Re: [ubuntu-in] Time to look inwards.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:39:50 +0530 Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, stereotactic wrote: Hi All. C-DAC is promoting its BOSS Linux through newspaper advertisements. While it is a good thing, but mere promotion is not good enough. I find their advertisements insipid (released through the Government of India machinery) and fails to communicate the importance of Open Source. [...] Most of the people also fail to grasp the import of existing technologies or how the could be mashed up and deliver something of value. Hence, we Indians are always laggards, be it anything- IT, Open Source, Gnome, KDE or any other flavor- nothing is distinctly Indian. Hence more than the localization efforts and spending energies in hammering the riff raff on the mailing lists, it would be more instructive to hammer out ideas, find out what needs to be corrected in the system and overcome those issues. Ok, you List out, what to do and what not to do. You cannot imagine importance of these projects. CDAC regulary organize workshops on BOSS and teach Govt officials about FOSS. [...] On the face of it, BOSS Linux is a good project, and if they achieve even part of what they claim to be doing that will be a significant achievement. Having said that, I have very strong reservations about how CDAC, and to a somewhat lesser extent, other governmental organisations in India, such as NRC-FOSS, relate to the FOSS community. IMHO, they are still in the cathedral model, with themselves as the centre, and have little appreciation of how FOSS works. E.g., BOSS Linux pulls happily from Debian, but contributes nothing back, at least when I last looked. You could say that is how government in India works, but to my mind that mode of functioning is exactly the problem. As stereotactic mentions, the goal should be to find and fix issues with Indian participation in FOSS projects, rather than to try to find problems with existing work. Personally, I no longer see much potential in the community trying to engage with the government: We need to make things work on our own. I also disagree about localisation, though: IMHO, while Indian-language support is not being worked on in a systematic manner, it is very important that such work be done. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Support in Delhi
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:26:43 +0530 James Sebastian james.sebast...@gmail.com wrote [...] 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. [...] That is not quite true, though the availability of support might not be as widespread as desirable. I know of several companies that are offering FOSS support, including some that have been in the business for quite a while. However, these are not quite geared to being able to offer desktop- level support for home users: What the users are willing to pay generally does not meet the business costs, because the volume of such business is quite low. It was not clear what kind of support you wanted, as it seemed like a one-off request, or at best, a home-support request. For these, commercial support would have been quite expensive. As you mention, maybe it was too late by the time you saw replies, but I had offered to handle this as a one-off task, free of cost. Next time, something like this come up, please consider sending in a job advertisement (mark it [Commercial] in the Subject line, please) to the mailing list of the Linux Users Group, Delhi: http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Member Introduction
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:13:43 +0530 Manish Sinha m...@manishsinha.net wrote On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, James Sebastian wrote: 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. I think there are many people on this list who might help her out. They can charge the money which she is ready to pay for the paid support. [...] Hi, I had missed reading the original message (incidentally, it would help to use a suitable Subject line when asking for specific help), but am in the NCR region, as are several other people here. Which data card are we talking about? Which Ubuntu version is in use? If the only requirement is to set this up on a recent version of Ubuntu, I can do this at no charge. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] sudo user on Fedora
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:57:36 +0530 Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:13 PM, g...@sarai.net g...@sarai.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:05:00 +0530 Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote How We can create settings to that user will become sudo user. I know this procedure. http://lug-iitd.org/Shell_Scripts#SUDO How ubuntu manage to do it automatically. [...] What is wrong with the above procedure? I want some permanent solution that if I create a new user, it will be given sudo power. [...] Look at the EXTRA_GROUPS setting in the adduser configuration file: /etc/adduser.conf . You can put the admin group in this setting, and all new users should then have sudo access by virtue of being in the admin group. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] sudo user on Fedora
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:05:00 +0530 Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote How We can create settings to that user will become sudo user. I know this procedure. http://lug-iitd.org/Shell_Scripts#SUDO How ubuntu manage to do it automatically. [...] What is wrong with the above procedure? Ubuntu probably does the same thing behind the scenes, or maybe it just adds the default user at install time to the admin group, as /etc/sudoers has: # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:52:42 +0530 Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote The linux admin can make it secured as we can not inhale corbon-di-oxide, even we it is there all around us. I am really curious now :-) How exactly does one not inhale carbon-dioxide? Extra points if this is a Linux-based solution. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
