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El-Cheapo Community LPI Exams on 15th March 2008

We’re happy to announce that we’ll be organizing an LPI certification session. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is a non-profit organization geared to provide professional certification for the Linux Community. This would be an excellent opportunity for working professionals, students and interested individuals to get certified at a low cost.
(More information about LPI available here: [...]

FOSS.in Conference Day 2

This is day 2 of the conference. Reports for previous days are as follows: Project Day 1, Project Day 2, Conference Day 1.
Union Mount: VFS based Filesystem Namespace Unification for Linux
Bharata B. Rao from IBM spoke on union mount, a filesystem namespace unification (ie, the concept of merging the contents of two or more directories/filesystems [...]

FOSS.in Project Day 2 (Day 2)

Here is a report of FOSS.in Project Day 2 (day 1 report is available here):
Fedora: Freedom is a Feature
Rahul Sundaram spoke on the importance of Freedom (as in free speech). He gave a great example that insisting on Freedom drives innovation and interoperatibility, as in the case where SUN opened up the Java platform (as [...]

FOSS.in Day 1 (Project Day 1)

So, here is a report of foss.in Project Day 1. Colin, Aizatto and yours truly decided on attending the Mozilla Project Day. It started off by a short introduction by Mary Colvig from Mozilla Corporation.
Oh the places you’ll go! (things you can do with firefox extensions)
Myk Melez then started off Firefox extensions “Oh the places [...]

The Hindraf Gathering, part deux

“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” - John Gilmore
MalaysiaKini has up-ed the projected number of people who attended the gathering to 30,000.
Already we have two more Al-Jazeera reports up:
Hindraf Report:

Hindraft 11.35 am report:

The Use of Unjustified Police Force
Famous human rights lawyer and activist, Malik Imtiar Sarwarat, wrote on his blog:
From the [...]