Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
Dear Mr. Senthil, Have we ever done (better) - when we are forced to do something with. Linux - have evolved (I feel) - not because of somebody forced us to use with ... - it was more of people wanting to do more, which they are not able to (or with more difficulty) some thing ... The scene in

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Nallu Ignacius
Our discussions are crap till we reach out to the right people. I.e., how many people contacted the right people specified in the first few emails in the same thread On Sep 3, 2011 12:22 AM, K.P. Senthil Kumar sekumar...@gmail.com wrote: The sufferer is the students I think the sufferer will

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender [off topic]

2011-09-03 Thread Christopher Sagayam
[off topic - DO not read if you are easily offended] This 90 crore might be well spend on starving kids and kids who require medical care God forbid, What would have happened if our parents had invested all their money for OUR future health care instead of education and deprived us of our IIT

[Ilugc] need help - I get this message every time I open Libre Office

2011-09-03 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
Dear All, sometime back - a month I think - when trying to install Libreoffice 3.4 (not from Ubuntu repository), without uninstalling Libre office 3.3, I installed it, and it was successful too. But felt that it was still booting to 3.3, so I uninstalled through synaptic, and then installed

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender [off topic]

2011-09-03 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
This 90 crore might be well spend on starving kids and kids who require medical care God forbid, What would have happened if our parents had invested all their money for OUR future health care instead of education and deprived us of our IIT or BITS pilani or BE education !! citing

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender [off topic]

2011-09-03 Thread Christopher Sagayam
Yes the dying child will be saved but that child will still be one notch down in the society when compared to other so called elite children who were fortunate to have parents who could afford both health care and education. Anyways, see, this also adds to my case. We as a society is this

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Arun SAG
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand this However we did not feel that he can amend the decision., Do you mean, He cannot amend the tender, because he is not behind the tender or as he cannot amend it as it has been already out? After all

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Manokaran K
Just curious: Why is Red Hat not raising a hue and cry over this? After all they are a commercial entity and they are an adversely affected party! They also have the experience and clout in lobbying! regds, mano ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread 0
In today's paper, there is an article on the same, although it claims the change is due to a price difference, -- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2419753.ece The plan to install Linux (Tamil) software has been scrapped, as per the new proposal. “We

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
Government's policy can be challenged in Courts. Recently, the hon'ble Supreme Court issued notice to TN Govt on the freebies as promised in the election manifesto.

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sep 3, 2011 11:23 AM, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com wrote: I hope the courts help in pulling out this entire thing of free laptops. +1 There's all probability that a vast majority of these laptops will end up being used for totally unrelated purposes - games, music, movies, and porn.

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 16:23 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: There's all probability that a vast majority of these laptops will end up being used for totally unrelated purposes - games, music, movies, and porn. it is through these 4 purposes that people become computer literate. -- regards

[Ilugc] Problem with gcc+CentOS 5.6

2011-09-03 Thread Zico
Hi, I need to install nginx in my CentOS-5.6 box. But it is showing some error like: *# sh ./configure --prefix='/opt/nginx' --with-http_ssl_module --with-cc-opt='-Wno-error' --add-module='/var/lib/passenger-standalone/3.0.8-x86_64-ruby1.8.7-linux-gcc4.1.2-1002/support/ext/nginx' checking for OS

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Shanu
FSFTN condemns Govt move to drop FOSS operating system from the free laptops. Please read http://fsftn.org/content/we-condemn-act-removing-free-software-latest-tender-free-laptop-scheme -- Thank you, Shanu S Sukoor - Please do not send me Microsoft

[Ilugc] [FSFTN] We condemn the act of removing Free Software from the latest tender of Free Laptop Scheme

2011-09-03 Thread Alagunambi Welkin
Dear Friends, This is in response to the removing of Free Software from the latest tender of ELCOT in the name of so called cost-cutting to procure 0.9 Million laptops for students in Tamil Nadu. The Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu strongly condemns this move and we have already initiated

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Saturday 03 September 2011 04:23 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Sep 3, 2011 11:23 AM, Arun Venkataswamyarun...@gmail.com wrote: I hope the courts help in pulling out this entire thing of free laptops. +1 There's all probability that a vast majority of these laptops will end up being used

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Vivek Rajagopalan
On 03-09-2011 16:31, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 16:23 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: There's all probability that a vast majority of these laptops will end up being used for totally unrelated purposes - games, music, movies, and porn. it is through these 4 purposes that

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Arduino Boards

2011-09-03 Thread Roshan George
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 09:15 +0200, Krishna wrote: If you are looking for low cost arduino compatible in india, you can see Riduino. http://www.roboticsindia.com/entry.php/84-Riduino-Low-Cost-Fully-compatible-Arduino-for-India This is very cool, a fourth of the cost. I already have an

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Raman.P
Today's The Hindu carries clarification by the Minister for IT, TN has clarified that the laptops will be loaded with BOSS by ELCOT itself. I think all of us should be happy. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

[Ilugc] Free Laptop without Free OS

2011-09-03 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Respected Editor, With respect to http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2419753.ece I seriously don't like the decision of our TamilNadu Goverment to skip Linux Based operating system in favor of Windows. The reason being that if students begin to learn just

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Today's The Hindu carries clarification by the Minister for IT, TN has clarified that the laptops will be loaded with BOSS by ELCOT itself. I think all of us should be happy.

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Chandan Gupta
I just wrote a blog post about it :) http://www.linuxcandy.com/2011/09/minister-for-it-tamil-nadu-clarifies.html On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Today's The

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Nallu Ignacius
Happy to hear Off from home On Sep 3, 2011 11:05 PM, Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Today's The Hindu carries clarification by the Minister for IT, TN has clarified that the laptops will be loaded with BOSS by ELCOT itself. I think all of us should be happy. Raman.P

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Chandan Gupta gupta.chand...@gmail.comwrote: I just wrote a blog post about it :) http://www.linuxcandy.com/2011/09/minister-for-it-tamil-nadu-clarifies.html Thanks for those IIT Students others who made this to happen.Without your efforts this would not

Re: [Ilugc] Free Laptop without Free OS

2011-09-03 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan bala150...@gmail.com wrote: Respected Editor, With respect to http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2419753.ece I seriously don't like the decision of our TamilNadu Goverment to skip Linux Based