secondary >/ matriculations schools) in Tamilnadu to reach out. > >Of course, there is no point in planning, thinking, collecting idea, >discussing future etc, there are have no meaning if we don't do. >And we cannot do, if we do not have enough physically present volunteers. > Many times in this list, we see ideas/discussions/thinking/planning from many people and when I post a request for physical prescense for any program, they just keep remain silence. >So please volunteer to the events. > Next time, when giving ideas/plans, pl. get ready for volunteering foss events. >Bhargav, I think you are a student, can you please try something in your >college? > I think you are from MSEC. If you could arrange something in your college, we can assure that your college will also be in FOSS colleges list next year. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Webattery for laptop users
Hi friends, > >I would like to present Webattery, a command line tool for displaying battery >power of laptops. The source can be found in following link > >http://webattery.sourceforge.net/ > >Negatives of this project is what I need to improve it well. > >Thanks in advance. > >-Alagunambi Welkin- Another FOSS contributor from here, a student of AVIT and also of mine. Thanks welkin. A really good and useful project for Laptop users, who work in consoles. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
> >Mr.Baskar, > >Just curious. > >Today's h/w box cost at www.deltapage.com: > Intel Atom processor+MB - 3500 /- >+ >2GB RAM - 1000 /- >+ >1TB HDD 5000/- >+ > UMPC Cabinet 1500/- > >= 11000 /- > >So does your s/w cost 75k - 11k = 64k ! > Your calculation is right. But, downloaded 1TB of all latest distros, documentations, source code from various websites/repositories, organized for easy access, configuration of mail server, mailing list, mediawiki, wordpress, automatic single click remote installation of distros and several other features and backed with 3 years of support adds that another 64K. (plus our commercial thinclient which is widely used by many educational institutions (which helped them saving several lakhs of rupees spent for costly hardware upgrades and maintenance for years) itself worth that 64k) If curious, you can see the demo in our office and really you would get excited. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems >Is the source code of the lab server available free? > All the source code is part of the lab server and available free only. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>Allow me the liberty of answering your question. I am not sure whether Mr. >Baskar offers the source for free to everyone. If he does, that shows his >generosity. Anyone can get the source for free, possibly on Sundays @ my office (pl. bring external storage devices for getting them and don't request on optical media) > >To follow licence terms of open source software, he just needs to provide >source code to those *who bought his server. *Not to everyone. For those who buy the server, they get everything as per the open source software licenses. (softwares, source code, documentation). I remember that RMS did this way when he started GNU project by selling emacs on tapes for a few dollars. (RMS essays on Free Software, Free Society is included in the server) >Efforts by Linux User Groups should be complimented by commercial offers >such as Linuxpert Academy for open source to thrive. Every successful FOSS business, whether it's small/big thrives this way only. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Note: Pl. see my next mail about the contents of "FOSS Webstore Server" ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
Hi, Due to the name confusion people had with NRC-FOSS developed "FOSS Lab Server" and ours, we named our product as "FOSS Webstore Server" which was completely developed by us in-house. Below is a short description of our "FOSS Webstore Server" configuration and contents Hardware Configuration Details Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz processor with Motherboard 2GB DDR RAM 1TB Sata HDD On-Board Ethernet On-Board VGA On-Board USB Ports (Front-side: 2, Back-side: 4) On-Board PS2 Port (Mouse, Keyboard) UMPC Cabinet http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/fls.jpg LXS FOSS Webstore Server Content Details: -- Linux Services configured in the Server: --- * Network Services: OpenSSH, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, XDMCP, VNC Server * Application Services: Samba * Web Services: Apache * E-mail Services: Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrelmail, GNU Mailman * Database Services: Mysql, Postgresql * Remote Access Services: Webmin * Remote File Copying Services: Rsync * Mediawiki and Wordpress has been configured additionally for knowledge management * XDMCP Service Enabled for Remote Login through KDM and Easy GUI Administration from Windows can be done using XMing-Server for Windows Additional Configuration Settings: -- * FOSS Elective-I and II syllabus access using wiki style with link to respective documentation * Complete Wikipedia June '2008 dump (English and Tamil Edition - around 250 GB) * Automatic Remote Installation of Community Distributions (Fedora, Debian) using PXEGRUB menu * Completely Web based Access of "FOSS Webstore Server" * Windows based FOSS Softwares can be accessed through Samba from Windows PCs * Complete Fedora, Debian Package repository access made local using yum, apt-get * LTSP 5.0 Integration in F-10 with KDM as the default Desktop Manager * Integration of LXS make Commercial Thinclient Solution FOSS Webstore Server Software Repository Contents --- * Kernel Source Code, Patches Repository (0.01 to 2.6.29) * FOSS Softwares for Windows Platform (More than 300+ for 32-bit XP / 64-bit Vista) * GNU/Linux Distributions (More than 15+) Fedora 7,8,9,10 + source code with complete repository (i386x, x86-64) Debian 4.0r6, 5.00 + source code with complete repository (i386) Mandriva 2009 (i386, x86-64) OpenSuSE 11.1 (i386, x86-64) Ubuntu 8.10 (i386, x86-64) K12Linux Based on Fedora-9, 10 (i386, x86-64) CentOS 5.2 (i386, x86-64) Slackware 12.2 (i386) FreeBSD 7.1 (i386) NetBSD 4.0.1 (i386, amd64) DreamLinux 3.5 (i386, x86-64) 64Studio 2.1 (i386, amd64) artistX (i386) BossLinux 3.0 (i386) LinuxFromScratch 6.4 (i386) * Small Linux/BSD Based Distributions (Firewall, Storage, Thinclient, Utility) --- IPCop Firewall(Firewall) SmoothWall Express(Firewall) m0n0wall (Firewall) OpenFiler (Storage) FreeNAS (Storage) Thinstation (Thinclient) Cult Thinclient (Thinclient) Trixbox (Communication) Parted Magic Live (Utility) System Rescue CD (Utility) CloneZilla Live CD(Utility) * FOSS Tools (not part of distribution, but quite useful) -- VirtualBox (For all distributions) Webmin * Documentation (Web based Access) (Text, Single page HTML, Multiple HTML, PS, PDF) --- TLDP (The Linux Documentation Project Website + Linux Gazette 154 Issues) - 1.3 GB MySQL Python Perl PHP OpenJDK Apache HTTPD Postfix Debian Manuals GNOME Manuals (grabbed whole http://library.gnome.org) Exim GTK+ Linux From Scratch Postgresql Ruby Sendmail Subversion TCL/Tk Linux man pages (HTML) GNU Manuals from www.gnu.org/manuals (Text, Single page HTML, Multiple HTML, PS, PDF) - - Bison Manual Formats - Comparing and Merging Files - DDD (Data Display Debugger) - GCC Documentation - GDB Documentation - GNU Autoconf (Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts) - GNU Autogen - GNU Automake - GNU Bash Manual - GNU Coding Standards - GNU Coreutils Manual - GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual - GNU Emacs Manual - GNU GRUB Manual - GNU Libidn - GNU Libtool Manual - GNU Mailing List Manager - GNU Parted Manual - GNU Scientific Library - Reference - GNU Smalltalk User's Manual - GNUStep Developer Documentation - GNU tar Manual - Hello, GNU World - Portable Terminal Control From Scripts - Programming in Emacs Lisp
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
> >Any chance of also including OpenBSD in this excellent list? Now OpenBSD 4.4 for i386 with repository is part of it and thanks for pointing that. ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/i386/ ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/packages/i386/ and also including amd64 with base packages only. Any specific request including documentation will also be appreciated, since The "FOSS Webstore Server" focus more on documentation than software binaries and sources. Shall we go with PCBSD 7.0.2 also? S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>Note that there are many custom variants (spins) of Fedora at >http://spins.fedoraproject.org. LTSP and Fedora Electronics Lab spins >are quite popular in India. You might want to include the ones that will >be useful for students. > The following Fedora spins is being included (i686 only) http://spins.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-10-i686-Live-FEL.torrent http://spins.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-10-i686-Live-Developer.torrent http://spins.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-10-i686-Live-edu-math.torrent Reg. LTSP, we provide K12Linux Live Server which is based on Fedora-10 and also for 9. Once Fedora-11 gets released, the respective spins would also be updated. S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>You have not still elaborated on my query regarding the license of >your "FOSS Webstore Server". I find no info in your flier regarding >the license under which your "Server" is distributed. > The "FOSS Webstore Server" is filled with plenty of foss softwares which is being distributed under different licenses, Ex. GNU/Linux distributions under GPL compatible licenses. and BSD distributions under BSD licenses and so on. Since our server is loaded with various kind of foss softwares/sources for multiple platforms (which is mainly for educational purposes), we don't put our own licenses into that. To keep things simple to understand, instead of giving all the softwares/sources/documents in several multiple CD/DVDs, we are putting altogether in a hardware box and distributing them. S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
-- >Dear Mr.Baskar, > >You have specified 3 years of support.Does it mean H/W support or S/W >support. If s/w support, what type of support do you intend to give? 3 years of support for hardware only. Reg. your query for software related support, we give 2 days of Training only (1 day for technical staffs on system administration and 1 day for teaching staffs on FOSS software development) S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>In short "No License" at all. I remember reading somewhere that a FOSS >Business Model based on "No" license is a "bigger evil" than EULA. > I think it would be nice to stop this thread at this stage with my last reply to the above. Since we are a solution provider, providing solutions/support to the educational institutions is the only business model we follow and not engaged in any other kind of development in this product and we are not interested to put our own licenses into that and confuse others. Instead of giving tons of DVDs to these institutions freely (earlier I was doing this way), we put altogether and giving them in a box and providing support for that box in case of any hardware problems. I am not sure whether this info. helps you and also request you not to reply to this list and if you need more info, pl. send a private mail to linuxbas...@gmail.com Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Note: Only suggestions alone being requested on this subject (if possible privately) ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Thanks for Mr.Raman
> >Anyway here are some links about multi-seat linux > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-seat > >mdm - multi display manager making configuration easier is at >http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm For those who missed, download MDM live cd and give it a try http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Live-CD or get it from us. S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia
>Further including a source code browser/indexer like cvsweb/lxr >will make it trivial for beginners access the source code using a >familiar web browser. This works even better if it's pre-configured >and works out of the box on the FOSS server. > >Cross referenced source: >http://lxr.linux.no/ >http://fxr.watson.org/ sure, and I kept wondering how I have missed out lxr, fxr so far, and surely this would help the beginners to access the source code using a web interface. (Now, really got the answer for the students who ask, "how can I see the kernel source code Sir") I have downloaded lxs-0.9.6 and let me try myself and when I am in need of help, will get back to you. S. Baskar. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Adding entry to grub boot loader
> now i want to add an entry in the Ubuntu bootloader to show Suse 11 in the >boot option > >my hard disk partion table is as below > >/dev/sda1 * 13187255995467 HPFS/NTFS >/dev/sda23188 17680 116415022+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) >/dev/sda53188449310490413+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > >Suse 11 > >/dev/sda644944506 104391 83 Linux /boot >/dev/sda74507581210490413+ 83 Linux >/dev/sda858135995 1469916 82 Linux swap / Solaris >/dev/sda95996730110490413+ 83 Linux >/dev/sda10 7302 1121831463271 83 Linux / (root >partition) >/dev/sda11 11219 1644041945683+ 83 Linux > >ubuntu 8.10 > >/dev/sda12 16441 16464 192748+ 83 Linux >/dev/sda13 16465 17680 9767488+ 83 Linux > > >i tried mounting the suse's /boot partition /dev/sda6 >and found this in the 'menu.lst' for the suse grub > >title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.5-1.1 >root (hd0,5) >kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae >root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3160215AS_9RA7XBPA-part10 resume=/dev/sda8 >splash=silent showopts vga=0x317 >initrd /initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae > >and currently the grub/ of the ubuntu has... > >title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-server >uuid0f6bed9c-7fc9-4e35-8295-61c41a634d8a >kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-server >root=UUID=fb769d04-3859-46f3-a111-8b67bd3c1ada ro quiet splash >initrd /initrd.img-2.6.27-7-server > >for windows ># on /dev/sda1 >title Microsoft Windows XP Professional >root(hd0,0) >savedefault >makeactive >chainloader +1 > >how can i add an entry to the ubuntu grub so that it shows the booting >option for selecting the suse 11 also > Before adding entry to ubuntu's menu.lst, just try the following from the ubuntu grub console to get into opensuse 11.0 While being in ubuntu grub menu, press `c' to get to command prompt, grub> now type grub>kernel (hd0,5)/(press tab twice here to see the kernel and initrd files which is under opensuse 11.0 /boot partition (/dev/sda6) and select)/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae root=/dev/sda10 your opensuse 11.0 kernel loads successfully here, and now type grub>initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae (here also press tab twice for auto completion) then, type grub>boot to boot into opensuse 11.0 and confirm its booting, then put these entries in ubuntu's menu.lst. title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.5-1.1 root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae root=/dev/sda10 resume=/dev/sda8 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317 initrd /initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS workshop at Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram
Dear members, LinuXpert systems conducted a one day FOSS workshop in Syed ammal engineering college, ramanathapuram on 04/04/09 for II-nd year CSE students. Myself talked about "Importance of FOSS in Education", and assisted a student to install Fedora-10 in a win-xp machine and Mr. Rajesh Kumar (Final year CSE student of Jaya engineering college) handled MySQL and PHP. After the program, The principal requested the CSE-Dept. HOD and staff members to consider choosing FOSS Elective by their students in the next academic year and also CSE HOD assured for a 2 days of FOSS workshop for 3rd/4th year students in the beginning of next academic year. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu booting problem
i was started my ubuntu system , still showing grub loading error message >the error message is >" grub loading stage 1.5 Read error" grub could not access your ubuntu's /boot partition, Try booting with ubuntu live CD/DVD and check if your /boot partition was found and normal. Regards S. Baskar CEO/Linuxpert systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] System Freezes
> >[19559.532639] 8139cp :02:02.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an >8139C+ compatible chip >[19559.532639] 8139cp :02:02.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead. >[19587.612043] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 >[19587.615504] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xde00, 00:16:76:12:fa:c2, IRQ 21 >[19587.615511] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101' > RTL-8139 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is supported by both 8139cp and 8139too modules. Run lsmod and look for the name of module loaded (8139cp or 8139too). In case if you find 8139cp loaded, then open /etc/modprobe.conf and add the following line to change it to 8139too alias eth0 8139too and restart your machine and check your log for any error messages. HTH :) S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Re: Any option in linux?
>> If you want only text out the file, try strings to extract text, it may >> work >> >> strings corruptedfile > somefile.txt >> > >I tried it before, but nothing comes in new file. That means, new file is >blank. > > Try MS-word document recovery (evaluation version) from http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Word-Document-Repair-Software.php Regards S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day
>The ideal way is to pxe boot and do a automated installation >over the network. A web search for "ubuntu automated install" >or "unbuntu unattended install" will lead you to: > >http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-unattended-ubuntu-network-install > >This takes some setup to get it right and you'll need a lot >of patience, but once configured you can rapidly install any >number of machines by simply booting it from the network. Automated network installation through PXE is much faster than cloning. Last week, a Chennai based company requested for installing fedora-10 linux in 60 machines where it took me less than 2 hrs to install (nearly 1500 packages) in all the 60 machines (The only thing I have done is just set the PCs to boot through PXE and watching the entire installation process). If anyone require our pxe installation setup box, pl. contact me offlist, I would be glad to provide this within Chennai. Now, it is configured only for Fedora-10 and can be configured for other distros also. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] CentOS 5.3 CD/DVD?
Does anyone have CentOS installation media? Please give me your no. so that >I can contact you and get a copy of the disk(s). I 'll provide the blanks >and pay any additional sum to be paid. Hi, We have CentOS 5.3 DVD ISOs (i386, x86_64) and if you need as ISOs, pl. bring external HDD for copying and pay as you wish. CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso CentOS-5.3-i386-netinstall.iso CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso CentOS-5.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Repository DVDs from IITM?
> >It will take a long time to download the entire repositories from internet. >But, I think, if we go inside IITM, the ubuntu mirror is like local network. >To copy all repositories will take only some hours. > >I don't know whom to contact for this. > Dear Srinivasan and members In the past 3 years, I have been downloading complete Fedora repository starting from Fedora-6 onwards and still maintaining them. In case, you need Ubuntu Repositories, pl. forward the download URL and I will arrange to get them in about 2 weeks. I also have Fedora-10 (Install DVD-1, Repository DVD-4, RPMFusion-1). In case you require them, pl. contact me offlist. Regards S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] The Herculean task of promoting FOSS in Education
Dear All, LinuXpert Systems is looking for Freelancers (Trainers/Tech. support personnels) to conduct FOSS seminars and workshops in Educational institutions across Tamilnadu in the next academic year. (All Freshers are invited to support this initiative) The Seminars/Workshops will be conducted in Polytechnics, Arts & Science colleges, Engineering colleges and private universities (details can be found in the following links) Polytechnics: http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/tn-pt.pdf Engineering Colleges: http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/tn-ec.pdf Arts & Science colleges: http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/tn-as.pdf We have planned to cover atleast 60-80 institutions in the next academic year. This is totally a non-commercial activity we have been doing for education, and those are interested can join and help us to promote FOSS in education. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] open source in manifesto looses
If the >educational system includes a F/OSS syllabus, most teachers need to be >raised to >using F/OSS It's possible only when F/OSS syllabus is made compulsory in colleges than being a F/OSS elective. S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] wireless datacard linux compatibility
>Of the current wireless datacard/usb devices supplied by the >any-time-anywhere-internet services available in Chennai which all, if any, >work in linux? Which one would you suggest? Yesterday Reliance Wireless Broadband+ marketing persons came to my office to demonstrate their wireless datacard where we have linux only machines and no windoze. I have inserted their Reliance Netconnect datacard in my Fedora-10 PC and just replaced their usename, password in my wvdial configuration and just connected in seconds and test the download speed and got average speed of 28kbps/35kpbs (tested about 10 minutes) and it was good for browsing and smaller downloads. Their wireless datacards support Highspeed Data transfer of about 3.1 MBps in 35 major cities and when I have tested 3 times, I have got only a max. of 35Kbps. Overall it is well supported by Linux (I have tested this in Fedora-10 and the wireless datacard is detected as /dev/ttyUSB0) and speed is also good for any mobile user. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Note: The price of Reliance NetConnect wireless Broadband datacard is Rs.3,500/- and citywide postpaid plan is Rs.1099/- per month (Data Transfer limit: 10GB/month) and nationwide postpaid plan is Rs.1,750/- per month. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] wireless datacard linux compatibility
> >> Their wireless datacards support Highspeed Data transfer of about >> 3.1 MBps in 35 major cities and when I have tested 3 times, I have >> got only a max. of 35Kbps. > >1. At what time, you run this testing? The testing was around 4.30 p.m. >2. If possible, try at 1AM - 3AM. Only Possible after purchase. >3. Did they commit any min or avg data rate? > He told me, previous day he got around 52k download speed in his own place. The sales guy was not so sound with technical things (when he came to my office, he was totally unsure about linux connectivity). S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need Friends to take Workshops
> I m Balachandar (Final year B.Tech IT) from Kongu Engineering >College,Perundurai.We are planned to conduct one day or two day >technical workshops on python,php,kernel compilation like that >(Everything related to opensource ).We are also inviting new topics.I >know there is a lot of willing hearts in ilugc to help us in this >regard. LinuXpert Systems is conducting two day workshop on FOSS (php, mysql, linux system administration, perl) at KCG College of Technology on August 17, 18th and One day workshop on (php, mysql, perl, python) for Mepco Engineering College, Sivakasi on August 19th. We would be happy if we could conduct a similar one in KEC. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Attn: Final Year Project Students
Hi, LinuXpert Systems is currently developing a Netboot Terminal Server for Remote booting through PXE-UNDI technology (can be used for Remote Installation of all types of Desktop/Server Operating Systems, Diskless Booting of all Server type Operating Systems). We use many opensource projects/tools for this development and if any final year project students is interested in this product development, we invite them to contribute for this product through new ideas/code development. few OSS tools used in our Netboot Terminal Server --- squashfs filesystem with LZMA compression Linux Kernel 2.6.30 or above busybox and uclibc aufs filesystem (for stackable filesystem support) GNU GRUB with PXE UNDI support for graphical user choosable menu item while diskless booting dropbear SSH support for remote login/administration rdesktop 1.6.0 client for linux multiple virtual X-terminals (simultaneously connecting to multiple terminal servers from diskless terminals) remote wake-up through WOL / remote administration web based interface for DHCP management Some useful links related to the project development: -- http://www.ltsp.org http://cult-thinclient.sourceforge.net/ http://downloads.2x.com/pxes/ http://www.thinstation.org http://www.2x.com http://www.openthinclient.org http://www.rdesktop.org http://www.busybox.net/ http://www.uclibc.org/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html http://aufs.sourceforge.net/ http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/ http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/grub/0.97/ http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/xvesa.html http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/ http://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Driver_Interface_Specification Interested students may write to linuxbas...@gmail.com / supp...@linuxpertacademy.com for more details. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: Workshop (was Re: [Ilugc] Fedora 10, 11 repositories)
>| So i asked my Senior mate Mr.Uma Magesh an ilugc member from chennai >| to gives seminar on Linux so he referred you sir. I like you to give us >| seminar on Linux and projects on Linux. I`m awaiting for your reply >\-- > >Mistakenly sent to the group? Myself only had given the seminar in DSCET, Mamallapuram last year for his seniors and also they did their final year projects in our company, instead of sending the mail to me, he had sent it to the list. > >If any member is willing to do a workshop, please write to Ranjith Kumar. > I will take care of doing the seminar/workshop in his college by first week of September. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Fedora 10, 11 repositories @ IIIT, Hyderabad
>If anyone needs complete Fedora 10, 11 repository, please let me know. >For each release version, the complete repository size is 25 GB. > The Fedora-10, 11 complete repository alongwith rpmfusion for i386 (Everything) is available in DVDs with us. Fedora-10 (Install - 1 DVD, i386-Everything-Repo - 4 DVDs, rpmfusion - 1 DVD) Fedora-11 (Install - 1 DVD, i386-Everything-Repo - 4 DVDs, rpmfusion - 1 DVD) Our Address: LinuXpert Systems New No.1, Vembuliamman Koil Street, Pazhavanthangal, (Near Railway Station subway) Chennai - 600 114 Ph: (044) 65694720 / 98841-65649 S. Baskar ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [SFD09] Volunteers
>> We are representing Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology (AVIT), Payanoor. > I am proud of seeing my students volunteering in many FOSS events and also as active contributors in FOSS developments. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS Seminar @ Sermathai Vasan College for Women, Madurai
All, I have given an introductory FOSS seminar for 2 hours on 20/08/2009 (Thursday) in Sermathai Vasan College for Women, Near Madurai. The total participants were around 350 (students of B.Sc (CS), B.Com and other departmets were also participated). After a small introduction of FOSS, I requested a student to Install Fedora-11, and a student came forward and installed Fedora-11 and also given few copies of Fedora-11 DVDs. The response I got was very impressive from both the students and staff members. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] LTSP Setup at VoG (Voice of God) Polytechnic, Namakkal
Dear Luggies, VoG Polytechnic, Erumapatty, Namakkal District had setup a LTSP based Thinclient Lab for 60 Pentium-III machines for their programming, office, internet browsing needs. The setup was done using Fedora-11 with LTSP and they are using the following applications 1. CodeBlocks with GCC for C/C++ Programming 2. OpenOffice.Org 3.1 for Office Applications 3. Firefox for Browsing The institution management was quite happy with the setup and further they want to switch to Fedora-12 in about 300 machines (CSE, IT, MCA) for their Engineering College by December. It seems, this was one of the successful implementation of LTSP in a Polytechnic in Tamilnadu. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Chennai ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Latest Distros available in DVDs
Dear Luggies, The recently released distros are available with us in DVDs openSuSE 11.2 Install DVD (32 / 64 bit) Mandriva 2010 Install DVD (32 / 64 bit) Ubuntu 9.10 Live / Install DVD (32 / 64 bit) S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LTSP Setup at VoG (Voice of God) Polytechnic, Namakkal
Its really a commendable work. Is fedora-11 used as LTSP server? Yes, Fedora-11 was used as LTSP Server. > >Could you please share more details, on any special hardware used and the >software running in thin client ? Initially it was planned to setup with a single Quad-Core based XEON Server with 4 GB for 60 machines. but later I had suggested that, 2 Core-2 Duo PCs can be used for connecting 30 machines each. Now, 2 servers (Core-2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB SATA HDD) was setup using two DHCP servers without using range options (Thanks to Mr. Raman for the DHCP suggestions and all 60 thinclients, were now based on reservation in DHCP). The entire Fedora-11 for i386 Everything Repository with rpmfusion was setup on both the server for their future applications needs (Nearly 14,000+ rpm packages) and also YUMEX was configured to install the applications graphically and the technical staffs are trained to manage the entire Thinclient setup. Applicatins used: Codeblocks with GCC, Firefox, OpenOffice.org. Now, the management wants to have a similar setup in their boys and girls hostel for totally 60 machines. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LTSP Setup at VoG (Voice of God) Polytechnic, Namakkal
>> How about thin clients? I understand that the existing P3 PCs are used as >> thin client.. i would like to know what software is used as thin client. >> >thin clients do not have software - they boot from ethernet prom >-- We also supplied 60 Network Adapters loaded with Etherboot BootROM for the booting process. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Fedora-12 for i386 Repository available
Dear Fedora users, We have Fedora-12 for i386, x86_64 DVD ISOs, Live CD ISOs (GNOME, KDE) and complete i386 Everything repository (totally 25 GB). Anybody who is interested in getting this, pl. mail me offline to linuxbas...@gmail.com The above ISOs and Repository is provided at free of cost for Educational Institutions. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Fedora-12 for i386 Repository info as PDF file
Dear Fedora Lovers, I have created a PDF version for Fedora-12 i386 everything repository. http://sites.google.com/site/linuxbaskar/Home/fedora12spd.pdf S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] pxe server configuration
hi, >my work place have 150 computers. i like to install windowsxp, linux through >pxe server. i need help you plz tell me what type tools, files require for >pxe boot server configuration in rhel5. tell me step by step procedure. For windowsxp, try this http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php For RHEL5 RPM Package, get from http://mirror.svk.su/fedora-epel//5Server/i386/ris-linux-0.4-4.el5.noarch.rpm http://mirror.svk.su/fedora-epel//5Server/i386/repoview/ris-linux.html S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS Workshop in AVIT / PCPC, Vallam
Dear All, Myself have conducted half day workshop on "IT Infrastructure Management using Linux/FOSS" in AVIT (Vinayaka Mission's University) on Monday (21-12-09). Totally 35 Non-Teaching staffs / Technical Assistants from all departments have attended the workshop. I have demonstrated the use of Ubuntu 9.10 using Live DVD and introduced various tools/softwares for day-to-day use. openoffice firefox empathy software development tools user management tools etc. and also installed the same on to HDD later on. The response from the participants was really good and I would like to specially thank Mr. Shiv Shankar (HOD-CSE) and principal Dr. Mrs. N.R.Alamelu for the intiative and opportunity. Tuesday (22-12-09) I also did a one day workshop on Fedora-12 at Periyar Centenary Polytechnic College (Autonomous), Vallam, Thanjavur for the Third year IT students. (I am also a Program Advisory Comittee (PAC) member for Computer Engineering / IT Department) I have done a kickstart based installation on a Desktop PC through network (totally 3190 packages installed) and demonstrated various foss tools which can be used for lab experiments. Later on, around 2.30 we had the committe meeting, and it was decided that from 3rd semester to 6th semester, all practicals and Lab experiments for Computer Engineering and IT Department need to be taught using Linux/FOSS tools from the next academic year. The support from Principal, HODs, staff members, Technical Admins really impressed me and hope PCPC would be successfully implementing Linux/FOSS from the next academic year. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Job openings for PHP / PERL @ BIJA
Hi, I am posting this message on behalf of my client's request. Interested candidate may contact them directly in the below address. - Job Openings for the following position exists at BIJA Professional Services Open source Development Division Position Title: Developer / Programmer Analyst (Linux) Location: Chennai, India Job Type: Full Time Positions: Multiple Job Description: Should have at least 2 to 3 years of application development experience on Linux. Should be well versed in LAMPP. Regards, BIJA Professional Services Private Limited 107 / 109, 2nd Floor, Kutcheri Road Mylapore, Chennai - 600 004 Tel - 91-44-4210 2776 Mobile - 98408 34642 Email - ad...@bija-coe.net - S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Open Source ERP Software
>Found that there are many FOSS ERP software available. >They are as > > >http://www.compiere.com >http://www.openbravo.com >http://www.adempiere.com/index.php/ADempiere >http://www.openerp.com >http://www.opentaps.org >http://www.weberp.org > >Need your suggestions on implementing any of these software. >How easy they are to adopt into a company? > >Please share your experience on implementing those software in a company. Yesterday, myself and our associate Bija Professional Services (P) Ltd., mylapore demonstrated webERP and SugarCRM for a medium sized organization in pondicherry. The whole demo of webERP took around 3 hours and the CEO of the company and staffs finally got satisfied with webERP features and now we are in the process of implementing the same for them. For details, pl. contact linuxbas...@gmail.com (S. Baskar - CEO/LinuXpert Systems) supp...@bija-coe.net (Mr. Pattabiraman - Director / BIJA) S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need Open Source Applications-OS Customization
>In our college most of the departments(Non IT,CSE) using the >proprietary softwares only.So we are plan to customize the Ubuntu OS >in application level. > >I need the names of the packages that are related to >Civil,Mechanical,Electronics,Electrical & related to engineering. >Is all packages related to these dept's are present in the Ubuntu >Repository?Because I am taking the Ubuntu for doing this. >If u have any idea,tell ur suggestion guys. > I have already given / setup the complete Fedora-11 for i386 repository (near 13,000+ packages) which has all required packages for non-IT/CSE dept. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS Seminar @ Arul Anandar College (Autonomous), Near Madurai
Dear All, Myself conducted a half-day FOSS seminar in Arul Anandar College (Autononous), Karumathur (Near Madurai) for the 1st and 2nd year MCA students. After the programme, I came to understand that, the management wants to use F/OSS throughout the institution replacing proprietary softwares. The also have decided to conduct a two-day faculty development programme in FOSS in the next academic year. I have demonstrated Fedora-12 installation and provided free DVDs to them. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Location: http://wikimapia.org/184759/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF-Arul-Anandar-College-Karumathur ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Downloading all Fedora Packages- Suggestions Required!
> >I would like to download all the Fedora packages and create a local repository. > >How to download all the 8000+ packages? Bring a 200 GB+ HDD and we give you all Fedora Everything Repo starting from F7 to F12 (all i386 only) S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] BigBlueButton - A Web Conferencing Systems Built for Higher Education
Dear All, Recently I came across an interesting open source project on Web Conferencing named BigBlueButton (www.bigbluebutton.org) and it was really exciting to see it working just using a Flash compatible Browser (supports Webcam, Voice, Text Chat, Presentation etc). The website provides a downloadable VMWare image to Try out and also I have made a VirtualBox Image from the downloaded VMWare Image. Now, I have implemented in my office and it is really cool and fun experimenting with. I have also planned to give talk about this interesting project in March ILUGC-Meet. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need Debian 5.0 release 0 dvd number 2
But, i >need the Release 0 second number dvd. Can anyone help me to provide any >link? > Here's the link http://cicak.vlsm.org/debian/lenny/debian-500-i386-DVD-2.iso S.Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS Seminar @ Kalasalingam Institute of Technology, Krishnankoil
Dear All, I have conducted a One-day FOSS Seminar at Kalasalingam Institute of Technology, Krishnankoil (Near Srivilluputur) on Thursday for the 2nd year students of CSE/IT Dept. Fedora-12 was installed in 35 machines using kickstart/remote installation (totally 3320 packages installed including all Multimedia Packages and codecs) Demonstrated various FOSS tools (Office/Internet/Development/Multimedia etc) and finally I also demonstrated Web based Conferencing using BigBlueButton (www.bigbluebutton.org) and Fedora-12 DVDs were given to them. I would like to thank Dr. S.R. Srikumar (Principal), Mr. Nagarajan (Staff/CSE) and HOD of CSE/IT for granting the opportunity. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems Chennai ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Help needed related to Ubuntu thin client
>However simple pxe booting will work well with ltsp. We are offering ATOM based LTSP thinclient box for Fedora/Ubuntu Distro using PXE booting. In case, if you require Demo / Support for setup, pl. contact me offline at linuxp...@vsnl.net / linuxbas...@gmail.com Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] FOSS LAB Setup for Technical / Engineering Institutions in Tamilnadu
Dear All, In the recent times, we are getting more enquiries from technical institutions to implement open source lab and we also have setup many open source labs in these institutions across Tamilnadu (Now, Polytechnics were also showing more interest in having Open Source labs and we already have setup in 2 Polytechnics running successfully) Now, LinuXpert Systems has been taking initiative to setup open source labs in about 1500+ Technical Institutions (Polytechnics, Arts & Science Colleges, Engineering Colleges, Universities) across Tamilnadu (for the first time, the foss lab setup would be done at free of cost). The main objective behind this initiative is to successfully implement and support for FOSS enabled Technical / Engineering education in Tamilnadu - By 2012, all Technical / Engineering Institutions should feel comfortable using / training their students on Free / Open Source Softwares To provide complete alternative FOSS solution for every Proprietary Software used in education Encouraging students/staffs members to get participated in FOSS development Interacting with College/Institution Management for successful implementation of FOSS throughout the institution (not limiting to CSE/IT dept anymore) In this regard, we are looking for volunteers to support our initiative in setting up of FOSS Labs (preferably freshers, who might be looking for experience in FOSS) and also everyone's feedback. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] FOSS LAB Setup for Technical / Engineering Institutions in Tamilnadu
>If this initiative is somewhere in and around Mumbai, I and some of my >friends here would be only too happy to help out. > >At most the financial outlay may be conveyance. > The FOSS Lab Setup is completely a automated process using kickstart method currently based on Fedora-12 and installs about 3500+ packages (almost a complete workstation class installation with Rich Multimedia, Development, Internet, Office, Engineering Applications etc) directly from Fedora main/rpmfusion repository using our FOSS Lab Server Box. If interested, we can provide the required hardware with complete resources setup for anyone who is willing to setup FOSS labs in your regions. You can install about 100 machines in just 3 hours, if the Desktop PC has atleast 1 GB of RAM and PXE booting support. In case of low end configurations, you can setup as a LTSP Server (that's what we did in polytechnics, where they had P-3 with 128 of RAM) Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Day Celebration at SASTRA University
I would like to thank for the organizers of S-FOSS event and their support. S. Baskar CEO/LInuXpert Systems >A grand celebration of FOSS Day (S-FOSS'10) at SASTRA University - >Kumbakonam Campus was held on March 8th, 2010. During these celebration, >many Open Source Related Events and Competitions are conducted. FOSS >Magazine (S-FOSS Community Edition) was released on that day. It was fully >organised by the students(all branches). > >Mr.S.Baskar, LinuXpert Systems gave a excellent hands-on training to all >participants. We are very thankful to him for that. > >T-Shirts, Caps, DVDs and Certificates are also provided for the >participants. > >The total number of participants are around 250. It is a great success to >the S-FOSS Community. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] doubt on ssh connection
> >>8. A system has 2 nic cards..how do we check which one is up or >> which one is down > >ethtool Also try, mii-tool -v (both your NICs should support MII). S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] GNU/Linux Workshop for Technical Staffs @ Sethu Institute of Technology
Dear all, On behalf of ILUGC, myself have conducted a two days GNU/Linux workshop @ Sethu Institute of Technology for Technical Staffs of all departments and also for Office staffs. The Sethu Institute of Technology, Near Kariapatti, Virudhunagar District wants most of its existing windows PCs to be converted to GNU/Linux, Open Source Softwares (including ECE, EEE, Mech. Departments). So, the training was planned for all sys. admins / lab technicians in the college. The training focussed on 1. Fedora-12 Linux Installation (Local / Remote using kickstart) 2. Local Repository Setup for Package management 3. Samba for File Sharing Services 4. NFS / DHCP Setup 5. LTSP (for setting up Terminal Services in existing Labs) 6. Introduction to several application development tools (codeblocks, netbeans, eclipse, openoffice, mysql, umbrello etc) I also had an interaction with all department staffs, regarding their doubts about the existing proprietary software and their equivalent applications in Linux / Open source software and how far other colleges have been using FOSS in other departments. They are planning to have a separate Linux lab for the first year students from the next academic year. They also have planned for a one week training program for Teaching staff's by first week of May (Interested persons, may contact me offlist). I would like to thank Dr. Senthil Kumar (Principal), Mrs. M. Sheerin Banu (Dean, Profesor & Head-CSE) and Mr. Nageswaran (System Admin) for the support. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LINUX BOOKS
>> I need Linux books and materials for linux administration if you have >> please send me through the links. http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=MContent&pageid=224 http://www.tldp.org http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] web based terminal
> yum info webshell >Description: WebShell is a standalone web server and browser application >that > : provide encrypted shell access through any web browser > : (https://host:8022). WebShell includes a touch keyboard for use >on > : mobile devices with a touch screen. > Yes, I use WebShell for web based remote administration and it just work's fine and it's available only in Fedora-12. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ubuntu 10.04 repository DVD iso's are available
> >ISO images for Ubuntu 10.04 repository DVDs are available at >http://ubunturepo.hnsdc.com/ > >8 DVD ISO files are there with a total size of around 30GB. >torrent also available. > >This DVD images will be so useful where there is no Internet collection. Dear All, I have started downloading all the above 8 DVD ISO's and they will be available by next week. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ubuntu 10.04 repository DVD iso's are available
Can similar repository be downloaded for Fedora? >If no please suggest any other alternative to install packages offline > Fedora Everything Repository for i386 (from version 7 to 12) is available with us. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] One Day Linux Network Administration program @ AIHT
Dear all, Myself did an one day session on Linux Network Administration @ Anand Institute of Higher Technology under faculty development programme on 6th May. The whole session was done in lab and fully hands-on (The Lab was setup using Fedora-12). I thank Mr.Manoj/Lecturer, Mrs. Ramya Ramprasad/HOD-IT, Prof. Balakrishnan/Director of this college for the opportunity. The following Topics were covered in this session. Network Based Remote Installation of Fedora-12 (Installed 3800+ packages including all Engineering Tools, Languages, IDEs, Multimedia Codecs, Players, Server Packages, Office Tools etc) in 50 mins. Network Configuration DHCP, TFTP, Xinetd Configurations Samba, NFS, SSH etc. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ncomputing vs thin clients
>an educational institution has decided to go completely open source. Among >other things they are required to have 2 labs with 60 machines each. They have >been advised to go in for: >http://www.ncomputing.com/ It is not advisable to choose ncomputing solution, especially if the institution prefers to go completely with open source. >which will save money and energy. I cannot make out if this is an open source >solution. NComputing supports both Windows / Linux and it is not open source, and they use their own vspace Desktop virtualization software in their NComputing device. Apparently they have to buy 10 full fledged machines to which they >attach the ncomputing box which costs 4000. To the ten machines they add 6 >keyboards, monitors and mouses. It is better advised to go for a low cost Intel Atom Board + procesor with 512MB / 1 GB RAM using PXE for network booting supporting LTSP. > >I was planning to suggest ltsp - but what would the economics of that be? >would it compare with the ncomputing solution? what kind of thin clients are >available and at what cost? The above mentioned setup for LTSP would be more economical option for the institution without vendor lock-in problems and when compared with ncomputing solution, LTSP is much a better option both in terms of economical and technical capabilities. The following things are required for setting up LTSP thinclient 1. Intel ATOM processor + Board (Rs. 3,000) 2. 512/1GB RAM 3. Mini-ITX Cabinet If the institution requires any suggestion / demo on this kind of setup, we would be glad to assist them. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ncomputing vs thin clients
>Suggestion to have a look at Enjay Thin clients, they are into >providing solution on Thin Clients with open source. >http://www.enjayworld.com/ Enjay has been supporting / providing open source solutions, but their thinclient is not free / opensource. The best FOSS thinclient I have ever seen is Cult Thinclient (http://cult-thinclient.sourceforge.net) which can be setup in few minutes and also best suitable for academic environments where they might need for both windows / linux. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [SPAM] Re: [Ilugc] ncomputing vs thin clients
>> That is a great thing. Why not we join them in implementing ltsp? I am >> willing to share my experiences and help them in whatever way I can. >> >> We can probably start with a small setup of 5 system using existing PCs. >> > >they need 60 systems and do not have existing PCs - they have no aversion to >paying commercial rates for installation and set up, only the do not want to >be taken for a ride >-- If the college is interested, we are ready to implement the complete LTSP setup, providing the complete upcoming Fedora-13 (or) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Distro repo. without looking for any commercial interest. Regards S.Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [SPAM] Re: [Ilugc] ncomputing vs thin clients
>> If the college is interested, we are ready to implement the complete LTSP >> setup, providing the complete upcoming Fedora-13 (or) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS >> Distro repo. without looking for any commercial interest. >> > >how much would it cost for a lab with 60 systems - all they need is office, >mail >and internet browsing and decent speed. (I will contact you offlist for your >fees) but I want the cost discussion on list so that we can all get an idea if >this type of thing comes in future - and it will come as a 60 computer lab is >an AICTE requirement. The cost details were got from www.deltapage.com Hardware Requirements (for 60 Clients) -- Intel ATOM Board + Processor 1.6 GHz -- Rs. 2950/- 1 GB DDR2 (Dynet / Hynix) - Rs. 1150/- i-Ball Cabinet (NetTop-009) - Rs.1,500/- LG LCD Monitor 17" (177USB) - Rs.5950/- Logitech Keyboard (USB) - Rs.425 Logitech Mouse (Optical/USB) - Rs.375 Instead of having one Single high end server connecting 60 clients, it is suggested to have 2 Medium sized configuration for LTSP servers, serving 30 clients each. Hardware Requirements (2 Servers) --- Server Motherboard supporting Core 2-QUAD Processor (64-bit) 4 GB RAM 500GB / 1 TB HDD (Sata/SaS) DVD-RW Drive Networking cost and any other stuffs will be as per the requirement. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Industrial Workshop on FOSS - Sponsorship required
>We organized Industrials and IIT professors for enlightening students for >the five day training, we expect 250 - 300 students to participate in it. We >require the following things to be sponsored by any organization or >individuals. > >1) CDs (Ubuntu and Fedora latest versions for all participants) >2) Tea & Snacks (All five days) >3) Notepads and Pen (To all participants) >4) Booklet (full back page can be used by the sponsor(s)) LinuXpert Systems sponsors Rs.1,500/- for the training program, and this amount will be deposited into account shortly. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Ubuntu 10.04 Repository DVDs / ISOs available
Dear All, http://ubunturepo.hnsdc.com/lucid/ We have downloaded all the 8 nos. of Ubuntu 10.04 Repository DVD ISOs and those who need may contact us in the following address. LinuXpert Systems, Ph: (044) 43588282, 94898-55885 (Sivabalan), 98841-65649 (Baskar) E-mail: sivaba...@fssi.org.in / bas...@fssi.org.in Note: The cost per ISO is Rs.40/- or Rs.60/- per DVD Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
