جنو لينكس مصر - حيث تأكل البطاريق الطعمية

Random tips

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:47:32 +0000

Here are some very short and small tips that can save someone's time.

If you are using linkdotnet's 07770777 and wvdial. Add this line to wvdial.conf

Stupid Mode = yes

كيف تحصل على احدث الأصدارات لجنولينكس

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:38:30 +0000

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list of senior users

Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:23:24 +0000

matata
ADminS
ezabi
BooDy
phaeronix
Manal
DarKnesS_WolF
ramez.hanna
ShErbO
Radi0ShacK
NewComer
mhlmi
arius32
ahmadtarek
Pronco
POSIX
SeeKeR
Joker Prince
CVirus
DJ KING
mildewy
soppy_boy
robertoramsis
eg_linux
Conceptor
mody
Marwa Youssef
linuxawy

Fire Fox

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:04:15 +0000

MEPIS - Reasons to try it

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:33:21 +0000

Based on Debian, SimplyMEPIS is gaining lots of popularity - it's now on the top 4 in distrowatch for this month, exceeding Gentoo, Ubuntu and even Debian itself !

I'm not going to write a full reveiw about MEPIS. I'll just tell you why I like it and what I'd like to see fixed.

SimplyMEPIS is a LiveCD, you can run it directly from the CD-ROM or install it to your hard drive. Here is where things get nice - the easiest and fastest installation I've ever seen, with almost no questions asked. Now that's what I call newbie-friendly !

The Desktop itself is clean, everything runs out-of-the-box including mozilla with all the popular plugins (even windows WMV). Some apps just didn't fit the CD, but hey you've got apt-get! Almost all packages can be found in debian software pools, MEPIS is already configured to use a nice mix of "stable", "testing" and "unstable" pools. It also uses the MEPIS pool which includes packages that were modified by the MEPIS team.

NGO Partners and affiliates

Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:37:29 +0000

A list of NGOs we work with

ArabDev
Center For Knowledge Society
Scientific Society For Telecom Engineers
COSPE Egypt
Arabic Human Rights Information Network

Using The AutoTools(Scripts)

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:56:44 +0000

Using The AutoTools

If you think one day to start programming on linux, sure you will use C language (not me, i will always use assembly), but when your program sources get biggers as its version increase or you want to publish its source code, how users gonna to use it, are they gonna to compile every source file separetely then link them all together, no it's a bad idea and very handy, you will have to use the autoscripts.

In this article i will describe how to use the autoscripts for your own program sources, so i will write a simple C sourcefile to show you how to use the autoscripts(autoheader,automake,autoconf).

IRC/XChat Howto

Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:52:29 +0000

What is IRC?

IRC is a text based chatting protocol. You as a user chat through what is called IRC client. The client is a program installed on your system and connects to an IRC network. A network is a group of servers connected to each other to manage the exchange of messages. Users connected to the same network can chat together even if each is connected to a different server as long as these servers belong to the same network. Each network has a group of what is called chat rooms or channels reaching to thousands of channels. If one join a room he'll be able to chat with all those who joined the same room in a conference fashion. As

دراسة - شركة ملابس جاهزة صغيرة تعتمد كلية على جنو/لينكس

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:26:04 +0000

تعتمد الشركات المصرية بصورة كبيرة على البرمجيات مغلقة المصدر لأداء اعمالها. وهناك الكثير من الأسباب لهذه الظاهرة وعلى رأسها نقص المعرفة و عدم الوعى ببدائل تلك البرامج فى عالم البرمجيات الحرة/مفتوحة المصدر. و نجد دائما أن مديرى و مالكى الشركات لا يثقون بالبرمجيات الحرة (ذات التكلفة المعدومة ) ويكونوا حذرين منها. و هناك دائما سؤال شائع وهو "كيف يمكن لنظام تشغيل حر و مجانى أن يكون بكفاءة الويندوز؟؟". تقريبا كل شخص يمتلك نوعا ما من الخبرة مع الويندوز و ذلك يشعره أن الحصول على الدعم التقنى سيكون سهل.

Case Study - Small Clothes Company in Alexandria Runs nothing but GNU/Linux

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:24:31 +0000

Egyptian companies have long relied on proprietary software to get their work done. There are many reasons for this, mainly lack of knowledge & awareness of the Free/Open Source alternatives. Most business owners/managers are simply wary of free (zero cost) software. "How would a free O/S have the quality of windows ??" is a popular question. Even grandma has some sort of windows experience, which makes them feel assured that it will be easy to obtain technical support, should problems arise.

Well, how about showing a real Egyptian business which relies solely on FOSS ??

Mr. Omar BayehElDin. is the owner of Abu Youssef company, which works in cloth. He's been running solely on GNU/Linux & Free software for years, and he's quite satisfied. He forgot all about crashes, viruses and has saved a lot of money ever since. here is the story:

6 years ago one of Mr.Omar's relatives (who was studing in U.S.A) showed to Mr.Omar And his Brother a strange Oprating System. that oprating system was GNU/Linux and they kept playing with it but it`s wasn`t a very friendly operating system like nowadays and it wasn`t known in Egypt at all.

In those old days windows was alrady installed in Mr.Omar company`s Lan ( 2 computers , 2 Laptops ) but he was using GNU/Linux on 386 box as a file server. After closing uneeded services it ran perfectly. He also used FoxPro for database stuff and sure the microsoft office on the computers of his Lan. but all that was about to change.

That change happend 3 years ago when el mosnfat (kinda like egyptian Intelectual Property police) sent Mr.Omar a letter asking him to rearrange his software and get rid of any pirated software he use if he using any or else face the consequences (very high fines and confisication of equipmen, not to mention lengthy trials and legal dances). so he chose to forget about that headache and save some money by switching to FOSS and GNU/Linux and use them full time in his company.

He started with the accounting system, after quickly reviewing Nola, Compier and SQL-Ledger he settled for SQL-Ledger which is a powerful accounting system that can do almost everything in accounting.

he also used OpenOffice.Org (and somtimes Koffice for compatibility with legacy proprietary formats like *.doc *.rtf), KDE as desktop env.

They're using Mandrake (after playing with Redhat, Slackware and Debian), currently running Mandrake 10, Mandrake was chosen for its ease of use and for adding arabic support very early on, but at the moment they're contemplating a move to debian due to the greater stability.

Mr Omar faced little hardware compatibility problems (some old soundcards that are now well supported), one big problem was internal winmodems, they avoided this eternal problem by buying external modems and switching to ADSL the moment it was available.

They get support online from free community sites, sometimes it difficult to find answers but a bit of searching is all they ever need.

Mr.Omar is quite happy and satistfied with FOSS and it`s work. since there is are viruses like windows and the system is less likely to be compromised, He says it was soo easy to switch to GNU/Linux becouse it did not required special skills from the employees all thay have to do is File->open stuff. Nothing fancy, just regular GUIs with menus, data entry fields and stuff which is user-friendly and quite similar to windows applications.

While Mr. Omar and his employees are no hackers, they're not simple users either, Mr Omar often finds himself using command line tools to find and grep things feeling that its much faster than the typical graphical ways.

when faced with a need that was not covered by existing FOSS apps, Mr Omar started thinking how he can help solve the problem by helping or contributing, the acountants needed a localized accounting package, Mr Omar quickly realised that if they don't do it themselves no one will, and after finding out that the process was rather simple he sat down and did the job himself, till this day he still maintains the Arabic translation of SQL-Ledger.

Really FOSS is great for all kind of work. and Mr.Omar Advise other small business owners to switch for FOSS if they are can dig enough into computers (or find employees who can).

We thank Mr. Omar for his contribution (FOSS is all about contributing and giving something back) - and for his precious time (as busy as he was, he gave us all the time we needed and was quite helpful). He showed us some of the very useful features of SQL-Ledger.

We hope this small interview would urge other businesses to migrate to Open Source software and benefit from the stability, security & cost savings. Having seen someone who's already done that may be just what we need.

if you know of other cases of FOSS usage or development in Egypt, tell us so we can cover them.

And now here are some pics of SQL-Ledger in Action.

NOTE:We coudn`t get (elmosanfat) letter since it was hard to find.

Experiencing Kazehakase

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:16:39 +0000

أنا لا أحترم المتطوعين I DO NOT RESPECT VOLUNTEERS

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:33:54 +0000

أنا لا أحترم المتطوعين

هذه المجموعة سجلت أساميها فى الدروس المجانية التى نقدمها فى ساقية عبد المنعم الصاوى و أكد كل منهم حضوره قبل بدء الكورس.

ثم اختفوا

الاقبال على الكورسات شديد لدرجة اننا لا نجد الوقت الكافى لتغطية احتياجات الكل، أصدقائنا و أقاربنا عليهم الانتظار لمدة شهر و ربما لن يتمكنوا من حضور الكورس بعد ذلك.

و مع هذا فهده المجموعة لا تحترم المتطوعين و لا وقتهم، ولا احتياجات الاخرين.

Distro.'s :Resala Linux

Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:06:07 +0000

GNU/Linux courses at Al Sawi Cultural Center

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:04:32 +0000

Want To Learn how to use GNU/Linux

Call 7350702 and ask for EGLUG courses

Over the month of August, EGLUG will organize 4 GNU/Linux courses for begginers.

The course will last 3 days (sunday, tuesday, thursday) from 5:30pm to 8:30pm and will cover the basics of installing and using a GNU/Linux desktop system.

The courses will be held in Al Sawi Cultural Center in Zamalek.

Rules and Bylaws of EGLUG

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:08:58 +0000

The purpose of these rules is not to restrict anyone but to help us create a community of friendship and goodwil and to ensure members rights.

all rules where arrived at through a democratic process and are periodicaly reexamined and changed if need be.

The Charter

The charter defines who we are, what we stand for and what the basic principals of the community are.

Current charter version was ratified on the 22nd of July 2004

Policies

The Resource Usage Policy

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:34:56 +0000

The Resource Usage Policy

Purpose

This document details how resources owned by eglug.org shall be used and what are the rights of the members in relation to these resources.

Disclaimer

Ownership here is a social contract not legal ownership, legal ownership would typicaly be to the one who payed for the resource, in case of payment by electronic means as in credit cards legal ownership will be to the owner of the account used to pay. while this in theory may give one person power over the whole community there is no practical means to avoid this problem, trust and peer pressure are the only thing the only guarantees we could have.

Member Class Assignment Policy

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:32:41 +0000

Member Class Assignment Policy

Purpose

This document details the process of selecting Administrators, Moderators and Senior Users.

It also covers the procedure for dealing with members who violate their mandates or abuse their positions.

Senior Members

Senior members shall be choosen from among new members in an auotmated fashion.

A score will be kept to measure each members activity in the LUG, any member who reaches a score of 100 points will be automaticaly promoted to senior member.

Only contributions in the in topic areas of the eglug.org website and activities will be scored, moderated/unpublished contributions will not be counted at all.

The Acceptable Use Policy

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:29:41 +0000

The Acceptable Use Policy

Purpose

The Acceptable Use Policy is a simple set of guidelines determining behavior in eglug. The intention is not to restrict, but rather to provide the barest possible protection for members in order to provide a respectable and constructive working environment for the site. The AUP is as follows.

The Policy

The following kinds of speech will not be allowed on the eglug.org website:

No content violating the laws of Egypt.
No Hate speech against individuals or groups.
No personal attacks.
No Profanity or sexualy explicit content.
No off topic content.

EGLUG Charter

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:07:28 +0000

The eglug.org charter

The Bahram Document

Article 1 - Title

The title of the group is The Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group - مجموعة مستخدمى جنو/لينكس فى مصر.

The lug shall be referred to as EGLUG - جنو/لينكس مصر

the domain name of the group shall be eglug.org

Article 2 - Why Does EGLUG.org exist

To promote the use of Free/Open Source Software in general and GNU/Linux in particular within Egypt
To provide support for GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software users and contributors in Egypt
To build a thriving, proactive and friendly community of GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software users.

دستور جنو لينكس مصر

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:03:06 +0000

دستور مجموعة مستخدمى جنو/لينوكس فى مصر

وثيقة بهرام

البند الأول - الأسم

أسم المجموعة هو مجموعة مستخدمى جنو/لينوكس فى مصر - The Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group وأيضا يشار لمجموعة مستخدمى لينوكس ب EGLUG - جنو/لينوكس مصر و أسم موقع المجموعة هو eglug.org

البند الثانى - لماذا جنو/لينوكس مصر موجودة؟

لترويج استخدام البرمجيات الحرة/مفتوحة المصدر بشكل عام و جنو/لينوكس بشكل خاص فى مصر.

صراع كراة الجاذبية

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:57:47 +0000

PLAY OR DIE (2)!!! tuxpuck

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:55:21 +0000

PLAY OR DIE (2) !!! oilwar

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:42:34 +0000

Play Or Die (2)!!! motal szombat

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:26:42 +0000

Play or DIE !!! Bzflag

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:21:58 +0000

Play Or Die !!! pingus

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:43:03 +0000

Play Or DIE !!! TuXRacer

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:02 +0000

Play Or DIE !!! Enemy Terrority

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:24:55 +0000

PLAY OR DIE!!!chromuim

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:49:53 +0000

Play or Die !!! ArmageTron

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:10:58 +0000