> Myself newbie to linux and looking for distro which can fit completely after
> installation on 2 GB pata hd.
Are you using a very old x86 PC? 2 GB PATA HD? Rejuvenating it?
> Can anyone suggest any flavour . ?
Puppy Linux -as suggested by another member or DamnSmallLinux should be good
Swapnil,
I do not know of any start-ups but I know there's one company that does has its
'focus' clearly on Free Software. Below is the link to it. However, it is upto
to you to include it in your interview/story.
http://deeproot.in/
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Folks,
I travel from Pune to Mumbai and back regularly. I don't reserve tickets
usually, but I thought of doing so this time.
I booked my tickets through the MSRTC Volvo online reservation center at
Parihar Chowk, Aundh.
To my surprise, I was in for a shock. They were using Mozilla Firefox as
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, abhishek sharma wrote:
> Our discussion regarding helping students to setup Web
> servers at their
> home pc's to share data is still at halt. I m talking
> this with regards to
> the discussion we had at PLUG meeting in Gnunify, Apologies
> that I could not
> attend the PLUG
--- On Sat, 29/11/08, Rakesh G.Patil wrote:
> I want email list
Huh?
Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to
http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
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List,
It has been a long time since a FreeIndian was interviewed. There's a reason
behind it!
Our current interview is a software engineer who has done a *lot* of
localization and is associated with maintaining a Linux distribution called
IndLinux[1] that supports Indian languages at all level
--- On Wed, 17/9/08, Amit Karpe wrote:
> Hello ,
>I want FOSS Documentary videos.
> Which shows success stories or history or herros of FOSS /
> Linux/ Open Source.
There are two of them that come to my mind:
1. Revolution OS - Order the DVD!
2. The Code Linux - Finnish movie (with e
List,
Our current interview features a contributor to
various l10n projects who started work as early as
2001-2002. Internet was a unsolved mystery and emails
were something that this contributor was afraid of in
her early days of computing, but now is able to meet
people across the globe from her
Lists,
Our current interview features a guy who is seriously
passionate about Free and Open Source software and
contributes to the Fedora Project, apart from OpenPCD
and his own project of a client for blogging named
Chotha. Imagine, being called a Geek in GNU/Linux
because you could play .mp3 fil
List,
I assume it has been almost over a month now and updates to kde.in were
far and few.
But here it comes, presenting the next FreeIndian: Kartik Mistry.
Our current interview features the Gujarati Geek (alliteration
attempted ;) ) who runs the Universal OS and is involved in l10n as
well
On Friday 07 March 2008 00:50, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
> Also, using IDEs right from the
> beginning will keep the student in dark about what goes into
> compiling and debugging a program. And even more important - the
> student might develop a feeling that, compiling/debugging without the
> IDE is s
On Thursday 06 March 2008 20:06, Desi Penguin wrote:
[snip]
>I'm assuming CS==Computer Science, in which I would be very interested
> to know about it.
Yes, I should have written Comp. Sci., atleast, argh!
I assume, he has also delivered a tutorial / talk at foss.in/2007 about
the remastered U
On Thursday 06 March 2008 17:50, Devendra Laulkar wrote:
>While what you are saying is essentially true, there are still a lot
>of places where old distributions like Red Hat 9 are used. Especially
>in colleges.
True. Fortunately, some have replaced it with RHEL. I hope some SMBs
dealing with in
On Thursday 06 March 2008 16:27, Desi Penguin wrote:
>I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup.
>1. Boot from the linux LiveCD.
>2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program.
>3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive.
>4.
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 13:23, Rohan Dighe wrote:
>I was basically interested in various categories such as bug
>tracking/project management/office
http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Brochure
See the last section of the article. Should meet your requirment,
partially.
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On Monday 14 January 2008 20:36, pankaj patil wrote:
>I solved this problem. I can connect to internet but still I have to
>type DNS and IP address each time I connect to internet.
The DNS entries will have to be appended to the file /etc/resolv.conf
You can use a GUI tool that helps you configu
On Friday 11 January 2008 17:59, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote:
>The great news is that kde 4 is released.
>http://kde.org/announcements/4.0/index-hi.php
The Hindi translation looks great. If there are translators working on
translation are on the lists, this post reaches, I have a sugges
On Thursday 03 January 2008 23:26, Anand Kulkarni wrote:
[snip]
>We have used this framework in OfficeVishwa software.
>I hope, using this framework, we will be able to
>produce online linux learning tutorial with audio
>effects.
Is there a link available for the above framework? Is it under a
s
--- Webmaster wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Watch Pluggie Devendra explaining FOSS on Star-Majha
> channel.
> Program to be aired on 29th December 2007, 8:00 PM
> IST.
>
> Star-Majha is a Marathi news channel from Star TV
> Network.
Coo! Congrats!
/me applauds (following the request from sudhanwa)
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--- Digital Aim wrote:
> hi friends !
> this is amol
> i m a new memeber of this group
> i want to learn linux so i m here
Coo! Welcome :) Which distro have you started using?
Or yet to try out one?
Consider replacing "Digital Aim" with amol. ;)
> bye take care
> see you soon
You can opt
--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
[huge snip]
> of it to distribute it to genuinely interested
> people.
[snip]
This (the above) is very important ^
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--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
[snip...]
> Its now a 2 page flyer, A4 sheet printed on both
> sides.
> One side contains basic information, second one
> contains the application
> list.
> Files :-
> http://www.laulkar.com/files/flyer.odt
> http://www.laulkar.com/files/flyer.pdf
> http://www.laulkar.c
--- à²à² wrote:
> How do I change the default Mandriva page it tries
> to open in konq.?
Assuming the default page it opens is links to your
home directory, storage media, Applications and so on,
click on the link below "Next: An Introduction to
Konqueror"
In that page, you'll see a tip in the
Anukalp,
You fail to realize, that your address book has public
mailing list email addresses and that people are not
interested in reading advertisements there.
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ubunturos @ freenode
Bring your gang together - do your thing. Go to
--- à²à² wrote:
> He indeed said they have installed Fedora on some
> laptops.
> He said Fedora or Redhat can be installed.
Umm, coo!
> I inquired about Ubuntu... no
> response, they could not
> pronounce it while communicating between themselves
> (now you know the
> problem with naming :
--- à²à² wrote:
> When I visited one House of Laptops I was
> pleasantly surprised
> when the incharge there said he could load RedHat or
> Fedora on it for
[snip]
Did he say "Fedora" ? He might have said "Redhat".
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--- Vivek Khurana wrote:
> PUt Sun java for a simple reason. This version of
> Java will be 100%
> acceptable by those half literate, so called
> teachers in the colleges.
Sun's Java version was de facto on Windows. Was there
any other on Windows?
> And yes use the GPLed version of sun java.
G
--- à²à² wrote:
> Has here anybody tried using BOSS Linux?
I did boot the LIVE CD. Similar to Debian (since it is
derived from it).
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--- Kapil Kaisare wrote:
Kapil,
Please read the list guidelines and be careful when
you send invites to chat. You overloaded the network
with this waste material. :)
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--- Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> The desktop effects is actually the other way
> around. Fedora created the
> option first in Fedora Core 6 and it got adopted by
> other distributions
> later on.
During my test of this distro on a Pentium IV 1.7 GHz,
256 MB RAM, SiS 650 video card, it took a lot of
--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> Basically looking for a wide variety of games. I
> think
> there was a DVD containing a mixture of various free
> and open source games like Q3 etc.
Were you searching this Linux distribution
http://www.games-knoppix.org/
?
(/me remembers his friend had a CD two
--- Vishal Rao wrote:
> Once F8 is released along with openSuse 10.3 and
> Ubuntu 7.10, I'll
> wait for the reviews then install each one in
> November before deciding
> on which to stick with...
You can probably install all three, if you have enough
hdd space. Create appropriate partitions for t
--- Mandar Bartakke wrote:
> Hello Sir,
> I am developing a small application for academic
> project. I want to know how
> I can run this application in pannel as a applet.
You need to be verbose your problem.
What sort of an application is it?
If you intend to mean (kicker or gnome-panel) you
--- Vishal Gaurav wrote:
> Hello,
> Please tell me how can i setup bluetooth gprs on
> ubuntu 7.04 with nokia
> 6600.
Find out if the How-to on following URL could be of
help to you.
http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/GPRS_Howto
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5, 50, 50
--- Aditya Godbole wrote:
> Secondly (this may be OT here), I never understand
> why computer
> science students need 'sponsorship' or endorsement
> from companies. It
> another matter if you look for guides. In that
> sense, its a good thing
> that Vipin is asking for help on a forum like this.
--- "sco1984" wrote:
> Sabayon is a Debian based disto.
Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo. Please refer the
following URL for confirmation
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sabayon
At its core, Sabayon in pre-compiled Gentoo Linux.
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--- Vishal Gaurav wrote:
> Hello,
> Have any one is useing dawn small linux.
What do you want to know about it? If you have a
CD-RW, try it. Damn small Linux is 50 MB in size and
based on Debian GNU/Linux.
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--- Anil Kumar wrote:
> I want to learn Linux and get myself comfortable
> with basic operations.
> Please tell me what is the best way to achieve this.
There are two ways, that I can think of, to achieve
this. It depends on which is convenient to you.
One: Download / Order / Ask this GNU/Linux
--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> I don't understand the connection to piracy at all.
> At the risk of sounding like a zealot I am going to
> say this :-
We have already deviated a lot on the actual topic.
Perhaps, we have a choice to stop here or take it
off-list.
> There is no difference between
--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> Lets just step back & see what happened. A person is
> asking for freely distributable software for schools
> on the Pune *GNU/Linux* Users Mailing List.
> People are recommending free software & alternatives
> to proprietary software.
I would request the OP to clear
--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > ZIP software (7-ZIP)
> >
> > Instead of 7-zip, I would recommend ZipGenius
> > (downloadable from
> > http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/?page_id=10)
> > It has a wider support to open even .rar files.
>
> 7-zip also can open rar files.
> Zipgenius is *not*
--- Anand Kulkarni wrote:
The list appears to be typical for Windows
installations. Is it so?
> ZIP software (7-ZIP)
Instead of 7-zip, I would recommend ZipGenius
(downloadable from
http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/?page_id=10)
It has a wider support to open even .rar files.
> Chat client
Are yo
--- Vinayakk Merwade wrote:
> Hi
> I have a SATA HDD I want to install PCQ2004
> distribution linux on it
> Can anybody help me out.
As mentioned in an earlier email, if you have atleast
256 MB of RAM, you can try a newer distribution such
as Ubuntu Linux or Fedora 6/7 or OpenSuSE 10.2.
Also, if
--- Vishal Gaurav wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running ubuntu 6.06 verson on my desktop
> machine,I was just install
> tata indicom modem on my machine,after that i am
> able to download a file
> add/remove.But i am unable to open webpage in my web
> browser.Please give me
> any idea.
The modem that y
--- Nikhil Kale wrote:
> So can anybody know how to check the speed
> ofinternet connection in Linux?
I can tell you an online website where you can
possibly verify your speed.
http://www.speedtest.net
Alternatively, you could try,
http://www.internetfrog.com
Your service provider's portal s
--- Aniruddha Khadkikar wrote:
> @PLUG Community: Perhaps it would be a really great
> idea for PLUG to
> facilitate the availability of the 4 DVD set to
> popularize usage of Ubuntu!
> What say?
However, in case there are no efforts as a community
for various reasons, individuals interested in
p
--- Aniruddha Khadkikar wrote:
> Can anyone help me in getting the entire Ubuntu
> repository on DVD? According
> to the Ubuntu-Indonesia website, it requires 4
> DVD's.
Please check the following page:
http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/CDRequest
Only one from B'lore has it. Co-ordinate over email
--- ॠwrote:
> Hi,
> Had anybody here got dell 1390 wireless minicard
> working with mandriva?
Dell 1390 wireless minicard on a Inspiron E1405 ?
OpenSuSE should work well on it, instead of Mandriva.
I haven't tried it,
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html states so.
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--- nilesh deo wrote:
> hi
>
> well i have a problem I hav inquired in SEED
> infotech and NIIT camp for the
> brochure
> NIIT is offering it in 4500
> while SEED is offering it in 7500
> why is this
> any body taken the exam.
> kindly reply
Is this about SCJP exam or the course that they intend
--- Nishit Dave wrote:
> In my other reply to this post, I erroneously
> mentioned 128 Mbps
> instead of 128 kbps. My bad. People, please do not
> get your hopes
> up. Anyways, I am sure you all would have noticed
> the typo.
... and I noticed it late, and sent an email to the
list for clarifi
--- Nishit Dave wrote:
> I have heard that a You tele broadband connection of
> 256 kbps up to 2
> Mbps actually runs at 128 Mbps (at least in Bandra).
256 Kbps upto 2 Mbps runs at 128 Mbps ??
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--- Nawaz Patel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I change the console screen resolution, I
> have a large
> screen and 80*25 chars look bad on it. Options
> mentioned on web like
> using X and kernel recompile for framebuffer support
> don't work for
> me.
> Anybody knows a simpler way?
If you a
--- Shodhan Bhave wrote:
> On my desktop, I have installed fedora. I have
> logitec optical mouse.
> Many a times the mouse behave erratic . The cursor
> moves without any
> logic to any part of the screen. Can there be any
> specific cause for
> this? The system is new and hence the chances of
>
--- Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> Check out aalib.
> http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
If I'm not wrong, this is also a part of the Knoppix
LIVE CD.
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--- yogeshwar yogesh wrote:
> hi sir i have dial up connection so i can't
> download fedora core 6 so send me your any
> contact no. i want to talk to you.
I'm a bit confused. Whom do you want to talk,
actually?
I guess, Sudhanwa or Dexter from this list has the
CDs. You can email them
--- yogeshwar yogesh wrote:
> hi
> i want to buy fedora core how i can buy that.
I think you need not _buy_ Fedora Core. Get it from
this GLUG or if you have a high speed internet
connection you can download the iso's from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
You may consider donating some money to
--- sandip wrote:
[RANT]
> www.gnulinux.in
What is this gnulinux.in all about?
[/RANT]
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--- Vishal Gaurav wrote:
> Hi everybody,
Hello!
> Which is the best GUI based download manager for
> resume based
> downloading.Thanks
So far, for me, K^2 Get has been the best. ( The name
could be KGet^2 K-get-square or k-square-get). Not in
RH9, while writing this email.
Should be available
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