Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 22:17:48 Ashok Gautham wrote: > Are there any other applications that are recommended? scilab -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subj

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

>Recently, >I obtained the permission to install free Oses in 3 systems in my Lab. I am >planning >to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on >1. >(I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are >rock solid. But >I doubt if we need such a R

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Sai krishna wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Ashok Gautham > wrote: > >> to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on >> 1. >> (I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are >> rock solid. But >>

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

Hello, On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Ashok Gautham wrote: > I am in my Prefinal year at Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering > College. Recently, I obtained the permission to install free Oses > in 3 systems in my Lab. Right away involve one of your juniors in the installation process. The systems should c

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

If you want fedora 10 repositories(both fedora and rpmfusion), Mr.Baskar of Linuxperts chennai, has it.It comes about some 20GB. So dump those repositories in your college network and start installing sofwares from it. It saves a lot of bandwidth We did like that only for our linux workshop !!

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

Hi >#14 Xchat doesn't works in colleges still you can enjoy IRC via >>mibbit.com . Xchat.org has released a new version (XChat 2.8.4) which has proxy traversing support..So it works in colleges..Guys in xchat.org has also compiled and released a windoze version download it fro

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

--- On Tue, 24/2/09, Ashok Gautham wrote: > - DE > 1) XFCE (Mainly because I feel Gnome is too much for the > 512mb RAM limit) > with its allied apps like ristretto, xfce4 term, Thunar > etc. > > - Development > 2) Emacs,Gvim,Scite,Tea > 3) gcc, g++, openjdk, python, perl, ruby, php and ghc > 4

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: > > > > > -Office > 11) evince, xchm > 12) OpenOffice.Org-3 > > -Networking > 13) Firefox (De Facto :P) > 14) XChat, irssi > > > Are there any other applications that are recommended? yes what about Database ? You should reconsider #12 and #

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: > to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on > 1. > (I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are > rock solid. But > I doubt if we need such a Rock Solid distro where kids might wa