Going GNU

Firefox-3

tshrinivasan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:08 +0000

Firefox 3 is released on 17/06/2008.

All Firefox users made a Guinness record by downloading over 1.7 million copies on a single day.

Mozilla foundation gave a certificate for the downloading users.

The above is mine.

Get your own copy of Firefox -3 at http://www.spreadfirefox.com

View the Download statistics here.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

It shows 21,440,198
now. 26-06-2008

and it grows well.

See the Firefox 3 features here.

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/

Free Software Business Model - A Talk

tshrinivasan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:26:36 +0000

Free Software User Group, FSUS, Banglore is organising a Talk on “Free Software Business Model“.

The Question is common and repeated always.

“If you give the Software for free, How will you survive? How will you earn?“

Here is the answer from the Open Source Business People.

DeepRoot is the Leading Open Source Mail Server. It offers commercial support for required Organizations. http://www.deeproot.co.in/

Abhas Abhinav from DeepRoot share its Success story.

Do you want to do start a creative business of your own?
Hear from the Success Heros.

Date and time:

Jun 8th : 3 p.m to 5.p.m

Christ College, Bangalore – to be confirmed shortly

RSVP your participation to **jaykumarhs@gmail.com** , 9448163453 ,
Vikram : 9448810882- with name , orgn/company , phone number.

0 ) The idea is to evangelise about free software in IT
companies/colleges on free software and its role in business.

1) Please talk personally to your friends related to software but not to
free software and get them for the talk.

2) register for the talk by sending a email to jaykumarhs@gmail.com
9448163453 - with name , orgn/company , phone number .

3) we will be happy if a self sustaining free software community -
contributing in various ways to the free software movement - can be
formed in your college / company

poster :
http://creative-business.wikispaces.com/Poster

details
http://creative-business.wikispaces.com/

Note: This Program is rescheduled as below :

Community Event

When : Saturday :, 7th Jun , 2008

Talk by Abhas Abhinav : 3p.m to 5.p.m

Where:

St.Joseph’s College,
36,Lalbagh Road(Langford Road),
Shanti Nagar,Bangalore -560027 (Near Double Road
Flyover Entrance)

phone : Jayakumar 9448163453 , Vikram Vincent 9448810822

Party with Ubuntu

tshrinivasan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:17:37 +0000

Ubuntu Tamil Team (ubuntu-tam.org) arranged a Tea party Yesterday.

Ubuntu Tamil Team has grown up to its Third Year.
Ubuntu Kaipidi Thozharkal (HandOver Friends) Inaguration
Release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardu Heron

Me and Thanigai reached the woodlands hotel after a bit of searching.

We expected more people as it was announced in the ChennaiLUG, but little crowd was there.

Arun (Current Manager of Ubuntu Tamil Team)
Amachu (Former Manager of Ubuntu Tamil Team)
Shrinivasan
Thanigairajan
Badhri (Kizhakku publishers)
Nagarajan (New Horizon media)
Ganesh
Dakshna murthy

are the participants.

Party started with chatting.

We ordered Tea, Coffee and chat items.

Meanwhile, Badhri explained the needs of Tamil Software like Dictionary, Spellchecker adn Open Source software required for mobile phones. He requested the open source developers to develop more applications for Symbion Os for mobile phones.

Then, Dakshna Murthy naratted his experions with organizations on relieving people.

Amachu announced that Ubuntu Tamil Team has reached its third year and “Thangamani Arun” is appointed as New Manager for Ubuntu Tamil Team.

Amachu shows his new KDE 4 enebled Laptop.

Badhri tried Ubuntu in his Laptop and expressed his comments.

Amachu started to show the Ubuntu CDs for Distribution.

Amachu Handed Over Some Ubuntu CDs to Dakshna Murthy.

Arun Handed Over to Thanigairajan.

Thse volunteers will start their own Hand Over Project to their friends and relatives to propagate ubuntu to all over the world.

Then we had some fun time too. We ordered more snacks.
There we designed new Ubuntu Logo.

How are the Logos? Shall we recommend to Ubuntu?

Then, Amachu explained the things needed to do for Tamil Ubuntu Team.

New software should be deeloped for collecting tamil carpus for dictionary and spellchecker.
More writers and articles needed for Kanimozhi.
More ubuntu developers should raise from india.
Ubuntu Tamil Team has donated 10$ for Drupal and wikimedia Foundation.

Finally he announced that “Amachu is elected as a Team member of Ubuntu Developer Selection commity for Asia and Australia“.

We have to bring more ubuntu developers from India. Amachu promised that he will arrage training sessions to become Official Ubuntu Developer for students and developers.

Then, we started to dissolve. Thus, we had a great evening with Ubuntu tamil Team.

Thanks for Amachu,Arun and other participants.

Special Thanks for Badhri for taking the expenses.

Here are the momorable snaps.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/UbuntuParty

Configure DNS in Redhat

tshrinivasan — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:51:44 +0000

Domain Name Server for Redhat family Distros are entirely different from the Debian family Distributions.

I am being with Debian and Ubuntu for 2 years and totally forget the RedHat systems.

Suddenly, My Friend Thanigairajan asked my how to configure Bind DNS in RHEL 5.

I searched net and found some interesting links.

Here are they.

Using those links, you can easily configure Bind DNS in RedHat Systems.

Area Volunteers needed for Ubuntu CDs distribution

tshrinivasan — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:28:40 +0000

Ubuntu Tamil Team came up with a new idea of Distributing Ubuntu CDs to all over Tamilnadu.

Already, Mark Shuttleworth is doing this via https://shipit.ubuntu.com

What this people are going to do?

m. Even though Shuttleworth sends ubuntu CDs to all over the world, it costs more to him.

Even download a 700 MB cd is nowadays easy with the broadband connections in india.
So, why we have to give more expenditure to Shuttleworth, which we can get locally.

Here, Ubuntu Tamil Team is forming a team of Volunteers to distribute the Ubuntu CDs all over the Tamilnadu.

We need volunteers.

The Role of the Volunteers would be,

Contact Ubuntu Tamil Team
Get the Ubuntu CDs
Make Backups of them
Contact Local Friend and Linux Users, LUGs
Distribute the CDs for wanted persons

This will surely reduce the costs to Shuttleworth and Give the feel of contributing to the community.

Love to become to a Volunteer?

Contact Ubuntu Tamil Team Organizer Mr. Thangamani Arun by mailing to

thangam.arunx@gmail.com

Even your small help will make the Open Source to spread all over Tamil Nadu

Thank You.

sample post

tshrinivasan — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:39:00 +0000

This is a sample post for Pondicerry students. Ihope all of them will have their own blog soon.

FossNews Weekly

tshrinivasan — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:53:06 +0000

In the Free Open Source Software world, a lot of things are happening daily. We the Open Source lovers know them from a lot of sources.

Linux User Groups,
Digg, SlashDot and other news sites,
Various Blogs, forums etc,
Our Friends, Fossers.

But what about the other people, who do not have in touch with FOSS?

Most people dont know LUG, Digg, or blogs.

So, here is my way to reach those people.

FossNews

FossNews is a weekly Newsletter sent as E Mail.

Just by having a skim over this newsletter and people can know the current events, happenings and other things happen in the FOSS World.

To Join this “FossNews” Newsletter

visit
http://groups.google.com/group/fossnews

Foss News

Visit this group

Join this newsletter group and get the News.

This is why I Love Linux

tshrinivasan — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:59:18 +0000

Kumar Appaiah - 5th Debian Developer from India

tshrinivasan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:35:43 +0000

Nowadays, India is becoming a GIVING Hand.

In Old Days, India was the great treasure for the wisdom and knowledge.
It always was giving its treasure to all the world.
Then, slowly it became to the Receiving end.

In IT Industry, we all use just the other’s products and we continue to be same.

But, the FOSS Concepts changed this scenario.

we, Indians, get the source, develop it and share with the world.

Now, we can proudly say that Free Open Source World has more Indian Contributors.

Here is the List of Some Indian Contributors.
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Contributors

It is just a simple list, and there are many unmentioned contributors.

The recent Major Contributor is Kumar Appiah

He is blessed as a “Debian Developer”.

Becoming a Debian developer is a tough one.
Debian is a great government.

One has to prove his knowledge, skill, desire to work for community and
continuous interest on developing and maintaining debian packages.

It take long time to get approval as Official Developer.

Kumar Appaiah, from Chennai, got approved by the Debian People as a “Debian Developer”.

What do you think about him?
Is he an old geek?
with beards and belly?

No. No. No.

He is a College student.
He is a small young man.

Look at him.

He is just 23 and Doing his Dual Degree at IIT-Madras.

Wow. It is really great to know that the youth are achieving more.

“Ini Varum Kaalam, Ilaignar Kaalam”.

“இனி வரும் காலம் இளைஞர் காலம்”.

“The Future is, of Youth’s”.

We proud of Kumar that He is an active member of ChennaiLUG.

He often come to our meet and share his knowledge with us.

Here is a small interview with him.
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Kumar_Appaiah

His website

Packages maintained by him

Congrats man.

The other Four Indian Debian Developers are,

Ganesan Rajagopal, and Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan in Bangalore.
Kapil Hari Paranjape in Institute of Mathematical Sciences Taramani. Chennai.
Varun Hiremath, student of Aerospace Engg. at IIT Madras.

Come on India. Come on.
The world is waiting for your contributions, Once Again.

kanimozhi - Online Tamil Magazine on FOSS

tshrinivasan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:59:52 +0000

Kanimozhi

What is kanimozhi?

Any pretty girl’s name?
No.

That Politician?
No No.

Any Film star?
No No No.

It is a online Tamil Magazine for Free/Open Source Software.

It means “The Talks of a Computer“

This April 13, for Tamil New Year, our friend Ramdhas (NRC-FOSS) and his crew
has started this online magazine.

Till now, there are a lot of text, tutorial, and materials on FOSS in English.

In Tamil?
Nope.
very little and few.

Then how the tamil people get to know on FOSS?

Kanimozhi is the remedy.

In the magazine, a lot of articles, tutorials and manuals in tamil will be published by the team.

Just visit http://kanimozhi.org.in

Hats-Off for the inspiring team.

Note:

kanimozhi magazine is looking for more articles in tamil.
If you know tamil and willing to express your thoughts on FOSS in tamil,
please contact the kanimozhi team.
They will help you on tamil typing and bringing out the author within you.

send your comments and articles to amachu@au-kbc.org