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Linux-Announce Digest #342, Volume #4 Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:13:02 EST
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RE COMMERCIAL: 8 processors cluster with Linux v7.3MPICH (sales)
INDIA: Debian...KDE programming... dynamic images (DEVELOPERiq * ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
INDIA: Mozilla Localization ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
INDIA-LOCALISATION: Malayalam GNU/Linux screenshots (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GNU/Linux in the Indian business press.. ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: RE COMMERCIAL: 8 processors cluster with Linux v7.3MPICH
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:42:58 CST
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Big promotion is going on at Storeanywhere.com Inc.
Go and check : http://www.storeanywhere.com
The following 8 processors' cluster s one of them.
1 4u Dual AMD 2000mp Master Node
3 Dual AMD 2000mp Client Node
1 24 port 10/100 SWITCH
1 22u black frame rack with wheels
Red Hat Linux v7.3 (CD) with MPICH
All hardware and software fully installed and tested.
Master node:
Dual AMD 2000mp
TYAN S2466 dual CPU motherboard
80G 7200rpm hard Drive
1GB DDR 2100rpm Ram
8mb AGP Card 52X CD-Rom
2 10/100 PCI ethernet card
4U 19" RackServer Chassis with Power Supply & Slide rails
Red Hat Linux v7.3 (CD) with MPICH
Client node:
Dual AMD 2000mp
TYAN S2466 dual CPU motherboard
20G 7200rpm hard Drive
512mb DDR 2100rpm Ram
8mb AGP Card 52X CD-Rom
3.5? Floppy Drive 2 10/100 PCI ethernet card
2U 19" RackServer Chassis with Power Supply & Slide rails
Red Hat Linux v7.3 (CD) with MPICH
For a total price $5780.
To place order please call 718-934-7313. Any queries
send e-mail to: sales@storeanywere.com.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="1" color="#000000">Big promotion is going
on at Storeanywhere.com Inc.<br>
Go and check : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.storeanywhere.com">http://www.storeanywhere.com</a><br>
The following 8 processors' cluster s one of them.<br>
<br>
1 4u Dual AMD 2000mp Master Node<br>
3 Dual AMD 2000mp Client Node<br>
1 24 port 10/100 SWITCH<br>
1 22u black frame rack with wheels<br>
Red Hat Linux v7.3 (CD) with MPICH <br>
All hardware and software fully installed and tested.<br>
<br>
Master node:<br>
Dual AMD 2000mp<br>
TYAN S2466 dual CPU motherboard<br>
80G 7200rpm hard Drive<br>
1GB DDR 2100rpm Ram<br>
8mb AGP Card 52X CD-Rom<br>
2 10/100 PCI ethernet card<br>
4U 19" RackServer Chassis with Power Supply & Slide rails<br>
<br>
Red Hat Linux v7.3 (CD) with MPICH <br>
Client node:<br>
Dual AMD 2000mp<br>
TYAN S2466 dual CPU motherboard<br>
20G 7200rpm hard Drive<br>
512mb DDR 2100rpm Ram<br>
8mb AGP Card 52X CD-Rom<br>
3.5? Floppy Drive 2 10/100 PCI ethernet card<br>
2U 19" RackServer Chassis with Power Supply & Slide rails<br>
<br>
Red Hat Linux v7.3 (CD) with MPICH <br>
<br>
For a total price $5780.<br>
To place order please call 718-934-7313. Any queries<br>
send e-mail to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sales@storeanywere.com">sales@storeanywere.com</a>.<br>
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA: Debian...KDE programming... dynamic images (DEVELOPERiq *
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:25:32 CST
THIS ALL AND more is included in the March 2003 issue of DeveloperIQ
magazine, published from India (www.developeriq.com). Check the issue for
THEN THERE ARE [GNU]Linux fanatics. I admire Linux
pros a lot, and I know that using the OS needs
more than mere mouse management. But what puts me
off is an attitude, which many have for Windows
users, developers and the rest of the community.
I know many who have thrown away (actually they
formatted the hard disk and loaded a new distro)
Windows boxes and switched to [GNU]Linux and
continued being happy. Great! But you just cannot
stamp all Windows users and developers as
mentally retarded. -Editorial, S. Ramdas
Contact: ramdas@developeriq.com
o DEBIAN 3.0 -- the first of five CDs. (Readers can avail of
the other four at Rs 149, incl courier. But the CDs will
be shipped with DeveloperIQ over the next year too.)
o READER'S QUERY on why the installation program could
not write to the MBR...
o JAVA IN the enterprise: "Java's heritage is more aligned
with the Open Source movement and community process.
In fact, many would argue that free software forms an
important part of the dynamic Java..." 4-pg.article
o STATE OF WEB services: One of the biggest myths, which
many developers especially coming from the Microsoft
camp have, is that Web Services means .Net. This is
not true... Where Sun and Microsoft score is they
have ready-made roadmaps and product offerings....
Soon all the products from MS, including MS Office,
will be .Net enabled, locking the customers to a
.Net environment as far as possible... The Open Source
world still does not have a combined solution... But
there are lots happening, read the next article.
o OPEN ROLE in Web services. Open Source (Free Software?)
is fast catching up with their Web services portfolio.
Axis from Apache, jBpm, OBE, Powerfolder, TestMaker,
Rotor ("this is not exactly Open Source and is more
Shared Source"), NetAything, The Go Mon Project,
DotGNU.
o DotGNU; The GNU version of the .Net initaitive.
GNU branding is big, but the project somehow is
lagging behind Mono. DotGNU is being developed
jointly under the auspices of FreeDevelopers and the
GNU project. The DotGNU system will be a well-
integrated part of the GNU system and it will also be
available to the users of all other wisely used OSs.
It sounds very ambitious since the final goal is to
create an operating system for the Internet. Currently
a primitive beta version of the framework is available.
See http://www.dotgnu.org
o APACHE AXIS, the leading FLOSS tool kit for
implementing Web services, gets two pages.
o MASTER EMBEDDED Linux/Linux drivers from experts.
Projects on porting, writing BSP for embedded
GNU/Linux, network, wireless LAN, SCSI, fibre channel,
USB device driver. Fees Rs 12,500-30,000. Four
to six months course. Grace Systems, Bangalore
contact@gracelabs.com http://www.gracelabs.com (ad)
o TERMINAL CAPABILITIES of UNIX. By Arun Sundar.
http://www.geocities.com/delightfularun/index.html
o INSTALLING Pear:Soap
o LINUXMAGINDIA on a CD. 18CDs in a year, customised
for you, at Rs 1499.
o KDE Programming Part 2. The KDE project had the
goal of simplifying the use of GNU/Linux, very much
like the Windows OS. This looks at how one can
program using KDE in a typical GUI environment.
o CREATING dynamic images, using PHP and GD.These
are images that are generated on-the-fly by the
server.
o PLAYING AROUND with Python buttons. "Windows
programmers may be warned that if you are comparing
Python GUI with Visual Basic, it's like ptiching
the Australian cricket team against the Bangladesh
team." There are several widgets, which the Tk
module supports. Mastering them is quite easy and
infact learning Tkinter is as easy as learning
Visual Basic.
--
Frederick Noronha : http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free
Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : software we refer to
Ph 0091.832.409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.
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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:54:49 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA: Mozilla Localization
This note is from Venky Hariharan. FN
========== Forwarded message ==========
One of India's most respected Internet companies is
looking for programmers who will help localize Mozilla
to Indian languages. Those who apply need to have at
least 2-3 years experience, but above all, a passion
for the Internet and for free /open source software.
The objective of Indianizing Mozilla is to
revolutionize computing in Indian languages, especially
on the Internet. The selected individuals will be based
in Mumbai.
Those interested are invited to apply to
venky@indlinux.org/karunakar@indlinux.org. For more
details, see the attached job description.
Regards,
Venky
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Mozilla Indianization
=====================
1) Goal: Enable Mozilla browser to display & handle
indian languages
properly, with proper font technology available.
Localize Mozilla
interface also to indian languages.
2) Project Requirements:
All work done should be contributed back to Mozilla
codebase, so that
it becomes part of it. Solutions arrived at should make
into main
tree, rather than be done as adhoc hacks / addons /
patches.
i) i18n part (involving changing mozilla codebase) :
a - Should be able to render Indian languages encoded
in
Unicode/UTF-8
b - Use a standardized font technology - eg OpenType.
c - Support any encodings standardized for a language
eg ISCII,
TSCII, KSCLP (KGP)
ii) l10n part (no code change - UI customization,
translations of UI
and Help text):
a - Incorporate locale support (chrome level)
b - Translate Mozilla UI into indian languages
c - Making indianized mozilla theme - custom graphics,
logos
3) Skill sets req
a - Knowlegde of at least two Indian languages -
reading & writing,
script & language processing level 2.i & 2.ii.b
b - C, C++, XML, Java for 2.i
c - Graphics expertise for 2.ii.c
d - For translator - good vocabulary in English & at
least one Indian
language, previous exp in translation also helpful.
e - Proj. mgmt skills, ability to work with volunteers
remotely ,
coordinate work through email/IM/group meetings.
f - Interest in localization and passion for having
indian languages
on mozilla.
g - Work experience of 2-3 years in the IT industry
Current status:
Mozilla supports Unicode, so all indian languages
represented in
Unicode work at unicode level - no proper rendering, if
a suitable
unicode font is available. ie proper vowel sign
positioning, conjuncts
etc are not avialable. Some work is on by Prabhat Hegde
from Sun
Microsystems on adding devanagari support, basically by
using Pango
(www.pango.org) rendering engine. He is exploring doing
it using
Opentype fonts.
(Any one working for this should work with Prabhat for
guidance &
review, as he already has experience in Mozilla
codebase )
Some hindi translation work has been done by a group
based in Mumbai,
available at http://www.bttlindia.com/mozilla/ . Some
translation work
for Tamil is also on.
(These translations should be reused, instead of
starting from
scratch)
Notes:
2.i has to be done in active participation with
Mozilla developers &
done at those forums ( mozilla-i18n , mozilla-l10n )
2.ii.b is pure translation work, can be done in
centralized or
distributed fashion.
2.i.c - Since ISCII, TSCII etc are not registered
character sets, it
may not be possible to use them with Mozilla
autodetection feature.
Some workaround could be suggested. ISCII text will
basically be
converted to Unicode internally for display, enabled
through use of
\\\'iso8829-12\\\' ( reserved for Indic - ISO is waiting
for us to settle
to something :) .
(The rationale to support ISCII is since ISCII chars
will take 1byte,
UTF-8 indic characters take 3bytes, or 7 bytes when
used as named
character references - The debate will pick up heat
when indian
languages are fully supported )
===========================
* Indian Linux project *
* http://www.indlinux.org *
===========================
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA-LOCALISATION: Malayalam GNU/Linux screenshots (fwd)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:54:56 CST
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:12:58 -0000
From: "Baiju M" <malayalamlinux@yahoo.com>
Subject: Malayalam GNU/Linux Screenshots
Hi,
Here is a small collection of Malayalam GNU/Linux Screenshots.
http://www.keralaindustry.org/malayalam/screenshots/screenshots.html
If you inerested to join with this effort, please contact me at
baijum81@lycos.com
Baiju M
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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:40:22 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU/Linux in the Indian business press..
Don't miss this recent coverage of GNU/Linux in the business press:
o VERN VERSION: With companies such as HP, Microsoft,
Red Hat, NITT, and Reliance putting serious money
into it, the vernacular computing market in India
looks set to bloom in 2003.
"Software is an obvious gambit. By 2003-end
Microsoft will launch Hindi versions of Windows XP
and Office 11. Around the same time, if not
earlier, Red Hat will be out with a Hindi-enabled
version 9.1 (built around [GNU]Linux). Both are
priced offerings but Red Hat's software can,
unlike Microsoft's, be copied on several
machines. After all, Red Hat is an advocate of
Free Software, or Open Source Software movement.
Several hundred developers who swear by
Open Source are working towards making the
layers that go over the operating system support
local languages.
QUOTE: "GNU systems are becoming very popular
at both the government and enterprise level.
It's not just about cost, the technology
helps us to share, distribute and improve;
that these systems are economical is
incidental." -- Nagarjuna G, director, Free
Software Foundation of India and TIFR scientist.
IT'S FREE: Free software for language computing
-- a WIP list
* NCST IndiX Project (to enable Hindia and
other Indian languages on GNU/Linux systems
* IndLinux: Support for Hindi on GNOME
* Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Project:
Support for Malayalam on GNOME
* IIT Madras: Support for Tamil on GNU/Linux
Above article from BUSINESS TODAY, March 15, 2003
o LEADER: LINUX takes wing. India wakes up to the
possibilities of the open source thingamajig.
This time, with initiatives by the likes of
H-P, Silicon Graphics, Oracle and IBM, it is real.
"High-power computing has very special needs.
[GNU]Linux is especially suited for that."
-- Narendra Bhandari, regional manager (Asia
Pacific), strategic relations, Intel.
BUSINESS TODAY, Marcy 15, 2003
o PENGUIN POWER in 2003. Mala Bhargava's That's It
column in BusinessWorld 3 March 2003. "Educational and
research institutions are also seeing it as a viable
low-cost alternative. Businesses are also starting
to use [GNU]Linux more freely due to the tremendous
savings they can make... Most important of all, it will
affect the market. The very existence of a low-cost
alternative may bring overall prices down. Put all
of this together and it spells more power to the
Penguin."
--
Frederick Noronha : http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free
Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : software we refer to
Ph 0091.832.409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price.
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