Linux Distribution Sources

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DistroWatch.com One of the problems a person interested in getting into Linux faces is the huge number of different distributions (which Linux afficiandos call distros). Keeps up with the multitude of the latest versions of Linux – including links to downloads, forums, documentation. An excellent site for finding the right Linux for your purposes.
Linux Distribution Chooser A test to help aid newcomers in finding a distribution to use.
LinuxTracker Source for bittorrent downloads of Linux distributions.
uTorrent “uTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources – typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren’t there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 170 KB in size.”
ibiblio Linux Distributions A good source for fast downloads (in US and especially in NC) of Linux distributions.
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debian.org “Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 8710 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.” Here is a freeDebian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
Fedora (Red Hat) Linux The OS version of Red Hat Linux provider – with links to many Linux resources.
Freespire “Combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit.”
Knoppix “Knoppix is a GNU/Linux distribution that boots and runs completely from cd. It includes recent linux software and desktop environments, with programs such as OpenOffice.org, Abiword, The Gimp, Konqueror, Mozilla, Apache, PHP, MySQL and hundreds of other quality open source programs.” Often used as a “rescue CD” for damaged file systems (including Windows!). Here is a HOWTO on“System recovery with Knoppix.” Here is a nice free pdf book on“Knowing Knoppix.”
Kubuntu Ubuntu, but with KDE instead of Gnome.
openSuse.org “The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere.” Here is a setup tutorial for Suse 10.1 from HowtoForge.
Ubuntu “Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.” Principally intended as a desktop. Uses Gnome as GUI. With FAQs and WIKI. See a review here. Now available in a server version.
easyUbuntu “EasyUbuntu is an easy to use (duh!) script that gives the Ubuntu user the most commonly requested apps, codecs, and tweaks that are not found in the base distribution – all with a few clicks of your mouse.”
Ubuntu Forums Useful support forum for Ubuntu. For example, this configuation howto.
Unofficial Ubuntu Guide Helpful notes on using the latest release of Ubuntu.
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Damn Small Linux “A business card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), Xpdf, Worker (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, USB support, and soon it will have PCMCIA support as well. If you like Damn Small Linux you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.” (From DistroWatch)
Inside Security Rescue Toolkit “INSERT is a complete, bootable linux system. It comes with a graphical user interface running the fluxbox window manager while still being sufficiently small to fit on a credit card-sized CD-ROM.”
Instalinux Create a custom hands-free Linux install image – based LinuxCOE
Lamppix “A Linux Live CD booting a webserver. LAMPPIX allows you to burn your web projects (i.e. PHP presentations or Perl scripts) onto a CD-ROM and give them away to others. They will only have to insert the CD and reboot — if you configured LAMPPIX right (and this is really easy!) they can view your project.”
SYSLINUX “SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off an MS-DOS/Windows FAT filesystem. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, and for creation of rescue and other special-purpose boot disks.”
SystemRescueCd “SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.”
Topologi-linux “Topologilinux is a free Linux distribution to be run on top or inside your existing windows system. The main thing with Topologilinux is that it does not require any partitioning at all. (uses a single file as linux root system) Topologilinux is therefore very easy to install.”
Trinity Rescue Kit “Free CD bootable Linux distribution aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and cloning. It has custom tools to easily recover data such as deleted files, clone Windows installations over the network, perform antivirus sweeps with 2 different antivirus products, reset windows passwords, read AND write on NTFS partitions, edit partition layout and much much more.”
Vyatta “A complete, ready-to-deploy, open-source routing & firewalling solution that makes it possible for anyone to own an enterprise-class router / firewall.”
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DesktopLinux.com “This site features news, opinions, HOWTOs, FAQs, product previews/reviews, a discussion forum, and a resource directory, all primarily focused on using — or learning to use — Linux as a desktop operating system.”
Everything Linux Miscellaneous Linux articles
JustLinux.com News and articles on Linux for the Linux novice
Knoppix.net “Knoppix.net is a resource for users, developers, and testers of Knoppix.”
Librenix News and articles on Linux
Linux.Com “A place for individuals of all experience levels to learn (and teach) the power and virtues of the Linux Operating System.”
Linuxdevcenter.com Many useful articles – from O’Reilly – source of quality computer book titles.
LinuxDevices.com Lots of info on Linux devices
LinuxElectrons News and articles on Linux
Linux Format News and articles on Linux (from our cousins in the UK)
Linux Forum “Linux Forum is a large community of Linux users, developers and enthusiasts that are here to help each other with FREE Linux Support, Linux Questions, Linux Help, Linux Problems, and anything else related to Linux.”
Linux Forums Forum, information on Linux software, and many Linux reviews and articles
Linux Journal Excepts from a Linux-specific magazine, many of the articles are of interest to other Unix users
Linux-mag.com Linux magazine with some good articles, for example on the find command.
Linux Online Lots of info on Linux
linuxpipeline News and articles on Linux
Linux Planet News and articles on Linux
Linuxquestions.org Many articles, reviews, and forums about downloading and installing Linux distros – a valuable resource.
LinuxSecurity.com News and articles on Linux security issues
Linux Today News and articles on Linux
Linux-Watch Lots of news on Linux
LinuxZoo.net “Learn Linux from the safety of your chair using a remote private linux machine with root access.”
LiveCDNews Lists and categorizes live Linux distros, with links to articles about same
LiveDistro Another site that lists and categorizes live Linux distros, with links to articles about same
LXer Linux News New/articles on Linux
Mad Penguin News and articles on Linux
OSdir Open Source and Linux news & software
Reallylinux.com Another Linux novice site
ReviewLinux.com “Reviews of the various Linux distributions”
Slashdot “Don’t fear the Penguins” – news and articles for Linux users
tuxmobil.org “Dedicated to Linux On Mobile Computers. It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information, HOWTOs, and FAQs about installing and running Linux, BSD, Solaris and other UniXes on laptops, notebooks, PDAs, mobile cellular phones, portable music players, wearables and other mobile computer devices.”
LinuxLinks “Reviewers at LinuxLinks list the latest Linux sites through exhaustive searches on the net.”
GNUman.com A few useful articles.
What’s the story with the penguin? The origin of Tux.
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Linux Howtos “Howtos are written by anyone who has advice to give on a certain topic – It may be an expert in the field, or just someone who has solved a particular problem and wants to share the solution. Howtos form part of the Linux Documentation Project.”
Linux Clues Twenty+ Linux howtos, as for instance a guide to Lost Linux Passwords
Linux Documentation Project Free, high quality documentation for the Linux operating system
Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands “Click on any of the 515 commands below to get a description and list of available options.”
IBM Linux Tutorials Many free tutorials and LPI certification practice test
LowFatLinux A Linux tutorial “for people who want to learn the basics of using Linux (and thereby Unix) without getting bogged down in too much detail or technobabble.”
Linux Home Networking Includes a very thorough “Linux Networking” ebook.
The Linux Cookbook “Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use” – now also available in printed, i.e., book form.
Linux Tutorial “A practical UNIX tutorial designed to get you up to speed as a UNIX/Linux user.”
Computer First Aid Using Knoppix Rescue Windows data using Knoppix
Newbie Adventures in Knoppix and Fedora A grandmother rescues Windows data using Knoppix! With no previous experience of Linux!
Soup To Nuts Some useful Linux howto articles
“Knowing Knoppix” Knowing Knoppix is a FREE beginner-friendly book designed to help with these situations: You can’t start Windows! Disaster? Possibly not. It is often possible to rescue files using Knoppix from crashed Windows computers, even when Windows cannot be started. This guide takes you step by step through the process. You are curious about Linux, and you want to discover what all the fuss is about. You want a useful guide to help you get started with Knoppix.
Linux FAQs Documents which describe in detail various aspects of configuring or using Linux
Security Quick-Start HOWTO for Linux “An overview of the basic steps required to secure a Linux installation from intrusion. It is intended to be an introduction.”
Ntfsresize “The free Ntfsresize utility non-destructively resizes the NTFS filesystem of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT4 and Longhorn. All NTFS versions are supported, used by 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. No defragmentation is required prior resizing.”
How to Repartition Hard Drive without Reformatting A Linux how-to using Mephis 3.3
Linux Network Administrator’s Guide On-line book
Linux Newbie Administrator’s Guide On-line book
HowtoForge HowtoForge provides discussion forums and howto articles on OpenSource software.
Linux Home NAT Firewalls/Routers Information “Various floppy and hard drive based Linux NAT firewall products”
This Old Box “People say Linux can make old machines useful. Can it really? In this new series, Peter Seebach takes a busted laptop and … builds a household appliance that actually does something worthwhile.”Another, newer article on the same subject.
NdisWrapper Your wireless card not working in Linux? NdisWrapper may very well be the solution to your problem.
Getting Your WireLess NIC Working with NdisWrapper “Walks you through the compiling, installing and configuring a Windows based PCMCIA WireLess Network card using the Open Source NDIS Wrapper Device Driver.”
Wireless LAN resources for Linux “The Linux Wireless LAN Howto is an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard.”
Copying Windows to a new drive, using Linux “This guide will show you how to copy an existing installation of Windows (or any other OS) from one drive to another – as long as the destination drive is the same size or larger. This is a free and relatively easy method that will create a clone of your current hard disk, without having to buy any third party software.” Recent HOWTO – April 2005.
USB Drive Saved by Linux USB Drive Ruined by Windows – Saved by Linux
Linux XDMCP HOWTO “Describes how you can use the combination of X Display Manager (xdm, kdm and gdm) and XDMCP (X Display Manager Control Protocol) to provide a solution for the X-Terminal and to provide a platform of efficient Remote X Apps environment.”
linsec.ca “linsec is a collection of articles and documents detailing security on Linux in particular, but also on any other *NIX-ish operating system (ie. OpenBSD, Mac OS X, etc”
John Murray’s Homepage Some useful Linux HOWTOs, such as “Building the Lo-Fat Linux Desktop” – a newbies guide to building a fast desktop system that will perform well on older hardware..
Linux From Scratch “Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system.” Free online/downloadable book.
A Guided Tour of a Linux Boot “The firmware and software programs output various messages as the computer and Linux come to life. These notes attempt to help clarify what routines and devices are doing.”
How does Linux boot? A higher-level treatment of the topic.
Parallelize Linux system services to improve boot speed “This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves understanding system services and their dependencies, and having them start up in parallel, rather than sequentially, when possible.”
Tuning Apache and PHP “Compilation of tips on how to optimise Apache on Linux for PHP and CGI programs”
FastCGI “FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs.”
High Performance PHP with IIS: Using FastCGI “FastCGI processes are persistent as they are reused to handle multiple requests. This solves the CGI performance problem of creating new processes for each request. In benchmarks, you can expect a x4 to x8 improvement in performance compared to plain-old CGI.”
Learning guide: Linux tools Short list of a number of Linux tools/whitepapers.
Easy Firewall Generator for IPTables “This program generates an iptables firewall script for use with the 2.4 or later linux kernel. It is intended for use on a single system connected to the Internet or a gateway system for a private, internal network.”
Automatic Backups with rsync and Anacron “How to quickly set up your computer for simple, hassle-free, and transparent backups using only rsync and cron (or Anacron).”
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Open Source Software Educational Society “Online self-study training resource with a special emphasis on scripting languages, computer security issues, Linux Certification, non-trivial sysadmin tools”
TUCOWS Linux Guide to 1000′s of Linux software applications & games
RPM.pbone.net Missing an RPM? Find it here fast!
OpenOffice.org “Mission Statement: To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.” Available for Windows and Linux. Now includes a database (named BASE) that stores its data in XML (reads and writes Access, DBase, and MySQL files.
freshmeat.net A Linux software repository carrying a complete set of applications for almost any purpose.
sourceforge.net “The world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications.”
Apache Server Project The Apache project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for various modern desktop and server operating systems.
XAMPP “An easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract, and start.”
Web Servers: Apache An Apache news and tutorials from ServerWatch.com
Gimp “The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.”
Inkscape “Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.”
vsftpd “vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable.”
rdesktop A Remote Desktop Protocol Client for accessing Windows Terminal Services from Linux/Unix
Rsync “rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely available under GPL.”
Rsync mirroring howto How to use rsync
Clam AntiVirus “Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet.”
Webmin “Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.” Here is a forum discussion of setting up Webmin under Ubuntu.
osCommerce Free! “The leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved. osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.”
Zen Cart “A free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently. Some “solutions” seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users’ needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchant’s and shopper’s requirements first. Similarly, other programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic computer skills. Others are so expensive … not Zen Cart™, it’s FREE!” Implement in PHP, Apache and MySQL.
High-Availability Linux Project “Linux-HA provides basic high-availability (failover) capabilities on a wide range of platforms, supporting thousands of mission critical sites all over the globe.”
ploticus “A free, GPL, non-interactive software package for producing plots, charts, and graphics from data. It runs on various Unix, Linux, and win32 systems. ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation, handles date and time data nicely, and has basic statistical capabilities.”
Cygwin “Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: 1) A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality and 2) A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.”
Project Cyrus “The Cyrus Electronic Mail Project is continuing to build a highly scalable enterprise mail system designed for use in a small to large enterprise environments using standards based technologies. The Cyrus technologies will scale from independent use in small departments to a system centrally managed in a large enterprise.”
Xen ” Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation.”
cabextract “Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files, also called .CAB files, on UNIX or UNIX-like systems.”
LFT Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster (than the commonly-used Van Jacobson method) and goes through many configurations of packet-filter based firewalls. (Binaries available for Linux and Windows.)
AWStats “A free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.”
Openadaptor.org “A Java/XML-based software platform which allows for rapid business system integration with little or no custom programming. Openadaptor can be loosely classified as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) software. It is highly extensible and provides many ready-built interface components for JMS, LDAP, Mail, MQ Series, Oracle, Sybase and MSSQL Server as well as data exchange formats such as XML.”
GParted LiveCD “The CD aims to be fast, small in size, and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Slackware Linux and uses Xfree86′s Xvesa, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the lastest 2.6 Linux Kernel.”
Ghost for Linux “Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to “Norton Ghost”(c) and ™ by Symantec. The created images are optionally compressed, and they can be stored on a local hard drive or transferred to an anonymous FTP server. A drive can be cloned using the “Click’n'Clone” function. g4l supports file splitting if the local filesystem does not support writing files >2GB. The included kernel supports ATA, serial-ATA, and SCSI drives. Common network cards are supported. It is packaged as a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI for easy use.”
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OnLAMP.com LAMP is an Open Source web platform consisting of MySQL used in conjunction with Linux, Apache, and either Perl, Python, or PHP. This is the O’Reilly site with many articles and resorces.
Setting up LAMP Platform Short, simple guide to setting up LAMP.
Lamppix “A Linux Live CD booting a webserver. LAMPPIX allows you to burn your web projects (i.e. PHP presentations or Perl scripts) onto a CD-ROM and give them away to others. They will only have to insert the CD and reboot — if you configured LAMPPIX right (and this is really easy!) they can view your project.”
XAMPP “An easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract, and start.”
WAMP5 “WAMP5 installs automatically Apache 1.3.31, PHP5, MySQL database, PHPmyadmin, and SQLitemanager on your [Windows 2000 and above] computer. It’s principal aim is to allow you to easily discover the new version of PHP : PHP5. WAMP5 comes with a service manager installed as a tray icon. It allows you to manage WAMP5 and access all services.”
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Successfully making the transition to GNU/Linux Although this article from April 2003 is obviously somewhat dated, it does clearly layout the three major issues that those considering switching to a Linux desktop from Windows should consider – motivation, expectations, preparations.
Choosing an upgrade path from Windows 98 “This article outlines a strategy to avoid costly upgrades from Windows 98 to Windows XP (in terms of both hardware and software), by upgrading to Linux, instead. Basically, the article provides a “how-to” on using some of the existing software that currently runs on Microsoft Windows, combined with a number of freely available Linux applications.”
Why and when open source products best Microsoft “In part one of this two-part column, I’ll cover problems I’ve had with proprietary software and my take on the total cost of ownership (TCO) debate. In part two, I’ll talk about what I consider to be Microsoft’s unethical practices and when not to use open source software.”
Why Open Source Software? “This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures.”
demosoftware.net Equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
The Cathedral and the Bazaar “Two fundamentally different development styles, the ‘cathedral’ model of most of the commercial world versus the ‘bazaar’ model of the Linux world … these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task … a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that ‘Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,’ suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.”
Move on to Linux A page to get you started.
Linux Migration Quick Reference “This site gives you the nuts and bolts view of how to get things going in Linux in the shortest amount of time.”
Colinux “Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine.”
Topologi-linux “Topologilinux is a free Linux distribution to be run on top or inside your existing windows system. The main thing with Topologilinux is that it does not require any partitioning at all. (uses a single file as linux root system) Topologilinux is therefore very easy to install.”
VMware Server “VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility.” Run multiple versions of Windows, Linux, etc., simultaneously – requires lots of RAM, disk space, and fast processor. See this article on VMware for Wikipedia.
Wine HQ “Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix [& Linux]. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.”
WINE in Linux migration strategies “This whitepaper by Codeweavers COO Jon Parshall and CEO Jeremy White takes a detailed look at the potential value of WINE (“Wine Is Not an Emulator”) as an ingredient in a strategy for enterprise migration from Windows to Linux desktops.”
Linux equivalents of Windows apps Open source alternatives to proprietary applications, known as the “Table of Equivalents/Replacements/Analogs of Windows software in Linux.”
Linux Client Migration Cookbook “For anyone who is exploring or planning for a Linux desktop migration. Provides in-depth detail on the technical and organizational challenges. Includes methods for planning and implementation.”

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Free/freedom Open Source Software workshop/seminar in jaipur

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The workshop will cover the following topics:

Duration 4 hrs, financial remuneration : 5000/-Rs.

General sessions :

Introduction to FOSS
How to install a Linux based operating system
How to navigate the Linux desktop, using applications and installing software.
How to get help and support
How to compute and communicate in a language of your choice.

More specific sessions:
General office and internet applications
Linux installation (hands-on)

Audio/Video editing tools (hands-on)
Desktop publishing tools (hands-on)
New-age licensing concepts (Creative Commons etc)
Migration to FOSS with minimal hassles
Compatibility of FOSS software with proprietary ones

Git workshop organised by Women in Free Software India

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Git Workshop

 

Date: 15th June
Venue: #wfs-india channel on freenode
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm IST
Registration: http://www.wfs-india.org/form/registration-form-git-workshop-june-15-2013

Git is, technically speaking, the most advanced version control system on earth right now. However this does not itself justify why everybody should learn it. The real value of git is that it has taken collaboration to a new level. Just like social media has made friendship cross barriers of space, git has helped developers work together across continents. Git is the backbone of developers working on huge projects like the Linux kernel. Git is also the choice of countless designers and can be used by visual artists and authors as well.

This amazing tool costs nothing — it is free.

Free to use and to modify as well (courtesy GNU-GPL V2). Nobody can stop you from becoming an expert in git.

Get started with Git through our workshop.

Registration

Wannabe participants please fill out the registration form for the Git Workshop.

Rails Girls Summer of Code helps Rails Girls students get into Open Source.

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Just like in Google Summer of Code and Ruby Summer of Code, students
will be paid so they’re free to work on Open Source projects for a few
months. Unlike those programs, the Rails Girls Summer of Code is about
helping students to further expand their knowledge and skills by
contributing to a great Open Source project (rather than producing
highly sophisticated code).

 

 

Projects

The ideal project for the Rails Girls Summer of Code defines a goal that:

  • can be considered a valuable, significant contribution
  • is simple enough that a beginner will be able to complete it in a time frame of three months or less

A project goal can include anything that helps you: Bug fixing, implementing small features, documentation, design, etc. Anything that allows the student to both apply her experience and grow with the challenge.

Also, the goal can consist of several sub-goals or follow-up goals that can be adjusted to the progress of the student. Coming up with a good definition might be hard, taking into account that the student’s skills are not yet advanced. Don’t be discouraged by that. We will work together with you in order to figure out a definition that works well.

To start defining your goal, ask yourself:

What can be done to help a Ruby newcomer become a core contributor on your project? Also, consider this to be a learning target. Different from GSoC or RSoC the Rails Girls Summer of Code is about encouraging, motivating, helping newcomers to learn and eventually provide valuable, significant contributions.

Projects will be asked to provide a mentor, who will act as experts in the project’s domain, and provide feedback and direction. In their day-to-day work students will supported by coaches (developers based in the same city as the student, helping them to accomplish their tasks), so the workload for a mentor is limited.

 

 

http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/projects/