Re: [ilugd] freedel and the community

2007-04-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 04-Apr-07, at 9:27 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: there appears to be a mailing list - to which i have subscribed twice, with no reply so far - anyone else got through? Which address did you send your subscribe request to, and what was the request? To remind everyone, the freedel mailing list

[ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Soi, Dhruv
Hi All, I am planning to create own Linux distribution with minimal and few custom packages also inducing unattended installation procedure. I would be doing it for the very first time so thought to gain some expert advice before proceeding. I would prefer to follow either Debian platform or

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:41 +0530, Soi, Dhruv wrote: Hi All, I am planning to create own Linux distribution with minimal and few custom packages also inducing unattended installation procedure. I would be doing it for the very first time so thought to gain some expert advice before

Re: [ilugd] Conference Management App for FreeDel '07

2007-04-04 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:12 AM, Gora Mohanty cobbled together some glyphs to say: Hello, Well i have a functional prototype of required to be pushed to http://sourceforge.net/projects/tangent/ . But i dont think I will be able to commit

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Soi, Dhruv
It's not going to be a publicly available distribution so nothing to panic about distribution flood. It would be for the sake of our internal project. And Indeed, I would also like to work on Debian derivative. I hope this answers your question well. Any other advice on achieving it with lesser

Re: [ilugd] Conference Management App for FreeDel '07

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:49 +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: [...] OK, guys I have some bad news. I talked to the Continue people and they have told me that they can't release the source (or give it to me) at this stage, all they can do is host the app for us at Brown Univ. [...] Is it really

Re: [ilugd] Conference Management App for FreeDel '07

2007-04-04 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 15:13, Gora Mohanty wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:49 +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: [...] OK, guys I have some bad news. I talked to the Continue people and they have told me that they can't release the source (or give it to me) at this stage, all they can

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
Soi, Dhruv wrote: It's not going to be a publicly available distribution so nothing to panic about distribution flood. It would be for the sake of our internal project. And Indeed, I would also like to work on Debian derivative. I hope this answers your question well. Any other advice on

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Mukund Deshmukh
Hi All, I am planning to create own Linux distribution with minimal and few custom packages also inducing unattended installation procedure. I would be doing it for the very first time so thought to gain some expert advice before proceeding. I would prefer to follow either Debian

[ilugd] First look at Continue

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, So I took a quick look at the Continue tour at http://continue.cs.brown.edu/tour/ , and here are some observations: 1. Most important point is that do we have any guarantee that we can easily retrieve data from Continue, in case we want to move it elsewhere? 2. The interface looks

Re: [ilugd] Conference Management App for FreeDel '07

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:20 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: [...] So now there's 3 apps in the pipeline... Vivek's, yours and the one that Suman and Mary were getting done. I'm eagerly awaiting the conference application shoot-out! Ack, no. Given that we already have volunteers, and given the

Re: [ilugd] Conference Management App for FreeDel '07

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:25 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: [...] Time to take these discussions to the freedel mailing list. Please follow up there. I agree, and this is my last message on this list for this and other topics related to Freedel. Raj, would it be possible to have a public archive for

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 4/4/07, Soi, Dhruv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am planning to create own Linux distribution with minimal and few custom packages also inducing unattended installation procedure. This is something that is still not feasible, How are you planning to customize the installer, Which

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 4/4/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat does handle some things better, such as kickstart for rolling out identical distributions across multiple machines. I think preseed does the same thing , But i never used kickstart so can`t say ! -- Linux User #348873 ILUGD Commitee

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of the last ILUG-Delhi meeting, Sun., 1/4

2007-04-04 Thread Kishore Bhargava
Photo minutes of the meeting: http://images.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi?mode=viewalbum=/ILUGD-Meet-20070401 Cheers...Kishore -- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Conference Management App for FreeDel '07

2007-04-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 04-Apr-07, at 2:49 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: app is superior and just use that, no issues. But instead of just waiting now, we better start writing something right now. If any one of you have a public Subversion repository it will be of help, else I can just use Bazaar-NG and host

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-04-04 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Folks, The enterprise Vs Free software releases is getting more interesting area for me for the discussion. I got overwhelimg response from many people which cleared many doubt for me and probably same for others. Thanks everyone for their reply! Like i said we have Redhat SuSE subscription,

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-04-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:39 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote: [...] Like i said we have Redhat SuSE subscription, similarly we do have mysql support subscription. Now it emerged recently mysql releases new mysql - server 5.0.38. Now if we install mysql pathes or releases does it break anything

Re: [ilugd] [X posted] Why DVD/CD fail

2007-04-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 3 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any comments on Indian CD/DVD's behaviour as said in the article? For data archiving this is important. Found the link from /. MoserBaer and mmore have been acceptable whenever I tried transferring files between machines (sneaker net). That's about

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread PJ
Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/4/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat does handle some things better, such as kickstart for rolling out identical distributions across multiple machines. I think preseed does the same thing , But i never used kickstart so can`t

Re: [ilugd] Own Linux Distro

2007-04-04 Thread PJ
On 4/4/07, Gora Mohanty gora at ... wrote: Redhat does handle some things better, such as kickstart for rolling out identical distributions across multiple machines. For cloning on identical machines, nettee with dd is probably handy for mittel-geeks (as opposed to über and