My Resolution

I just heard the speech of Richard M Stallmann (The greates human that vere was (and is)in my opinion!). It was about usage of free software and GNU. I was shocked about my ignorance of the isgnificance of GNU in gnu/linux. After all only debain slack and few others(Dyne:Bolic Morphix etc..) feature the term GNU. Linux is a mere monolithic kernel. GNU can be without linux (eg. GNU/HURD ) But not vice versa. I was a person saying

"As long as something is good, use it ddont worry about free-nonfree stuff!

I realized the next momet

I WAS WRONG

So i made up my mind. I am going to use only free software sing GPL or LGPL from now onwards. All are invited to join the quest. No more hunting for the perfect distro, I am going to build mine from scratch using GNU stuff.

I also joined FreeSoftwareFoundation of India (fsf.org.in) .

I am going to put in the Rs 500 I had as pocket money as a contribution to this organisation which supports GNU policies.
Any takers??

Here we go one more time.
I would like to introduce to the world, the blog of my close friend Ram-Einstein.
www.ram-einstein.blogspot.com
I met this fellow on IRC's chatchannel #archlinux . Needless to say, he is one of the biggest geeks i met.

Differneces between us



Category
Window Manager
Ram: RatPoison Me:Fluxbox
IRC client
Ram: IRSSI
Me: Gaim/XChat
Mail Client
Ram: Mutt
Me: Sylpheed

But at the same time we share common features too,like both are in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Both are probabaly the youngest in our locality to take linux (Both 16 at that time (now 17)). And both use Arch Linux and like tougher things( Not dumb kde which I once liked before understanding WMs)

So visit this site. It is regularly updated and good!




ScriptDevil

Finally back to blogging ways, want able to connect to the net for a long time thanks to various exams!
I, as far as I know, have always been messing around with distros, fedora->ubuntu->zenwalk (all were too easy). -> Gentoo(Give me a break compiling everything is BORING). -> FreeBSD (now thats like it but bsd had a different nomenclature of hard drives(Googd but not for college stuff where Linux is taught) -> mandriva( ScriptDevil vomits) -> Underground( Thats OK , still something lagging) -> Crux( Couldnt set the damn thing up -> lilo kept throwing errors) -> Arch Linux == "Haven"
ArchLinux thoroughly swept me off my feet. It rocked . All you need is 200 MB of downloads and then a blank cd to write to, pop it in the drive and voila.
There you go . Arch Does not have the simplistic Ubuntu type install, but it si really simple. It is for those linux users who feel a few whacky commands in command line is OK
I got the distro installed, and configured rc.conf (with lilo, grub gave me troubles)
Then used one magical command
pacman -Syu
Thsi updated my full ssytem(Dont forget to run /sbin/lilo for updating it to understand the new kernel).
The next step?
pacman -Sy xorg hwd
next hwd -x Thsi created Xorg.conf.hwd file which i then copied to xorg.conf
the pacman -S fluxbox
then open .xinitrc and the unmask #exec fluxbox (use exec startfluxbox for better results)
Then i added the packages as and when required using pacman -Sy (pacman -S if u did a -Sy sometime near)
This distro is all set to rool the roost soon. It is #20 on distrowatch but the league table is silly, dumb bloated fedora in #3 while great gentoo, slack, freebsd.. far behind.