Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux [was] Google drops Windows in their workplace

2010-06-06 Thread Manokaran K
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:59 PM, narendra sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: Person who put tarch-light at starting point and visioned the things is more important the followers and implementors. For the very same reason, person who make a open standard specification is more

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread Arun SAG
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Balaji Damodaran damodaran.bal...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you meant this link in youtube -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc and not a link that gives the review of Rajneeti mo Good video, i watched it

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 06 June 2010 11:37:09 Arun SAG wrote: I hope you meant this link in youtube -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJchttp://www.youtube.com/watch? v=u6XAPnuFjJc and not a link that gives the review of Rajneeti mo Good video, i watched it when it was shared in identi,ca's

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread Arun SAG
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: but they think it is a village! When you compare madurai with their cities, madurai is indeed a village :-) -- Arun S.A.G ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread Manokaran K
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: but they think it is a village! When you compare madurai with their cities, madurai is indeed a village :-) Albeit a village with a

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Is there a workshop on 06-06-2010 in IIT and Zilogic systems

2010-06-06 Thread Ravi Jaya
2010/6/5 ஆமாச்சு ramada...@amachu.net On Saturday 05 Jun 2010 10:55:58 pm Ravi Jaya wrote: my English teacher is not in the list. Other wise she might be killed me, for my poor writing skills. இன்னொருத்தரோட மொழிய சரியா பேசணும் எழுதணுங்கறதுல இருக்கற அக்கறைல நூத்துல ஒரு பங்கு கூட நம்ம

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers to confirm the Summer Workshops

2010-06-06 Thread Arun SAG
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: We have announced the summer workshops in http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=ILUGC_Summer_Workshopshttp://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=ILUGC_Summer_Workshops I request all the speakers to confirm the

[Ilugc] hi sir unable to mount 40gb file system

2010-06-06 Thread jaya kumar
whenever i login to my file system or my hard drive it showing the error unable to mount 40gb file system i forget the correct password for root but am logged in while restarting my ubuntu log in i know that password but i cannot remember the root password how can i know my forget password

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread steve
On 06/06/2010 11:49 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2010 03:59:26 you wrote: (*) just to ward off the pedants who are already frothing in the mouth, I am aware that GPL isn't the first free software license, but it is the first 'free software as defined by the 4 freedoms

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread steve
On 06/06/2010 09:39 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2010 02:34:37 Prem Kurian Philip wrote: By the way, most GNU projects will compile quite happily using ICC. Even the Linux kernel could conceivably be modified to NOT use GCC extensions - thus allowing it to be easily

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread steve
On 06/06/2010 09:37 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 22:13:44 praveen chandrahas wrote: It doesn't mean we can conveniently forget the ideological background. Remember, it was the ideology that spurred the development of the free OS. *Not the other way round*. The

Re: [Ilugc] hi sir unable to mount 40gb file system

2010-06-06 Thread Shiv Deepak
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:41 PM, jaya kumar jayakumargen...@gmail.comwrote: whenever i login to my file system or my hard drive it showing the error unable to mount 40gb file system i forget the correct password for root but am logged in while restarting my ubuntu log in i know that

Re: [Ilugc] Please suggest me a GNU/Linux distribution

2010-06-06 Thread Shiv Deepak
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Pankaj Kumar pan...@glug4muz.org wrote: Saturday 05 June 2010 23:11 को, Shrinivasan T ने लिखा था: Hi, School OS has everything you said. It is not KDE based. I am searching for KDE based distribution. Install arch linux and customize it according to

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux [was] Google drops Windows in their workplace

2010-06-06 Thread steve
Hi, On 06/06/2010 11:36 AM, Manokaran K wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:59 PM, narendra sisodiya [...snip...] Thats why we see many instances of simultaneous discoveries in many fields. If Newton did not invent Calculus (if at all he did) Leibnitz was ready with it. The only part history played

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread Praveen A
2010/6/6 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: who said so? people did/do it because they enjoy doing it - the guys with idealogy usually spend their time preaching and not developing and maintaining software. That is exactly why RMS insists on mentioning GNU in the name. Because GNU

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread Arun Kumar
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/6 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: who said so? people did/do it because they enjoy doing it - the guys with idealogy usually spend their time preaching and not developing and maintaining software. That is

[Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri debasish.raychawdh...@gmail.com wrote: The flv version is just an advertisement for 'Rajniti' movie. Since, I watched that one first, I really started wondering how it is related to Linux. But I then figured that there must be something

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread pavithran
On 6 June 2010 16:23, narendra sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: The flv version is just an advertisement for 'Rajniti' movie. Since, I watched that one first, I really started wondering how it is related to Linux. But I then figured that there must be something wrong, and watched

Re: [Ilugc] Series60-Remote - Manage your Symbian mobile in Ubuntu

2010-06-06 Thread Roshan George
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:28 +0530, Yuvi Panda wrote: I use wammu (aptitude install wammu) for all my sms-from-comp needs. It also syncs up all your other stuff (contacts, todos, etc) I've tried wammu before with no luck but after seeing your email, I decided to give it another shot. It's

Re: [Ilugc] Series60-Remote - Manage your Symbian mobile in Ubuntu

2010-06-06 Thread Guruprasad
Hi, On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com wrote: But wammu doesn't work perfectly with a lot of Symbian phones. Let me give this application a try with my Nokia N79 and get back with the feedback.

[Ilugc] Hats-off to FSF Industrial Training @ SSN

2010-06-06 Thread Santosh Madhavan
Greetings,     The 5 day Industrial Training conducted by Free Software Foundation, TamilNadu in association with SSN Engineering College ended today with a great blast! 220+ Students attended the 5 day Training and all sessions were fabulous learning experience. Mr.Ravi Jaya

Re: [Ilugc] தமிழ் இணைய மாந ாடு 2010 - கோயம்புத்தூர் - பங்களிப்புகள் வரவேற் கப்படுகின்றன

2010-06-06 Thread rajkumar vbalakrishnasamy
Sir, I am willing to volunteer this event and i am also from coimbatore. 2010/6/5 ramada...@amachu.net வணக்கம், தமிழ் விக்கிபீடியா குழுவினரின் உதவியுடன் இம்மாதம் கோவையில் நடைபெறவிருக்கிற தமிழ் இணைய மாநாடு 2010 இன் கண்காட்சியில் கட்டற்ற இயங்குதளங்கள், மென்பொருள்கள் குறித்து கடையிட போகிறோம்.

[Ilugc] FSFTN: Industrial Training Report

2010-06-06 Thread sky knight
Greetings, We are very happy to announce that, the five day Industrial Training organized by Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu was a grand success. 270+ participated, got enlightened and exposed to the world of FOSS. Our sincere thanks to the volunteers and organizers for making it possible

Re: [Ilugc] Hats-off to FSF Industrial Training @ SSN

2010-06-06 Thread Ravi Jaya
This Event has motivated and gave a clarity of thought and usage to 220+ Students where you can see many of them already started working on Linux. Projects were assigned to every college participated. Hats-Off to FSF, TamilNadu for their good Work! @Santhoh, Why cant you organize a workshop

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 06 June 2010 19:11:07 Balaji Damodaran wrote: Apologies for the troll, had this stuck in my neck for so long. but true believers are allowed to use reliance cdma cellphones -- regards kg http://livejournal.com/lawgon ___ ILUGC Mailing

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 06 June 2010 14:57:15 Praveen A wrote: 2010/6/6 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: who said so? people did/do it because they enjoy doing it - the guys with idealogy usually spend their time preaching and not developing and maintaining software. That is exactly why RMS

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread pavithran
On 6 June 2010 19:11, Balaji Damodaran damodaran.bal...@gmail.com wrote: Since this has turned into an OT (yet again), I'd like to specify an incident. RMS came to our company in Bangalore and he gave a speech on freedom and free software. Amusing mail :) sorry for going OT . I was just

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2010 16:23, narendra sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: The flv version is just an advertisement for 'Rajniti' movie. Since, I watched that one first, I really started wondering how it is related to

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Balaji Damodaran damodaran.bal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2010 16:23, narendra sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: The flv version is just an advertisement for 'Rajniti'

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [...@iitd:7867] [OT]A must watch video - What drive us, with an example case of Linux

2010-06-06 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:02 AM, narendra sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: So, I hope true believers of freedom don't drinking coca-cola products, don't use iphone, blackberry, (symbian is opensourced, yay!), Imagine RMS as a great Sadhu/Mahatma/Avtar. If you try to follow

Re: [Ilugc] FSFTN: Industrial Training Report

2010-06-06 Thread Shrinivasan T
270+ participated, got enlightened and exposed to the world of FOSS. awesome effort. Thanks for FSFTN and SSN college for these activities. Keep spreading the Freedom. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread steve
Hi, On 06/06/2010 11:25 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: linux grew not because of GPL but because it followed the bazaar mode of development - unlike RMS's projects which were highly restricted as long as he was part of them. Emacs, gcc etc only took off properly after he was 'retired' from them.

[Ilugc] aksharamukha source..

2010-06-06 Thread ஆமாச்சு
வணக்கம், கடந்த மாத தமிழ்க் கணிமைக் கூடலில்[1] வினோத்ராஜன் அக்ஷரமுகா மென்பொருள் பற்றி விவரித்திருந்தார். அதன் மூல நிரல் தற்போது கிடைக்கப்பெறுகிறது. http://launchpad.net/aksharamukha [1] - http://kanimozhi.info/கட்டற்ற_தமிழ்க்_கணிமை_பகிர்ந்துரையாடல்/15-05-2010 -- ஆமாச்சு

Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 07 June 2010 02:43:17 you wrote: Invalid. All free operating systems follow the bazaar model. Only linux became mainstream and stayed free. Mach+BSD became mainstream in their OSX avatar but it is non-free: I beg to differ - from what I have read about the development of GCC

Re: Re: [Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

2010-06-06 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
From: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com On Sunday 06 June 2010 02:34:37 Prem Kurian Philip wrote: By the way, most GNU projects will compile quite happily using ICC. Even the Linux kernel could conceivably be modified to NOT use GCC extensions - thus allowing it to be easily compiled