What software is missing in the Fedora repository?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
I am doing a quick survey for software that you use on a regular basis
that is not available via the Fedora repository. Software that you
suggest should be free and open source, free of patent and other legal
issues.
Tell me the home page of the software and give me a brief description on
what it does. Bonus points if you can see in Google for "software-name
fedora package review" to figure it if it is already in the Fedora
package review queue. If you know of RPM packages in other distributions
for the software your are suggesting, that information is useful as well.
Rahul
14 years, 9 months
Testing required for menumaker RPM
by Gireesh Sreekantan
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Hi All,
In follow up to this thread[1], I have managed to create a RPM for
menumaker[2].
The rpm and the spec file can be found here[3].
If anyone is interested, couple of harmless commands to try out:
$mmaker fluxbox -c|less
$info mmaker (the source doesn't a provide a man page)
This being my *first ever* rpm package, I don't expect it to be 100%
correct. I would gladly welcome feedback.
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-india@redhat.com/msg01432.html
[2] http://menumaker.sourceforge.net
[3] http://gsreekantan.fedorapeople.org/
Note:
works fine on F10. On F11, some of the commands throw harmless(IMHO)
python deprecation warnings. I suspect these are due to the move to
python 2.6.
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Gireesh Sreekantan
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14 years, 9 months
Wordpress Linux Theme Required
by Gaurav Prabhu
Hello,
I will be starting a blog dedicated to Linux in a couple of days. I am searching for a good Wordpress Theme which would suit my site's theme i.e. Open Source/GNU Linux. My site will mostly concentrate on Fedora & ubuntu, so a blue theme like Fedora solar will look good. I searched around but was unable to get a good theme. All I got was Windows Vista. Is there any Wordpress Theme designed to use for A Linux blog? Please help me find one.
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14 years, 10 months
Spread Fedora a little more??
by Ankur Sinha
hi,
I just read Rahul's post on the marketing list regarding OLPC going all
Fedora[1]. I was just wondering if we Ambassadors from India could have
an IRC session to discuss the spreading of Fedora in schools etc.
locally around us ? We've discussed free media and local contact
programmes and how to implement them efficiently, which covers providing
media to people who are *already aware* of Fedora, usually people from
college onwards. We've never really chalked up a plan to implement
anything at a level younger/ less aware than that, and now that we have
people working on how to make it usable by kids, why not use it?
Everyone talks about taking Linux to kids ( what is referred to as grass
root level ). Why shouldn't take initiative? A meeting to discuss
possibilities would be a sort of a start??
[1]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-May/msg00174.html
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regards,
Ankur
14 years, 11 months
Re: Question about wiki books page
by Rahul Sundaram
On 05/19/2009 08:01 PM, Susan Lauber wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was reviewing the wiki Communicate page [1] - a page we send end
> users and new contributors towards on a regular basis.
>
> There is a link to a books page [2] which history shows has not been
> updated since the import from the old wiki system (May 2008) and has a
> number of really old and outdated books listed. It would be nice if
> someone more in the know than myself, could review the list and perhap
> cull the old entries and add some newer books.
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#Helping_Yourself
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Books
Anyone volunteering?
Rahul
14 years, 11 months
More than 3 Kernels
by das
Hello Friends
Both the latest 140 and 155 kernels are not working. But the older 126
kernel is. Now, I am a bit anxious about the next kernel update,
because it keeps only 3 of them. Is there any way to keep the 126
kernel?
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দাশ das
http://ddts.randomink.org/
14 years, 11 months
[X-POST] Call for "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2009"
by Kushal Das
Hi all,
We are happy to announce "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer
2009",[1] a free (as in freedom), online (IRC-based) [2] training
sessions for wannabes to Free/Libre/Open Source Software at #dgplug on
irc.freenode.net [3].
If you are a mentor, or trainer, or prospective enthusiast who would
like to participate in this years' sessions please go through last
years' IRC logs:
http://www.dgplug.org/irclogs/
We will have a review or Q&A session on last years' sessions before we
proceed into new topics, this year.
The session timings are mostly varying, usually after 1900 IST every day.
If you are interested in participating, please confirm your
participation by sending an off-list mail to me (kushaldas AT gmail DOT com).
Poster: http://kushaldas.in/tmp/summer_training-small.png
URL: http://dgplug.org/intro/
Planet: http://planet.dgplug.org/
Wiki: http://wiki.dgplug.org/
Mailing list group (for queries, discussions):
http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
[1] http://wiki.dgplug.org/index.php/SummerTraining09
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo
Regards,
Kushal
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http://fedoraproject.org
http://kushaldas.in
14 years, 11 months
Gujarat ( INDIA ) introduce open source at 12th standard syllabus with @ 50% weightage.
by ElectroMech
Dear All,
I thought let me share you the efforts of people like us and success
story , the introduction of open source mainly LINUX is now part of
official syllabus of Gujarat 12th standard computer subject.
Here are some Q/A with Mr. Harshal Arolkar.
Behalf of VGLUG I got chance to have small Q/A with Mr. Harshal
Arolkar ( He is a part of committee and played lead role in
designing the text book for Gujarat 12 th standard Computer
subject ). Due to their team efforts now open source is a part of
computer subject in 12th standard in Gujarat. */
Don't you thing this is a great moment for all who are promoting
Linux and opens ource and a major step in Gujarat for Open source
movement ??
Excited !!! well here are the questions the answers are at
http://www.vglug.info/q-with-mr-harshal-arolkar-gujarat-education-board-1...
Although after some conversation I added few more questions.
Many many Thanks to Mr. Harshal Arolkar.
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Nilesh Vaghela
ElectroMech
Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner
Ahmedabad: 404,Maulik Arcad,Nr. Mansi cross Road,Satellite Rd
Baroda : 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj
www.electromech.info
14 years, 11 months
