Folks,
Some disturbing news - former Elcot MD Umashankar, who has also
given a talk at ILUG-C some years ago, seems to be in a spot of
trouble:
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ias-officer-suspended-by-tamil-nadu-government_1413048
There were some earlier reports of lobbying by inter
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote:
> Sorry. I just check with my vendor, they don't offer Linux based
> netbooks any more. You get WinXP Home by default.
>
> Acer Aspire One models: 10.1" Rs 20,750 and 11.1" Rs 23,350.
> Both come with 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, blue tooth, wifi.
Folks,
As the title says, Linux-2.6.31 was released a few
hours ago. I downloaded the patchset and built it, and I
have a very good feeling about it - it's probably going to
be as legendary as 1.0.9, 1.2.13, 2.0.31, 2.4.13/21...
I'm still retaining my ancient Fedora Core 4 userland,
with
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote:
> Mosr GUI based vendors were
> locked to proprietary hardware instead of adopting PC hardware.
>
One other issue is that decent megapixel-quality displays did
not show up in the commodity PC market until the mid-90s.
There were specialty
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote:
>
>
> Newbies or not, the world was moving towards a GUI based OS and Unix
> fell woefully short there apart from not having desktop packages
> (WYSIWYG). Unix remained a server operating system. It did have some
> good GUI roots in Workstati
Folks,
There's an article in today's Hindu on the 40th
anniversary of Unix. It has some inaccuracies, but is still a nice
read overall:
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/09/stories/2009080952761000.htm
Shameless plug: it contains some quotes from my advisor,
Prof.Gopinath at IISc, Bangalore.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> Fedora 11, the latest and greatest version is now available. New
> features include,
>
> * Ext4 as the default filesystem for better performance and scalability
>
> * yum-presto plugin for downloading binary deltas reducing download
Folks,
A tragic event today, following the (unrelated)
demise of Prof. Rajeev Motwani last week. A
successful Linux developer committed suicide in
Bangalore today - K.T.Ligesh, founder of LxLabs,
a Linux virtual server company apparently killed
himself after a security vulnerability was found in
h
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>
> > For normal students, the plethora of softwares loaded in suse may be a
> > burden.. they can in turn use ubuntu linux..
>
> Using virtualisation of course!
>
> Elcot has actually anticipated the need for an a
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The registration is finally open..
> http://www.elcot.in/NewStudentLaptop/schemeSpecification.php
>
> Prices are as follows http://www.elcot.in/NewStudentLaptop/price.php
>
> > *Option 1: Fully loaded configuration*
> >
> > Intel
On 4/29/08, Sivasankar Chander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hans Reiser must look like an utterly disagreeable person
> to most reasonable persons, regardless of whether he
> comitted the murder or not - though my instinct tells me
> that he committed an impulsi
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> VirtualBox was already dual licensed and available under a open source
> license before Sun bought it, FYI.
>
>
Rahul,
Thanks for the info - I was unaware of its existence, leave
alone its licensing terms, unt
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 10-May-08, at 9:52 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
>
> > --- On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | But I found that I just could not acquire any satellites
> > | within th
Not sure if this is widely known, but there's a VM from Sun that has
been recently open-sourced under a variety of licenses. It runs on
a wide variety of Linux distros, including Fedora, Ubuntu, RHEL,
etc. as host OSes, as well as Solaris and Windoze. As guest
OSes, it supports everything from DO
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