Dear Readers,

First off, we would like to thank our readers for an overwhelming
response to the June 2006 issue of LINUX For You.

The monsoon season brings with it a gift that we are sure most of our
readers were eagerly awaiting. For the third month in succession, LFY
has bundled a DVD, and that too, a distro that had virtually become
the 'numero uno request' on our readers' wish list - Debian Linux 3.1.
Check it out and do send us your feedback.

On the editorial front, we have a great article on the tuXlabs project
which is a partnership between the Shuttleworth Foundation and South
African schools to setup self-sustainable computer centres in South
African schools using open source. We have also included a resource
manual - the tuXlabs Cookbook - in this month's LFY CD that serves as
a recipe for setting up a tuXlab and explains formal processes like
education, application, installation, support and training that define
the tuXlabs model. We hope that this article and the cookbook will
serve as facilitators for the policy makers in our country to take
full advantage of open source in our education system.

Starting this month, a new column has been introduced called
CoomunitySpeak. Here, we take a topic and post it on various LUGs for
members to give their opinion on the same and the best 5 responses get
a place in the magazine. This month's topic is 'Why is it that a clear
majority of world's top ten supercomputers are powered by GNU/Linux?'
Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we look at the history of the
Firefox project.

For Techies
*  Konquer Your File Management with KIO
*  Interconnecting Two Asterisk Machines
*  Getting Mobile with Your Linux Laptop
*  Basics of System V Semaphore
*  Linux Scheduling (Part I)
*  Manipulating the Networking Environment Using RTNETLINK
*  Ruby as Enterprise Glue
*  Webglimpse-Make Your Site Searchable
*  Making Startup Services in Red Hat Manageable
*  SNORTing Out Network Intrusion
*  Security Features In Debian 3.1

For Newbies
*  Learning Foreign Languages with Tux
*  Ubuntu 6.06 LTS-Do the Dapper Dance
*  Freespire-A Curtain Raiser
*  A Sneak Peek Into AJAX

For Policy Makers
*  OpenGovernment: How to Develop an Open Source Industry in
Developing Economies: Learning to Play the Open Source Services Game
*  tuXlab-An Open Source School Computer Centre Programme

The LFY CDs

LFY DVD - Debian 3.1

Regarded by many as the most comprehensive Linux distribution, Debian
3.1 (Sarge) bundles a host of software packages and runs on numerous
computer architectures. Managed by a non-profit community of users,
Debian has emerged as the distribution of choice for the Linux gurus.

LFY CD #2 - Smart Office Tools
   * Developers: FOX, Scintilla, SW Test Automation Framework, XPlanner
   * Office Tools-OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, KOffice 1.5.1, AbiWord 2.4.4,
Gnumeric, Ted 2.17, TextMaker, PlanMaker, LyX 1.4.1
   * Power User: Clam AntiVirus 0.88.2, Webmin 1.280, JBoss
Collaboration Server, Apache James
   * Fun Stuff: Fish Fillets: Next Generation, Maelstrom, Defendguin,
Entombed, Boson, freedroid, PPRacer
   * Updates: Kernel 2.6.17.1, Clam AntiVirus

Our effort is in your hands now. We hope you cherish reading the issue.

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Hello all,

Greetings from the Linux For You team!

As you all know, last month we launched a new initiative called
CommunitySpeak where we pose a question to various ILUG mailing lists
and publish the top five responses (selected by our technical editors)
in the magazine. Thanks to all those who responded to last month's
question on "why a majority of the world's top 10 supercomputers are
powered by Linux". The best five among the responses received are to
be published in the July 2006 issue of LFY.

The selected responses were sent by Vishnu Vyas (Chennai), S R Parthan
(Chennai), R Subramanian (Chennai), Manu Konchady (Bangalore) and P
Sriram (Chennai). Thanks again for your participation.

This month we have chosen the topic: "What would make a Windows user
pick up a Linux magazine?"

No, this is not a marketing tactic. We are *really* curious. What
would make Windows users pick up a Linux magazine? How can we convince
them to read about and adopt Linux and other free and open source
software? Would they be interested in reading about free business
software than run on Windows?

What's your take on this? Our eyes and ears are wide open and we are
waiting to listen to your ideas. Please write to us at
writetojanani@... with a CC to atul.goel@... before
July 5th 2006.

The top five responses will be published in the August 2006 issue of
Linux for You.

Look forward to your responses.

Thanks,

Janani Gopalakrishnan, Freelance Writer
Atul Goel, Asst. Associate Editor, LFY


P.S: We have not tagged this as commercial as we feel that there is no
business angle involved in this communication. But if you feel that it
should be tagged please let us know so that we can do it from the next
time.

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--- In linux_chandigarh@..., "Viney Khurana"
<vineykhurana@h...> wrote:
>
> Dear fellows,
>
> I have a great passion for Linux and am its user for the past few
years. At
> present i am using Mandrake 9.1. Anyone of you interested in the
same, pls
> mail me. I would be more than happy to be of help. Its the least i
can do to
> promote in something i believe in - "FREEDOM".
>
> Rgrds
> Viney Khurana
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> The heat is on! Catch the latest action.
> http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/formula2003/ Speed along with F1!
>

Hi  Amit,

                  Recently i also asked for some suggestions regarding
RHCE in Chandigarh (on Linux_Chandigarh Group) and i got many positive
replies.I found answer given by you very informative & upto some
extent i also know the truth behind these institutes in Chandigarh,
most of the institutes i visited recently are not providing quality
training.I completely agree with you, but if i have the only option in
Chandigarh, then what institute would you recomend(For RHCE)?

And also if you are thinking RHCE would not be sufficient then i
welcome your suggestions on carrier guide i.e what should i do to
build a strong carrier, i m interested in Linux Administration &
Security.

                               Jaswinder Singh

________________________________________
On 6/5/06, Amit Mittal <amittal123@...> wrote:
>
>  I understand that any institute in chandigarh will
>  only impart some of the basic concept (in Linux like
>  any other subject). Though you may enroll for startup.
>  But the companies require advance work, which may only
>  be available in enterprise envornment: like
>  backup/recovery, disaster recovery, security, data
>  protection, clusters, failover and high availability,
>  volume managers, backup of realtime data bases,
>  filesystem operations, SAN -storage experience,
>  networking, etc. So these institutes do not have that
>  kind of manpower.
>
>  Further, only linux will not enable you for the UNIX
>  Admin job, you must have skills on solaris. Linux is
>  still waiting for enterprise adoption.
>
>  Worldwide any certification plays only 15% role in
>  terms of salary and getting change of a new job.
>
>  I do not have any certification, but as an example I
>  tell you GE is offering me as LDAP System Admin for
>  10+lacs/y
>
>  The system admin people find a good placement in
>  companies and the jobs is much different than of a
>  software developer. In India as the economy is
>  advancing, there are lot of jobs available in the
>  telecommunication, and big companies.
>
>  pl visit www.sage.org for salary servey for system
>  admin.
>
>  Amit Mittal
>
>
>
>
>
>  --- Nipun Jain <nipun_jain@...> wrote:
>
>  > Hello all. I am Nipun Jain, an computer engineering
>  > student from
>  > chandigarh.
>  >
>  > I have been thinking about doing RHCE this summer
>  > vacation. Can anyone
>  > guide me as to which institute is the best to do so
>  > and why? Also, any
>  > idea about the pass percentage of the RHCE exam.
>  >
>  > Another thing that I have been wondering about is
>  > the job prospects
>  > after RHCE. Does oppurtunities exist for freshers
>  > having a BE and
>  > RHCE? Any other certification that I should have
>  > along with RHCE to
>  > increase my job prospects (I have been thinking
>  > about CISCO certs too
>  > ). Is linux as a career choice a wise option?
>  >
>  > I would be thankful if someone could come up with
>  > answers to the
>  > above.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Nipun Jain.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
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Hi  Amit,

                   Recently i also asked for some suggestions regarding
RHCE in Chandigarh (on Linux_Chandigarh Group) and i got many positive
replies.I found answer given by you very informative & upto some
extent i also know the truth behind these institutes in Chandigarh,
most of the institutes i visited recently are not providing quality
training.I completely agree with you, but if i have the only option in
Chandigarh, then what institute would you recomend(For RHCE)?

And also if you are thinking RHCE would not be sufficient then i
welcome your suggestions on carrier guide i.e what should i do to
build a strong carrier, i m interested in Linux Administration &
Security.

                                Jaswinder Singh

________________________________________
On 6/5/06, Amit Mittal <amittal123@...> wrote:
>
>  I understand that any institute in chandigarh will
>  only impart some of the basic concept (in Linux like
>  any other subject). Though you may enroll for startup.
>  But the companies require advance work, which may only
>  be available in enterprise envornment: like
>  backup/recovery, disaster recovery, security, data
>  protection, clusters, failover and high availability,
>  volume managers, backup of realtime data bases,
>  filesystem operations, SAN -storage experience,
>  networking, etc. So these institutes do not have that
>  kind of manpower.
>
>  Further, only linux will not enable you for the UNIX
>  Admin job, you must have skills on solaris. Linux is
>  still waiting for enterprise adoption.
>
>  Worldwide any certification plays only 15% role in
>  terms of salary and getting change of a new job.
>
>  I do not have any certification, but as an example I
>  tell you GE is offering me as LDAP System Admin for
>  10+lacs/y
>
>  The system admin people find a good placement in
>  companies and the jobs is much different than of a
>  software developer. In India as the economy is
>  advancing, there are lot of jobs available in the
>  telecommunication, and big companies.
>
>  pl visit www.sage.org for salary servey for system
>  admin.
>
>  Amit Mittal
>
>
>
>
>
>  --- Nipun Jain <nipun_jain@...> wrote:
>
>  > Hello all. I am Nipun Jain, an computer engineering
>  > student from
>  > chandigarh.
>  >
>  > I have been thinking about doing RHCE this summer
>  > vacation. Can anyone
>  > guide me as to which institute is the best to do so
>  > and why? Also, any
>  > idea about the pass percentage of the RHCE exam.
>  >
>  > Another thing that I have been wondering about is
>  > the job prospects
>  > after RHCE. Does oppurtunities exist for freshers
>  > having a BE and
>  > RHCE? Any other certification that I should have
>  > along with RHCE to
>  > increase my job prospects (I have been thinking
>  > about CISCO certs too
>  > ). Is linux as a career choice a wise option?
>  >
>  > I would be thankful if someone could come up with
>  > answers to the
>  > above.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Nipun Jain.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
>  Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com
> <br><br> Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC.  Link:
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>
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>

I understand that any institute in chandigarh will
only impart some of the basic concept (in Linux like
any other subject). Though you may enroll for startup.
But the companies require advance work, which may only
be available in enterprise envornment: like
backup/recovery, disaster recovery, security, data
protection, clusters, failover and high availability,
volume managers, backup of realtime data bases,
filesystem operations, SAN -storage experience,
networking, etc. So these institutes do not have that
kind of manpower.

Further, only linux will not enable you for the UNIX
Admin job, you must have skills on solaris. Linux is
still waiting for enterprise adoption.

Worldwide any certification plays only 15% role in
terms of salary and getting change of a new job.

I do not have any certification, but as an example I
tell you GE is offering me as LDAP System Admin for
10+lacs/y

The system admin people find a good placement in
companies and the jobs is much different than of a
software developer. In India as the economy is
advancing, there are lot of jobs available in the
telecommunication, and big companies.

pl visit www.sage.org for salary servey for system
admin.

Amit Mittal




--- Nipun Jain <nipun_jain@...> wrote:

> Hello all. I am Nipun Jain, an computer engineering
> student from
> chandigarh.
>
> I have been thinking about doing RHCE this summer
> vacation. Can anyone
> guide me as to which institute is the best to do so
> and why? Also, any
> idea about the pass percentage of the RHCE exam.
>
> Another thing that I have been wondering about is
> the job prospects
> after RHCE. Does oppurtunities exist for freshers
> having a BE and
> RHCE? Any other certification that I should have
> along with RHCE to
> increase my job prospects (I have been thinking
> about CISCO certs too
> ). Is linux as a career choice a wise option?
>
> I would be thankful if someone could come up with
> answers to the
> above.
>
> Regards,
> Nipun Jain.
>
>
>
>


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Hi,

I am new to linux. I have installed redhat 4 on my computer. I want to
make internet connection. I have only server IP address and Client IP
is dynamic, moreover the DNS information is automaticaly set when
connected to net. I have BSNL broadband 256kbps connection. Can
anybody help me out how to create internet connection in redhat 4.

Hope to see a response.

Thanks a lot

GAGAN

Dear Readers,

Last couple of months have been simply rocking for the community -
first it was Red Hat who rocked the centrestage with the release of
Fedora Core 5 and this time it was Novell's turn to hog the limelight
with the release of their much-awaited and celebrated distribution,
SUSE Linux 10.1. Though it was tight, but LFY managed to bundle SUSE
Linux 10.1 DVD with June 2006 issue. Check out the LFY DVD this month.

This month, we have tried to keep the content also equally rocking. As
always - from newbies to power users, from biz users to policy makers
- there's something for everyone. Our cover story this month deals
with the issue of trademarking of the brand 'Linux'. We continue our
exploration of Asterisk - the revolutionary open source telephony tool
- by finding out how to write dialplans. There is also an article on
how you can create your own applications for Symbian based smart
phones. For the newbies, we present three great open source tools -
FreeMind, F-spot and Scribus - that find use in applications like idea
management, photo management and desktop publishing and are sure to
make your life simpler.

A good news for the game crazy. Starting this month, LFY will carry a
regular news column featuring latest updates from the Linux gaming
world. Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we look at the turn of
events that made OpenOffice.org stand where it is today.

For Techies
~~~~~~~~~~~
*  Outsmart Your Smart Phone
*  Running FreeNX on Fedora Core 5
*  Scripting a Remote System Shutdown
*  Writing Asterisk Dialplans
*  Enhance Your Java Stack Trace Using JPrintStackTrace
*  Boot Linux From USB Pendrives

For Newbies
~~~~~~~~~~~
*  Excellent Photo Management Using F-spot
*  We Will, We Will...Map Your Mind
*  Scribus - A Snappy Approach Towards Desktop Publishing

For Decision Makers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* TuxHeroes: (1) Alp Management Consultants
                      (2) Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology
                      (3) DTDC

* Interview: Mr. Faisal M. Paul, country manager, HPC & Linux
technology solutions group, HP India

For Policy Makers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Mounting The Development Juggernaut - The OSS Way

The LFY CDs
~~~~~~~~~~~
SUSE Linux 10.1 DVD

LFY CD #2 - A collection of software, games and updates.
  * Developers: PHP For Applications - PHP Framework, MoonShine IDE,
OpenLDev, Ultimate++
  * Newbies: WengoPhone, FreeMind, F-Spot, Scribus, Wallpaper
  * Power User: Linux Bandwidth Monitor, Bandwidth Management Tools,
MRTG - The Multi Router,               Traffic Grapher, Planner,
TaskJuggler
  * Fun Stuff: Stellarium, Cube, CubeCombat
  * Updates: Kernel 2.6.16.18, Fedora Core 5

Our effort is in your hands now. We hope you cherish reading the issue.


WHERE TO GET YOUR COPY?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Hello all. I am Nipun Jain, an computer engineering student from
chandigarh.

I have been thinking about doing RHCE this summer vacation. Can anyone
guide me as to which institute is the best to do so and why? Also, any
idea about the pass percentage of the RHCE exam.

Another thing that I have been wondering about is the job prospects
after RHCE. Does oppurtunities exist for freshers having a BE and
RHCE? Any other certification that I should have along with RHCE to
increase my job prospects (I have been thinking about CISCO certs too
). Is linux as a career choice a wise option?

I would be thankful if someone could come up with answers to the
above.

Regards,
Nipun Jain.

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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/22/
Debian Weekly News - May 29th, 2006
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to this year's 22nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. Joey Hess has produced a [1]detailed
explanation and HOWTO for secure apt in Debian. Martin Michlmayr
[2]reported about this year's [3]FOSDEM event and noted that there
seems to be a six month delay before a new applicant is assigned an
Application Manager which hinders the big-endian ARM port.

  1. http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt
  2. http://www.cyrius.com/journal/travel/crazy-fosdem
  3. http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0225-fosdem

Creating a Debian Layout for Desktops. Luis Matos [4]asked for a
Debian theme layout to [5]improve the [6]user experience of the
Debian desktop. The theme should include a background image, splash
screens and [7]icons. He also proposed a guided contest to be
organised.

  4. http://bugs.debian.org/368594
  5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2006/05/msg00007.html
  6. http://bugs.debian.org/288393
  7. http://bugs.debian.org/368599

Debian IRC moving to OFTC. Steve McIntyre [8]announced that the
Debian project will move the Alias irc.debian.org over to the [9]Open
and Free Technology Community (OFTC) network on June 4th, since many
discussions have been moved to OFTC already. OFTC is also a sister
organisation of Debian, as both are supported and represented by
[10]Software in the Public Interest, Inc. The Debian project has been
using the [11]Freenode IRC network for many years.

  8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00012.html
  9. http://www.oftc.net/
  10. http://www.spi-inc.org/
  11. http://freenode.net/

Debian Projects accepted for Summer of Code. Baruch Even [12]reported
that nine Debian projects have been accepted for Google's [13]Summer
of Code. The plan is that students who have a blog or setup one for
the Summer of Code will be added to [14]Planet Debian so everyone can
follow their progress on their quest to help Debian improve.

  12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/05/msg00263.html
  13. http://code.google.com/soc/
  14. http://planet.debian.org/

Optimising the Boot Time. Margarita Manterola [15]gave a talk at
[16]DebConf6 about possible improvements to the booting of Debian
systems. From her conclusions and audiences remarks, she [17]wondered
if init scripts could use [18]dash instead of bash (it saves a 10 % of
boot time) and [19]asked about the necessity of running depmod at
boot-time. As a result, Marco d'Itri [20]proposed to remove depmod
from the [21]module-init-tools init script.

  15. https://debconf6.debconf.org/comas/general/proposals/77
  16. http://www.debian.org/events/2006/0514-debconf
  17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg02063.html
  18. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/shells/dash
  19. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg02081.html
  20. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg02487.html
  21. http://packages.debian.org/module-init-tools

Supporting Solaris/i386. Eras Benson [22]provided a patch for [23]dpkg
to support a Solaris-based system since [24]Sun Microsystems Inc. has
opened up its kernel. In response Josselin Mouette [25]wondered
whether the legal situation of dpkg being linked with a
GPL-incompatible C library has been fixed. Russ Allbery [26]explained
that the special exception of the [27]GNU GPL that allows linking and
distribution against a GPL-incompatible library only applies if the
binaries are not accompanied with the operating system itself.

  22. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00064.html
  23. http://packages.debian.org/dpkg
  24. http://www.sun.com/
  25. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00067.html
  26. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00081.html
  27. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Debian Project at FrOSCon. Martin Zobel-Helas [28]reported that the
Debian project will be participating in the [29]Free and Open Source
Conference (FrOSCon) to be held on the 24th and 25th of June in Sankt
Augustin (Germany). On the 24th there will be a Debian sub-conference.
Martin is seeking speakers who want to deliver talks about Debian
itself and Debian technologies in particular.

  28. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2006/05/msg00009.html
  29. http://www.froscon.org/wiki/FrOSCon

Creative Commons 3.0 License Suite Draft. Evan Prodromou [30]announced
that there is a [31]public draft of the [32]Creative Commons 3.0
license suite. Evan asserted that the main changes to these licenses
has been to bring them in line with the [33]DFSG and to make at least
the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licenses compatible
with the DFSG and acceptable for Debian.

  30. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00102.html
  31. http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2006-May/003557.html
  32. http://www.creativecommons.org/
  33. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

Bug Squashing Marathon. Martin Zoble-Helas [34]announced three bug
squashing [35]parties with particular themes to be organised this fall
in order to help the release of [36]etch. In August the
[37]debian-installer shall be tested and bugs in the installation
process shall be fixed. In September upgrades from pre-release etch
and sarge are to be reviewed and remaining bugs shall be fixed. In
October the remaining bugs in core packages shall be fixed. He is
seeking [38]hosting for at least two of these parties.

  34. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00014.html
  35. http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathon
  36. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/
  37. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
  38. http://wiki.debian.org/HostingBSP

Release Goals for Etch. Andreas Barth [39]announced changed in the
release plan for [40]etch. Approved release goals are the use of GCC
4.1, LSB 3.1 compatibility, SELinux support, pervasive IPv6 and large
file support and a new Python framework. June 15th is the last chance
to switch to GCC 4.1 and Python 2.4, and on July 30th the essential
toolchain and the kernel are to be frozen in order to be able to
release in December.

  39. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00015.html
  40. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/

Security Updates. You know the drill. Please make sure that you update
your systems if you have any of these packages installed.

  * DSA 1074: [41]mpg123 -- Arbitrary code execution.
  * DSA 1075: [42]awstats -- Arbitrary command execution.
  * DSA 1076: [43]lynx -- Denial of service.
  * DSA 1077: [44]lynx-ssl -- Denial of service.
  * DSA 1078: [45]tiff -- Denial of service.
  * DSA 1079: [46]MySQL 4.0 -- Several vulnerabilities.
  * DSA 1080: [47]dovecot -- Directory traversal.
  * DSA 1081: [48]libextractor -- Arbitrary code execution.
  * DSA 1082: [49]Linux 2.4.17 -- Several vulnerabilities.

  41. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1074
  42. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1075
  43. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1076
  44. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1077
  45. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1078
  46. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1079
  47. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1080
  48. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1081
  49. http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082

New or Noteworthy Packages. The following packages were added to the
unstable Debian archive [50]recently or contain important updates.

  50. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main

  * [51]locales-all -- GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data.

  51. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/locales-all

Orphaned Packages. 10 packages were orphaned this week and require a
new maintainer. This makes a total of 297 orphaned packages. Many
thanks to the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free
Software community. Please see the [52]WNPP pages for the full list,
and please add a note to the bug report and retitle it to ITA: if you
plan to take over a package. To find out which orphaned packages are
installed on your system the wnpp-alert program from devscripts may be
helpful.

  52. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

  * [53]animal -- AN IMAging Library written in C. ([54]Bug#369209)
  * [55]ascpu -- AfterStep look & feel CPU statistics monitor tool.
    ([56]Bug#369069)
  * [57]asmix -- Displays a volume knob. ([58]Bug#369066)
  * [59]asmounter -- Monitoring mount points tool. ([60]Bug#369067)
  * [61]fvwm-icons -- XPMs for fvwm. ([62]Bug#369068)
  * [63]malaga -- System for automatic language analysis.
    ([64]Bug#369161)
  * [65]plucker -- Pluck stuff from the web and read it on your PalmOS
    device. ([66]Bug#369095)
  * [67]pyching -- Python program to cast and interpret I Ching
    hexagrams. ([68]Bug#368820)
  * [69]xboing -- Blockout game for X. ([70]Bug#369065)
  * [71]xpat2 -- Generic patience game for X11. ([72]Bug#369407)

  53. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libanimal-dev
  54. http://bugs.debian.org/369209
  55. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ascpu
  56. http://bugs.debian.org/369069
  57. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/asmix
  58. http://bugs.debian.org/369066
  59. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/asmounter
  60. http://bugs.debian.org/369067
  61. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/fvwm-icons
  62. http://bugs.debian.org/369068
  63. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/malaga-bin
  64. http://bugs.debian.org/369161
  65. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/plucker
  66. http://bugs.debian.org/369095
  67. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/pyching
  68. http://bugs.debian.org/368820
  69. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xboing
  70. http://bugs.debian.org/369065
  71. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xpat2
  72. http://bugs.debian.org/369407

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Footnotes: Anjuta DevStudio 2.0.2 -- The Breeze -- released

Behold! After a long wait, Anjuta development team proudly announces the
release of Anjuta DevStudio 2.0.2 -- 'The Breeze'. This is the next in
alpha series that brings us more closer towards the final storm.

The release sports shiny new GtkSourceview editor plugin and Valgrind
plugin for your unlimited hacking pleasure. You also get automake
project configuration fully working and editor tab drag n drop feature
for your visual wowness.

All these, and a pile of bug fixes, await a small contribution from your
generous beta-testing skills. So, guys, get it before your neighbour has
the chance to boast about it! http://anjuta.org/

Anjuta is an integrated development environment for C and C++ on
GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK+/GNOME and features a number of
advanced programming facilities. These include project management,
application wizards, an on-board interactive debugger, and a powerful
source code editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.

For more about Anjuta see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjuta

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Education/Training
Interview: Red Hat's open source scholarship challenge
Friday May 26, 2006 (08:01 AM GMT)
By: Mayank Sharma

There is no dearth of IT talent in India, but for a country that churns
out thousands of IT students every year, the number of Indian
contributors in the open source software (OSS) world is
disproportionately low, due in part to a lack of proper mentoring. To
encourage more students to go into OSS development, the Kanwal Rekhi
School of Information Technology (KReSIT) at the Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay partners with Red Hat for an open source scholarship
challenge each year. Participants, mentored by OSS leaders, get the
opportunity to work and collaborate to solve a real-world problem, and
the winners get a share of the Rs. 10 lakh (about $22,000) prize. In an
email interview, Venkatesh Hariharan, head of Open Source Affairs at Red
Hat India and coordinator of the challenge, provides details about the
event.

NewsForge: Please share some history of the event.

Venkatesh Hariharan: The program has its roots in a discussion that [Red
Hat CEO and President] Matthew Szulik had with Dr. D. B. Phatak, founder
of KReSIT, during his first visit to India in 2003. The common objective
was to encourage Indian students to contribute to the global open source
community and make them familiar with the open source philosophy of
community, collaboration, and shared ownership of intellectual
resources.

NF: What separates Red Hat's open source scholarship program from other
such events in India, such as Google Code Jam? Does Red Hat conduct
similar events elsewhere as well?

VH: With the Red Hat Scholarships, the idea is to tap into the software
development projects that students do every year as part of their
academic requirements and channel them into the open source community.
We also aim to connect them to mentors from the open source community.
This helps them work on meaningful, real-life projects and contribute to
society. We will also be doing chat sessions on technical issues like
application development on Linux and Java programming, so that their
knowledge is enhanced.

This is the first time that Red Hat is doing such a program of this
nature anywhere in the world. In the first two years, we started with
India because this is a vast geography to cover. The third year's
program has been expanded to the Indian subcontinent, and we have
received project submissions from Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and more.

NF: Do you encourage students to contribute to existing projects or make
their own? Aren't the challenges listed a little vague?

VH: The choice of projects is left to the students, and we merely make
suggestions. Many students request our help in selecting projects every
year, and therefore we suggest broad topics and also list open source
projects that are looking for volunteers.

NF: What happens to the projects after the competition is over? Who
maintains the software? What's the current status of the projects cooked
up by previous winners?

VH: We request participants of the previous year's projects become
mentors for the next year so that the development work continues. One of
the prize-winning teams developed a college information system and set
up a company to commercialize it. We ask that the projects be hosted on
community Web sites like SourceForge or Sarovar.org and request the
project teams to mentor next year's teams.

NF: How is the event conducted? Is everything done over the Web, or do
the judges interact with the participants in person at some stage?

VH: Given the fact that there are 1,750 engineering colleges and 300,000
students, reaching out to the students is a challenge. Fortunately, the
Web allows us a scalable way of doing this in the form of chat sessions
and discussion groups at the collaborative portal.

NF: In the scholarship rules under "Support For Contestants," you talk
of providing online support and download sites for tools and software
programs. What are these?

VH: We want to familiarize the students with open source platforms and
development tools like Fedora, Eclipse, and JBoss.

NF: Why does Red Hat take it upon itself to decide the license for the
code? What happens if a student decides on a particular license? Is he
at any disadvantage?

VH: We are changing this so that the students can decide the license
they want. We recommend the General Public License (GPL), but they are
free to select any license approved by the Open Source Initiative.

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India lays down 'open' challenge

After his first trip to India, regular columnist Bill Thompson looks
forward to the end of western domination of the free software community

Indian computer programmer
India's programmers are writing code to meet their own needs
The five of us bounced out of the restaurant at around 10, after a great
meal, some beers and the usual arguments about preferred programming
languages, the future of free and open source software and the merits of
Terry Pratchett's later works.

It was a warm night so we crossed the street to get something to cool us
down - not ice cream, but the best kulfi in the Defence Colony, one of
the hippest areas in downtown New Delhi.

It was my last night in India after four days making Digital Planet
specials with the World Service.

My new friends from the Delhi Linux User Group had dragged me out of my
luxurious business hotel into the real city for a meal.

The sizzling paneer and noodles were excellent. The beer was cold. And
the kulfi was as good as Raj had promised.

But even better was the chance to make a connection with a group of
people outside the US and Europe who are working with the Linux
operating system.

Indian problems

I'd come to India with the sense that, like Brazil and other countries
outside the West that are taking free software seriously, India is
moving into a new phase in its use of free and open source software.

These guys - and it was a boy's night out, though there are women
members of the group too - are using the freedom which the Linux
distribution licence gives them to build tools and technologies for
themselves.

They don't have to wait for a far-distant company to decide whether
their market is big enough or commercially viable. If they need code
that meets their specific needs, they can just write it themselves.

They are certainly going beyond the point where they take code from the
US and Europe and spend their effort "localising" it by adding support
for local languages.

[Bill Thompson: Free software provides a bridge between the affluence of
the West and the poverty of most of the world's population.]

But according to Raj and Mary, both Linux experts, Indian coders are
still isolated from each other, and although they contribute to many
projects there is no real focus on solving Indian problems.

The website of the Free Software Foundation of India lists a few dozen
India-based projects, but there is apparently a long way to go before a
real free software community emerges.

And while Government support for free software is genuine, government
computer departments do not contribute to other projects and do not make
their work available for others to build on. The government just sees
free software as a way to save on licenses.

This is a shame, as there is a political dimension to the use of free
software which will be very important for India and other developing
countries.

Liberal Origins

Until now free and open source software has been one of the ways in
which the US spread its values around the world, the soft guy approach
that seems to oppose, but in fact is symbiotic with hard-edged
capitalism on the Microsoft and Intel model.

Both are firmly embedded in US cultural values, and the free market is
as important to Linux as it is to Microsoft.

Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds: creator of Linux

If we consider its origins within the post-hippy hacker culture of MIT
then we can see that free software is as parasitic on the larger
computer industry and its capitalist ethos as the early hippies were on
their wealthy middle-class parents and their Protestant work ethic.

All that nice code won't run unless Intel and AMD, neither of whom is
particularly noted for being soft and cuddly, continue to make the
processors and Dell and Sony continue to squeeze component suppliers and
ship the systems.

In 1999 Richard Stallman the originator of free software, wrote that he
saw 'no social imperative for free hardware designs like the imperative
for free software', so the situation clearly does not bother him.

Yet, as often happens when the US tries to impose a particular point of
view on the world, the results can be the opposite of what was intended.

Just as the continued boycott of Cuba after the Soviet Union collapsed
forced Castro into alliances with other Latin American countries and has
helped promote new left-leaning governments across the continent, so the
desire to spread US liberal values through free software may have
unexpected consequences.

Cultural shift

Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond, the three big thinkers behind
free/libre/open source software - and one should always be suspicious of
any movement that so fails to reconcile its divisions that it needs
three names - may have unleashed a monster that will consume them.

Because until now the developed world could take the code provided so
generously by Western developers but their ability to modify it was
limited. There were too few skilled programmers and too few companies
interested in supporting that sort of work.

Now the programmers are out there. And while the Indian Linux community
is currently fragmented, as Raj says, this could change very quickly.
Much of the work on internationalisation, pushed by people like Gora
Mohanty at Srijan Technologies, is complete, and new ideas are emerging.

I visited one company, Om Logistics, who simply cannot pay what
Microsoft want to charge for licences when one of their bureaux might
make a few thousand rupees profit in a month.

They use Linux on both servers and desktops, and the result is that they
have an affordable and reliable system. Soon it wlll be even more suited
to their needs, because Indian developers will be deciding how it should
develop.

These programmers will take today's Linux code and make it far more
useful to the people of India and other developing countries than
today's predominantly Western developer community ever could. And when
that happens, the centre of free software development will soon begin to
move from the US and Europe.

Free software provides a bridge between the affluence of the West and
the poverty of most of the world's population, and amounts to a massive
flow of intellectual capital into the developing world. And as they
reshape it to meet their needs it will stop being just another US import
and become a resource that can be used in brand new ways.

Once the people on the receiving end make it their own they will change
the world. The fun is just beginning.
Bill Thompson is a regular commentator on the BBC World Service
programme Digital Planet

Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine is out

Another great issue with 10 articles on various aspects of
free software. It's available in HTML and PDF download... for
free!

In Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine, Jerome Gotangco guides
us through securing email communication and Yousef Ourabi
shows us how to harden our Linux servers. Rosalyn Hunter
introduces the GNU/Linux CLI for beginners and Terry Hancock
explains LyX. We also get to have some fun when Robin Monks
reviews some clones of a classic game: Tetris. And more...
Download the whole issue as a high-resolution PDF file!

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/issues/issue_012
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Free and open software in Malaysia
by Colin Charles

Malaysia, like most other developing nations, generally has a positive
view on the open source movement. Malaysia stands out in the free and
open source software (FOSS) movement, mainly because there's a fairly
well organized FOSS movement, the media is FOSS-aware, and there's
support from the government for FOSS usage.
Beginnings

How it all began in Malaysia, is probably very much like how it began
elsewhere. Like-minded individuals meet up, they enjoy similar company
and share similar ideas. Then a mailing list gets formed. And you can
say the rest is history, right?

Not quite. The activities in almost a decade have been numerous, and far
reaching. With efforts from helping the local Thalassaemia association,
to providing schools with Linux labs, giving advocacy talks and running
open source workshops, the community has come a long way.
Why the importance?

Seeing that Malaysia is still a developing nation, trying to achieve
developed status by the year 2020, FOSS helps pave the road towards
moving the economy towards a technology driven, knowledge-based one.
Allowing one to "peek under the hood" and learn how some piece of
software works, is crucial to a nation where skills are still being
developed. It allows a nation to play a part in the international
software community, and not be dependent on 100% foreign built
proprietary software.

FOSS deployment has now been institutionalized, and the government
pushed two feasibility studies to push the open source agenda. The main
reasons cited include, but aren't limited to: reducing the total cost of
ownership, increase the freedom of choice for software usage, hence
increasing the growth of the local ICT (get acronym definition)
industries.
Bridging the digital divide

In a country where pirated software is still rampant, buying a copy of
an open source distribution like Fedora Core (4CDs) could cost more than
the average commercial OS that comes on 1CD! Pressure is being added to
protect intellectual property and reduce piracy, which all seem to point
in the direction of a boon to the FOSS world in Malaysia as more
companies take it up on the desktop.

As a bid to help more home users get cheaper PC's, the "One Home One PC"
campaign was launched a few years back that aimed to sell a full-blown
Linux PC for under USD$250. These machines came custom-configured with
Fedora Core 1, with fully working hardware, and all the multimedia and
educational software home users felt comfortable with.

FOSS also enables the locals whom aren't as well versed in English as
their counterparts to use technology (hence assist in reducing the
digital divide). In a country as diverse as Malaysia, where the main
spoken languages besides English include Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil,
Mandarin, Cantonese and a few more dialects, localization is a large
part of the open source movement.

Some of the earliest contributions to the GNOME and the Red Hat Linux
projects were from community members, in the form of localization to
Bahasa Malaysia. Key applications like Mozilla and OpenOffice.org have
also been translated in various stages. There have been others ranging
from the popular KDE to a fairly obscure tool like bison!

Where the community's at

A hub for all discussions tends to be the MYOSS mailing list[1], the
oldest surviving home for the movement in Malaysia. It seems more skewed
towards technical discussions, whereas the Malaysian National Computer
Confederation (MNCC) have an Open Source Special Interest Group (OSSIG)
that runs the OSSIG mailing list [2], that is more user focused. For
local Bahasa Malaysia discussions, the mypenguin99 mailing list[3] is
the place to be.

As open source gains more momentum, it can only be said that 2005 was
probably one of the most productive years in terms of community
development and expansion. It started with the MyOSS Meetups[4], a
regular monthly happening, where there would be up to two talks on some
form of FOSS topic. These discussions range from low level talks on
compilers, to higher level ones on podcasting the FOSS way. After the
presentations, there would be community bonding at a local restaurant,
where a lot more FOSS discussion would happen.

The MyOSS Magazine [5], started mid-2005, went up to six editions last
year, and started off as one man's itch to educate both the Malaysian
OSS community as well as the international one. Some key articles
included open source power management, developing applications with PHP,
as well as Linux LiveCDs.

Community run low-cost LPI Certification exams were run twice last year,
enabling about sixty candidates to take the LPI101 and LPI102
examinations, allowing the locals to be LPI Certified. These
examinations were proctored by "Malaysia's open source father", Dr. Nah
Soo Hoe, whom is synonymous with many local activities.

Going back to 2003, Malaysia hosted its first FOSS conference, dubbed
FOSSCON, where internationally acclaimed speakers like John "maddog"
Hall and MySQL's David Axmark presented keynotes. These talks were well
received, and since then, Malaysia has played host to Paul "rusty"
Russell of Linux kernel fame, as well as Richard Stallman, who came not
once but twice, to preach about free software.

But it's not just advocacy the community is good at. ADOdb, the famous
database abstraction library for PHP, m0n0wall, the complete embedded
firewall/traffic shaper/router, and e-HRMS, the web-based human
resources managed system, are all open source projects run by
Malaysians. Both ADOdb and e-HRMS have won the Excellence in ICT Awards
[6], Open Source Software category, run by the MNCC. For more projects,
the Malaysian FOSS Contributors [7] list would serve as a more complete
resource.

When the community isn't doing serious work, they can be found hanging
out at #myoss on the Freenode IRC network, or writing blogs, syndicated
at Planet MYOSS [8].

As Ditesh Kumar, local FOSS Developer and a member of the community puts
it: "We hope to continue to build the momentum in 2006 and continue to
build the local community via empowerment activities and knowledge
dissemination."

The government strongly behind it all

Two main organizations that have government backing, that are highly
into open source, would be the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic
Systems (MIMOS) and the Malaysian Administration Modernisation and
Management Planning Unit (MAMPU). They both came up with independent
open source roadmaps and paved the way for open source within the
country; the MAMPU Master Plan coming out the stronger of the two.

MIMOS has established an open source R&D group [9] for a few years now,
whom incidentally organized FOSSCON 2003. They maintain a knowledgebase,
called the Asian Open Source Centre (AsiaOSC) [10], where there exists a
community server, including mailing list services and a mirror of open
source software. Local workshops are held, and extensions to
OpenOffice.org including the help files have all been translated into
Bahasa Malaysia.

MAMPU have created an Open Source Competency Centre [11], and an OSS
Master Plan [12], that has been accepted by the Malaysian Government and
paves the way for the future of FOSS in Malaysia. The plan takes action
in time periods, and in the first two years, simple tasks like e-mail,
web browsing and use of office software should migrate to an open source
solution. In the next two to five years, there should be an accelerated
adoption, where databases should be migrated along with usage of LDAP,
etc. Currently, Malaysia is at its first 0-2 years, laying the
foundation for the early adopters.

While not a local government agency, the International Open Source
Network, an initiative of the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP-APDIP), started its roots in Malaysia, before moving to Thailand.
They are a body that helps the local FOSS movement within means and
endorsed Software Freedom Day, providing a calendar for upcoming events,
as well as a lot of information about FOSS in Malaysia [13].

What about businesses?

Businesses that circle around the FOSS arena tend to be in education
(via training and certification), systems integration, application
development and consultation. In a later issue, I will cover ISVs, and
the local FOSS business scene.

I hope this is a fairly broad guide to the open source movement in
Malaysia, and if there are queries, comments, brickbats, and the like,
please give us some feedback. [14]

About the author

Colin Charles is a consultant, author, and student who's involved in the
OpenOffice.org and Fedora projects. He now works for MySQL AB as a
Community Engineer. He has an affinity for Fedora/ppc. Besides tinkering
with computers and other electronic gadgets, he has interests in
bowling, cycling, chilling out and watching movies.

[1] http://my-opensource.org/lists/myoss/index.html
[2] http://www.mncc.com.my/ossig/
[3] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mypenguin99
[4] http://myoss.iosn.net/
[5] http://mag.my-opensource.org/
[6] http://www.mncc.com.my/ictawards/ictawards-2005.html
[7] http://www.iosn.net/country/malaysia/malaysian_foss_contributors
[8] http://myoss.bytebot.net/
[9] http://opensource.mimos.my/
[10] http://www.asiaosc.org/index.php
[11] http://opensource.mampu.gov.my/
[12]
http://opensource.mampu.gov.my/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=3\
4
[13] http://www.iosn.net/country/malaysia/
[14] http://www.redhat.com/magazine/feedback/to_the_editor.html

Hello Fellow members!

MATLAB(R) from Mathworks, Inc. is a proprietary software from
mathworks, Inc. There is an free alternative called GNU Octave
on Linux. GNU OCtave has all potential for being state-of-art
numerical computation software.

GNU Octave can grow only if people and open source software
developers are discussing issues over it. I have proposed
creation of a new newsgroup on Big-8. You are requested
to take part in the discussion at
http://groups.google.co.in/group/news.groups/browse_thread/thread/13894abd0be1a0\
5e/1fbc3b944c67e023#1fbc3b944c67e023

I would request you to please support this discussion.
After this discussion, there will be a Call for Votes.

Please do take part in the discussion as well as votes. Both are
important.

Lets make this free, powerful software grow!!


Warm regards
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linux OS to my friend.
I asked this bcoz with most magnizes we get DVD but most of users dont
have DVD-ROM, if one has DVD-ROM and transfer the OS from DVD to more
than 1 CDs with option like at end of 1 CD it ask to insert 2nd CD
then it would be quite helful to distribute linux.

Hope for a reply. plz help.
Gagan

Hi Friends,
           This is my first post on this group.The day i read about
this group in linux4u magazine,i was excited because i thought this
gp can solve my problem.I am student doing BTech. in Computer
Science & Technology, in 7th semester there is 6 months training in
our course.I am planning to do 6 months training in Chandigarh,i am
interested in RHCE Certification.So i m confused about choosing a
perfect Training Center or Institute in Chandigarh.So anybody here
from Chandigarh or from outside can give me suggestion about a good
Training Center(Paid or Non-paid).The list of institutes i have heard
or thinking about in Chandigarh are:

TechnoSchool
NIICT
SLR

So please suggest me a better training center.
        

Thanks fro replying

I wana know more about Techno School In Chandigarh.What's the charges
there,and tell me about tutors,are they well trained and
experienced.Would 6 months be suffcient for RHCE.










_______________________________________________________
On 5/9/06, sddbfg ksdgbfk <charismatic_guy83@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm a RHCE and a B.Tech too. And i've completed my trainig from Techno
> School. according to me it's the best.
> But just want to tell you......after RHCE job for a fresher is very
> difficult to find. Every one wants experience. If get placed during college
> it's gr8 otherwise it would be very difficult.
>
> Anywaz Best of luck
>
>
> singhjc4u <internetwa@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Friends,
>            This is my first post on this group.The day i read about
> this group in linux4u magazine,i was excited because i thought this
> gp can solve my problem.I am student doing BTech. in Computer
> Science & Technology, in 7th semester there is 6 months training in
> our course.I am planning to do 6 months training in Chandigarh,i am
> interested in RHCE Certification.So i m confused about choosing a
> perfect Training Center or Institute in Chandigarh.So anybody here
> from Chandigarh or from outside can give me suggestion about a good
> Training Center(Paid or Non-paid).The list of institutes i have heard
> or thinking about in Chandigarh are:
>
> TechnoSchool
> NIICT
> SLR
>
> So please suggest me a better training center.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. About 6 Months Training
From: "singhjc4u"
2. Coming soon! *The Code Breakers* (BBC)
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)"
3. Re: About 6 Months Training
From: "Arminder Singh Girgla"


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:30:43 -0000
From: "singhjc4u"
Subject: About 6 Months Training

Hi Friends,
This is my first post on this group.The day i read about
this group in linux4u magazine,i was excited because i thought this
gp can solve my problem.I am student doing BTech. in Computer
Science & Technology, in 7th semester there is 6 months training in
our course.I am planning to do 6 months training in Chandigarh,i am
interested in RHCE Certification.So i m confused about choosing a
perfect Training Center or Institute in Chandigarh.So anybody here
from Chandigarh or from outside can give me suggestion about a good
Training Center(Paid or Non-paid).The list of institutes i have heard
or thinking about in Chandigarh are:

TechnoSchool
NIICT
SLR

So please suggest me a better training center.

Hi Friends,
           This is my first post on this group.The day i read about
this group in linux4u magazine,i was excited because i thought this
gp can solve my problem.I am student doing BTech. in Computer
Science & Technology, in 7th semester there is 6 months training in
our course.I am planning to do 6 months training in Chandigarh,i am
interested in RHCE Certification.So i m confused about choosing a
perfect Training Center or Institute in Chandigarh.So anybody here
from Chandigarh or from outside can give me suggestion about a good
Training Center(Paid or Non-paid).The list of institutes i have heard
or thinking about in Chandigarh are:

TechnoSchool
NIICT
SLR

So please suggest me a better training center.
        

----- Original Message -----

From: singhjc4u

To: linux_chandigarh@...

Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:00 PM

Subject: [linux_chandigarh] About 6 Months Training

Hi Friends,
           This is my first post on this group.The day i read about
this group in linux4u magazine,i was excited because i thought this
gp can solve my problem.I am student doing BTech. in Computer
Science & Technology, in 7th semester there is 6 months training in
our course.I am planning to do 6 months training in Chandigarh,i am
interested in RHCE Certification.So i m confused about choosing a
perfect Training Center or Institute in Chandigarh.So anybody here
from Chandigarh or from outside can give me suggestion about a good
Training Center(Paid or Non-paid).The list of institutes i have heard
or thinking about in Chandigarh are:

TechnoSchool
NIICT
SLR

So please suggest me a better training center.
        





 
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COMING SOON!

"The Code Breakers"
A BBC World Documentary on Free/Open Source Software and
Development

http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc

==========================================================================

The famous digital divide is getting wider. A two-part
documentary, "The Code Breakers," to be aired on BBC World
starting 10 May 2006 examines whether free/open source
software (FOSS) might be the bridge?

FOSS contains 'source code' that can be used, copied,
studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. It
has been around for over 20 years but most PC owners are not
aware that the Internet search engines and many computer
applications run on FOSS.

"It's not that FOSS has had a bad press, it has had no press
because there is no company that 'owns' it," says executive
producer Robert Lamb. "But we found that in the computer
industry and among the afficionados, it is well known and its
virtues well understood."

The crew of the independent producers who made the film went
to nearly a dozen countries around the world to see how the
adoption of FOSS presents opportunities for industry and
capacity development, software piracy reduction, and
localization and customization for diverse cultural and
development needs.

Stories from "The Code Breakers" include computer and
Internet access for school children in Africa, reaching the
poor in Brazil, tortoise breeding programmes in the
Galapagos, connecting villages in Spain, and disaster
management in Sri Lanka. The documentary also includes
interviews from key figures around the world.

Intel, IBM, Sun and Microsoft all seem to agree that FOSS is
a welcome presence in computer software.

According to Jonathan Murray of Microsoft "The Open Source
community stimulates innovation in software, it's something
that frankly we feel very good about and it's something that
we absolutely see as being a partnership with Microsoft."

BBC World will air the two-part documentary at the following
times:

Episode One

Wednesday 10 May 19:30 GMT
Thursday 11 May 09:30 GMT
Friday 12 May 16:30 GMT
Monday 15 May 01:30 and 07:30 GMT

Episode Two

Wednesday 17 May 19:30 GMT
Thursday 18 May 09:30 GMT
Friday 19 May 16:30 GMT
Monday 22 May 01:30 and 07:30 GMT

For local times, please lookup your country in the TV
Listings on BBC World's website
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_tvlistings.asp?pageid=668.

The International Open Source Network (IOSN), UNDP
Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP),
International Development Research Centre of Canada and
UNESCO have participated in the production of this
documentary.




Christine Apikul
UNDP-APDIP

Hi Friends,
            This is my first post on this group.The day i read about
this group in linux4u magazine,i was excited because i thought this
gp can solve my problem.I am student doing BTech. in Computer
Science & Technology, in 7th semester there is 6 months training in
our course.I am planning to do 6 months training in Chandigarh,i am
interested in RHCE Certification.So i m confused about choosing a
perfect Training Center or Institute in Chandigarh.So anybody here
from Chandigarh or from outside can give me suggestion about a good
Training Center(Paid or Non-paid).The list of institutes i have heard
or thinking about in Chandigarh are:

TechnoSchool
NIICT
SLR

So please suggest me a better training center.