Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

I have a question, Can I use Fedora 9 as a commercial use to develop software. ? Yes you can. Actually generally compaies buy Redhat. Do we any exmple for Free of cost or linux distro in companies ?? Yes we have. I work at a place which uses a mix of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora as their servers

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

I am sorry, that time I have saw the pages clearly. there a words Commercial use restrictions against the package openmotif -- I think context is different. Let us be specific. Are those words still there? Do they contradict https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines or

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

So lets suppose tomorrow they(fedora guys or in some other distro) pack any package which has Commercial use restrictions -- Will I be able to develop my application and sell it out. No need to suppose such a thing. The packaging guidelines DO NOT ALLOW such things to be a part of Fedora. Full

[ilugd] Fwd: Reminder: Fedora RPM Packaging 101: 3 PM today

-- Forwarded message -- From: Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/7/28 Subject: Reminder: Fedora RPM Packaging 101: 3 PM today To: The Fedora Project Community in India [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello folks, We are going to host a *public* IRC session in #fedora-india, freenode

Re: [ilugd] GNU ifconfig IPv6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try list-interfaces.c[1], which will enumerate through all available interfaces, and prints the corresponding addresses assigned to them. References: [1] - http://wahjava.googlepages.com/list-interfaces.c Nice. Funny ifaddrs.h is not documented

Re: [ilugd] GNU ifconfig IPv6

abbe [~] chateau% apropos ifaddr getifaddrs(3)- get interface addresses ifnet(9), ifaddr(9), ifqueue(9), if_data(9) - kernel interfaces for manipulating network interfaces [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ apropos ifaddr ifaddr: nothing appropriate ...and I have been trying on Fedora and

[ilugd] GNU ifconfig IPv6

I am looking for a portable way to read the IPv6 address of a network interface when its name is given. This is mainly needed to add some functionality to GNU ifconfig [1] and while looking around came across the USAGI FAQ [2], which says that SIOCGIFADDR does not work with IPv6 although it does

Re: [ilugd] [Ilug-cal-discuss] SVN problem

When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default' svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://josm.openstreetmap.de) svn co

[ilugd] Key expiry breaks most D-I Etch RC1 images

http://times.debian.net/1073 The expiration of the Debian archive's signing key for 2006 has broken most of the installation media from etch RC1. Cheers, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

so its ok to use non-free software as long as it doesnt pollute your hard drive? I personally think it is alright. After all if I think it is free enough for me, it is free. Otherwise we would not have such a wide variety of free software licenses. which free software license is gmail

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

Since I am not installing GMail on my hard drive and running an instance on my machine, I am not bothered too much. :-) so its ok to use non-free software as long as it doesnt pollute your hard drive? I personally think it is alright. After all if I think it is free enough for me, it is

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

-- does your cellphone run on free software? My cellphone does not have an email client. So it is like asking whether your fridge runs on Free Software. fridges running on linux are not available - so the matter is moot. Is Linux the only Free Software program

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

Sorry for top-posting here as my blackberry mail client doesn't allow to bottom-post. Is this e-mail client Free Software? does your cellphone run on free software? My cellphone does not have an email client. So it is like asking whether your fridge runs on Free Software. Regards, Debarshi

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

My cellphone does not have an email client. So it is like asking whether your fridge runs on Free Software. But you use GMail, which most definitely isn't Free Software :) Point is; there are still plenty of areas in life where we simply can't use free software either because it isn't good

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

Sorry for top-posting here as my blackberry mail client doesn't allow to bottom-post. Is this e-mail client Free Software? Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

From: Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] The event needed money and they were paying lots. Call a spade a spade. If they weren't paying this huge mail wouldn't have been there, right? M$ ideology is exactly opposite of Linux ideology, so its like Smirnoff sponsoring the Alcoholics Anonymous meet.

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

Let's not have any illusions. Microsoft joined in the party for its own personal selfish gains. It would be illogical to think otherwise. But the point is did succeed in harming the community? Do we need to wait for it to do more harm? Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Linux in Gov't

CDAC (Navi Mumbai) - is doing trainings..etc under OSSRC banner.. They are developing a speech interface for visually impaired people for Pine at OSSRC. Pine is not Free Software, do not know whether it is Open Source or not. Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2. BTW as for the reason, Microsoft have their Linux infrastructure in house to work on and do research. They are taking on things that work in Linux and make changes to their own products. When a crime is done, the criminal knows that he is doing wrong. In most cases he also knows what is

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

Linus is another one of those practical side people, who had created Linux without any philosophy in mind. I totally agree that without RMS and FSF and GNU and all the big picture people we would not be where we are today but without the practical people we would all still be hacking on a

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

A booklet distributed by Microsoft at the CXOSummit presented how Microsoft was working with Open Source projects! I believe the same was running as a presentation on their booth too. For me it is Free Software and not Open Source. I have heard Microsoft executives boast of their six 'open

Re: [ilugd] Particpation in LinuxAsia 2007

I feel we deserve better. My wife is running a teaching program for children in age group 8 to 14 years. Mr Yadav has agreed to help in training Linux to children. The best way to demonstrate that linux works is to let children run a demostration stall Great idea. Cheerio, Debarshi -- After

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

No the port is there but external monitor switching does not work. In earlier laptops this would work right from BIOS display onwards. My F5 key has a rectangle, depicting a monitor, drawn on it. Pressing Fn+F5 switches the display from TFT to external monitor. Do you have any such key? This

Re: [ilugd] French consumer group files complaints against HP

getting ready to sue HP IAC since the last laptop brought with freedos refuses to give feed to external mointor. Are you saying that the laptop does not have the hardware port to connect to an external monitor? The V3000 series of laptop based on Intel Express chipset can only do this vis an