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Submitted by Alaa on Sun, 01/08/2004 - 00:50.

Day 1

Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

  • Free Software ideals
  • Open Source philosophy
  • benefits

The GNU/Linux platform

  • benefits
  • nature

Installing GNU/Linux

  • partitioning
  • locale select
  • package selection
  • hardware detection
  • network settings
  • bootloader
  • user accounts

Basic Desktop usage

  • introduce Gnome
  • introduce KDE
  • favor KDE

Day 2

Basic Desktop usage

  • file management
  • panel navitgation
  • desktop configuration
  • mention differences

Common Applications Office

  • openoffice
  • mention alternatives
  • compatibility
  • mention differences

Internet

  • mozilla suite
  • Kontact
  • Kopete
  • kppp
  • gftp
  • kget
  • liferea

Multimedia

  • mplayer/totem
  • gimp
  • gqview
  • inkscape
  • avidemux/kdeenlive
  • audacity/ardour

Other

  • LyX
  • planner
  • dia
  • scribus
  • superkaramba
  • imgseek
  • mention webapps
  • nvu
  • dict client
  • qcad
  • blender

Day 3

Closer view of GNU/Linux system

  • filesystem
  • components
    • kernel
    • GNU
    • command line
    • X
    • desktop
    • cups
    • sane
    • samba
  • DrakXTools
  • DrakWizard

seeking help and support

  • manuals
  • webresources
  • google
  • eglug.org
  • #eglug
  • saturdays

for blender

whirlpool's picture
Submitted by whirlpool on Sun, 01/08/2004 - 11:41.

show this video

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djvu

whirlpool's picture
Submitted by whirlpool on Tue, 03/08/2004 - 15:00.

its too late i guess anyways next time mention djvu

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very confusing

Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Tue, 03/08/2004 - 23:24.

this is not what you're talking about is it?

DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster, looks nicer on a screen, and consume less client resources than competing formats. DjVu was originally developed at AT&T Labs-Research by Leon Bottou, Yann LeCun, Patrick Haffner, and many others. In March 2000, AT&T sold DjVu to LizardTech Inc. who now distributes Windows/Mac plug-ins, and commercial encoders (mostly on Windows)

don't tell me we have another firebird name conflict fiasco at hand.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"

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Yes this is what I am talking about

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Submitted by whirlpool on Wed, 04/08/2004 - 20:13.

Well, it is actually something like pdf but cooler and much better in case of scanned ebooks, OCRed ebooks, comics and newspaper. And things are rendered much faster. There are 132 egyptian children books published by the bibalex in DjVu format. Intrestingly some of the books were published in 1998 !! DjVu is a free --as in freedom-- format. Urpmi can install it for you as usuall.

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