[GNU/LinuxInIndia] FLOSSinINDIA: What's in LINUXForYou April 2004

LINUXForYou, Vol 2No 2 April 2004 Price Rs 70, 2 CDs

OPEN SOURCE (OR SHOULD WE SAY FREE/LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE?) speak=
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local languages of India: FLOSS enthusiasts across the globe are getting=20
together to enable your PC to speak Hindi, Malayalam, Bangla, Marathi,=20
and many other languages. And they are succeeding in their mission.=20
(Features a lot of the guysyou might know -- G Karunakar,  Prakash=20
Adavani, Venkatesh Hariharan, Prof Jitendra Shah, Arun Sharma,=20
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Shikha Pillai, Dr Nagarjuna and others).

	* Linux Nirvana: keeping your system in top shape
	* Using USB devices in GNU/Linux
	* MindTree uses GNU/Linux for a customised consumer product
	* Tata Teleservices implements a FLOSS-based terminal
	  server at its Ahmedabad call centre
	* How Zope, a content management tool, helped Epson America.

RAHUL CHOPRA, EDITOR: "Once you understand Open Source, I believe, you=20
will get hooked on to it."

	* Motorola launches multimedia GNU/Linux mobile phone
	* Mandrake releases Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community
	* Trial copies of Linux scanner software
	  http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
	* Kernel 2.6.4 released http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
	* Major updates and releases: Gentoo Linux 2004.0, AD}IOS v3.0,
	  Coyote Linux v2.10 Beta 2; MoviX v0.8.1, PostgreSQL v7.3.6;
	  phpMyAdmin v2.5.6; Nmap Security Scanner v3.50; Knoppixv3.4

* DO YOU ARGEE withAlolita Sharma's view that "protecting intellectual=20
property is central to the growing success of the Open Source industry"?=20
Quote: At minimum, recognition and attribution are required, as=20
exemplified in the traditional MIT or BSD licenses. More frequently today=
,=20
copyright is employed to ensure that the covered work remains an active=20
agent of the collaborative software community. This is exemplified in the=
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GPL, LGPL and MPL licenses." (from "How is IP used in Open Source?")

	* Blender: the basics of modelling
	* CrossOver Office
	* Simple macros with OpenOffice Writer (By SM)
	* Piloting data in OpenOffice Calc (By SM)
	* Beat LFY: Why this magazine needs several rivals (Niyam Bhushan)
	* The Linux Learning Curve
	* BitTorrent: a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
	* eCos: Royalty-free real-time soln for OS developers
	* IPCop: cut-down distro, intended to operate as a firewall
	* Basics of Linux signals
	* Another alternative model based on 'capabilities'.
	* Functions in Python
	* Webmin: The administrator's mate
	* List of LUGs and GNU/LUGs across India
	* GNUnify 2004: FOSSed out in Pune


EXTRALinuxPRO: Build yourself an arcade game player...

SOFTWARE INCLUDED THIS MONTHS:
* Achievo: Web-based project management
* AIRA: business class management (ERP) software
* SCRIBUS: Easy-to-use tool for simple DTP
* RICHARD M STALLMAN VIDEO: RMS' views on free software
* LINUX-2.6.3: Latest release of the Linux kernel
* ARCADE GAME: Convert yours into an arcade game-playing machine
* MONKEY: Small Web server
* BitTORRENT 3.3: Downloading utility for GNU/Linux
* DISCOVERER: Small 802.11b network detector for GNU/Linux
* MOBILE GUIDE: Complete documentation
* 4tH COMPILER: Conventional compiler, instead of standard Forth engine
* APACHE TOOLBOX: Easier way to install Apache
* DrJAVA: Integrated Java development environment
  and more
* DISK2: Standard business server
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     March 2004         | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist
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