[ilugd] [OT]: FLOSS Start-Ups In India?

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi, We are planning a series of stories and interviews of open source start-ups from India (Linus' interview triggered the need). So, if you know any such start-up please let me know. You can contact me at Muktware.com. -- bSwapnil Bhartiya/bbr Editor: Muktware.combr Skype: No Way...its

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Rishab Arora
I've been running an ASUS P8P67 Pro with an i5 2500K with Ubuntu 11.10. HTH. I've had a lot more issues due to my Radeon card than the mobo, Everything ran out of the box. But you will definitely find yourself irritated with the fact that only Windows is able to harness everything. For instance,

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Sanjay Arora
I bought a dh67bl with i7, for use with centos 6. Ultimately had to install fedora 15, as rhel is not yet supporting Intel Sandybridge architecture. Turns out, if you are putting in a separate graphics card, Linux will work very well on this board...however, if you propose to use onboard graphics

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread chandrakant kumar
Drivers are the part of kernel not the distro. As per my knowledge all distros use same kernel with some custom patches. If you want support for latest hardware, download the latest kernel source from kernel.org and compile it. On 11/20/11, Sanjay Arora sanjay.k.ar...@gmail.com wrote: I bought a

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM, chandrakant kumar k.03chan...@gmail.comwrote: Drivers are the part of kernel not the distro. As per my knowledge all distros use same kernel with some custom patches. If you want support for latest hardware, download the latest kernel source from kernel.org

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread chandrakant kumar
Most of these distros are binary based, i.e., they are compiled for generic hardware. They detect the hardware and load the appropriate driver modules. what i am trying to say is, between the time their kernel was compiled and now, drivers for newer hardware may have been written and to use those

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2011-11-20 Thread Kashif Raza
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Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread A. Mani
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.com wrote: Which hardware ? No vendor is giving a board with assurance that Linux runs on their board/s. If I but without that assurance, and it does not work, the board becomes a costly paper-weight for me. Vendors have

[ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's company) and MS hub. Can someone provide some concrete info or pointers? -- bSwapnil

Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:21 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.com wrote: Which hardware ? No vendor is giving a board with assurance that Linux runs on their board/s. If I but without that assurance, and it

Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Swapnil Bhartiya writes: Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's company) and

Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the

Re: [ilugd] [OT]: FLOSS Start-Ups In India?

2011-11-20 Thread sankarshan
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: We are planning a series of stories and interviews of open source start-ups from India (Linus' interview triggered the need). So, if you know any such start-up please let me know. What is an open source

Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Angad Singh
I've been to the UID registration camp in my area. There is no involvement of linux/open source software. The data entry module was made in .NET and was working on an HCL laptop with Windows. The backend, AFAIK, is running on windows servers with MS SQL Server. It is truly sad.