FUDCon India - Have you booked your flight tickets?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
If you have, attach the e-tickets to your sponsorship requests so that
we know your travel plan and can book the hotel room, Would also help
with the reimbursement. If you haven't booked it yet, do so asap.
Flights get much more costlier closer to the date and we are not going
to reimburse more than the amount agreed in the ticket. If you have
any questions, drop me a mail. If you don't have my mobile number, ask
and I will let you know.
Rahul
12 years, 7 months
Need to improve Fedora Hardware compatibilty & Gnome3
by Navdeep Singh Sidhu
Hello,
Recently working using fedora 15 on my Dell laptop becomes pain in my neck.
So i figure out that linux & fedora needs a lot of improvement to do. So i
come up with a list that i thinks lacks in Fedora & Gnome 3.
Like:-
- Hardware drivers like for Canon printers needs to be update. Some
drivers are missing or not avail.
- Drivers for wifi card & Bluetooth devices are not available. (Like 9
out of 10 dell laptops doesn't detect wifi card on fedora. For eg..in my
case i have intel centrino 6230 wificard it doesn't works on fedora but in
Ubuntu it works. Same with HP & Toshiba but better than dell)
- Bugs in wifi drivers (Some time wifi card detects the network but don't
connect to it or some time get connect but automatically disconnects. there
is no problem with network settings i have checked on many computers. )
In Gnome 3:-
- Drag & Drop functions are really poor.
- At some places there are really need of drag & drop.
- Lack of themes.
- Missing the wobbly effect of windows in Gnome.
- Need to improve locations & organization of application launcher in
Gnome 3(it is very time consuming to launch an application from start menu).
- Stability of Gnome3(I don't know what is the reason behind this but
people ofen ask me that gnome 3 some time crashes but it is very rare.)
These are not my personal views people love fedora but some time the above
problems stops them to use this distro. i personally likes Fedora but my
laptop is not fully compatible with it. These are views collected from
different people who are connected to me via field of Linux.
I really hate when some people say that Windows have more in built drivers
than Linux or Hardware compatibility of Linux is poor than Windows.
So i think that these are required changes to be made in Fedora or people
want these changes to be made. I really want to thank programmers & people
who are contributing there knowledge to Open source & Linux helping to make
Linux better and more better.
Regards
Navdeep Singh
Core Member
Technical Students Society's Panel <http://www.facebook.com/tssgndu>,
Founder & President
The Linux Club <http://www.linuxgndu.webs.com/>,
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
India
12 years, 7 months
Announcement: First Fedora Activity Day, Saturday, September 24, 2011 @ Red Hat, Pune
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
We would like to announce the first Fedora Activity Day [1] in
preparation to the FUDCon, Pune event [2] on Saturday, September 24,
2011 at Red Hat office, Pune.
Venue:
Red Hat Software Services Pvt Ltd
Tower X, Level-1, Cybercity,
Magarpatta City,
Hadapsar,
Pune-411 013
Telephone: +91 20 304 67000
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Time: 1000 IST onwards
If you are interested in attending, please add your name to the
following wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011_Sep_24
Entry is free, but, we have limited seating capacity (maximum 70
people). If you are interested in giving a talk, please include your
name and talk details to the Agenda. It is highly recommended that you
bring your laptops (with Fedora) to the event.
You will be required to bring atleast one photo ID (driving
license/voter ID/PAN card) to enter the premises. More information
will be updated on the wiki page soon.
The second FAD [3] is scheduled to be held at College of Engineering,
Pune on Saturday, October 8, 2011.
Regards,
SK
[1] FAD I. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011_Sep_24
[2] FUDCon, Pune. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011
[3] FAD II. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011
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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
12 years, 7 months
[Event Report] "From Python to Silicon" - PyCon India, September 16-18, 2011
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
I had presented "From Python to Silicon: python-myhdl" talk at PyCon
India 2011, September 16-18, 2011 at Symbiosis, Pune, India.
The first day of the (un)conference was filled with tutorials. I
attended the "Functional Programming with Python" talk by Anand
Chitipothu [1]. He had illustrated list comprehensions, recursions,
higher-order functions, iterators and generators in Python with
numerous examples.
On the second day, I attended the keynote by Raymond Hettinger on
"What Makes Python Awesome" [2]. It was a very informative talk
illustrating the key characteristics of Python, and the community that
surrounds it.
I also attended the "Python on Android" [3] talk by Sajjad Anwar, who
gave simple examples using android-scripting [4]. The "Emacs as a
Python IDE" [5] talk by Noufal Ibrahim had useful tips and tricks on
using Emacs for development work, and issue tracking using org-mode
[6]. I also attended the "Decorators as Composable Abstractions" [7]
by Sidhant Godiwala which was an introduction to using decorators in
Python.
On the final day of the event, I attended "Network Programming with
Umit Project" [8] by Narendran Thangaranjan who gave demos on network
protocol implementation, and testing in Python using the Umit project
[9]. Jivitesh Singh Dhaliwal gave a demo of using PySerial to control
robots in the "Python in the Real World: From Blinking LEDs to
Advanced Robotics" [10] talk.
My presentation slides are available [11]. Thanks to Christopher
Felton for his valuable feedback.
Few photos taken during the event are available at my /gallery [12].
SK
[1] Functional programming with Python.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/4-functional-programming-with-python
[2] What makes Python awesome.
http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/what-makes-python-so-awesome
[3] Python on Android. http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/13-python-on-android
[4] android-scripting. http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
[5] Emacs as a Python IDE.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/7-emacs-as-a-python-ide
[6] Org-mode. http://orgmode.org/
[7] Decorators as Composable Abstractions.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/43-decorators-as-composable-abstractions
[8] Network Programming with Umit Project.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/35-network-programming-with-umit-project
[9] Umit project. http://www.umitproject.org/
[10] Python in the Real World: From Blinking LEDs to Advanced
Robotics. http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/30-python-in-the-real-world-from-everyday-...
[11] From Python to Silicon: python-myhdl.
http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#from-python-to-silicon
[12] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album70
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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
12 years, 7 months
how create mkinitramfs & fedora src kernel
by Lakshmipathi.G
Hi -
I have downloaded & complied a kernel version 2.6.35. Now I need to create
initramfs - I found that fedora doesn't have mkinitramfs command.
It has something called dracut. I tried to use it "dracut
initramfs.2.6.35.img 2.6.35" and edited menu.lst.
But the kernel is not booting .No error message (I assume it because it
fails to find initramfs).
Any one tried mkinitramfs with Fedora? I tried mkinitrd -it fails too.
I'm still using Fedora 12 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64
Question 2:
Anyone installed 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 kernel source ? I
download 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 src rpm It has lot of patches.When I
tried apply few of them got rejected. why Fedora doesn't provide their
kernel with all these patches applied by themselves rather than expecting
end-user to spent their time in apply/debugging it?
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Cheers,
Lakshmipathi.G
FOSS Programmer.
www.giis.co.in
12 years, 7 months
FUDCon India Sep 16 2011 IRC meeting mins
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-09-16/fudcon_india....
Meeting summary
Roll Call (jsmith, 13:18:24)
Status Updates (jsmith, 13:19:47)
https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/fudcon-india-sep-13-2011-face-to-...
(mether, 13:20:34)
Most of the design work is done for posters, banners, and
t-shirts (jsmith, 13:22:53)
Power strips and hard drives should be obtained by next weekend
(jsmith, 13:23:22)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011 (mether, 13:25:32)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011_Catering
(mether, 13:26:53)
Minor updates for the website needed (jsmith, 13:29:56)
We have tentative positive responses from a couple of vendors
for co-sponsoring FUDCon (jsmith, 13:30:11)
Any other business? (jsmith, 13:35:43)
Meeting ended at 13:42:43 UTC (full logs).
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Rahul
12 years, 7 months