Re: [ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-30 Thread shantanu goel
2008/9/30 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can somebody make a script based on this command to take screenshot while installation of any Linux OS * Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 * mount a external drive or any unused partition * xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng Screenshot1.png * You need to modify

Re: [ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-30 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2008, narendra sisodiya wrote: [snip] PS1: Do anybody has any wired thought for X screenrecording while installation, You may need to install packages to the running OS by which you are installing, For base Linux installation for clients I take digicam photos at each prompt

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I actually find this kind of intra-community bickering in the Linux | community very disturbing. \-- It takes only two people to have a misunderstanding. --- | What is the problem with all you folks ? \--

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-30 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi Yatnatti, On face of it, I can see what your objection is. but brother, remember that since Linux is Open Source RedHat is bound to release the source codes of whatever they sell--- and if someone wants-- s/he can have/distribute for zero or very low price (even 1 cent) what RedHat sells for

Re: [ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 14:25:47 narendra sisodiya wrote: debian-installer has such a thing built in. http://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots#debian-instsaller-gui Cool, I was not aware of this fact, never noticed, ( as I am a fedora guy ) AFAIR, Anaconda has screenshot capability for

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, from those being paid by Mark). So, let me get this straight. You find the efforts of full-time

[ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi People... A QUick question; for some basics. Assume I have a ubuntu (or ubuntu studio) linux install. Also, assume that I have a JAR file--- in which there's a class exposing a main() function--- which runs perfectly-- on a system with latest JDK--- when I click the JAR file. How to create a

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 15:59:49 Nalin Savara wrote: Is there some script or package--- with which I can package it the way one packages MSI files on windows-- so that the script/installer copies the jar file into appropriate directories-- and creates desktop and Applications-menu

Re: [ilugd] In Debian Lenny, VLC can't play AVI

2008-09-30 Thread gajendra khanna
Hi Swapnil I recently installed Debian Lenny (network install), but I am unable to play DivX or avi files. It could play mpeg files though. AVI files play by default for vlc. There is however an issue with certain divx files (also real media files) whose support is an issue. Install w32codecs

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread shantanu goel
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People... A QUick question; for some basics. Assume I have a ubuntu (or ubuntu studio) linux install. Also, assume that I have a JAR file--- in which there's a class exposing a main() function--- which runs

[ilugd] Debian archive mirror creation problem using anonftpsync script

2008-09-30 Thread gajendra khanna
Hi All I am trying to make a local debian archive mirror using the anonftpsync script got from http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror The exact script I am using for making the rsync mirror is given at end of post. It basically is expected to run rsync for whichever architectures I want. I just

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Parthan SR
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: As far as being a good FOSS citizen, I have always believed that helping fixing bugs upstream is better than having distro specific patches. I must admit, I cannot say how well Ubuntu does in this regard, however I have seen many launchpad bugs referencing the

Re: [ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-30 Thread Arun SAG
Hi, Install vmware or virtual box in your host..Then using the virtualbox install the operating system(guest) you want to take screenshotWhile installing just take screenshot from your host operating system..If you want to live capture use camstudio2.0 (its a freesoftware) incase of windows

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Arun SAG
I read some where in the internet that, canonical is not contributing back to its mother distribution debian. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: As far as being a good FOSS citizen, I have always believed that helping fixing

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Arun SAG
You have created an application in java and combined all the classes to create a jar file..If you double click it the application is working well and good... Now you want to create a installer or something for that jar file so that it creates application short cut on the desktop and add

[ilugd] LDAP Server

2008-09-30 Thread tarun singhal
hi everyone i have a problem with ldap serverconfiguration.. problem facing in the root.ldif file after adding new entry: uid=root,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com i.e. ldap_add: No such object (32) == file : root.ldif == dn: uid=root,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com uid: root

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Parthan SR
Arun SAG wrote: I read some where in the internet that, canonical is not contributing back to its mother distribution debian. Leaving the debate whether the underlying accusation is true or false, please when you are making a statement do state the following, [1] completely describe

[ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Arun SAG
I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ -- -Fighting 4 Freedom- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Nalin Savara
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Arun SAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have created an application in java and combined all the classes to create a jar file..If you double click it the application is working well and good... Now you want to create a installer or something for that jar file so

Re: [ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Nalin Savara
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Arun SAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ This blog is very educative and it is a valuable resource in that it tells a person like me, the things a certain type of customer

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Arun SAG
yeah sure..sorry for that...By the way here is the link http://lwn.net/Articles/293906/ On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Arun SAG wrote: I read some where in the internet that, canonical is not contributing back to its mother distribution debian.

Re: [ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread narendra sisodiya
I think , 50% of our mailing topics can be discussed at debatepedia, for example like this - http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Debate:Open_source_software ;) Because of day by day increasing demand of debates on our mailing list, I will suggest, we should start using idebate for this purpose, or

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:57:44PM +0800, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, from those being paid

Re: [ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:14:50 Arun SAG wrote: I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ I think it is quite an interesting perspective, presented in a ... uh ... very temperate manner. ;) Well, it would be good for the Linux community

[ilugd] Linux criticisms (was) Re: What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:14:50 Arun SAG wrote: I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ With the help of the site above, I came across another - which seems quite a bit less foul and juvenile, and where the author somewhat knows more

Re: [ilugd] LDAP Server

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:12:50 tarun singhal wrote: problem facing in the root.ldif file after adding new entry: uid=root,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com i.e. ldap_add: No such object (32) == file : root.ldif == dn: uid=root,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com uid:

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:36:02 Arun SAG wrote: yeah sure..sorry for that...By the way here is the link http://lwn.net/Articles/293906/ Strange that you quote that article for the accusation about Ubuntu and the only takeaway that you had was that it is not contributing. Maybe you

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:14:31 Manoj Srivastava wrote: I don't think that anyone is arguing that canonical, and ubuntu, do not provide a useful product, nor that the product they provide is popular. The point is whether

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Parthan SR wrote: Arun SAG wrote: I read some where in the internet that, canonical is not contributing back to its mother distribution debian. Leaving the debate whether the underlying accusation is true or false, please when you are making a statement do state

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, from those being paid by Mark). So, let me

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:36:02 Arun SAG wrote: yeah sure..sorry for that...By the way here is the link http://lwn.net/Articles/293906/ Strange that you quote that article for the accusation about Ubuntu and the only takeaway that

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: There is nothing that requires it, no. But then, we are not talking about requirements, we are talking about whether Ubuntu fits into the free software

Re: [ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Mani A
narendra sisodiya wrote: I think , 50% of our mailing topics can be discussed at debatepedia, for example like this - http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/Debate:Open_source_software ;) I had a look. The 'Yes' and 'No' tag on that requires ''inconvenient reformulation of possible questions''.

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is said that all the users are testing the software. What is the point of having testers when the benefit is not passed on upstream to benefit everyone? That is the critical point in Greg's talk. Ubuntu

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is said that all the users are testing the software. What is the point of having testers when the benefit is not passed on upstream to benefit everyone? That is

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: There is nothing that requires it, no. But then, we are not talking about requirements, we are talking about whether

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Gaurav Mishra wrote: GPL doens`t says that when you use some code , Go spoonfeed the changes back to developers, The code is open all there , And the point made by canonical not to make it upstream for each project is valid and practical. No way some company go behind 1000`s bugzilla to track

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [snip] Frankly, I do not buy the statement that Ubuntu can't do what Fedora does. I think perhaps it is to Ubuntu's competitive advantage to be the only distro with the fixes they create? Actually any distribution that doesn't feed

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assume I have a ubuntu (or ubuntu studio) linux install. Also, assume that I have a JAR file--- in which there's a class exposing a main() function--- which runs perfectly-- on a system with latest JDK--- when I click the

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Nalin Savara
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Mehul Ved [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, you can use build.opensuse.org to do that thus have readily installable binaries for all distribution, Hi Mehul, Thanks. I did visit build.opensuse.org and read some pages on that site. Based on my first glance there

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread shantanu goel
I did visit build.opensuse.org and read some pages on that site. Based on my first glance there are quite a few open loops in my understanding of the same. If you have used build.opensuse.org; then can you please take a moment to talk a bit about the steps you went through, to build a

Re: [ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Sharninder
I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ I absolutely love this blog. Whoever is behind the blog actually knows what he's talking about. He's not a random cribbing user. It'd actually do the community a lot of good if we take the person's

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:41:05 -0500 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There is nothing that requires it, no. But then, we are not talking about requirements, we are talking about whether Ubuntu fits into the free software ecosystem, instead of leeching off it. [...] I

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gora Mohanty wrote: I did not want to get involved in this thread, as I have little direct knowledge of the topics being discussed. However, can I ask everyone who is against Ubuntu about their viewpoints on BossLinux? I do not mean to pick a fight here, but would really

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Every Body, Could you dare to challenge if redhat puts its logo and art work at your property and products and claim trademark ownership rights ? in the similar way would you object redhat which has

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
PJ wrote: how many open source projects have they been working on that are now gold ? So, ubuntu is not contributing back upstream into debian. ahem... well, the point was more about Canonical, not Ubuntu. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
Manoj, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I don't agree to this point at all. Ubuntu is where it is because of it's community. Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is called Debian. And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have not really impressed the Debian