Category Archives: Planet LUG Manipal

Techrights/Boycottnovell – Bane or boon? An experience

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

Yesterday I was browsing through  the internet when I came across this link with the quote “Microsoft has pushed DirectX into Intel’s silicon,” explained to us a reader Can there be a limit on sensationalism? Dr Roy cannot escape his responsibilities by quoting … Continue reading →

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Zeitgeist daemon extensions explained

Posted on November 27, 2010 by

While working on this Zeitgeist bug #612344 I recalled that Stuart Langridge had once quoted Zeitgeist has extensions. These aren’t brilliantly documented yet, but you can drop a Python file into .local/share/zeitgeist/extensions and if it’s got the right sort of class … Continue reading →

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Zeitgeist in my blood

Posted on November 21, 2010 by

For the last three months, I have been working with the Zeitgeist team for achieving the goal of a semantic Linux desktop. Right now I am not much involved in the daemon, but not for long. Basics Daemon is just one part … Continue reading →

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FUD and facts

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Mono is a very controversial topic in Free software world. We have no shortage of proponents and opponents. There are people who want to clean the FOSS world by removing mono from the picture and there are developers claiming that … Continue reading →

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Release: Zeitgeist-sharp 0.1.0.1 “Stark”

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

How many of you love Tomboy? How many love Banshee? F-Spot? Some of you might not but some of you might swear by it. Yes, for people like you – how about if your favourite app is sweetened by the … Continue reading →

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Want Zeitgeist love for Banshee/Tomboy/F-Spot ? – Call for Testing

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Introduction to Zeitgeist I hope many of you must have heard about Zeitgeist, an event logging framework which is becoming mature day by day. In the language of Zeitgeist developers, here is the definition Zeitgeist is a service which logs … Continue reading →

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So should I fork?

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

As the same time, there’s often a hypocrisy in these communities. When a change is suggested, half the developers shout “show me the code”; when the code is written another half complain about the style or how it’s the wrong … Continue reading →

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Which license gives us more freedom?

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

It’s late Saturday night. Though I have returned from PyCon India 2010 day-1, there are still a few thoughts on my mind. Which license do you choose for your open source projects? Strong-copyleft? Permissive? Do you choose LGPL which I … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Hour Bangalore

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

I have noticed that Ubuntu community based activities in India are lot less than expected and Fedora leads the game here. To give a boost to Ubuntu, Nigel proposed to hold an Ubuntu Hour for Ubuntu users/power-users to meet. Apart … Continue reading →

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Maverick Development Updates #2

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

1. btrfs support With current daily builds of maverick, installation with btrfs filesystem is supported, though ext4 is the default filesystem. btrfs was pulled in mainline kernel on 9th January 2010. 2. Suspend/Resume bug Lee Jones working in the kernel … Continue reading →

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