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Frederick Noronha (FN | 15 Jun 2006 22:52

[GNU/LinuxInIndia] GNU/Linux books...

Some books available with Shroff Publishers at Mumbai
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O'REILLY

* Linux in a Nutshell            Rs 500
* MySQL in a Nutshell            Rs 325
* Open Source for the Enterprise Rs 250
* Perl best practices            Rs 450
* Perl Testing: Developer's Nbk  Rs 225
* Test driving Linux             Rs 350

CHARLES RIVER MEDIA

* Linux TCP/IP Stack             Rs 450

NO STARCH PRESS

* Linux Cookbook                 Rs 600
* Linux for Non-Geeks            Rs 300
* The official GNOME 2
  Developer's Guide              Rs 475
* Wi-Fi                          Rs 250
* Write Great Code               Rs 400

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Frederick Noronha | 27 Jun 2006 22:00

[GNU/LinuxInIndia] India picks up support for ODF

http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/06/india_picks_up_.html

India picks up support for ODF

IndiaflagLast Friday, 23 June 2006 the India chapter of the ODF
Alliance conducted a National Seminar on ODF in New Delhi. Quoting an
article on the event:

Welcoming this initiative and highlighting its importance in Indian IT
Scenario, Chandershekhar, secretary, Ministry of Information &
Technology, Government of India said, "We are glad to note that with
formation of a National ODF alliance, India too would be playing a
pivotal role in spearheading the ODF revolution. Further, considering
the huge potential of eGovernance in the nation as well as the need to
adopt open standards to make our data systems more inter-operable and
independent of any limiting proprietary tools, we feel that ODF is a
great technological leap and a big boon to further propel IT right to
India's grass root levels. I congratulate this initiative of leading
private & public organisations and wish them all the best in this
endeavor."

In another article in conjunction with the event, it was reported that
several government departments in New Delhi have decided to switch
over to ODF.

Note that the India chapter of the ODF Alliance includes CDAC (Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing) and IIT (Indian Institute of
Technology).

I have encouraged before that Malaysian organizations and companies
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