[Fsf-friends] Careers in FLOSS... (Dec 2003 issue of LFY)

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

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LINUXForYou * Dec 2003 (Vol 1 No 10)
In India Rs 50 (with CD)  
http://www.linuxforu.com
Pages 102 * US$7.95 0 74470584957
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THIS ISSUE has probably reached your city. Saw it in Bangalore, and also got
a complimentary copy from the LFY team at LinuxBangalore2003. But when I
reached back to Goa on Dec 4, it wasn't in as yet. So it might take time to
reach 'small town' India... FN

	REVIEWED: Mandrake 9.2 * PhProjekt * StarOffice 7.0

COMPUTERS AT TIS HAZARI, the session courts for the city of New Delhi, are
being shifted over to Linux, courtesy the National Informatics Centre. -
Rahul Chopra in this month's editorial.

	LINUX LEARNING CENTRE at Bangalore is offering courses
	in administration, security, development (internals and
	programming essentials, programming with Qt, device
	driver programming, MySQL & PHP), RHCE and Red Hat
	rapid track certification. www.linuxlearningcentre.com

DotGNU RELEASES CD: It can now be used to implement application programs and
Web services in C# and C applications under multiple operating systems,
including GNU/Linux, FreeBSC, MacOS, MS Windows. The 219 MB release 0.1 CD
is available as a free download at
http://download.freedom.biz/dotgnu/dotgnu-0.1-cdrom.iso.gz.torrent

	e-Bridge calls itself "the new state-of-art training
	facility from eSpark Infotech is now open in the
	heart of Bangalore". It's offering embedded Linux courses
	(Linux fundamentals, programming Linux, embedded C & Linux,
	realtime C & Linux, Linux internals, device drivers,
	networking) and DSP courses (DSP fundamentals, TI/analog
	dev programming, audio/video, image processing, 
	bio-medical systems). www.ebridgesolutions.net

Linux.net provides a free e-mail service to those who want an e-mail address
that ends in '@linux.net'

	MAJOR UPDATES and releases: OpenNA Linux 1.0, Gibraltar
	Firewall 1.0, Xandros Desktop 2.0, Onebase Linux 2.0,
	CUPS 1.120rc6.
	
CAN YOU MAKE money with open source? Registration entails a "nominal fee" of
Rs 5000 for a three-day conference. http://www.linuxasia2004.com/attendees/
February 11-13, 2004, New Delhi.

	SEND IN YOUR favourite slogans for a tee-shirt, and win 
	five free copies of the shirt... LFYedit at efyindia.com

MONEY CAN't buy respect, says Robert Adkins. Some of us might have met this
guy at LB2003 in Bangalore. He's the CTO of Technetra Corp, and an advocate
and implementer of FLOSS solutions for government. He can be contacted at
radkins at technetra.com

	CAREERS WITH FLOSS: The number of students opting for
	courses in Open Source is growing steadily, even as industry
	experts predict a growing need for trained professionals
	in this expanding field.

EXIT RED HAT, ENTER FEDORA: It's official now; the free (of cost) version of
Red Hat Linux will not be available anymore. This has created a lot of FUD
in an already unstable environment, thanks to the SCO episode. But is Red
Hat closed for good? 

	WEB-BASED COLLABORATION SOFTWARE: PHProjekt is an easy-to-install
	collaboration suite, which runs on the open source platform and
	databases. As the design of the system is developer-friendly,
	adding new features and components is a piece of cake.

STAROFFICE: The latest version of Sun's office suite, StarOffice 7, may just
be the right solution for the cost-conscious user. It loads faster than the
earlier version, and sports some noticeable improvements.

	IN THE LFY CD THIS MONTH: Slackware (the "oldest Linux distro")
	and a range of GNU software for Windows users.

FALLING BACK on backup systems.

	MAKING ADOPTION OF Linux in the enterprise easy. www.linux4e.com
	Business partners required: http://wwww.linux4e.com/partners

ooWRITER HELPS YOU create your own templates and styles so that you can work
with documents easily. 

	Open Source is key to IBM's vision of computing. User
	empowerment is key to Microsoft's, writes Alolita Sharma

USING DATABASE functions in Calc, a tutorial. (Wish there were more how-tos
for the user in this mag! --FN)

	HALDIA DOCKS: it has a uniquely designed Linux installation
	with an active-active cluster set up, which is considered
	the best of its kind. This has ensured efficiency and
	cost-effectiveness.

BASIC UNIX commands and concepts: an extract from *Running Linux* (Shroff
Publishers, Pp 674 only Rs 425 in India).

	VxWorks and LynxOS are definitely the biggest embedded
	operating systems in use today. But slowly they are
	acknowledging the power of GNU/Linux and how it can
	help them maximise deployments.

HELP LINUX GO INDIAN: By using various translation tools, you can join
Language translation groups working across India to help translate GNU/Linux
into your language.

	EXPERT INTRODUCTION: Multi-threaded programming under Linux.

KICKSTART YOUR Linux installation (Part I): Installing Red Hat Linux on
multiple machines one after another can be quite tedious. To avoid answering
the same question over and over again, try the KickStart method, as it does
not need any user intervention.

	WRITE CHEQUES. NOT JUST BOOKS: Niyam Bhushan on how
	anybody can turn thoughts into words, and words into wealth.

NFS CLIENTS for Windows.
OpenSSL PACKAGE offers a vast crypto library of algorithms
WAIT QUEUES in Linux device drivers
UNDERSTANDING recursive sub-routines

	INDIA-RELATED NEWS:
	HP launches GNU/Linux laptop
	Mandrake's latest distribution
	Oracle announces 10g for GNU/Linux
	Delixus offers India Linux
	CxProtect anti-virus mailing solution for mail-servers
	Trade management system from Network Programs
	Netweb Technologies unveils Tyrone
	MRO-Tek rolls out Network Management Systems
	Review of FLOSS at BangaloreIT.com

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DISCLOSURE: This journalist (FN) writes a monthly column for LFY and gets
paid for it. Promoting awareness about the content of LFY however is not
part of the job, and is carried on with the intention spreading awareness
about FLOSS among different GNU/Linux user groups in India.
-- 
Frederick Noronha    : http://www.fredericknoronha.net  : When we speak of free
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