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Happy Birthday Debian

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Praveen A
on August 16, 2006
in Free Software and HP
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Debian is celebrating 13th anniversary today.

There is a happy news that HP is offering support for Debian on Proliant and BladeSystem servers to make this birthday even sweeter.

“With Debian, just like with Red Hat and Novell/SUSE, we’ll be taking real calls from real customers to address their support needs”, Jeffrey Wade, worldwide marketing manager of open source and Linux at HP

Read Press Release

And Debian welcomes HP’s support

“I find it really pleasing that companies are doing support for Debian not because we’ve negotiated with them, but because customers are asking for it.” said Debian Project Leader Anthony Towns.

Also with the Etch release scheduled for December here is an etch song

October Linux Profession meet

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Praveen A
on October 20, 2005
in Bangalore, Free Software and HP
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There are various professions (interest groups) inside HP that cater to varying interests of the employees. Some of the professions are ‘Linux Technology’, ‘Unix Technology’, ‘Microsoft Technology’ … I’m a member of the Linux Technology Profession. We meet every month and October meet was on 7th. We had two presentations

  1. Remote Development using eclipse by Bala
  2. Diskdump and netdump tools by Masa San (he is Linux Technology Profession Japan lead).

(Those of you missed Bala’s talk can attend his talk in FOSS.IN ) Continue reading ‘October Linux Profession meet’