Zyxware Technologies, today announced that they will be releasing India's first Freedom Toaster in a function to be held at Park Center, Technopark on 1st Sep at 4:30PM. The toaster will be inaugurated by The Hon'ble Minister for Education, Government of Kerala, Shri. M.A. Baby who will also inaugurate the 5-day GNU/Linux Install fest which will be held at the same venue from Sep 1 to Sep 5.
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There is no free lunch. Nothing is free in life. Well not exactly. Not if you are a Free Software Fan and you work in Technopark and you get GNU/Linux installed on your laptop during the coming GNU/Linux Install Fest in Technopark from Sep 1-5.
Zyxware technologies joins hands once again with GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum to organize the third install fest of the year in Trivandrum. This time the event is planned on a much more massive scale than the first two install fests. The earlier events were 1 day events targeted at the general public. This time it is targeted at the IT community in technopark and it is a full week program. The program is scheduled to be conducted from Sep 1 to Sep 5 at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum.
IT Mission, Government of Kerala in association with SPACE-Kerala is organizing a 3 day International conference titled - Free Software Free Society - during the month of December. As part of the conference, help was sought from the community to set up a conference management system and the conference website. We, being the local Drupal experts, had volunteered to develop the website for the conference. We are happy to announce the launch of the website fsfs.in.
Lenovo India has got pretty good network of service centres across the country. It is either their own service centre or the service centres of their authorized distributor, Redington India Limited plus a few third part, but authorized service centres. Here is a list of service centres for Lenovo Laptops/Desktops and other hardware.
If you have noticed a drastic slowdown in your DSL internet connection after you upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) then it might not be that your ISP is entirely to blame. It could be settings on your PC that is slowing things down. We had a problem in our office where Ubuntu PCs were getting only around 80Kbps as opposed to 2Mbps from Windows machines. After troubleshooting and playing with some configuration parameters we got the Ubuntu Machines up to the same level as the Windows PCs
HCL announced prices of their Leaptops for the month of August. They have introduced 2 laptops, one with Celeron configuration and the other with Core 2 Duo configuration. Prices are also quite competitive. Here are the list of models and their price.
ASUSTek Computer Inc. launched much awaited models in the ultra-portable laptop catagory - ASUS Eee PC 900 series and 1000 series. These come with 80 GB of storage space, which will enable everyone to have lots and lots of storage area instead of 4GB and 8GB in the other Eee PC models. The 1000 series comes with a 10.2" widescreen display and the 900 series is fitted with a 8.9" Widescreen display when compared to the earlier models of Eee PC. Both these models come pre-installed with Windows XP. Here are the list of models and thier prices.
We run apt-cacher to save bandwidth in our intranet. All Ubuntu systems in our office uses the apt-cacher server to update and upgrade. Recently we started getting the hash sum mismatch and size mismatch errors. After some dabbling with the settings and the files we figured out a simple solution for this problem.
Lenovo had announced prices of its notebooks for the month of July, 2008. They have improved the value for money than earlier. Prices have been made quite competitive. Here is a list of items from Lenovo and their corresponding prices.
HP-Compaq announced the prices of their Pavilion range of notebooks. There are a couple of new arrivals. The prices are very competent. All these models come fitted with Fingerprint reader, wireless, LAN, Webcam and lot more. Here are the list of models and their prices.
If you do a google search on this topic you will come across different posts that says how windows does not allow booting of a logical partition and why windows should be installed on a primary partition. The fact of the matter is that windows allows itself to be installed on logical partitions but it will want a primary windows partition to boot up. Recently we faced a situation where we had to make a windows installed on a logical partition boot up on its own.
After a long 3 months since the release of Ubuntu Hardy heron, we have managed to download the complete Ubuntu Repository for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. The full set of Ubuntu Repository DVDs (set of 5 DVDs) is now available and you can order it through our RequestCD Program. If you get the complete Ubuntu Repository on DVDs you do not have to have an internet connection to install any package that is normally available through Synaptic Package Manager.
ASUS India announced prices of their ultra mobile laptops, the EeePC. According to ASUS, the name Eee derives from "the three Es," an abbreviation of its advertising slogan for the device: "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play". Both 2G Surf and 4G are available and we have given the prices of both these.
We install Ubuntu on almost all systems built at Zyxware. One common request we have heard from our customers was for a simple printed user manual that they can use to learn and start using Ubuntu. We have been guiding people to the web to learn the ins and outs of using the operating systems but this does not always work very well. As a permanent solution to this problem we are embarking on an ambitious project to create a print ready Ubuntu Manual. As the first step towards this we have created a website dedicated to compiling content that can go into the ubuntu manual. You can check out the ubuntu manual site.
Toshiba announced the prices of its laptops for the month of July 2008. They have introduced models at very competitive prices. Here we have give the list of models available and their prices.
Acer India announced prices of its consumer based notebooks for the month of July 2008. The prices have been made very competitive. The prices start from around Rs. 23000/-. The basic model contains 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard disk space and a DVD Burner. Here we have given the prices of all models and their prices.
Acer - Aspire 5315NWLCi
Acer India announced prices of its commercial range of notebooks for the month of July 2008. The prices have been made very competitive with a lot of features. We have given the list of models and their respective prices.
Wipro announced the prices of its notebook range for the month of July. They are very competitively priced. There are only 2 models available. One comes with Intel Celeron processor and the other is with Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Both these come pre-loaded with Linux. These laptops are Windows compatible, but it has to be installed by the customer. Here are the list of models and their prices.
We had recently been involved in a project to set up a Conference Management System for an International Conference to be conducted in Kerala sometime later this year. We had zeroed in on Pentabarf as the solution we were going to base the system on. Pentabarf is a Ruby on Rails solution that has been used for the last couple of DebConfs. Pentabarf as such is an excellent system, being a system created by programmers for programmers, but it heavily lacked in documentation both on their site and on the world wide web. We however managed to get it installed on Ubuntu with Apache, Ruby on Rails and FastCGI. We are sharing the installation instructions for Pentabarf on Ubuntu here