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Linux-Announce Digest #91
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Linux-Announce Digest #91, Volume #4 Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:13:07 EST
Contents:
[LOCAL] "Doing things differently with Linux" meeting (Darren Wyn Rees)
WEBLOG: What role does GNU/Linux have to play in education? (Frederick Noronha)
REPOST: Linux Home Automation Pages is moving (Neil Cherry)
xosview-1.8.0 released (Mike Romberg)
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From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk>
Subject: [LOCAL] "Doing things differently with Linux" meeting
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:09:04 CST
A BT Ignite Public lecture presented by Alan Cox of Red Hat.
A view of the history of the Linux operating system, and the free software
movement behind it. An assesment of where Linux is now, and an a look into
the future needs and challenges of the operating system.
Tuesday 5 March at 2.00 pm in the Taliesin Theatre, University of Wales,
Swansea
Admission Free - Registration required. Register by email to:
info@itnetworkwales.org.uk or telephone 01792 295881
For directions to University of Wales Swansea see www.swan.ac.uk
--
South Wales Linux Users Group - http://www.swlug.org/
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: WEBLOG: What role does GNU/Linux have to play in education?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:09:04 CST
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WEBLOG: What role does GNU/Linux have to play in education?
Comments from a project in Goa-India.
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If Linux is going to reach the school classroom, the success or failure of
such a project would probably depend on (i) acceptance of Linux by teachers
and students (ii) availability of Linux support, when needed (iii) ability
to get earlier-generation hardware to work with suitable versions of Linux.
Goa Schools Computers Project (GSCP) has shipped in a containerful of 380
once-used computers from New York, and Linux is being installed on a number
of these. Animesh Nerurkar <banduji@goatelecom.com> last weekend took up the
task of explaining various aspects of how the project is sought to be
implemented in Goa.
Red Hat India has offered its support for the software part of this project.
Arvind Yadav and Animesh have put together a single-CD version, based on Red
Hat 7.2 that would (i) make it easier and faster to instal (ii) standardise
the installation, so that problems could be more-easily tackled and (iii)
match the available hardware (P-Is) with the software.
On most PCs, this single-CD install would work without having much trouble
for even a newbie, says Animesh. (Prof Gurunandan Bhat cautions against
building undue expectations on this though, saying, "Installs are tricks and
often unpredictable.")
To make his point though, Animesh called upon someone who had never done an
install in his life (no prizes for guessing who!).
In a discussion that followed, Tom Fernandes <anyaddress@gmx.net> suggested
that another desktop manager could be used. "Nautilius is damned slow (on
the PIs). It uses up 80% of the RAM," suggested Tom. Currently the machines
are being set up with Gnome as default.
Daryl Martyris, the former PriceWaterHouseCoopers consultant and main force
behind shipping the computers in, said some of the PCs would be used in a
client-server system (using LTSP). "The real issue is how to manage with the
step-children of this shipment, the computers with 32 megs of ram."
He called on Linux User Group volunteers supporting the project to commit
themselves specifically to certain schools, so that in times of problems,
the schools were clearn whom they could depend on.
Tom Fernandes raised the question of how to locate and mark-off possible
bad-blocks on the hard-disk, using Linux. "From my side, I really love
Linux, and want to make it look good (in the classroom). We can give Linux a
really good name if it works well (in schools)," says Tom.
Daryl said the Goa Directorate of Education had accepted that 'computer
literacy' is not an end-all, and from the next year, a private firm was
being hired to look at the pssibility of taking up 'computer-aided learning'
in schools in this small state.
Animesh raised some questions. He said: "How do we use computers to further
the cause of education, rather than just dump a set of hardware and software
in the hands of school-teachers?" He said while the attempt to implement a
Linux-in-education solution in Mexico was seen as having "failed", in
Portland-Oregaon a success story was reported. This had also resulted in the
LinuxForKids.com collection of software, he pointed out.
He said others -- in places as far apart as Vietnam and Kolkata -- were
interested in looking at Goa's experiment with taking Linux to schools.
Animesh also announced that a team from Mumbai, lead by Prof Nagarjuna G. of
the TIFR, had been set up to package a set of useful Debian tools for
engineering students in India. Prof Nagarjuna can be contacted at
<nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in>
To conclude, Animesh offered some food for thought: "People are neither
trying to learn computers, nor are they trying to use computers. What
they're trying to do is simply get their work done, with computers."
This meeting was held, for the first time, in the auditorium of the
three-months new Goa Science Centre. "I really wonder if we ever met in such
comfortable surroundings. Maybe we could make it the permanent venue, if
everyone agrees," said Prof Bhat.
Goa Science Centre, launched only in December 2001 and part of a nationwide
network of science centres, incidentally already has a Linux server. It is
next planning to go in for multimedia CD servers (on Linux), and also hopes
to have its own fortnightly newsletter and a website shortly. Vishwanath
Joshi <vishwa@goatelecom.com> asked ILUGers present to collaborate in the
Centre's plans to promote science and IT among the commonman. (ENDS)
--
Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India 832.409490 / 409783
BYTESFORALL www.bytesforall.org * GNU-LINUX http://linuxinindia.pitas.com
Email fred@bytesforall.org * SMS 9822122436@attcell.net * Saligao Goa India
Writing with a difference... on what makes *the* difference
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From: njc@CC47532-A.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (Neil Cherry)
Subject: REPOST: Linux Home Automation Pages is moving
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:09:03 CST
Reply-To: ncherry@comcast.net
I apologize for the repost, I munged the subject.
I have successfully moved my Linux HA (Linux Home Automation) pages
from @Home to Comcast. The same web pages can be found at their new
location:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ncherry/
I'm also keeping my backup pages at:
http://www.geocities.com/linuxhomeautomation/
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52/
My signature contains my new email address and my web sites. The Linux
HA pages are intended to keep track of links pertaining to Linux and
Home Automation software and hardware.
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@comcast.net
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ncherry/ (Text only)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II)
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From: Mike Romberg <romberg@fsl.noaa.gov>
Subject: xosview-1.8.0 released
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:09:19 CST
Begin3
Title: xosview
Version: 1.4.1
Entered-date: 2002-24-02
Description: Xosview displays many system related stats such as
cpu usage, memory usage, swap usage, network usage,
interrupt activity, serial activity, and load average
inside of an X Window.
Keywords: xosview meter monitor status
Author: romberg@fsl.noaa.gov (Mike Romberg)
bgrayson@austin.rr.com (Brian Grayson)
Maintained-by: romberg@fsl.noaa.gov (Mike Romberg)
bgrayson@austin.rr.com (Brian Grayson)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xutils/status
54535 xosview-1.4.1.tar.gz
Platforms: Linux, NetBSD, HPUX
Copying-policy: GPL
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