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100% Free Distros

by Jason Self

In support of Software Freedom Day, I can burn & mail any of the 100% free distros at [1] and send them to local teams (as opposed to promoting Software Freedom Day with a GNU+Linux distro like Ubuntu that doesn't respect freedom.) I am located in the United States, so that's easiest for me, but I'm not necessarily opposed to mailing to other counties. I'm paying for this out of my own pocket so please consider your requests & quantities carefully, as the cost of CDs & shipping can become quite high (i.e., if you can download & burn the .iso yourself please do so.) [1] http://www.gnu.org/distros/

Aug. 3, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Manmohan Brahma

K-Meleon is supposed to be one is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Mozilla Firefox. We are also using the same. Instead of looking into the codes of Firefox and customizing it it's advisable to use K-Meleon to handle the operations easily. Every thing that can be performed in Firefox can be done with K-Meleon. Regards Manmohan

Aug. 3, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Manmohan Brahma

Dear Mr. Bruce , Nice to hear about kioracd. We need people like you who energize themselve. Wish you a very good luck. regarding dvdslideshowgui it is a wonderful software under under GPL. So thanks a lot for a new entry int the multimedia section of Swatantra. Any ways we will be producing definitely Swatanntra by 20 August , but if you feel at any point of time you not able to contribute for kioracd then we are there for you as backup. Any how we need to speard out the message of OSS to the world. After all this is our Software Freedom Day. Regards Manmohan

Aug. 3, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Aug. 3, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Bruce Kingsbury

Sorry, the program I was thinking of is dvdslideshowgui; http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/ I'm going to make a serious effort to rebuild kioracd before the end of August, and make it available in enough time to be useful for other SFD groups. My biggest concern is a good disk browser. The 2006 edition was simply done in html and used the default browser in Windows, that's not really a satisfactory way of doing things any more. I'd like to use kiwix but I've been having trouble figuring out how to adapt it. On 3 August 2010 01:35, Manmohan Brahma <manmohan.brahma(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote: >> >> WLUG was planning to do a similar disk (we distributed 150 copies of >> "kiaoracd" in 2006) but I may not be able to this year, and if someone >> else wants to take on the effort I'd be very happy to burn and >> distribute your disk instead. > > > Dear Mr. Bruce , > > Thanks a lot Bruce for your interest in the project. > >> >> Some suggestions from me; >> OpenOffice.org has to be on any disk like this IMHO. >> I would also suggest GIMP, audacity, scribus, inkscape >> firefox, thunderbird, blender, pencil, handbrake, dvdstyler, >> qdvdslideshow, stellarium, >> tuxpaint, battle for wesnoth, yo frankie, > > > HandBrake , dvdstyler added to Multimedia , stellarium added to Science & > Engg, qdvdslideshow i am not getting it over google. > battle for wesnoth, yo frankie added in the games. Please do note one thing > that if the disc full of and some tools are found which are really > important as decided the community then we will go for the removal of the > games which occupy quite high. Hope you understand. > > >> >> There are many other worthy programs which I may think of later. >> >> Take a look through osalt and the opendisc for more things worthy of >> including. >> >> Don't just include bare programs as opendisc does; put in the popular >> openoffice plugins alongside openoffice, and the "optional" stamps >> (they are not really optional) with tuxpaint. >> >> And fill up any left over space with "Open content", the open clipart >> library, >> blender tutorial videos, big buck bunny, Sita sings the Blues, US NOW, >> etc. Target size should be as near to 4.7GB as possible, with perhaps >> a smaller 'stick' image just under 4GB. It really annoyed me when >> opendisc went to being a DVD and they were only a little over 700MB! >> If you're going to make it a DVD, make it worth being a DVD. Put lots >> on it. > > Wish you a happy software freedom day in advance. > > Thanks a lot again. > > Regards > Manmohan > Open Source Enthusiast , India > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to any of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.

Aug. 2, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Kevin Cole

For those groups expecting a younger crowd (or those who work with youngsters) it may be handy to have a few copies of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) or the Sugar Live CD handy. For Sugar on a Stick, you could encourage people to bring empty USB sticks or SD cards and "burn" copies on the spot. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Live_CD -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/

Aug. 2, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Manmohan Brahma

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)wired.net.nz> wrote: > WLUG was planning to do a similar disk (we distributed 150 copies of > "kiaoracd" in 2006) but I may not be able to this year, and if someone > else wants to take on the effort I'd be very happy to burn and > distribute your disk instead. > Dear Mr. Bruce , *Thanks a lot Bruce for your interest in the project.* > > Some suggestions from me; > OpenOffice.org has to be on any disk like this IMHO. > I would also suggest GIMP, audacity, scribus, inkscape > firefox, thunderbird, blender, pencil, handbrake, dvdstyler, > qdvdslideshow, stellarium, > tuxpaint, battle for wesnoth, yo frankie, > *HandBrake , dvdstyler added to Multimedia , stellarium added to Science & Engg, qdvdslideshow i am not getting it over google.* *battle for wesnoth, yo frankie added in the games. Please do note one thing that if the disc full of and some tools are found which are really important as decided the community then we will go for the removal of the games which occupy quite high. Hope you understand.* ** > > There are many other worthy programs which I may think of later. > > Take a look through osalt and the opendisc for more things worthy of > including. > > Don't just include bare programs as opendisc does; put in the popular > openoffice plugins alongside openoffice, and the "optional" stamps > (they are not really optional) with tuxpaint. > > And fill up any left over space with "Open content", the open clipart > library, > blender tutorial videos, big buck bunny, Sita sings the Blues, US NOW, > etc. Target size should be as near to 4.7GB as possible, with perhaps > a smaller 'stick' image just under 4GB. It really annoyed me when > opendisc went to being a DVD and they were only a little over 700MB! > If you're going to make it a DVD, make it worth being a DVD. Put lots > on it. > *Wish you a happy software freedom day in advance.* ** *Thanks a lot again.* ** Regards Manmohan Open Source Enthusiast , India

Aug. 2, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Swatantra Education DVD

by Bibek Paudel

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Thilo Pfennig <thilo(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > Hi, > > our friend from India Manmohan Brahma has nearly finished a list of > software that the DVD they want to produce: > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Swatantra > Nice initiative. Just for information, FOSS Nepal has a similar product named 'Nirvikalpa.' Homepage: http://nirvikalpa.fossnepal.org/ Bibek

Aug. 2, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] {Disarmed} Re: Swatantra Education DVD

by Bruce Kingsbury

WLUG was planning to do a similar disk (we distributed 150 copies of "kiaoracd" in 2006) but I may not be able to this year, and if someone else wants to take on the effort I'd be very happy to burn and distribute your disk instead. Some suggestions from me; OpenOffice.org has to be on any disk like this IMHO. I would also suggest GIMP, audacity, scribus, inkscape firefox, thunderbird, blender, pencil, handbrake, dvdstyler, qdvdslideshow, stellarium, tuxpaint, battle for wesnoth, yo frankie, There are many other worthy programs which I may think of later. Take a look through osalt and the opendisc for more things worthy of including. Don't just include bare programs as opendisc does; put in the popular openoffice plugins alongside openoffice, and the "optional" stamps (they are not really optional) with tuxpaint. And fill up any left over space with "Open content", the open clipart library, blender tutorial videos, big buck bunny, Sita sings the Blues, US NOW, etc. Target size should be as near to 4.7GB as possible, with perhaps a smaller 'stick' image just under 4GB. It really annoyed me when opendisc went to being a DVD and they were only a little over 700MB! If you're going to make it a DVD, make it worth being a DVD. Put lots on it. On 2 August 2010 07:35, Manmohan Brahma <manmohan.brahma(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mr. Lars Nooden , > > Thanks a lot for the early reply and a quick review. Here is the answer to > the couple questions that you putted forward. > >> The स्वतन्त्र DVD could be a thumb drive or usb stick, too, since those >> are >> commonly available in 4GB+ sizes. What is the target audience? > > -- The expected size is 3.8 GB. > -- Basically we are tagetting a large mass. > -- Childrens > -- School Students > -- Programers > -- Designers & Developers > -- Network Managers > -- System Administrators > -- Most important target are people who are experts and attached to the > world of Properitory. > > (People do work in windows by installing add-on software by two means : > Either they purchase it or pirate it. To be very frank my place is a center > for piracy. People are not rich enough to purchase. In this regard we tried > to migrate them to Linux. But it is becoming bit difficult in their part to > suddenly switch to Linux. To make an environment for we have taken an > initiative to substitute all the day to day usage with Open Source instead > of piracy.) > > -- and many more . . . > >> + It might be useful to avoid the M-word. The center of attention >> should be on the FOSS tools or at least the generic, general activity. >> The generic activity can be listed instead of specific proprietary >> brands, for example, "productivity software" or "office suite" Second, >> the FOSS tools should be approached as fine tools in and of themselves, >> so it is important to avoid framing them as copies or analogues since >> many actually came first. > > -- Yes ,the center of attention is on FOSS. Generally what personally i felt > that people cant identify a software with their description. They identifies > it popularity. > > eg. Adobe Photoshop -- Ya John , it's too costly. Oh! look over here , There > is GIMP absolutely free. How's it ? Let's have a look at it. > > >> + Since there can be many choices, pick one from each category and then >> mention the others. As usual it is a matter of picking the right tool >> for the job. > > -- Ok it will be updated. > >> >> + Berkeley DB and Sqlite are not really equivalent, since Sqlite is sql >> (ISO/IEC 9075) and Berkeley DB is a hash table (or something like that). >> Berkeley DB used to be FOSS and though I can't get to the source from >> Oracle's site, Oracle still seems to imply that it remains FOSS via dual >> license: >> >> http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/licen… >> > > -- Look Lars ! Oracle licenses are very critical. What i feel is Oracle > people doesn't any thing to be open source but just they are trying to show > off as they contribute. You will to shocked to read the license of OpenJDK. > >> >> + Of the databases, there is a hierarchical database language M aka >> MUMPS aka ISO/IEC 15852:1999, which has several implementations and is >> useful: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumps/ >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/ >> MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious: >> http://71.174.62.16/MDC/ >> >> The FIS implementation, GT.M, has a VM 'toaster' for those still plagued >> by legacy systems. (GT.M might have a blob, though) >> > > -- None of them is available in Windows readily. > >> >> + The plug-ins and add-ons for Thunderbird and Firefox could be >> highlighted. Again, here the ala carte nature of computing. Maybe pick >> three of each to describe and then mention how to search through the >> others. > > -- We will put a few important plugins in a directory with an instruction > sheet to install the plugins offline. > >> >> + There should be "advertisements" for some of the major desktop distros >> and live CDs ( Knoppix, Fedora, Kubuntu, Haiku ) to encourage people do >> download and try them. > > -- There would be Operating System Page which will be having info about few > Distros and a link to their Download / Order page. > >> >> + There should be "advertisements" for nice desktop environments and >> window managers. An important concept is the ability to customize the >> desktop environment or plain window manager to suite local needs. A lot >> of must-have features like virtual desktops, multiscreen and multi-seat >> are unknown to Windows victims. > > >> >> + There should be an "advertisement" for WINE. It is not an emulator, >> but an implementation of the Windows API which may allow users to >> upgrade to a good system while still keeping legacy applications >> available until they can be replaced. > > -- Ok this we will make it as What all we have in Linux. It's possible to > switch from Windows to Linux. Not a big deal ! > >> >> + FileZilla probably belongs up in the 'Communication' section, since it >> is an all around tool for file transfer. > > -- Network tools are communication devices. Putting FileZilla in N/W > signifies it's for administrators. Communication tool is for users. > >> >> + Bluefish could be added somewhere, either in development because it >> does a lot or in web design where it's used a lot. When I've asked >> beginners, they've preferred it over Quanta or Kompozer. >> http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ >> > -- We have already added Amaya Web Editor but as you putted a lot of effort > in writing a long mail we wil add it up. Just Kidding ! Bluefish Editor > seems nice also costs very less . Only 4 MB. > >> + R Project (science and engineering) is *big* among statisticians and >> professionals working intensively with statistics. Even the big >> proprietary names like SAS and SPSS are providing hooks to the R >> programming language. >> http://www.r-project.org/ > > -- Added up. It's some thing special. > >> >> + Perl and CPAN. Since python is mentioned, perl could be too. It is >> the glue that holds the net together. >> http://www.cpan.org/ > > -- Added up Strawberry Perl 5.12.1.0 which include CPAN modules. > >> >> + Cytoscape (science and engineering) is a java-based tool for network >> analysis to visualize interaction networks and pathways and integrate >> networks with annotations. It was developed for bioinformatics and >> molecular interaction but useful in other visualization tasks and the >> core functionality is expandible through plugins. >> http://www.cytoscape.org/ > > > -- Added up . Cytospace v 2.7.0. It greatly depends on Oracle Java SE. Can > you please suggest me any proprietary alternative for it. > >> + Fritzing (science and engineering) is Electronic Design Automation >> software, even developed a University just like all other cutting edge >> software. IMHO better than Kicad. >> http://fritzing.org/ >> > > -- Added up .Fritzing. Suggest me any effective proprietary alternative for > it. > >> >> + Koffice has a lot of great tools, and supports OpenDocument Format. >> Kexi (database) is one that users of old systems might find convenient. >> Kplato (project management) is another. >> http://wiki.koffice.org/ > > -- First we planned to put KOffice but as we are adding Go-oo. We have > discarded the idea. > >> + A point of information: Go OpenOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org and >> not the same as OpenOffice.org The reason for the fork was the >> inclusion of some controversial items and licensing. Either way, the >> important item is support for the OpenDocument Format. >> http://www.openoffice.org/ >> http://www.go-oo.org/ > > > -- Currently i am talking with the officials of CDAC , India to support us. > So that we will put Bharteeya Open Office. It is a Multilingual Suite of > Open Office. > > >> + VirtualBox and Qemu are good VMs, useful for development. The >> proprietary product it is compared to is so bad that comparing >> VirtualBox to it implies that VirtualBox is not any good either. >> http://www.virtualbox.org/ >> http://wiki.qemu.org/ > > -- Instead of Oracle Virtual Box - A Properitary product from Oracle we will > use Virtual Box Open Source Edition. look @ vbox32.sourceforge.net > >> >> + Zim, Basket and Knotes are good for notes and can be listed with >> Office & Design > > -- We have already listed WikidPad. But we will add this if space permits. > > >> >> + Digikam is quite nice for managing digital photos. >> http://www.digikam.org/ > > -- Currently we are trying to add KDE on Windows. We are testing for it's > value. Once that work wil be done we will be adding it to the project. > >> >> > > -- OpenCMS is a very bulky CMS as compared others. More over wat about it's > support,upgaradation, themes and so on... So it becomes bit expensive to > put. > >> + Mail can be provided by Postfix, Exim, Dovecot. Mailing lists with >> searchable archives via Simpa and GNU Mailman. >> >> + Bedework is a standards-compliant enterprise calendar server designed >> in particular for higher education. >> http://www.bedework.org/ >> >> + Kolab and Citadel are standards-based groupware servers, built out of >> smaller, commodity components. Citadel is fully GPLv3. Kolab is the >> product of a series of contracts for the federal office for Security in >> the Information Technology in the German Government. >> http://www.kolab.org/ >> http://www.citadel.org/ >> >> + LTSP and K12LTSP would be suitable for many work or school environments. >> >> + SE Linux, AppArmor, and systrace are worth mentioning for *production* >> severs, not devel. > > -- I am unable to get the exact usefulness for us. This goes to advanced > Administration. > > I hope that i have answered almost to your question. > Thanks again for your valuable suggestions. I would be very much happy if > you could suggest some thing more and update the wiki by your own and let us > inform back through the mailing list. > > Regards, > Manmohan Brahma > > -- > Manmohan Brahma > Research Associate , High Performance Computing Group > CSIR Center for Mathematical Modelling & Computer Simulation , Bangalore > ,India > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to any of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.

Aug. 1, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Swatantra Education DVD

by Manmohan Brahma

Dear Mr. Lars Nooden , Thanks a lot for the early reply and a quick review. Here is the answer to the couple questions that you putted forward. *The स्वतन्त्र DVD could be a thumb drive or usb stick, too, since those are > commonly available in 4GB+ sizes. What is the target audience?* > -- The expected size is 3.8 GB. -- Basically we are tagetting a large mass. -- Childrens -- School Students -- Programers -- Designers & Developers -- Network Managers -- System Administrators -- Most important target are people who are experts and attached to the world of Properitory. (People do work in windows by installing add-on software by two means : Either they purchase it or pirate it. To be very frank my place is a center for piracy. People are not rich enough to purchase. In this regard we tried to migrate them to Linux. But it is becoming bit difficult in their part to suddenly switch to Linux. To make an environment for we have taken an initiative to substitute all the day to day usage with Open Source instead of piracy.) -- and many more . . . *+ It might be useful to avoid the M-word. The center of attention > should be on the FOSS tools or at least the generic, general activity. > The generic activity can be listed instead of specific proprietary > brands, for example, "productivity software" or "office suite" Second, > the FOSS tools should be approached as fine tools in and of themselves, > so it is important to avoid framing them as copies or analogues since > many actually came first.* > -- Yes ,the center of attention is on FOSS. Generally what personally i felt that people cant identify a software with their description. They identifies it popularity. eg. Adobe Photoshop -- Ya John , it's too costly. Oh! look over here , There is GIMP absolutely free. How's it ? Let's have a look at it. + Since there can be many choices, pick one from each category and then > mention the others. As usual it is a matter of picking the right tool > for the job. > -- Ok it will be updated. > > + Berkeley DB and Sqlite are not really equivalent, since Sqlite is sql > (ISO/IEC 9075) and Berkeley DB is a hash table (or something like that). > Berkeley DB used to be FOSS and though I can't get to the source from > Oracle's site, Oracle still seems to imply that it remains FOSS via dual > license: > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/licen… > > -- Look Lars ! Oracle licenses are very critical. What i feel is Oracle people doesn't any thing to be open source but just they are trying to show off as they contribute. You will to shocked to read the license of OpenJDK. > + Of the databases, there is a hierarchical database language M aka > MUMPS aka ISO/IEC 15852:1999, which has several implementations and is > useful: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumps/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/ > http://71.174.62.16/MDC/ > > The FIS implementation, GT.M, has a VM 'toaster' for those still plagued > by legacy systems. (GT.M might have a blob, though) > > -- None of them is available in Windows readily. > + The plug-ins and add-ons for Thunderbird and Firefox could be > highlighted. Again, here the ala carte nature of computing. Maybe pick > three of each to describe and then mention how to search through the > others. > -- We will put a few important plugins in a directory with an instruction sheet to install the plugins offline. > + There should be "advertisements" for some of the major desktop distros > and live CDs ( Knoppix, Fedora, Kubuntu, Haiku ) to encourage people do > download and try them. > -- There would be Operating System Page which will be having info about few Distros and a link to their Download / Order page. > + There should be "advertisements" for nice desktop environments and > window managers. An important concept is the ability to customize the > desktop environment or plain window manager to suite local needs. A lot > of must-have features like virtual desktops, multiscreen and multi-seat > are unknown to Windows victims. > > + There should be an "advertisement" for WINE. It is not an emulator, > but an implementation of the Windows API which may allow users to > upgrade to a good system while still keeping legacy applications > available until they can be replaced. > -- Ok this we will make it as What all we have in Linux. It's possible to switch from Windows to Linux. Not a big deal ! > + FileZilla probably belongs up in the 'Communication' section, since it > is an all around tool for file transfer. > -- Network tools are communication devices. Putting FileZilla in N/W signifies it's for administrators. Communication tool is for users. > + Bluefish could be added somewhere, either in development because it > does a lot or in web design where it's used a lot. When I've asked > beginners, they've preferred it over Quanta or Kompozer. > http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ > > -- We have already added Amaya Web Editor but as you putted a lot of effort in writing a long mail we wil add it up. Just Kidding ! Bluefish Editor seems nice also costs very less . Only 4 MB. + R Project (science and engineering) is *big* among statisticians and > professionals working intensively with statistics. Even the big > proprietary names like SAS and SPSS are providing hooks to the R > programming language. > http://www.r-project.org/ > -- Added up. It's some thing special. > > + Perl and CPAN. Since python is mentioned, perl could be too. It is > the glue that holds the net together. > http://www.cpan.org/ > -- Added up Strawberry Perl 5.12.1.0 which include CPAN modules. > + Cytoscape (science and engineering) is a java-based tool for network > analysis to visualize interaction networks and pathways and integrate > networks with annotations. It was developed for bioinformatics and > molecular interaction but useful in other visualization tasks and the > core functionality is expandible through plugins. > http://www.cytoscape.org/ -- Added up . Cytospace v 2.7.0. It greatly depends on Oracle Java SE. Can you please suggest me any proprietary alternative for it. + Fritzing (science and engineering) is Electronic Design Automation > software, even developed a University just like all other cutting edge > software. IMHO better than Kicad. > http://fritzing.org/ > > -- Added up .Fritzing. Suggest me any effective proprietary alternative for it. > + Koffice has a lot of great tools, and supports OpenDocument Format. > Kexi (database) is one that users of old systems might find convenient. > Kplato (project management) is another. > http://wiki.koffice.org/ > -- First we planned to put KOffice but as we are adding Go-oo. We have discarded the idea. + A point of information: Go OpenOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org and > not the same as OpenOffice.org The reason for the fork was the > inclusion of some controversial items and licensing. Either way, the > important item is support for the OpenDocument Format. > http://www.openoffice.org/ > http://www.go-oo.org/ > -- Currently i am talking with the officials of CDAC , India to support us. So that we will put Bharteeya Open Office. It is a Multilingual Suite of Open Office. + VirtualBox and Qemu are good VMs, useful for development. The > proprietary product it is compared to is so bad that comparing > VirtualBox to it implies that VirtualBox is not any good either. > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > http://wiki.qemu.org/ > -- Instead of Oracle Virtual Box - A Properitary product from Oracle we will use Virtual Box Open Source Edition. look @ vbox32.sourceforge.net > + Zim, Basket and Knotes are good for notes and can be listed with > Office & Design > -- We have already listed WikidPad. But we will add this if space permits. > + Digikam is quite nice for managing digital photos. > http://www.digikam.org/ > -- Currently we are trying to add KDE on Windows. We are testing for it's value. Once that work wil be done we will be adding it to the project. > > -- OpenCMS is a very bulky CMS as compared others. More over wat about it's support,upgaradation, themes and so on... So it becomes bit expensive to put. + Mail can be provided by Postfix, Exim, Dovecot. Mailing lists with > searchable archives via Simpa and GNU Mailman. > > + Bedework is a standards-compliant enterprise calendar server designed > in particular for higher education. > http://www.bedework.org/ > > + Kolab and Citadel are standards-based groupware servers, built out of > smaller, commodity components. Citadel is fully GPLv3. Kolab is the > product of a series of contracts for the federal office for Security in > the Information Technology in the German Government. > http://www.kolab.org/ > http://www.citadel.org/ > > + LTSP and K12LTSP would be suitable for many work or school environments. > > + SE Linux, AppArmor, and systrace are worth mentioning for *production* > severs, not devel. > -- I am unable to get the exact usefulness for us. This goes to advanced Administration. I hope that i have answered almost to your question. Thanks again for your valuable suggestions. I would be very much happy if you could suggest some thing more and update the wiki by your own and let us inform back through the mailing list. Regards, Manmohan Brahma -- Manmohan Brahma Research Associate , High Performance Computing Group CSIR Center for Mathematical Modelling & Computer Simulation , Bangalore ,India

Aug. 1, 2010