Re: [Ilugc] Beware of skype

2013-05-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/15/2013 09:55 AM, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote: To my knowledge skype does not use their servers to send the voice data (this is what I was told may be wrong). So thought it is the same for text also. If you care about eavesdropping at all, use otr. Pidgin has a plugin that

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] IS Rust is an Open Source Language ?

2013-05-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/14/2013 10:10 PM, jaya kumar wrote: Hi to all Is Rust is an Open Source Programming Language ? http://www.rust-lang.org/ Mozilla Promoting this Language and mozilla is using this language for their products, May i know this programme language is better / not bcoz i never used heard

Re: [Ilugc] Linux drop support for i386 chips

2012-12-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/19/2012 10:53 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Title is misleading. x86 is more than 90% of the market I think even with Apple gear and Sun. You just can't ignore x86. My LiveUSB project only supports x86 and I get queries often, nobody asked it for any other architecture. So this

Re: [Ilugc] How to setup USB multiseat configuration for HP-t100 thinclient in Fedora-17

2012-06-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/18/2012 11:44 AM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: Is there any additional configuration need to be done for the HP T100 Thinclient. I have been trying for this more than a year to make it work. Any pointers or user experience on the above would be helpful. It should just work. If not, post

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora 16 -17 Notes

2012-06-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/06/2012 08:24 AM, A. Mani wrote: I tried to upgrade fedora 16 x86-64 via preupgrade a few days ago. After the first stage up to download of packages and installation of grub2 for the actual install process ... it went fine. The new grub2 entry was not bootable (known bug?), but anyway I

Re: [Ilugc] About Licensing

2012-03-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/02/2012 07:58 PM, Princeyesuraj Edward wrote: I am Building an Application Upon a Project that is Licensed Apache. I want to use GPL V3 for the Resulting Application I Code. I want to know is this a Violation as i License it GPL ?? GPLv3 is compatible with Apachev2. Rahul

Re: [Ilugc] Did Microsoft Just Kill Ubuntu Tablets?

2012-01-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/16/2012 08:48 PM, Sundaram Ramachandran wrote: The question is: Why would ARM PC manufacturers pay any value to Microsoft's certification? I feel they have no special incentive Of course they do. It is foolish that Microsoft will not become relevant for ARM soon. Not in the same level

Re: [Ilugc] Need Advice, Linux/FOSS Gurus from India

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/20/2011 02:07 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Hi, Linus' interview made me think if there really is lack of Linux gurus? So, I am thinking of a sub-section in Muktware where we profile/feature one Linux/FOSS expert from India every week. What's your opinion? I don't know about gurus

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox 8 is out

2011-11-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/10/2011 11:38 PM, pavithran wrote: On 9 November 2011 10:35, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: A stupid versioning system which started with Google Chrome. Looks like Mozilla just copied it. I liked the old days when it took like a year or two to jump major versions. +1 I was once talking to

[Ilugc] Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 (Verne). This release is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, co-inventer of Unix and the C language. For what's new, refer to https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003011.html Rahul

[Ilugc] Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to announce the launch of Ask Fedora at http://ask.fedoraproject.org. Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not need to a

[Ilugc] Fedora Conference: FUDCon Pune 2011

2011-11-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi When: 4 to 6th of November 2011 Where: College of Engineering Pune FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests.

Re: [Ilugc] Blender 2.6 Fedora.

2011-10-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/22/2011 12:01 PM, Manikandan B wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:04 AM, sag kavin sagka...@gmail.com wrote: You didn't mention the version of Fedora you are using. Fedora does have Blender 2.6 Thank you for the quick response, And I am using Fedora 15. Today morning I downloaded

Re: [Ilugc] Blender 2.6 Fedora.

2011-10-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/22/2011 08:39 AM, sag kavin wrote: Hi, I found blender has released version 2.6. But still fedora repository is having only blender Blender 2.49 (sub 2) Build I need Blender FDS plugin, which can be installed only in V2.6 or V2.5, How can I do this. Why fedora software

Re: [Ilugc] Gnome-shell-3.2.0 fc15

2011-10-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/15/2011 06:01 PM, sag kavin wrote: Gnome 3,2 will be available with F16. If i want it with fedora 15 what should i do? I ubuntu I can add ppa and install the updated version easily. How to do this in fedora? Ubuntu didn't include GNOME Shell by default and never will but Fedora does.

Re: [Ilugc] ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series Driver problem

2011-10-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/06/2011 08:33 AM, Kumaran R wrote: Hi, The proprietary drivers for ATi are generally a waste. If you're on F15, I recommend you to use the nouveau drivers, which are better than the ATi drvers. Also, if you're installing ATi drivers make sure, you build a rpm package and then

Re: [Ilugc] ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series Driver problem

2011-10-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/06/2011 06:48 PM, Roshan George wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 08:33 +0530, Kumaran R wrote: I recommend you to use the nouveau drivers, which are better than the ATi drvers. Wait, did something change? I have an ATI 4670. The open-source driver for this card is 'radeonhd' and I

Re: [Ilugc] ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series Driver problem

2011-10-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/06/2011 08:23 PM, sag kavin wrote: Wait, did something change? I have an ATI 4670. The open-source driver for this card is 'radeonhd' and I suspect the same driver is used for similar cards. AFAIK, Nouveau is for Nvidia cards. When i was using Gnome2, everything was fine. The driver

Re: [Ilugc] myswl a cripleware?

2011-09-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/29/2011 10:02 PM, Christopher Sagayam wrote: About the only choice now is for the FOSS community to make the same moves with MySQL as we made with OpenOffice. So why not do it ? and make MySQL opensource forever ! If you want alternatives, there is already quite a few. MariaDB,

Re: [Ilugc] transmission-remote-gtk Compiling.

2011-09-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/29/2011 09:03 PM, sag kavin wrote: Hi, I got the following error message while compiling transmission-remote-gtk in Fedora 15, I got code from http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-gtk/ https://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-gtk/downloads/list has a

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/26/2011 07:32 PM, Kumara Guru wrote: Yeah, since when did the Enterprise looked to public mailing lists for answers and shared plans of their deployments? Glad, you put the public mailing list in its place. Some actually do especially if they are educational institutions or non-profits

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/27/2011 09:34 PM, Kumara Guru wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this question is directed at me since I did no such thing. Righto! I generally use You only as a figure of speech; nothing personal. Thought so. Just

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/24/2011 09:25 PM, Kumara Guru wrote: I am not denying that. When designing apps around an open platform, I expect costs be less than intimidating to comfortably go for periodical planned upgrades. Have you talked to any organization having a large deployment on Linux? I encourage you

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/24/2011 11:10 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 22:33 -0700, Ramkumar wrote: we have to setup LAMP server for this how do we make it as fast and reliable. which distro is good to setup LAMP. My suggestion is Cent OS 6. for a good LAMP server you would certainly need

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/25/2011 09:57 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: rpomforge, repoforge etc. While asserting and respecting and +1 to Rahul's response, adding these repositories breaks support from Redhat. Dear respected Rahul, correct me if I am wrong. You are the Redhat man around here. It doesn't break

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/26/2011 01:50 AM, Kumara Guru wrote: Fair enough, but I am not a person they would/could share details with. If someone could provide the data, that will be helpful. Unless you have talked to *anyone* handling a large deployment, all you can do is speculate about their needs which isn't

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/23/2011 06:05 PM, Arun Khan wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: But that is the best one around if you consider the Base on which you are going to deploy your application. You have support of Centos till RHEL supports it -- 7

Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good

2011-09-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/24/2011 04:36 AM, Kumara Guru wrote: If the enterprise wants a 10-year locked-down deployment even for an Open Web Apps stack, that makes me really sad. I was under the impression that only proprietary, commercial products lock down their customers and make upgrades a costly affair. I

Re: [Ilugc] Open Souce Anitivirus(Client-Server)

2011-09-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/09/2011 03:01 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:40 PM, rmariya sagaya asirvatham asir.li...@gmail.com wrote: Any open source Antivirus (Client-Server) Tools avilable . http://www.clamav.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus ClamAV may not perform as

Re: [Ilugc] Security breach on kernel.org

2011-09-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/05/2011 12:23 PM, விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:21 AM, ashwin kesavan ashwin@gmail.com wrote: Interesting info at kernel.org site: This may be interesting as well - https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3Tvi In

Re: [Ilugc] how to integrate pidgin, vlc, desktop notification in gnome3

2011-07-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/31/2011 05:47 PM, balaji sivanath wrote: Hi, I installed gnome3 in my arch system. Now i dont have any desktop notification for removable drives or integrated chat. How to integrate pidgin,vlc,desktop notification for removable drives in gnome3. In you are using Fedora 15, # yum

Re: [Ilugc] printer not being detected in fedora 15

2011-07-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/22/2011 11:15 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 10:29 +0530, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote: And the cups-pk-helper is an helper apps to configure printer. if it is broken, we can use the system-config-printer utility to configure printer. It can be installed from the

Re: [Ilugc] Locked Root password, Debian 5 refuses to go into single user mode

2011-07-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/11/2011 11:23 AM, Arun Khan wrote: I always profess, not to change the admin philosophy of the distribution. I suspect this idea came from Ubuntu wherein the first user essentially is the root user except that s/he has to prefix sudo No relationship. Distributions haven't set a root

Re: [Ilugc] Internet cafe software to run on Ubuntu client and Windows server

2011-07-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/11/2011 08:50 AM, pavithran wrote: On 9 July 2011 12:48, anu nivas anupama.2312.bm...@gmail.com wrote: Can any of you suggest an Internet cafe software to run on Ubuntu client and Windows server? Wow hearing this for the first time . So does this mean ' Finally the Year of Desktop

Re: [Ilugc] Is it legal to host a webserver in domestic broadband plan

2011-07-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/30/2011 06:59 PM, balaji sivanath wrote: oops. I just know about version control but i didnt use it as i will be developing very very tiny apps only by me. So, I thought version control is not necessary Let us assume that you are right and you are the only person going to be

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora-15 Repository for Students / Institutions

2011-06-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/23/2011 06:03 PM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: Dear all, Interested Institutions / students can obtain the following FOSS resources completely at free of cost. Fedora-15 DVD, Live CD ISO (i386, x86_64, source) (15G) Fedora-15 i386 + rpmfusion repository (26G) Fedora-15 x86_64 + rpmfusion

Re: [Ilugc] createrepo rpm for RHEL5.2 xen

2011-06-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/22/2011 06:27 PM, dhivya alagar wrote: can anybody provide link to download create repo rpm.I tried configuring YUM repository.createrepo is missing and unable to set YUM server. createrepo is available in the repo. Installing random packages off the net isn't a good idea but if you

Re: [Ilugc] createrepo rpm for RHEL5.2 xen

2011-06-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/22/2011 06:27 PM, dhivya alagar wrote: can anybody provide link to download create repo rpm.I tried configuring YUM repository.createrepo is missing and unable to set YUM server. createrepo is available in the repo. Installing random packages off the net isn't a good idea but if you

[Ilugc] Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

2011-05-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi This is a very feature rich release including GNOME 3, systemd, Indic typing booster, Btrfs support, Boxgrinder appliance creator and many more, Details at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002964.html Rahul ___ ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] Something goes Wrong with Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/06/2011 03:52 PM, Arun Khan wrote: I stand corrected, I believe it is in the repos. A while back there was an article on Ubuntu shifting to Wayland in 11.04; I assumed that was the case. Very few journalists have any clue what they are talking about when it comes to free software.

Re: [Ilugc] The service of Amazon EC2 (N. Virginia) region was down from yesterday

2011-04-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/23/2011 06:47 AM, Nirmalya Lahiri wrote: Hi, this is a bad news for system administrators like me who are depend upon Amazon EC2 cloud environment. The service of N.Virginia region was down from yesterday. The status was reported at http://status.aws.amazon.com/. For those who

Re: [Ilugc] I need Linux From Scratch CD

2011-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2011 06:04 PM, Bharath Kumar wrote: Hi All, I am looking for a CD/DVD of 'Linux from Scratch' distro. Please email me where I can come and collect the same. Linux from scratch is not a distro in the traditional sense. It is basically a guide for building everything from upstream

Re: [Ilugc] kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE

2011-03-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/30/2011 11:51 AM, Arun Khan wrote: It is popular in cloud environments, IBM and NTT have large instances This is a great validation. Any references that we can site? Would be helpful to convince people that the Linux KVM is a competitive option.

Re: [Ilugc] kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE

2011-03-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/27/2011 11:49 PM, Mohan R wrote: I don't know about 'qemu-kvm' in clouds, but for experiments and personal use, it is way better than any other solutions. It is popular in cloud environments, IBM and NTT have large instances Rahul ___ ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE

2011-03-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/26/2011 07:33 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:16 PM, narendra babu cnarendra_b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Folks , Could you please let me know which of virtulization is mature kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE in real production which has more

Re: [Ilugc] kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE

2011-03-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/26/2011 07:16 PM, narendra babu wrote: Hello Folks , Could you please let me know which of virtulization is mature kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE in real production which has more performance and reliability and number of virtual hosts supported Very open ended

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/22/2011 10:00 AM, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:50, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/21/2011 08:33 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: * Ghostscript had a deal with FSF to make the latest-but-one version GPL, but they sold the latest version with a commercial

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/22/2011 01:19 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 13:14, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Aladdin, who were the sole copyright holders of Ghostscript invented the dual licensing model. You claimed that Aladdin had a deal with FSF. I don't see any evidence of that. You didn't see

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/22/2011 02:27 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: You didn't ask for citations or evidence, you asserted that the opposite was true. Your ambiguous language and tone made it look like you knew what you were talking about. Yes, I was aware that there wasn't any deal (asking for citation for this

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/22/2011 03:28 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: You can't be aware of a negative, unless you can prove it. I don't need to be aware of a negative. I merely need to see evidence of a positive to believe something. In that case you were only unaware of the deal, which you post facto decided

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/22/2011 03:58 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: I've already linked to, and quoted the relevant source. The source doesn't show any written agreement. This is what you initially tried to refute: * Ghostscript had a deal with FSF to make the latest-but-one version GPL, but they

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/21/2011 08:33 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: * Ghostscript had a deal with FSF to make the latest-but-one version GPL, but they sold the latest version with a commercial license. There was no deal with FSF. They were the sole copyright holders and don't require permission or deals with

Re: [Ilugc] Documentation Licences - how they compare?

2011-03-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/18/2011 08:08 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, [quote from rhel doc] Copyright © 2010 Red Hat Inc. and others. The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY-SA). An

Re: [Ilugc] doubt

2011-03-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/19/2011 03:26 PM, murugan m wrote: Hello, While I installed moodle under fedora, I got following error message. 'Data directory (/var/www/moodledata) cannot be created by the installer.' Eventhough already I had installed why I got above error message. Can any one help me? My

Re: [Ilugc] ssd and linux

2011-03-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/12/2011 06:37 AM, Kumaran R wrote: Hi, Even on a HDD, according to Linus himself, noatime is a good fs option. As a rule, in my all my linux boxes, I edit fstab in such a way, all my partitions, except swap have the noatime option. I also include, two RAM Drives, /tmp and

Re: [Ilugc] Need a reason on php and mysql

2011-03-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/08/2011 10:03 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: Hi all, Most of the time i am seeing and i have heard people saying php mysql . What is the reason for these two always said to be a pair, even-though odbc can be used? This is the combination that is part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and

Re: [Ilugc] Need a reason on php and mysql

2011-03-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/09/2011 02:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 14:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: This is the combination that is part of LAMP if you will check the Oreilly archives you will find that LAMP meant Linux, Apache, MySQL and perl. Citation needed. The earliest referenced

Re: [Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/06/2011 08:36 PM, Kumaran R wrote: Hi, As I've already told in the January meeting, my dad wants to do more in FOSS. I suggested that he could become an advocate and legal advisor for FOSS projects. As he is interested in Intellectual Property rights, he accepted that he'd

Re: [Ilugc] www.kernel.org - difference between stable and longterm kernels?

2011-03-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/02/2011 11:23 AM, Arun Khan wrote: kernel packages are categorized stable and longterm. For instance 2.6.35 is: longterm: 2.6.35.11 2011-02-06 and stable: 2.6.35.92010-11-22 While there is a definition for stable [1], I could not find any answer for long term

Re: [Ilugc] Canonical's comprehensive list of hardware certified to work with Linux

2011-02-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/16/2011 05:05 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: 2011/2/16 விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் viky.nan...@gmail.com: I can remember several queries in this list regarding PC hardware that are compatible with Linux. Hope the Component catalog released recently by Canonical [1] will be helpful to some of us.

Re: [Ilugc] choosing a distro

2011-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/14/2011 11:12 PM, madhavan raghavan wrote: Hi ppl , can you people suggest me a distro to horn my core linux skill , i mean a distro whre one needs a knowledge to do one ting rather than easily doing using GUI ? There is nothing preventing you from picking any distribution and

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/10/2011 08:25 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I have read the citation you have given - 6 times so far. There is nothing about license there - the citation talks of what you call governance - governance is bad and is the root of the problem. You misunderstood the purpose of the reference.

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/10/2011 05:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [ The different modes of development have already well established names. Look up Open Core, centralized copyright etc) note 1: Change of license is only possible if all the contributors agree to the change. Even if one disagrees, his work

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/10/2011 05:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 2. Company mode (free) - where the project is mainly run by a company and the said company does not have any proprietary products based on the project in question. Usually these companies are able to attract large number of developers because

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/11/2011 08:20 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: unfortunately I do not move in such exalted circles - so why do you not tell us what the developers told you about how licensing impacted NetBSD? I have already answered that in a previous mail where I gave the citation. I rather not go in a

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/11/2011 08:24 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I know some one floated an idea that 'public domain' is not a legally recognised concept in the US - but I doubt it has any validity. I wasn't talking about U.S. Anyway in India it is not only recognised, but codified. btw, what has this got

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/11/2011 08:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 08:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Another example is that it is not possible to really sell aka assign copyright to another entity at all in some regions. which regions? Look up special author rights in Europe

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/09/2011 07:08 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: are you implying that I have not done research? My research shows that choice of license is irrelevant with regards to success, failure or sustainability of a project, which solely depends on the project fulfilling a need and on the methodology

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/09/2011 05:43 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 17:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You continue to vehemently miss the point I have been making. frankly I am totally unable to understand the point you have been making You already agreed on the fundamental point I

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/05/2011 08:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: well the whole thing started when you said 'look what happened to NetBSD' - so what happened Not quite what I said. The whole thing actually started off as a commentary on licenses and not about success or failure about anything. If you want

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: The two BDFLs have been very successful in attracting and keeping developers - at the same time are very strict about enforcing the basic principles - like the amount of code to be allowed in a template or the utmost attempts to avoid

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 09:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 02/03/2011 09:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I do not hobnob with the biggies - but even at my level I value my choice of license very heavily. But the point

Re: [Ilugc] Finding Postgresql version number

2011-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
2011/2/5 ராஜ பாண்டி vrp...@gmail.com Hi friends, I want to get the version number of postgresql installed in a system. psql --version serves the purpose, but it prints the version number with some text information also. I want only the version number. Is there any way to get only the

Re: [Ilugc] Redhat Vs Suse

2011-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Version Control Buddy vcbu...@gmail.comwrote: - As mentioned before both uses RPM internally. SUSE comes with yast and zypper. I have felt that zypper has more and better commandline options than yum. For things I had to modify the yum.conf, zypper had some

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/02/2011 03:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I assume that someone has seen the error in his ways and now only contributes to GPLed projects? Some citations would be nice. Nowhere did I claim that BSD is unsuitable. Just that the license is a major attribute of a project and has a impact

Re: [Ilugc] Redhat Vs Suse

2011-02-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/03/2011 06:26 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Now I believe Novell Suse Linux is based on Debian and Redhat tried to deviate from UNIX as much as they can Neither of this is true. Lets stick to giving advice on products that we know about. Rahul

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/03/2011 08:10 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote nope - just analyse all major projects and you will find that license is largely irrelevant - the success/failure of a project depends on: 1. if there is a need for it 2. the attitude of the core developers I have given enough examples for

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/03/2011 09:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I do not hobnob with the biggies - but even at my level I value my choice of license very heavily. But the point is that you are yet to show how the choice of license is in *any* way relevant to the success or failure of a project. I have no

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/01/2011 11:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: what happened to netbsd? as far as I can see it is still alive and kicking. So what is the problem? Alive, yes. Kicking, not really. They had a big problem not too long ago where

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/01/2011 03:26 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 14:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html this mail has nothing whatsoever to do with license or contributing back or anything. I am not relying only on the mail

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-02-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/02/2011 09:14 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: you are evading the point. First you say netbsd is in doldrums due to the BSD license where people are allowed to fork and not contribute back. Then you quote a reference that has nothing to do with the license and attributes the problem to

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-01-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/31/2011 05:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 16:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: This is because others can and will fork BSD code and keep them proprietary and this business model won't work c.f. NetBSD what happened to netbsd? as far as I can see it is still alive

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-01-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/30/2011 03:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I misunderstood you - I thought you were talking of software companies that produce code. In this case about 90% of them release under the GPL, and a good number of them are bogus in the sense that they release a watered down version as bait for

Re: [Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses

2011-01-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/30/2011 08:25 AM, Ashish Bhatia wrote: Where did I said that? The closest statement to this I can find is BSD based code is heavily used by major companies. And yes, I do stand by it. The reason being the GPL compliance is tough for most companies to comply to due to permissive nature,

Re: [Ilugc] Query about Pre-installed Operating system in official laptops

2011-01-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/23/2011 01:36 AM, Pandian R wrote: Its very rare these laptop companies comes without windows. It happens very rarely. (i got vostro 1000 with freedos, I am searching for similar one. Dell refuses to distribute it without OS, pointing out on OEM warranty blah blah)

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] WTF-- Translates acronyms

2011-01-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/20/2011 03:07 PM, Tha.Suresh wrote: Don't see the meaning of wtf ( $ wtf is wtf );) Don't see why. Works fine in Fedora 14 # yum install bsd-games # wtf wtf WTF: {what,when,where,who,why} the f*** {what,when,where,who,why} the f*** (asterisks added) Rahul

Re: [Ilugc] [ILUG-C] package

2011-01-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/03/2011 01:42 PM, dinesh kumar wrote: hi, i have developed an application on ubuntu, mow i want to deploy it on puppy linux as we know we need all the dependencies(libraries), so for this i want to create an setup installation application like that we have in windows could anyone help

Re: [Ilugc] creating live usb for booting fedora 14

2011-01-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/29/2010 03:49 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: hi, I did yum install liveusb-creator. It installed. then I tried to run it, but I find it has installed the fedora Live iso for fedora 13. The creator finds that checksum does not match and hangs. Any clues? Actually I am trying to create a

Re: [Ilugc] zimbra and exchange

2010-12-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/13/2010 03:33 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 14:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: the explanation given by a director (who is pro open source) is that linux mail systems are file based and hence slow, whereas Exchange is database based so is faster. They would be quite

Re: [Ilugc] zimbra and exchange

2010-12-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/25/2010 09:26 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:34 +0400, a d a r s h wrote: I do agree with Kish. Zimbra is an amazing product. Me myself is running 2 Zimbra servers (all network editions) with about 500GB mails 300+ users with couple of users with 15GB+ mailbox.

Re: [Ilugc] how to create custom os distribution

2010-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/20/2010 12:53 PM, balaji sivanath wrote: hi, i want to create custom linux os distribution.. dont want to use studio,i want to create by downloading source code and want to compile it.. i dont get any clear idea in forums,please tell me step by step procedure..

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] [fiction] Legal advice needed for selling one e-book

2010-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/18/2010 02:39 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: My village friend will send me money 100 INR for this purpose. CD cost - - 0/- Courier Charge -- 100/- ++ Total - 100/- This IMO is just fine. It is a reasonable cost for courier and you are not trying to profit from it.

Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

2010-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/20/2010 07:40 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 19:28, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure? I used to be as paranoid. What if I strongly encrypt my data using a secure public key crypto algorithm? (openssl? GPG?). Will it not 'secure' my data?

Re: [Ilugc] zimbra and exchange

2010-12-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/13/2010 12:45 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: hi, a large company in Coimbatore recently migrated from microsoft outlook/exchange to zimbra. And within a month they migrated back. The top management is very much pro open source (their CMD attends LUG meetings). The reason for going back

Re: [Ilugc] ubuntu 10.04 hangs

2010-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/30/2010 01:29 PM, pavithran wrote: On 29 November 2010 20:37, Rahul Sundaram wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29#Differences_between_Chromium_and_Google_Chrome quote Google takes this source code and adds an integrated Flash Player, the Google name and logo

Re: [Ilugc] ubuntu 10.04 hangs

2010-11-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/12/2010 11:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: http://www.chromium.org/Home http://www.chromium.org/Home thanks - I thought that was called chrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29#Differences_between_Chromium_and_Google_Chrome Rahul

Re: [Ilugc] Remote Installation of Fedora ISO images- Help Required !

2010-11-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/17/2010 02:15 PM, benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Members, I have done successfully remote installation of fedora 14 using pxe,tftp,dhcp and nfs/http. The contents of the Fedora 14 DVD were copied into a particular directory and shared through nfs. I did it based on the article

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] How many Non-free software is on your machine ?

2010-11-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/13/2010 01:00 AM, Tha.Suresh wrote: How many Non-free software is on your machine ? $ vrms tell you how many Non free software is on your machine, which package it is and which restriction on freedom it has . require vrms package , vrms mean virtual Richard M. Stallman ;-) $ vrms

Re: [Ilugc] Doubt on sudo commad

2010-11-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/04/2010 12:41 AM, JAGANADH G wrote: Dear All sudo yum search mysqldb su -c 'yum search mysqldb' which one is correct. When I use the first one it says [user] is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. In many books I saw the instruction sudo yum search

Re: [Ilugc] fedora 12 - watching movies

2010-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/11/2010 10:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: cannot play a text file without vide If you have RPM Fusion, free and non-free repos enabled, # yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly Rahul ___ ILUGC Mailing

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