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… loads to study for exams… see u all after exams..

We now have the support of our teachers.. We have started a lug for rvce students and its guided by Krishkant Mane Sir ( from TIFR) and RP Sir … KK sir is planning a lot of things for the group. I am very very happy for this.. Thank God things are improving

I picked up the spirit of FOSS( Free/Open source Software) from foss.in 2006. The most wonderful aspect about foss is the community that guides u, the community that supports u. You tend to explore more and more.. The open source philosophy offers you a lot of freedom. Being a student, the availability of source code is a boon to me.

Even technically, Open Source Software is far better than the Proprietary Software. Again, the dedicated community is the key factor here. I salute all those contributors!!!

Many people ask me why I want many people to work on foss(or linux platform for that matter).. I believe that open source is a way of life.. I am not forcing people to use foss. But how wil people compare proprietary software and foss if they are ignorant about foss? How wil anyone know that foss is better if they dont know whats offered by the foss world?

I have been trying to make my friends aware about foss.. The initial response wasnt encouraging. I discussed the same matter even in foss.in 2006 (I think sm people do remember that..).. That time, Tarique, Sudha and others suggested me to start working on foss.  They said “Ur peers wil listen to u if they find that your work is good and interesting”.. Since a year, i have been doing the same.

We had a techno-managerical fest infinity ‘007 in our department.. V organized an event called “Bond with Linux”. It was a unique event of its kind.. introduced for the first time. It was to encourage the participants to know more about linux and FOSS in general. The response was good.. We hope to conduct many such events in future.

Personally, I did my curriculum project on File Structures on Linux. While the rest of the class did the project on W* platform, i faced a bit of opposition and discouragement initially (people said its very difficult to do it on linux!!!).. But i must admit, some people really supported me a lot. Now, when I am done with the project, every body is appreciating me for doing it on linux.. Great to see this…

I was very impressed with the features of Beryl and decided to try it.. I use ubuntu 7.04. I downloaded the beryl package using synaptic package manager. Even though beryl-manager appeared in Applications -> System Tools, i wasnt getting any of the features of beryl. I still dont know the reason for it. Then, I downloaded beryl-manager package using synaptic. That also appeared in Applications -> System Tools as a separate item. When i clicked on that particular menu/item, the screen went white and was not responding. I was forced to reboot my system.

The result was that I lost the GUI support in ubuntu. The login screen was appearing but after I entered my password, the attemp to login resulted in white screen again.. I then switched to the recovery mode and entered the following commands to remove the beryl.

sudo apt-get remove beryl

sudo apt-get remove beryl-manager

When i logged in through the normal mode of ubuntu, the GUI was restored to the normal .. Thank GOD!!

I hope i would install beryl successfully on my system smtime in the near future.

All of us seek happiness, no matter whether it is materialistic or the eternal bliss. All our actions should lead us towards the happiness that v seek. Its our weakness to allow smthing to disturb our happiness. So…. ” DONT WORRY, BE HAPPY ALWAYS”. Every moment has abundant happiness in it. Its upto us to discover it.