My first Linux user group meetup was in 2001/2002. It changed my life forever. It shaped my career, got me a huge network and shaped me as an individual. I can’t imagine where I would have been in life if I had not encountered Lug/FOSS. The network, mentoring and relationship have helped me in all …
Category Archives: Gnu/Linux
Contributing to Open Source
Searching “contributing to open source” throws About 30,100,000 results (0.56 seconds) Now the real question is being an Open Source evangelist, what/how should one proceed when talking about same? I am still from Old school & believe contribution to Open Source comes from inside hence: 1. Telling someone to use Open Source because its virus free …
Happy 30th Birthday GNU!!
GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!” has turned 30 years. Thanks to Richard Stallman (RMS) for this wonderful initiative along with lot many volunteers . The best part is over 30 years the project has grown to new dimension. We are using it many times in our day to day life without …
Linux Namespaces, CentOS & OpenStack
Few weeks back me & my friend wanted to try out OpenStack on CentOS. We followed all steps but after 3 days of debugging we were still not able to figure out the issue. I am total newbie with the networking part of OpenStack, trying to catch up with it. After hitting head around forums, launchpad …
Ubuntu MIR & Rolling release.
Almost everyone from community has written in great length & depth about how recent rolling release and MIR announcement has been Canonical`s decision. I am not writing this blog to prove anyone wrong or taking side with anyone. What Canonical has done for community & spreading word of Linux has been incredible. They are an Enterprise and …
5 recipe for a healthy FOSS community!!
Wrote another article on Muktware 5 recipe for a healthy FOSS community!! Let me know what you guys think. 🙂
Event Report: OpenStack Day Bangalore 15th Dec 2012
We had great Openstack Day event in Bangalore, details of event and report can be found here http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/event-report-openstack-day-bangalore-india/
Bluelight Powering Auroville With OpenSource
Finally i wrote about my experience meeting folks of Bluelight You can read it http://www.muktware.com/4497/bluelight-powering-auroville-opensource
Software Freedom Day in Chennai and Pondicherry on Sep 22, 2012
Last week i participated at SFD conducted by the folks from ilug-chennai and fsf-tn. The event was good and i had chance to interact with lots of college students. There were many booths with students explaining about it like Ubuntu, Mozilla, Mysql others. You can find all details about it in official ilug-c blog here At same time i …
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Event report: FOSS meetup in Hyderabad!!
Am too late to blog on the same. Pavi along with Praveen organized nice meetup in Hyderabad. The refreshing part about the meetup was presence of 30+ folks 🙂 We had folks from Ubuntu/Wikipedia/Mozilla/Puppet/Openstack were present. Detailed blog post about the event can be found at :– http://telugulinux.blogspot.in/ (In Telegu/use translate software) http://look-pavi.blogspot.in/2012/06/ubuntu-release-event-foss-team-hangout.html (English) Photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/110580559131773472480/albums/5757213753439087057 …