Re: [ubuntu-in] Review of the HP Ink Tank GT 5810 All-in-One Printer (or the wifi version)

[James Sebastian]

Dear Ram,

With hp-setup and hp-doctor (I think that was the command), I could make
work all the HP printers came across to me in Ubuntu LTS versions...so I
would expect this should work.. I do not have first hand experience with
the model you mentioned.

Regards,
James

On 14 April 2017 at 13:29, Ramnarayan.K  wrote:

> Hi
>
> So we are thinking of buying the
> HP Ink Tank GT 5810 All-in-One Printer
> 
>
>
> 
> 
> or its wifi variant
> HP Wireless Ink Tank GT 5820 All-in-One Printer
> 
>
> open printing  does
> not list this printer
>
> while HPLIP (HP's open source printer driver initiative) does show both
> the printers as working with full support
>
> HP Deskjet Gt 5820 All-in-one Printer
> 
>
> HP Deskjet Gt 5810 All-in-one Printe
> 
> r
>
> Need your thoughts on this
>
>
> Our priorities are simple
>
> 1. Linux Compatible
>
> 2. Good quality and not expensive photoprinting
>
> 3. Regular printing and scanning
>
> Look forward to your thoughts
>
> Ram
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu LTS Supported entry level Laser Printer

[James Sebastian]

Thank you Ram for recommendation. As of now that printer is close to 6K.
Any one has first hand experience with Samsung ML-2161 on Ubuntu (14.04 or
16.04) ?


On 16 March 2017 at 18:27, Ramnarayan.K  wrote:

> Hi James
>
> I was frustrated with HP and decided to get a low cost Samsung laser
> printer
>
> Got the Samsung  ML 1676, its a sub 4.5 k
>
> It has been , surprisingly good, the Samsung driver is effective
>
> Have had no issues with it and in future would recommend Samsung printers
> that are rated as linux compatible
>
> This printer has a few features that are better than HP's , specifically
> its ability to continue printing without manual intervention after paper is
> re fed
>
> Its does seem to have a larger electrical requirement (which may be a
> laser printer issue, but it also comed with a 16 amp 3 pin rather than a 5
> amp
> Plug - but this is easily changed)
>
> Its physical footprint is quite small and goid for small desks or offices,
> and almost portable
>
> On a phone so cannot send more specifics but would definitely recommend
> looking at Samsung
>
> Ram
> ***
> Cent from a mobil devious with spiel
>
> On 16 Mar 2017 2:10 pm, "James Sebastian" 
> wrote:
>
> I am  looking to buy an entry level Laser printer for our basic printer
> needs.
> I know HP is well suported in almost all versions of Ubuntu. But a quick
> look at best sellers list in Laser printers, Ido not see many HP printers.
>
> http://www.amazon.in/gp/bestsellers/computers/1375443031/
> ref=zg_bs_nav_pc_2_1375458031/ref=sn_gfs_co_pc_P_6?ie=UTF8&
> pf_rd_p=845249847&pf_rd_r=19YMFX6JN647BBTEKCQ4&pf_rd_s=
> comp-subnav-flyout-content-1&pf_rd_t=SubnavFlyout
>
> Does any one know if Ricoh SP 111 or Brother HL- or Samsung ML-2161 or
> similar sub 5K or 6 K models working fine with Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04  out
> of the box. That way, I can ensure reasonable Ubuntu support for
> LTSversions without too much of troubleshooting and command line activities.
>
> Regards,
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[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu LTS Supported entry level Laser Printer

[James Sebastian]

I am  looking to buy an entry level Laser printer for our basic printer
needs.
I know HP is well suported in almost all versions of Ubuntu. But a quick
look at best sellers list in Laser printers, Ido not see many HP printers.

http://www.amazon.in/gp/bestsellers/computers/1375443031/ref=zg_bs_nav_pc_2_1375458031/ref=sn_gfs_co_pc_P_6?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_p=845249847&pf_rd_r=19YMFX6JN647BBTEKCQ4&pf_rd_s=comp-subnav-flyout-content-1&pf_rd_t=SubnavFlyout

Does any one know if Ricoh SP 111 or Brother HL- or Samsung ML-2161 or
similar sub 5K or 6 K models working fine with Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04  out
of the box. That way, I can ensure reasonable Ubuntu support for
LTSversions without too much of troubleshooting and command line activities.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

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Dear Ram,

One way to deal with replicating a customised install on many machines is
to install one machine with all the required packages.
Once ready use a clonezilla iso to boot from it, take a backup and restore
it to multiple machines. If DHCP you dont need any changes after this image
backup/restore process and pretty easy.

If you keep this image in a hard drive/ssh server, you can re-use any time
later for wipe-out and restore the vanilla version needs.

Also as suggested earlier,

Install from an ISO. Do an
apt-get clean (to clean /var/cache/apt/archives)
install all dependencies, then copy all the debian packages from
/var/cache/apt/archives

and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.
>>
>>
>> Regards
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Suggestions for a good workhorse laptop running Linux

[James Sebastian]

My colleague is using Dell Inspiron 3542 for the past 6 months for work
 and happy with it.That time it came with Ubuntu 12.04 and he upgraded to
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version without any problems.

http://ubuntu.snapdeal.com/product/dell-inspiron-15-3542-notebook/147274499



On 16 November 2015 at 18:37, Ramnarayan.K  wrote:

> Thanks
>
> Any advise on how different Celeron Dual Core (CDC), Pentium Quad Core
> (PQC) and the lowest end i3 series are
>
> also between CDC and PQC which is preferable in terms of long term
> performance
>
> regards
> ram
>
> On 16 November 2015 at 18:31, ബാലശങ്കർ സി  wrote:
>
>>
>> On 16-Nov-2015 6:19 pm, "Ramnarayan.K"  wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > A friend has about 25 K and wants to invest in a good all round laptop.
>> >
>> > It will run Linux (Ubuntu or Mint)
>> >
>> > Any suggestions , specially from personal experience
>>
>> My dad has been using Lenovo G50-30 for some time for all basic
>> activities (internet, multimedia, office work) and he uses it fine with
>> GNU/Linux. It's cost is around 25k.
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Dedicated Ubuntu powered device store in snapdeal.com

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 I am sure you can buy one of the desktops and go for a RAM upgrade either
from vendor itself or from the market.

Regards
James


On 18 September 2015 at 11:13, Anupam Jamatia 
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> Hi James, Thanks but I needed the system with 8GB/16 GB RAM.
>
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:11 AM, James Sebastian <
> james.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> You may want to purchase Ubuntu compatible PCs/Laptops and one of the
>> easy source of them is
>>
>> http://ubuntu.snapdeal.com/
>>
>> This is a dedicated Ubuntu store in snapdeal.com  and I just noticed the
>> news item regarding this at
>>
>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/snapdeal-reveals-dedicated-website-for-ubuntu-powered-devices-492003.shtml
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> James
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[ubuntu-in] Dedicated Ubuntu powered device store in snapdeal.com

[James Sebastian]

Dear all,

You may want to purchase Ubuntu compatible PCs/Laptops and one of the easy
source of them is

http://ubuntu.snapdeal.com/

This is a dedicated Ubuntu store in snapdeal.com  and I just noticed the
news item regarding this at
http://news.softpedia.com/news/snapdeal-reveals-dedicated-website-for-ubuntu-powered-devices-492003.shtml


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Re: [ubuntu-in] Do these devices work on Linux

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Dear Ram,


On 9 August 2015 at 01:18, Ramnarayan.K  wrote:

> Hi
>
> Have been scouting for a laser printer / laser mfd
>
> and have shortlisted these candidates
>
> but
>
> *would be really grateful if you could let me know if any  of you have the
> LASER MONO or MFD's working under linux or what you actually use (LASER
> only)*
>
Please review the HP printer models at
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html
>From my past experience, I could install almost all printers from HP in
Ubuntu without much/any trouble.

If suitable driver is not found and if it is supported by HPLIP
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html
It will prompt for download from a terminal and install drivers.

On few models where I had trouble in installing command line utilities like
hp-doctor checked, diagnosed and fixed the driver challenges by itself,
saving downloading different packages by itself  and/or answering few
questions.

Unfortunately, I did not keep a list of supported printers with Ubuntu
versions I used in my customer places.

Regards,

James


UBUNTU WIKI of supported Printers
 Open Printing -
Printer Data base  Linux Deal -
sellers of Linux Compatible Printers  SANE
open source scanner project - compatibility

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Is it possible to run openjdk and java side by side on linux

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I could reply in detail earlier.
Apart from co-existing version sof Oracle JDK and Open JDK, you can  have
different versions of Java (JDK/JRE) installed in same system as well. Say
Open JDK 6,7 along with Oracle JDK 6 & 7.

Like asusming a 64 bit system
openjdk-6-jdk:amd64
openjdk-6-jdk:i386
openjdk-7-jdk:amd64
openjdk-7-jdk:i386

Then you would be able to install Oracle Java  by installing packages like

 oracle-java7-installer
 oracle-java7-installer

all the above using standard package installing utilities.

Then you can extra tar balls/.bin files to a given directory and set
Java_HOME or setting Java paths in different applications to make use.
So in short it is possible to have tons different java versions
simutaneously running in a system

Then using the configuration parameters in the application which uses Java
you need to set which version of Java to use.

For eg: For our application, we use Tomcat. There it looks for a certain
directories in their order and chooses the first one. So I can  change/add
the first directory to the one  I need for tomcat to pickup JDK and
JAVA_HOME I like.

That goes like this for tomcat

# The first existing directory is used for JAVA_HOME (if JAVA_HOME is not
# defined in $DEFAULT)
JDK_DIRS="/usr/lib/jvm/default-java ${OPENJDKS} /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
/usr
/lib/jvm/java-6-sun /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle"

# Look for the right JVM to use
for jdir in $JDK_DIRS; do
if [ -r "$jdir/bin/java" -a -z "${JAVA_HOME}" ]; then
JAVA_HOME="$jdir"
fi
done
export JAVA_HOME
\

But each reasonable application will have a way to set Java Home or JDK
other than system default (set by /etc/alternatives), user default (which
can be setup in .profile or similar files). That would be the place you
need to look for when you need one Java version for one application and
another for another application. Or when you need to switch between
different java applications

Trust this helps

On 18 July 2015 at 10:36, Ramnarayan.K  wrote:

> "Subhadip Ghosh" wrote:
>
> > I suppose you actually meant Oracle JDK/JRE when you said java. It's
> possible to have OpenJDK and Oracle JDK installed on the same system but
> you can have only one set as default at any point of time for obvious
> reason.
>
> Apologies
> You are correct
> Ram
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Is it possible to run openjdk and java side by side on linux

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Instead you can point to Java version you want at /etc/alternatives/java.
The file is a symbolic linkl pointing to the java we need.

for eg:
james@james-ubuntu14:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 14  2014 /usr/bin/java ->
/etc/alternatives/java

james@james-ubuntu14:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Nov 29  2014 /etc/alternatives/java ->
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java

so if you delete the link /etc/alternatives/java and recreate with new path
using ln -s you can use any of the multiple java versions you have

Regards,
James


On 23 June 2015 at 20:31, Rohit Bhute  wrote:

> It is 'update-alternatives' in Debian based systems.
>
> Regards.
>
> Rohit Bhute
>
> On Tuesday 23 June 2015 08:27 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
>
>> thanks
>>
>> will try it out and see what happens
>>
>> there seems to be no tool called alternatives
>>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] meet on 22nd

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On 18 August 2014 16:27, G.T.RAO  wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> Support Us : "FREE/FREEDOM OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN
> RAJASTHAN" ,2014.
>
> I am seeing some references to Rajastan here. I am glad to report that one
hospital in Ajmer moved to 100% Ubuntu shop (Ubuntu 12.04) migrating/newly
installing Ubuntu in 29 PCs and 2 servers to support as part of  the
hospital management  system migration from another solution to one
developed by the company I am part of.

Regards,
James


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>> This mail of mine would be a bit late.
>> But I am using Ubuntu for more than six years. I am working as AGM in
>> Resonance (which is one of education institute).
>> It would be a great experience to migrate.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Arun Shrimali
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:09 AM, vishnu choudhary 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  I am vishnu I wish to know more about Ubuntu   community in India. We
>>> are a educational institute and we wish to mirgrate on ubuntu especially
>>> edubuntu.
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[ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?

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Dear all,

Today's Hindu reports this.

http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/issues/engineering-students-locked-into-microsoft-office/article4640546.ece

and I could see this from a link in AICTE website.

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/All-India-Council-for-Technical-Education/India-Institute-Deploys-7.5-Million-Office-365-Seats-to-Improve-Governance-Learning/71002268

How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open source
alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing solutions are
there ?

And what is the way to protest this and make this to notice of decision
makers ?
I could not find an email id in AICTE website.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Assistance in Organizing Ubuntu 13.04 Release party.

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On 21 April 2013 12:55, Sharadendra Sharma  wrote:

> Hello Dear,
>
> I am trying to get Ubuntu 13.04 (or a Stable Version)  Release  for
>  Desktop and Server - Install-able  DVD/CD'd. Can you help me in getting
> them.
>
>
Always google before posting.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule , stable
release of Ubuntu 13.04 is on April 25th. So you may have them in download
page either on late 25th India time or on 26th mng.

If you like to download beta version, you can. Visit
http://askubuntu.com/questions/249946/what-is-the-release-date-of-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtailfor
a detailed discussion.

With Regards
>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] four window primary partition problem

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On 15 April 2013 02:23, Rahul Ghose  wrote:

>
> >/dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free
> space
>
> >/dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS
>
> > earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they
> had C/DVD's of window and drivers
> >
> > but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to
> take long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to
> waste my time in creating recovery DVD's for them.
> >
> > do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I
> delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important
> for laptop?untu-in 
> >
>
> As far as I remember HP_TOOLS files are not hidden ones. So copy all the
> folders over to /dev/sda2 (windows 7 partition) as directory HP_TOOLS and
> delete the partition. Then you can re-size the main windows partition
> during installation to create more space and Ubuntu will go to Extended
> partition.
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Re: [ubuntu-in] A decade of real choice - there's no app for that (firefox's legacy)

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Thanks Ram for sharing this great artcle

Regards,
James


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> A perspective on Firefox and its legacy in todays over crowded world of
> unthinking apps.
>
> The original post is long enough for it to bounce - so below is the url
> and some of the initial text.
>
>
>
> **
>
> Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/
> Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts
>
> A decade of real choice - there's no app for that
>
> By Matt 
> Asay
>
> Posted in Developer , 28th
> September 2012 14:59 GMT 
>
> *Open ... and Shut* It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the
> web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft.
>
> As mainstream users came to equate Internet Explorer's logo with the Web,
> Microsoft worked to lock in its advantage with increasingly proprietary
> technology like ActiveX. It surely would have done so, too, but for the
> seemingly futile Mozilla browser, née Firefox. Born in the ashes of
> Netscape's failed browser business 10 years ago this month as Phoenix,
> Firefox 1.0 is arguably the most important technology developed in the last
> 50 years.
>
> Precisely because it is about more than technology.
>
> Yes, *that* Firefox, the one that for years gobbled away at IE's 95 per
> cent market share, only to be largely supplanted in the hearts and minds of
> the geek elite by Google Chrome (though not in actual market 
> share
>  [1]).
>
> Given technology's focus on the latest and greatest, it's easy to forget
> that much of this "latest and greatest" wouldn't even be possible without
> the work Mozilla did for years with Firefox. Or that dominating the browser
> market was never Mozilla's aim with Firefox.
>
> Quixotic as it may sound, the purpose of Firefox was always to spread Web
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to increase the area of Swap?

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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Sriranga(78yrsold) <
withblessi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to increase the swap area - how to do?  ubuntu 12.40 installed
>
> The easiest and less disruptive one would be adding a swap file.

Please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#addswap

the title "four step process to add a swap file" describes this process and
should work on Ubuntu 12.04 as well as older versions same way.\

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Artical about Ubuntu

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Hi Guys and Gals,

I use and advocate Ubuntu a lot these days to home users and small office
folks.

Two challenges I see when I relate to this article is still very big,

1. In the section Managing your machine "One thing that a user needs to
keep in mind is to buy Linux supported hardware. "

Unfortunately, this is not easy to find the hardware supported by Linux
(and many times that would mean an available RPM)  or Ubuntu.
While installing some hardware is a cake walk, installing some others still
means wading through command line. I may be able to do that with lot of
internet search, but not an average user whom I advise to use it.

Probably canonical/Ubuntu should  have another site similar to
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
to list the devices like webcam, network cards, printers, scanners etc etc
which work out of the box for a listed version of Ubuntu.

2. Challenges section.  "To solve this problem the company can work with
local vendors to sell Ubuntu CDs."

  I do not know  if there is any company (canonical or another one) who
does that.

On Similar way, I am keen to know if any company is giving Ubuntu support
to check and resolve problems for any one who is willing to pay a
reasonable charge.

If there is a good solution for these two, I am sure Ubuntu can catch up
India very fast.

Regards,
James


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> Hi Guys
>  Just come across this artical
> http://www.muktware.com/3890/india-can-be-ubuntus-impenetrable-fort on
> Muktware software magzine. What are your opinions folks?
>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] [Commercial] Buy Ubuntu powered PCs from an Indian company in India

[James Sebastian]

http://ubuntu-manual.org/ has a good introductory manual for 12.04 and it
covers Unity as well.
There is a download option to get the PDF file and it find it is well
written.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
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> chetan,
> will you make available tutorial how to use unity feature  of ubuntu 12.04
> for benefit of newbie like me and encourage usage of  linux.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Niam Computech 
> wrote:
>
>> http://news.efytimes.com/e1/**86421/Now-An-Indian-Company-**
>> Launches-Ubuntu-Laptops
>>
>> -- Chetan
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu in Retail

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Onkar Shinde  wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Narendra Sisodiya
>  wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Prakash Advani 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> As a follow up to our Ubuntu in Retail, I have been asked by a store in
> >> Nehru Place, Delhi if we can showcase Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Here is my thoughts, let me know what you guys think.
> >>
> >> Have 1-2 community members at the store to demo Ubuntu.
> >> Have them wear Ubuntu T-Shirts so people perceive it to be professional.
> >> Offer basic installation for free and charge for additional services.
> This
> >> should compare with other services in Nehru Place, where I believe you
> can
> >> go to a store and they will fill your hard drive with all windows
> software
> >> :)
> >> If the customer wants training then this can be offered at their home at
> a
> >> fee.
> >>
> >> I am thinking we should offer similar services to what people are used
> to
> >> in the Windows world, I know this may not sound very comforting for some
> of
> >> us, but thats what people are used to ;-)
> >
> > Ubuntu cannot get success (in India) without the project like DebBundle
>
> Ubuntu seems to be one of the most popular linux distros in India.
> It's funny how Ubuntu didn't need DebBundle to gain that popularity.
>
> I do not know much about DebBundle. I just checked what it tries to
achieve. I agree with Narendra
Ubuntu is the most popular linux distro in India.
But this is not the level of popularity we should be satisfied with !
It should be talking like 10-20% of market share of OS, availability at
every nook and corner of the country  and ability to get installed and
supported  by an average hardware vendor in India.

Now dependency on internet and difficulty in learning curve to use solutions
like apt-on-cd makes it difficult.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] printing problem

[James Sebastian]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM, James Sebastian  wrote:

Regards,
> James
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:37 PM, basha anser wrote:
>
>> HI I have purchased a latest version of printer canon258,I am not able to
>> take printing which is working in windows Please help
>>
>
Dear Basha,
>
> Please let us know if you tried to configure the printer from system ->
> administration -> printing and what happens when you try to configure it.
> It will help if you paste any errors displayed as well.
> What is the version of Ubuntu you are using ?
>

Look at these sites .

http://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/canon-pixma-mp258-or-any-mp250-series-printer-on-ubuntu-debian-fedora-and-arch-linux/
http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/Software/Linux/PIXMA/index.asp

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Re: [ubuntu-in] printing problem

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Dear Basha,

Please let us know if you tried to configure the printer from system ->
administration -> printing and what happens when you try to configure it.
It will help if you paste any errors displayed as well.
What is the version of Ubuntu you are using ?

Regards,
James


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:37 PM, basha anser  wrote:

> HI I have purchased a latest version of printer canon258,I am not able to
> take printing which is working in windows Please help
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Does ubuntu10.10 supports reliance netconnect device?

[James Sebastian]

On 14 March 2011 13:32, rajendra prasad siva  wrote:
>
>> Hi my name is SIVA  I'm new to ubuntu.
>> Recently i downloaded 10.10 version . And installed onto my system.
>> And i liked it very much , my doubt is *does ubuntu10.10 supports
>> reliance netconnect device*. which I'm going purchase this month.I
>> welcome your suggestions.
>>
>
Refer this documentation reliance net connect
http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/Broadband_Howto#Reliance_Netconnect


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[ubuntu-in] About askubuntu.com

[James Sebastian]

I thought this would be useful for other newbies of Ubuntu like me.
I found stackexchange based Q&A site askubuntu.com as one of the best for
getting ubuntu questions answered.
Yes, it is also good to help community apart from just asking questions as
well and it will remain there to help others later when they use the search
feature.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] brainstorm.ubuntu.com ideas - autogenerated solutions

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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Manish Sinha  wrote:

> On 02/04/2011 03:31 PM, James Sebastian wrote:
>
>> If any one works closely with brainstorm, would you please explain what
>> does this solution really means?
>>
>
>
> By the way brainstorm has become a mess. The ideas are just too many and
> the number of people to implement are very less.
> The developer/user ratio in Ubuntu is pretty less.
>
Thanks Manish.
But this news item which led me to brainstorm says top 10 ideas will be
looked and (if possible) implemented  in every quarter.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213618/top_10_ubuntu_ideas_offer_hint_at_whats_to_come.html

So that is a good news to throw ideas and get it shaped in brainstorm.

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[ubuntu-in] brainstorm.ubuntu.com ideas - autogenerated solutions

[James Sebastian]

Dear friends,

I was trying to search for existing ideas before submitting  one.
Then I came across ideas like

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6370/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6267/

They explain the rationale, but solution says

"
Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6267
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #6267 was
submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated.
Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please
separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!-"

But it does not make me clear what was this solution which has considerable
number of votes.

If any one works closely with brainstorm, would you please explain what does
this solution really means?

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Problem installing Maverick on lenovo

[James Sebastian]

> On 3 February 2011 17:46, Neha Jain  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I tried to run maverick first from the CD, live everything was working
>>> absolutely fine. Then I installed(simply, erase and install) maverick on the
>>> machine, but it ended up with an I/O error. I tried again, again the same
>>> error. Next time I tried to install after rebooting, though it got
>>> installed, but when I tried to activate the Broadcom STA wireless driver, it
>>> never showed up in the apt-cache or in the
>>> system->admininstrator->additional drivers.
>>>
>>> May not be related, but be aware that broadcom driver can be broken due
to latest kernel. So validate that you are not on latest kernel from ubuntu.

I faced problem  Broadcom STA driver failing to load  on
linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic (the latest kernel update which appeared today
in my update manager.). I reverted back to linux-image-2.6.35-24-generic and
got my Broadcom STA driver working again.

I filed a bug on it  as below.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/712293

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Re: [ubuntu-in] how to enable audio and video call in pidgin and empathy?

[James Sebastian]

Hi Shashi

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Shashi Bhushan wrote:

> I have ubuntu 10.10, in my system pidgin and empathy install. but in
> both messenger audio and video call is disabled. how can I enable it.
>
>
You can validate if your audio works fine from other programs as well. For
eg, sound recorder which will appear in Application -> Sound & Video can be
used to validate that speaker and  mic are working fine (for more details
refer https://help.*ubuntu*.com/community/*Sound)*

Same way, cheese (webcam booth) can be used to validate video is working
fine. You can install these programs from Ubuntu software centre if not
already installed. (for more details refer https://wiki.*ubuntu*.com/*
Webcam)*

I still not used audio/video on either empathy or pigdin, so I cannot
comment on them. Hope this helps.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Libre Office 3.3.0 available for download

[James Sebastian]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Manish Sinha 
> wrote:
> > The packaging is such that it conflicts with the similar openoffice
> > packages.
>
> Like i said , i have both open office and Libre office running together
>
> LibreOffice 3.3.0
>
> Openoffice.org 3.2.0
>
>
Installation of Libreoffice 3.3.0 went fine for me(Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit ) as
well and I could run both OpenOffice and LibreOffice side by side for the
last 2 days. (I did not use or test too much)

>From readme, on install:
As a general rule, you are recommended to install LibreOffice via the
installation methods recommended by your particular Linux distribution (such
as the Ubuntu Software Center, in the case of Ubuntu Linux).

But I used generic instruction for debian based systems:

That is, download the tar.gz, extract, cd ./LibO_*/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb (The above dpkg command does the first part of the
installation process.)
To complete the process, you also need to install the desktop integration
packages. To do this, change directory to the "desktop-integration"
directory that is within the "DEBS" directory, using the following command:
cd desktop-integration  followed by  sudo dpkg -i *.deb

That worked fine for me and added needed links under applications -> office

BTW, quietly, openoffice.org as well released 3.3.0 one day after release of
LibreOffice.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Netbooks - suggestions and advise

[James Sebastian]

Thanks Prakash. Please see in-line replies

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Prakash Advani  wrote:


>
> Dell has Ubuntu options, they launched a new model M101Z, this one has Win7
> + Ubuntu Light which is a small foot print Ubuntu, that boots up quickly and
> has a Unity interface for browsing, music.. etc..
>
> Ubuntu pre-installs are now available in India from HCL, Wipro, eSys (Range
> Wizard), Simmtronics, Dell and Lenovo..
>


As per http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/ HCL, Wipro and eSys are
certified on end of life or near-end of life Ubuntu versions.
Simmtronics not listed there at all
Dell and Lenovo have many models listed in the site. Probably you should get
them to certify recent models with 10.04 LTS primarily.

BTW, may be beneficial for others:
A mail from simmtronics sales team given details below on versions supported
by them.

In Simmbook we used Ubuntu Ver 9.04 & 9.10
In Desktop we are using Ubuntu Ver 9.10 & 10.10


> The challenges with these companies are they Don't know how to Sell Ubuntu,
> they struggle with Demos and hence don't promote it.
> If we can form a group of people willing to help them demo Ubuntu in
> different cities, we can made a difference.
> What is needed for Ubuntu enthusiasts need to go and explain Ubuntu to
> general users. OEMs need this support at stores, exhibitions, boots, etc.
> If people are interested, let me know .. we can create a list of people
> willing to help, cities and availability. Like someone may be available only
> on a weekend or evening.
>
>
> I can help, But I am in a very small city of India now.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Correction in mentioning linux (Please mention it as gnu/linux)

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Manish Sinha 
> wrote:
> >
> > On 01/26/2011 06:52 PM, Ganesan Venkata Subramanian wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello All
> >>
> >> It is observed in the ML that every body is using the term LINUX instead
> of GNU/LINUX. Its should be corrected because GNU represents the GNU utils
> running over the LINUX Kernel. So we should attribute our credit to both the
> parts which makes such a beautiful OS. Hope this will be followed.
> >
> > This has always been a huge debate.
> > I think I should start referring it as GNU/X/Compiz/Gnome/Linux instead
> of Linux.
>
>
> Well said Manish
>
> in fact my one liner was not meant as a neighborly suggestion it was
> to point out at the absurdity of the whole thing.
>
> Well said both Ram and Manish. Thanks for the detailed email !

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Member Introduction

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Sriranga(78yrsold)  wrote:

> Thanks Manish Sinha for your website quoted to download the useful manual -
> which is useful for newbies like me.
> With blessings,
> -sriranga(78yrs )
>
>
Thanks Dear Uncle Sriranga. If you are able to learn to use Ubuntu at 78
years, it is one great example of user friendliness of Ubuntu.
Happy Linuxing and Ubuntu.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Netbooks - suggestions and advise

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Dear Ram,

Thanks for quick reply.

See this news item as well.
http://www.thinkdigit.com/Laptops-PCs/Simmtronics-and-VIA-team-up-to-offer_5977.html

No harm in checking it out if you are in one of the cities.
As some one with 12 years of IT experience and now trying open source way to
make a living, I am keen to see Ubuntu succeed and to see what are the
possible options here for lay men (apart from very geek ones). I got few
friends across India willing to move to Ubuntu, but none of them are geeky
in nature, but just uses a PC for day to day life. But I do see most of them
struggles if wireless or wire network or something similar does work out of
the box.

So since I like open source to succeed I like these kind of offers to
succeed. So  I would appreciate if you can visit one of these stores and
post feelers. I may try to visit one of the stores next time I am in delhi
as well.

Regards,
James

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:37 AM Ramnarayan.K wrote:

>
> Dear James,
>
> Thanks will look into ,
>
> am quite decided on the samsung - unless simmtronics has something really
> good to offer - like loading Ubuntu :-) and other features
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM, James Sebastian <
> james.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yesterday I noticed that simmtronics is offering a netbook pre-loaded with
>> Ubuntu and it is an india based company who are major in to memory modules
>> and motherboards.
>>
>> Product:
>> http://www.simmtronics.com/simmbook.php
>>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Netbooks - suggestions and advise

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Dear Ram,

Yesterday I noticed that simmtronics is offering a netbook pre-loaded with
Ubuntu and it is an india based company who are major in to memory modules
and motherboards.

I could not see many reviews of it nor used it, but news items looks like
this may be promising. But you may be able to walk in to one of their
centres (if you are in any of the cities) and review it.

Product:
http://www.simmtronics.com/simmbook.php

India sales locations
http://www.simmtronics.com/where_to_buy_india.php

News items
http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/netbooks/297755-ibm-and-simmtronics-launch-190-ubuntu-netbook
http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article1103175.ece

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James

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Support in Delhi

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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:09 PM,  wrote:

>
> From: "Ramnarayan.K" 
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Member Introduction
> To: Ubuntu India Local Community 
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, James Sebastian
>  wrote:
> > She is
> > a senior doctor and enthused by Ubuntu while at Manali, but struggling to
> > keep that enthusiasm while in Delhi.
>
> I understand this problem of support. And am quite curious to know
> what the result will be, because, as has been discussed, this is
> lacunae of Linux on desktops and a very good opportunity as well.
>
> Sorry for long silence.

First, I used digest and thought I would respond at the end.

1. Sorry for not asking required support in title. This was intentional as
posting guidelines suggested first post can be 'member introduction' and I
was too lazy to post another one for required support.

2. I posted the email little late, when this doctor was told by airtel that
Linux is not supported and due to other constraints my friend who was
guiding her could not find easy solutions. By this time, I posted the email,
she decided to buy Windows 7 and replace Ubuntu, so I could not make use of
the replies.

3. However, I understood that there is no easy way for support in delhi
apart from few enthusiasts. Or atleast, such people are not in this emailing
list.

Since as an individual, I plan to promote Ubuntu seriously over time. So
thanks for all the replies around this post.

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[ubuntu-in] Member Introduction

[James Sebastian]

Hey all,

I am James from Manali in HP. I am a newbie to Ubuntu, but used rpm based
distros in the past, though I could not work/use linux for some time due to
my work situation.
For last one month I use Ubuntu 10.4 and quite happy with it. Thanks for
this support group.

I was hunting the archives for a paid support in Delhi to identify and setup
a data card (to connect to internet) on an ubuntu installation on a laptop.
The only thing I could stumble upon was a chain discussion on the topic
without any concrete answers. So I would like to know if there is some one
in delhi who can help this person to get a data card setup properly. She is
a senior doctor and enthused by Ubuntu while at Manali, but struggling to
keep that enthusiasm while in Delhi.

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