Re: [Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-22 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> > Why are you going for fedora.. is there any particular reason (in our > college we are having ubuntu,if fedora is better for any reason i can > suggest them to use it), > Since, many colleges don't have DVD drives in the computers, the only way for us to setup a FOSS lab is through PXE based n

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-22 Thread balaji sivanath
>Try this http://www.apdip.net/publications/fosseprimers/foss-edu.pdf it works sorry, without seeing *. i said as "not working" ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-22 Thread Arun SAG
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, balaji sivanath wrote: > hi baskar, > > this link has no content > http://www.apdip.net/publications/*foss*eprimers/*foss*-edu.pdf > > Try this http://www.apdip.net/publications/fosseprimers/foss-edu.pdf -- Arun S.A.G ___

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-22 Thread balaji sivanath
hi baskar, this link has no content http://www.apdip.net/publications/*foss*eprimers/*foss*-edu.pdf >Setup a FOSS lab (a minimum of 60 computers) in the college using >Fedora-13 (We install about 4225 packages in all the computers using >kickstart method and ask the students to work on it for som

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-22 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> > FOSS awareness means what topics will be discussed > > * What is FOSS ? (including the history of GNU (by RMS) and Linux (by Linus Torvalds) and make them clearly understand what is GNU and what is Linux and why it should be called GNU/Linux than just Linux) as steve elaborated in detail at ht

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-21 Thread balaji sivanath
hi baskar, FOSS awareness means what topics will be discussed ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] FOSS awareness program @ Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

2010-08-21 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
Dear all, On behalf of ILUGC, myself conducted a one day awareness program on FOSS in Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore ( http://www.karpagameducation.com) on 20/08/10 for the third year CSE and IT students totalling 110+. 60 seat FOSS lab was setup in the college using Fedora-13. Also