The most recent version of this essay can be found at
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html.
Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group
by Rick Moen
See the full essay online ****** Really good. -FN
1. You need a Web page.
2. Your Web page needs a reasonable URL.
3. You need a regular meeting location.
4. You need a regular meeting time.
5. You need to avoid meeting-time conflicts.
6. You need to make sure that meetings happen as advertised, without fail.
7. You need a core of several Linux enthusiasts.
8. Your core volunteers need out-of-band methods of communication.
9. You need to get on the main lists of LUGs, and keep your entries
accurate.
* http://www.ssc.com/glue/
* http://lugww.counter.li.org/
* http://nlug.org/webring/
* http://www.redhat.com/apps/community/LUG/
* http://www.linux.org/groups/
*
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/
* http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/
Operating_Systems/Unix/Linux/User_Groups/
10. You must have login access to maintain your Web pages, as needed.
11. Design your Web page to be forgiving of deferred maintenance.
12. Always include the day of the week, when you cite event dates. Always
check that day of the week, first, using gcal [2] (or cal). gcal is your
friend.
13. Place time-sensitive and key information prominently near the top of
your main Web page.
14. Include maps and directions to your events.
15. Emphasise on your main page that your meeting will be free of charge and
open to the public (if it is).
16. You'll want to include an RSVP "mailto" hyperlink, on some events.
17. Use referral pages.
18. Make sure every page has a revision date and maintainer link.
19. Check all links, at intervals.
20. You may want to consider establishing a LUG mailing list.
21. You don't need to be in the Internet Service Provider business.
22. Don't go into any other business, either.
23. Walk the walk.
LUG checklist.
The following checklist may be useful for your group, once established.
1. Web page:
a. Meetings:
[ ] Current meeting info? Is it prominent?
[ ] Day of the week? Beginning time? Ending time?
[ ] Double-checked day/date matches against a calendar?
(E.g., is the "Friday, March 28" you listed an error, because the 28th is a
Thursday?)
[ ] Location?
[ ] Map?
[ ] Directions (car, public transit)? Parking tips?
[ ] Information on the next several meetings?
[ ] RSVP mailto link on meetings where this is needed?
[ ] Note that meetings are free and open to the public (if they are)?
[ ] If there's a special fee, is it disclosed next to the event listing?
[ ] If location / time / date formula has changed recently, is this noted
prominently?
[ ] Have you checked for event conflicts with other nearby groups, or with
holidays?
b. General:
[ ] Includes event date-formulas (e.g., 4th Tuesdays)? Prominently?
[ ] Maintainer mailto link?
[ ] Last-revised date?
c. Periodically (maybe every quarter):
[ ] Checked all links on your site for dead links?
[ ] Checked your Web server's logs for pages requested but not found?
(You'll want to put a referral page at that URL.)
[ ] Read all your Web content attentively for outdated content?
2. Other, periodical:
[ ] Reviewed/updated all LUG lists that have entries concerning your group?
[ ] Reviewed all sites that link to yours? Advised their webmasters of
needed corrections?
Last revised: 2003-08-04
Having seen (and run) quite a few Linux user groups (LUGs), and observed
some thrive and others die, I can hazard some firm recommendations. If
you're thinking of starting a LUG, or are running one now, please ponder
these lessons, drawn from other LUGs' experience. In fact, please consider
reviewing this list from time to time, as a kind of checklist.
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hi
seems like you havn't read the book named "building embedded linux
systems" orelliy publication. That is a must to read for any embedded
system dev. person.
moreover answers to your questions follows:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:57:57 +0000 (GMT), sarvesh shetgaonkar
<sarveshshetgaonkar@...> wrote:
> sir,
> I need help for the understanding the development process in embedded
> system . I want to know the exact steps taking place during the BOOTING
> process as well as to know:
this link may help :
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html
> 1. How to cross compile tool chain in host PC.
its all given in the above mentioned book.
> 2. where linux kernel image is find in file system
The image from which your kernel will boot is there in /boot
directory, with name starting something like this " vmlinuz"
(compressed image )and "systemmap" (map kernel needs to refer while
booting)
> 3. while booting, what is present in the flash and what is there in the RAM
This is the case in any embedded device: Flash is a non-volatile
memory,whatever is writen there persists.Flash contains bootloader and
info of starting it. from your harddisk or from tftp server you
download the image to flash and from flash it is decompressed into RAM
bcoz ram is much faster and anything you modify doesn't persist so
sometimes this is needed.
> 4. what is download utility ,how it works ,specify name if any.
You make an executable by compiling and making a firmware.This is *.bin file.
Executable placement in flash memory or RAM is typically controlled by
the target's download utility. To support this capability you will
likely need to provide multiple linker command files, multiple
debugger scripts, and possibly multiple make or project files.
> hoping that i will get the solution from someone.
> sarvesh.
Hope i answered your questions.
regards
Aditya
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I need help for the understanding the development process in embedded system . I want to know the exact steps taking place during the BOOTING process as well as to know:
1. How to cross compile tool chain in host PC.
2. where linux kernel image is find in file system
3. while booting, what is present in the flash and what is there in the RAM
4. what is download utility ,how it works ,specify name if any.
Sun this week at LinuxWorld revealed its Java Desktop 3.0 enterprise Linux
desktop environment. The new Java Desktop is built atop the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Read on at http://www.betanews.com/article/Sun_Reveals_Java_Desktop_3/1108745235
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Hi,
Here is a good Linux Beginner's guide from PCstats:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1728
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Hi!
Most of the boards that I work on are 1392 enabled devices and I am pretty much
aware of them. But the following link is another thing which might interest you.
It misses RJ45 but has rest all.. Check out.
http://www.uclinux.org/ucsimm/
Thanks and bye
Himanshu
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:13:15 +0000 (GMT), sarvesh shetgaonkar
<sarveshshetgaonkar@...> wrote:
> sir.
>
>
>
>
> Have you tried out "Building Embedded Linux Systems" by Yaghmor?
>
> =no we had not tried that book
>
>
> If you could tell your plans in more details, may be I could help you.
>
>
> ="we are building an embedded based system which is use to monitor the
> processes occuring in the chemical plant.
>
> it is also possible with it to set the setting as well as monitor the
> process remotely(LAN) in the process of chemical mixing"
>
>
>
> How VB come into the scene, I cannot understand.
>
> =we are using VB as our front-end in order to set the setting as well as
> monitoring purpose for the user, remotely using a PC running windows(VB
> works only on windows)
>
> For serial programming you won't need anything more
>
> =we are using serial programming in order to configure the kit through
> RJ-45(using minicom) ,also it can be used when the network is down.
>
>
> =till now we had not got the development board
>
> =listed the following specification of the board:
>
> I/O (MINIMUM 15)
>
> 1 RJ-45
>
> 1 RS-232
>
> 2MB RAM
>
> 4MB FLASH
>
> 32-bit processor
>
> =can you suggest any board which satisfy such specification
>
>
>
>
> Thanx and regards
> --sarvesh
>
>
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Have you tried out "Building Embedded Linux Systems" by Yaghmor?
=no we had not tried that book
If you could tell your plans in more details, may be I could help you.
="we are building an embedded based system which is use to monitor the processes occuring in the chemical plant.
it is also possible with it to set the setting as well as monitor the process remotely(LAN) in the process of chemical mixing"
How VB come into the scene, I cannot understand.
=we are using VB as our front-end in order to set the setting as well as monitoring purpose for the user, remotely using a PC running windows(VB works only on windows)
For serial programming you won't need anything more
=we are using serial programming in order to configure the kit through RJ-45(using minicom) ,also it can be used when the network is down.
=till now we had not got the development board
=listed the following specification of the board:
I/O (MINIMUM 15)
1 RJ-45
1 RS-232
2MB RAM
4MB FLASH
32-bit processor
=can you suggest any board which satisfy such specification
Market research firm IDC says the use of server side Linux has grown by 70% in
India in recent years, while Windows has grown by only 30%. That's why tech
support firm SlashSupport is planning to offer support services for Linux
customers in India.
To know more read this:
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Pune Symbiosis' GNUnify draws big names
http://www.linux-india.org/index.pl?id=3496&isa=Newsitem&op=show
Brian Behlendorf of Apache will be taking part in the Pune GNUnify event,
organisers announced. So will some other big names, include MySQL founder David
Axmark. This year's event will focus on localisation projects, PHP5, Python,
MySQL and more. There's an awareness-building exercise for school students and
teachers on the first day of the event (Feb 13, 2005) followed by an
installfest and more.
Organisers announced today (February 7, 2005) that they were to have Apache
co-founder Brian Behlendorf taking part in the event.
(Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix platforms --
BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems -- and Microsoft Windows, and other platforms.
Apache features highly configurable error messages, DBMS-based authentication
databases, and content negotiation, it is also supported by several GUIs which
permit easier, more intuitive configuration of the server. See
http://gui.apache.org/ The Apache HTTP Server is developed and maintained by an
open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software
Foundation.)
In addition, they are to have Robert Adkins and Ms Alolita Sharma from
Technetra, California, Ms Danese Cooper from Sun MicroSystems, MySQL founder
David Axmark, and others join their event.
(MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language)
relational database server or RDBMS. MySQL is available either under the GNU
General Public License or under other licenses when the GPL is inapplicable to
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This year's event will focus on localisation projects, PHP5, Python, MySQL The
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Each year, they organise this Free/Open Source Software Event. GNUnify aims at
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organisers.
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strengthening the use of FLOSS," they said.
Student-organisers said they were successful over the past two years, and had
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Hi Sarvesh!
> we are doing our final year project on
> microcontroller
> (embedded linux)base dembedded system
Gr8! Have you tried out "Building Embedded Linux Systems" by Yaghmor?
> we are designing a system in order to monitor the
> work and configure the setting remotely of a system
If you could tell your plans in more details, may be I could help you.
> Is there any body who can help me on
> developing"EMBEDDED LINUX BASED SYSTEM "
> on
> 1.PORTING
> 2.socket programming through VB
> 3.serial programming
How VB come into the scene, I cannot understand. You are using windows
for development? For serial programming you won't need anything more
than the how-to listed at TLDP. BTW which Microcontroller?
Thanx and regards
--Himanshu
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I dont have the straight idea about programming for the embedded linux programming but i do have a lot idea about applications interfacing with linux system thru standard and non standard ports, we have developed these applications in visual basic.
Please let me know if this information can be useful for you and in which form you will require this information.
I am student of final year B.E.(IT)
we are doing our final year project on
microcontroller
(embedded linux)base dembedded system
we are designing a system in order to monitor the
work and configure the setting remotely of a system
Is there any body who can help me on
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Hi All,
Here is a mail that I am forwarding from the Tissue Culture List serve that
shows how parallels are bing drawn between fight for software freedom and
freedom to make the technology to produce Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
more widely available. Monsanto Inc. has been compared to Microsoft corp
Read on
-Tarun
-----Forward Message-----
> From: Greg Naylor
> Reply To: Plant Tissue Culture
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:29 PM
> To: PLANT-TC@...
> Subject: [PLANT-TC] A new spin on genetically modified organisms
>
> The establishment of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in our crops
> will eventuate due to the powerful political lobby and financial
> investment of the major players such as Monsanto and Bayer. By patenting
> their processes that produce sterile plants and/or make the collection of
> seed illegal, they will own the future of the world's food supply. Whilst
> the process of creating GMOs is against the natural order, they are not
> difficult to produce. Tissue culture hobbyists around the world are doing
> it every day for the simple reason that it can be done.
>
> We need to put this knowledge in the hands of the farmer so that he can
> produce his own herbicide resistant seeds, or frost resistant strains, and
> the control and ownership of nature by the Monsantos of the world could be
> prevented.
>
> There is a precedent with Bill Gates and Microsoft who all-but-owned the
> personal computer market. You will recall that Microsoft intended to
> control the Internet through the Microsoft Network. A group of computer
> "nerds" who recognised the danger of this established a path of
> collaboration and built a new operating system called Linux to replace
> Microsoft Windows.
>
> Their work was done under a copyrighted General Public Licence (GPL) that
> prevents commercial profiteering by putting the sofware in the public
> domain. Today, the Linux operating system (the Windows alternative) and
> all of the software programs (office suites, internet software,
> bookkeeping, etc) are available to us all free of charge and are outside
> the control of Microsoft.
>
> The Linux operating system has now matured and is used by govrnments,
> businesses and private individuals. Indeed. the Internet itself now
> operates under the Linux system and remains free of controls by the
> commercial software developers such as Microsoft. The computer world
> retains the freedom of choice that Microsoft wanted to prevent.
>
> The development of Linux under the GPL preserves our right to chose the
> information that enters our minds. Don't we deserve the same freedom of
> choice over the food that enters our bodies?
>
> The tissue culture professionals and hobbyists are already organised with
> Internet forums just as the computer "nerds" were. This message has been
> posted to both of these forums as well as the anti-GMO forums in the hope
> that enough tissue culture practitioners recognise that GMO control by the
> giant corporations is detrimental to the future of our freedom to farm the
> crops and eat the foods of our choice.
>
>
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Tarun Kant, M.Sc., Ph.D. -o)
Scientist C /\\
Biotechnology Laboratory _\_V
Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding Division
Arid Forest Research Institute
New Pali Road
Jodhpur 342005 India
Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/bobkant/
I'm Registered Linux User # 284692
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Hi Friends,
For those who are planning to buy a Digital camera, and wondering if their
camera will be compatible, here is an article that surely is gonna be of help.
http://technology.newsforge.com/technology/04/03/01/2045239.shtml
Cheers
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Linux India: The India Linux Organisation Portal
NGOs, searching long for alternatives, find flavour in alt.software
Frederick Noronha reports -- Asia Source, being held in Bangalore from Jan
28 to Feb 4, 2005 hopes to bring together over a hundred people from 20
countries to increase the use and awareness of FLOSS among the non-profit
sector in South and East Asia.
GNUnify ... at Pune, Feb 13 to 15, 2005 Vidyadutt S <vidyadutt at gmail.com>
has announced the GNUnify festival of Symbiosis at Pune, a regular event
that takes place at this time of the year -- and has continued over the past
two years -- at the central Indian city of Pune.
GNU/Linux... in the life sciences Tarun Kant <tarunkant at linuxmail.org>
from the SunnyLUG from Jodhpur for this useful piece of information. He
says: "For people who are into life science research/bioinformatics, there
are a few good linux distros available." This includes the VigyaanCD, the
live Linux CD containing "all the required software to boot the computer
with ready-to-use modeling software". Says Kant: "And let me tell you this
(Vigyaan) is an effort by an Indian. Kudos to you Pratul K Agarwal for such
a nice package."
From software... to culture Crimson Feet coordinator Prayas Abhinav is
working on a "showcase" of audiovisual -- film, animation etc -- work
produced by alternate methods, and plans an exhibition on February 5 and 6,
2005 at Ahmedabad.
Open Source in Education, Mumbai meet on Feb 11, 2005 Sameer D Saharabudde
<sameerds at it.iitb.ac.in> has sent in an early intimation of a program
scheduled for February 11, 2005 on "Open Source in Education". Says Sameer:
"Some 50 people involved in the education system, like university department
heads, college heads, etc will be invited." Further details awaited. Sameer
is a research scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay.
Microsoft at the KSEB (Kerala) Satheesh S Pillai <satheeshpillai2000 at
yahoo.co.in> recently drew attention of the Free Software User Group-Kochi
to the report made by Centre for Computer Aided Power Sector Studies
(C-CAPSS) in Kerala about the billing software developed by "a famous
consultancy along with M$ as part of the e-Governance project". This report
makes interesting reading, and has immense implications for many government
computerisation plans. You can find the full report at
http://www.kseboa.org/KSEB%20LT%20billing%20computerisation.pdf
LaTeX for Malayalam 0.9 released TUG-India -- http://www.tug.org.in -- has
announced that an update 0.9 for 'LaTeX for Malayalam' has been released at
sarovar. This update enables the use of Type1 Malayalam fonts available with
CDAC ISM Publisher, according to Alex. Download the package from:
http://malayalam.sarovar.org/ .
IITIANS Develop Linux-Based Cell Phone Tracking Software CXOToday.com writer
Julia Fernandes has reported on how "three young Mumbai-based IITians, who
have developed a Linux-based software application that tracks the location
of mobile phones."
Nithin Kamath's LinTux Newsletter A made-in-Mangalore product. Interesting
compiliation of news and updates from the world of FLOSS across India and
the globe. Check it out at Now in the 14th issue. Keep it up Nithin.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/lintux
THE HINDU: A whiz-kid's tryst with Linux What do people do when they hear
that doing a particular thing is very difficult? Most of them try to avoid
it. But some people meet the challenge headlong. Sarath Lakshman a Standard
X student of the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School, Mahe,
belongs to the second category. This article is from the national newspaper
THE HINDU, reproduced here with gratitude to this publication for
highlighting an issue which is important to understanding what makes sense
to the young techies-in-the-making of South Asia.
Low-cost CD outlet http://www.linuxbazar.com is run by Srinivasan
<LinuxIndia at hotmail.com>. Says he: "I sell CDs at Rs 50 per CD. Spreading
the word on my website is difficult .. still I have managed to ship Fedora
to remote corners in India incl. Jammu."
L10N How-To and Toolkit On Jan 19, 2005 Sunil Abraham <sunil at apdip.net>
announced that the IOSN-CDAC L10N How-To and Toolkit is ready for a "final
round of comments and feedback." The main page contents listing of the CD is
available at http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated/CD. It has
links to the guide, as well as the list of tools we will include in the CD.
You can see the current version at:
http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated in the HTML format.
Feedback welcome!
Font developer's guide Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at clai.net> is
offering what he terms a "preliminary version of a font developer's guide".
Check out what this determined young man has to offer at
http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/
Listing Indian LUGs, GLUGs, FSUGs and more... a list of links to various
user groups in the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Please
visit it at http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList/
Punjabi translation of Debian Installer comes closer to realisation
Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> said January 19, 2005 that the
Debian Installer team has been contacted by Amanpreet Alam, who offers to
start working on Debian Installer (and further Debian translations) in
Punjabi. Says he: "The work on Hindi started about two to three months ago
after a discussion here where Ravi Shrivastava offered to initiate it."
ET's software stories Indian business daily, 'The Economic Times', has this
link for software-related stories. Unfortunately just a few related to
Free/Libre and Open Source Software in India ... a field where so much is
happening!
C-DAC launches Janabhaaratii FLOSS localisation project C-DAC, the Indian
government-run Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing, has
announced in October 2004 the launch of the launch of its "janabhaaratii"
project for localisation of FLOSS. It suggested the goal would be
"development, deployment and community building, and the work would be put
out under the GPL/LGPL licenses.
Govt open to open source software ... or just hedging bets? India's
business newspaper reported in end-December 2004 that the Government of
India "continues to evaluate options for using open source software, a move
which would proliferate the usage of IT by bringing down its costs". IT
secretary Brijesh Kumar was quoted as telling the Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry, an industry lobby group, that the
"government continues to consider options available in open source
software". There was a suggestion that "India should force proprietory
software makers to share source code by threatening to shift to open source
software", the ET reported, citing the case of China.
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Want to 'scrape content' from another site? Make sure it's legal, and hey
presto, you have the tools to do that. See for instance
http://fnlinuxindia.notlong.com
How?
Linux-india.org under Raj Mathur (of Delhi) is making a good offer:
http://www.linux-india.org/
Welcome to the India Linux Organisation!
This site is an example of what can be done with the Linux India web site and
provides simple hints to get you started. You can change everything: the logo,
the overall look, the categories at the top of this page, the content of this
and every page. You can rename pages, delete them and add new ones. You can
invite members and manage who gets to see and do what! The only tools you need
are this browser, your mouse and your keyboard.
Please create an account and edit your personal page to get a feel of what can
be done with this package.
What they are saying is also this:
LUG Information
Are You A LUG?
If you are associated with a LUG in India please create an account for
yourself. Call it ``lug-<location>'' and put whatever information you want
about your LUG on your page. Then send me (Raj Mathur, <raju (at) linux-delhi
(dot) org>) the page URL and I'll link it from the LUG page on this site.
Please put at least the URL of your LUG on your page.
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So you've been waiting for the linux-india.org web site to finally come
up... It has, of a sort.
Installed MetaDot (http://metadot.com/), a FLOSS CMS on the site. It's
working, but I haven't done any except very basic configuration yet.
If you feel adventurous, have loads of time and don't mind reading and
re-reading documentation, please download the MetaDot documentation from:
http://download.metadot.com/Metadot_Documentation-pdf.zip
It's very comprehensive. Read it. Understand it. Make a list of stuff
that needs to be done for the site.
Then give me a shout and I'll give you the admin password to customise and
manage the site.
Remember, you are the boss! The site is your baby, nurture it.
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Hi Again,
Here are a few more dedicated Linux distros for Life Science researchers and
bioinformaticians:
(Numbering continues from my last mail):
5. Biolinux-BR
BioLinux-BR is a project directed to the scientific community. The intention is
to create a Linux distribution for people with little familiarity with the
installation of the operational system and mainly for people that do not know
how they must proceed to unpack a program, compile and install it correctly. For
these reasons, this is a Linux system that aims to be easy to use and still
offering packages that will be part of the BioLinux-BR.
Website: http://glu.df.ibilce.unesp.br/
6. Vlinux
VLinux Bioinformatics workbench is a Linux distribution for Bioinformatics. It
is easy to use, no installation required, CD-based distribution based on Knoppix
3.3. It includes a variety of sequence and structure analysis packages.It is an
Open source product released under the GNU GPL License.
Website: http://bioinformatics.org/vlinux/index.html
7. Vigyaancd
VigyaanCD is a live Linux CD containing all the required software to boot the
computer with ready to use modeling software. VigyaanCD v0.1 is also based on
KNOPPIX v3.3. It contains programs for bioinformatics, computational biology and
computational chemistry. It also has genomes from Eschercia coli (K 12) and
Synechococcus sp. WH 8102 It is suitable both for beginners (12 demos and
tutorials) and experts. ISO image size (v 0.1) is 647 MB.
And let me tell you this is an effort by an Indian. Kudos to you Pratul K.
Agarwal for such a nice package. In fact I just downloaded the CD and have
casually tried it. Looks superb. It has the option for a persistant home
directory on HDD, which is very essential for Live CDs. Every thing is very
comprehensively arranged. Once again. Three chers for Pratul.
Cheers
-Tarun
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Hi All,
For people who are into life science research / bioinformatics, there are a few
good linux distros available. I will be trying these out in the coming days and
will keep posting my experiences. These are:
1. DNALinux
DNALinux is a is a SLAX-based Linux distribution with bioinformatics software
pre-installed. DNA and protein sequence manipulation software is included. Like
EMBOSS, Primer3, ClustalW, T-Coffe and others.
Website: http://www.dnalinux.com/
2. BioBrew Linux
BioBrew Linux is an open source Linux distribution based on the NPACI Rocks
(www.rocksclusters.org) cluster software and enhanced for bioinformaticists and
life scientists. While it looks, feels, and operates like ordinary Red Hat
Linux, BioBrew Linux includes popular cluster software e.g. MPICH, LAM-MPI, PVM,
Modules, PVFS, Myrinet GM, Sun Grid Engine, gcc, Ganglia, and Globus, *and*
popular bioinformatics software e.g. the NCBI toolkit, BLAST, mpiBLAST, HMMER,
ClustalW, GROMACS, PHYLIP, WISE, FASTA, and EMBOSS. It runs on everything from
notebook computers to large clusters.
Website: http://bioinformatics.org/biobrew/
3. Bio-Linux
Bio-Linux provides both standard and cutting edge bioinformatics tools on a
Linux base. It is powerful, configurable and easy to maintain. Bio-Linux has
been customised for ease of use and provides an ideal system for scientists
handling and analysing biological data. Bio-Linux also comes with many
development tools, providing a solid base for bioinformatics software
development. It can also be easily deployed as a computer cluster. As of version
4.0, Bio-Linux is based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
Bioinformatics-related customisations include the inclusion of a large number of
bioinformatics programs and programming libraries, the addition of graphical
menus for much of the bioinformatics software, and links from the desktop to key
documentation and applications. The system also includes a comprehensive,
categorised and searchable documentation system for bioinformatics software.
4. Bioknoppix
The University of Puerto Rico High Performance Computing facility (HPCf) and the
Puerto Rico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN-PR) have release
Bioknoppix. Bioknoppix is a live CD linux, based on KNOPPIX, and specialized to
include tools for bioinformatics. Bioknoppix does not need to be installed on
your computer, making it a perfect tool for workshops and demos. Some of the
software included in the 0.3 release are EMBOSS 2.8.0, jemboss, artemis,
clustal, Cn3D, ImageJ, BioPython, Rasmol, Bioperl, Bioconductor
Website: http://bioknoppix.hpcf.upr.edu/
-Tarun
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Tarun Kant, M.Sc., Ph.D. -o)
Scientist C /\\
Biotechnology Laboratory _\_V
Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding Division
Arid Forest Research Institute
New Pali Road
Jodhpur 342005 India
Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/bobkant/
I'm Registered Linux User # 284692
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Hi,
For the first time since Microsoft launched its flagship browser in 1995,
Internet Explorer is actually losing market share.....Thanks to Mozilla
Read on at: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118959,00.asp
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Issue 1 Volume 1 of this new magazine has just hit the (cyber)stands. And,
don't be too surprised, you're free to download a copy too of this 78-page
publication. Some of the articles in the first issue:
o File formats; format wars (Marco Fioretti)
File formats: the past, the present, a possible future
o XML: The answer to everything? (Kay Ethier, Scott Abel)
This article weighs the pros and cons of XML for some
applciations (publishing) and explores why it is the
best possible solution for many programming and
publishing needs.
o Free file formats and the future of intellectual
freedom (Terry Hancock)
Information as property may be served by closed
file formats, but the freedom of information
requires free formats.
o Creating the Free Software Magazine (Tony Mobily)
A long path that takes us to the very beginning
of this project.
o Mac OS X: Welcome to the jungle -- a look inside the
Mac OS X software ecology (Chris J Karr)
o The magic of live CDs (Harish Pillay)
What are live CDs, and how do they work?
o Every engineer's checklist for justifying
Free Software. It's not just about 'no licence fees'
(Malcolm D Spence)
o Smarter password management (John Locke)
How to handle your passwords without getting lost
o The content tail wags the IT dog (Daniel James)
Without hardware and software, there would be
nothing for digital media to be created on, or used
with. And yet the content industry attempts to tell
the far larger IT industry what it can and cannot do.
o Motivation and value of free resources. Wikipedia
and Planetmath show the way (Aaron E Klemm)
o It's all about freedom (Christian Einfeldt)
Freedom is free software's competitive advantage.
o The Commons (Dave M Berry)
The Commons as an Idea -- Ideas as a Commons
o Let's not forget our roots (Free Software is not
just about cost or stability; it's a movement that
mustn't forget the principles which made it possible)
Tom Chance.
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Hi Friends
Check this out below.
Hey don't get confused. It is not a free magazine on software, but "Free
Software" magazine
Cheers !
-Tarun
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Hello people,
(my apologies if you receive this email more than once!)
I sent this email to people who proposed articles or advertising for
Free
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Well, Free Software Magazine (issue 1) is out!
Please go and check it out: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
It is absolutely crucial, at this point, that we all:
* Spread the word. Talk about Free Software Magazine to your LUG's
mailing
lists, your geek and non-geek friends, and anybody who you think could
be
interested in subscribing
* Subscribe yourself! (if you can afford it). In the (hopefully near)
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* Tell Slashdot/Freshmeat/anybody about us! Here is a possibile
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relating to both technical and non-technical issues; all published
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Hi All,
A must read article has appeared that ponders upon the fact that open source
doesn't just mean Linux as most people confuse it to be. There are true open
source Linux implementations (like GNU Linux) but there are also Linux
implementations that would never be considered open source by open source
advocates. The article can be reached here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=102
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