[Ilugc] help regarding software downloading

2014-03-18 Thread Purushothaman M
I have migrated from windows to linux mint recently. In windows if a new software is required software can be downloaded from the website and stored in afolder and can be installed on requirement. Whether the same way softwares for linux can be downloaded. All sites are asking which linux you are

[Ilugc] [OT] CODhER – Women’s Hackathon

2014-03-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
The ACM-CEG Student Chapter in association with Jugaado and Indix presents to you "CODhER" a hackathon exclusively for girls, a first-of-its-kind initiative by ACM CEG Students' chapter to promote participation among women in technical events. Build a mobile app or a web app on any theme in any pr

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [puduvailug] Time to celebrate

2014-03-18 Thread PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
GPU, network cards do work well with Linux than with Windows I guess. BIOS developers don't properly confirm to ACPI spec fully, if windows runs they assume it confirms to ACPI. So its not linux's problem. > In our College, a batch of more than 300 Wipro machines are working only with > CentOS, a

[Ilugc] [OT] Talk/Workshop on creating ebooks

2014-03-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
FreeTamilEbooks.com is conducting a talk/workshop on Ebooks. Topics: Why ebooks? How to create ebooks in various formats like epub, mobi, 6 Inch PDF, A4 PDF etc. available Tools and Software Devices to read ebooks How to spread awareness on ebooks. Place : Tamil Virtual Academy Anna University

[Ilugc] How to Create RPM in solaris server

2014-03-18 Thread madhusudhanan Elangovan
Hi, Did anyone tried to create rpm in solaris server. I have a need where i need to create RPM in Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b X86 server and this RPM should be installable in RHEL and Centos linux. Kindly provide the steps you followed to achieve this. -- *Thanks,Madhusudhanan

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [puduvailug] Time to celebrate

2014-03-18 Thread Sundaram KR
> TamilNadu Government ordered state departments to switch to Free Software. - But I think many XP machines will not easily be able to work with Linux; unless the hardware was verified for Linux support during purchase. Things like ACPI, Graphics card, network card etc. have been known to mi

[Ilugc] Fwd: [puduvailug] Time to celebrate

2014-03-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
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