GLUG-NITH has created a new GNU mirror. Of all the current mirrors none are in India, except this one. Let us see if we can talk to the authorities and get some bandwidth (at least 1Mbps) reserved.

ILUG-Cal.org just got a new logo.

 

http://freed.in/.

The GCC/GDB/Make workshop at Rajabazar Science College organized by Calcutta University and Indian GNU/Linux User Group Calcutta has come to an end.

You can find the slides and examples used in the workshop here. They were made by Santanu Sinha, and released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

The ILUG-Cal website is back. Please visit it at http://www.ilug-cal.org/. Accept no fakes.

The GLUG-NITH principal discussion list is glug-nith-discuss@nongnu.org. Thanks to Savannah for the hosting.

Right now Arjun, Manu, Vivek and me are in the process of migrating our (National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur) computer centre to GNU/Linux. We have chosen Ubuntu as the distribution, since the uninitiated find it easier than the rest. In case you are already hopping about the 'non-freeness' of it, let me tell you that we have removed the multiverse repository from /etc/apt/sources.list.

Till now things have been going on well, except some teething problems with NIS (we will solve it once the installation is over) and some interference from Mr. Rajiv Kumar regarding the need of having GNU/Linux in the centre.

Lets hope this is not a one-off venture.

I finally succeeded in configuring the Apache web server on Razorblade to serve content from the users' home directories. The problem pertaining to permissions that was dogging us till now was solved by this command:
# chcon -R -t httpd_user_content_t /home/*/public_html/

Thanks to Stanton Finley's Fedora Core 5 Linux Installation Notes at: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html

The GNU/Linux Users Group of NIT Hamirpur is going to have its second meet tomorrow, and we (Arjun, Vijay sir, Ranjeet, and myself) have spent the whole night in the Computer Science & Engineering Department setting up the machines with various distributions of GNU/Linux and Counterstrike running on Wine. Tomorrow's events include a 'install fest' and a multiplayer gaming session.

Lets see how things turn out.