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Linux in call center - Part 2 of 2

Convincing Management of Ace Money

We are thankful to the management of Ace Money for trusting us with their IT infrastructure & letting us deploy the infrastructure on Linux platform. Although initially we had to do a lot of convincing as the management was reluctant & was having the doubt whether the users will adopt the new system. But after some hard work, the management team gave us a go ahead with our proposal.

Linux in call center - Part 1 of 2

I'm the CEO of an Infrastructure Management company Solution Enterprises based out of Pune with core competence in Linux & open source technologies. People usually are skeptical & reluctant to use linux as their operating system of choice. Traditionally linux has been a choice of techies & geeks. But let me assure that it's now an OS of the masses, with lot's of stability, user friendliness, secured & fun.

WBox is a simple HTTP Testing Tool written in ANSI C which works on a POSIX system like Linux. Windows systems are not supported and compiles on a MacOS X system. It is a 20 Kb zip file which has code written in ANSI C. We can use it to perform many different tasks which include

Benchmarking how much time it takes to generate content for your web application.
Web server and web application stressing.

DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre
By Robin Rowe on Tue, 2007-06-05 01:00. Audio/Video
DreamWorks Animation pushes the limits of CG filmmaking with Linux.

All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and more than 3,000 server CPUs.

It would be the first time in the world that major IT firms like Oracle, IBM and NEC join hands to market equipment running the free software, the Nikkei newspaper said.
Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on Thursday.
It would be the first time in the world that major IT firms join hands to market equipment running the free software, the Nikkei newspaper said.

Computer maker Dell has chosen Ubuntu as the operating system for its range of Linux computers for consumers.

Fans of Linux hope that the move will persuade more mainstream PC users to abandon Microsoft Windows and opt for the open-source operating system.

London-based firm Canonical, the lead sponsor of the Ubuntu project, will ensure the software works on Dell PCs.

Ubuntu includes software like office programs, e-mail, a browser, instant messaging software and a media player.

A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux. He tells the INQUIRER about this often unknown and unrecognised achievement.

Near three years ago, I purchased the cheapest USB webcams - actually, pair - I could find at the time, without taking into consideration whether those webcams worked with Linux or not. I ran one desktop PC with Win2K and one of the webcams was plugged to that box. I quickly found out several things: first, "Made in China" webcams surely are cheap, but that comes at a price of often having no support web site, no physical address of the manufacturer, and no updates to its drivers. The Win2K drivers for the "DigiGR8" 301P had apparently a memory leak under Win2k, forcing me to reboot the win2k box on a daily basis. Basically it just stopped working after a dozen hours of continuous use, and rebooting was the only solution.

I have already updated a blog entry regarding this weeks significant news items from the world of Open Source software, here, so I'll not cross-post( Look Maa!! I'm learning netiquettes!!)

Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET Framework built to run on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. If you are developing on Windows, you can build Mono applications using Visual Studio as well as SharpDevelop, but neither of those IDEs runs on Linux or Mac OS X. MonoDevelop started out as a port of the SharpDevelop IDE but has since evolved independently into the only Mono IDE available for GNOME-based Linux desktops.

entire story is on this link
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticle

Dell to Expand Linux Factory Installed Options
Since launching Dell IdeaStorm a little more than a month ago, one idea has risen to and stayed at the top: better support for Linux. We have heard you and appreciate the direct feedback. On March 13, we responded by launching a Linux survey asking for your feedback on what you need for a better Linux experience. Thank you to the more than 100,000 people who took the survey. Here are some of the highlights from the survey:

VCampus Corporation (OTCBB:VCMP.OB), a leader in certification and professional development training and services, together with the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), today announced the launch of the LPI North America Online Learning Portal. Based on LPI's globally-recognized certification objectives, this portal is poised to meet growing demand for sophisticated, professional Linux programmers, consultants and systems administrators. You can log on to the VCampus LPI Online Learning Portal at http://www.vcampus.com/lpinama.

Firstly, I must apologize for the morbid Title. I'll think of a better one for my next blog.
My endeavor henceforth will be to extrapolate relevant articles from the crazy world of Open Source Software (primarily on Linux), by which I mean, I'll just post my favorite reads here :-D

Two good articles that came to my notice were :
--> Greg Kroah Hartman writes a good articles about the Myths, Lies and Truth about the Linux Kernel. I must say, this is a must read for all the Windows fanboys and Linux newbies. Also, ignorant Linux evangelists might have lots of things to boast about.

https://barcamp.org/OssBarCampMumbai

!!What
OssBarCampMumbai is proposed to be a camp where we brainstorm/ share ideas/ discuss on the latest in open source world, web technologies. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

Attendees are strongly encouraged to give a demo, a session, or help with one. You can help by taking notes on the wiki, blogging the event, helping to promote the event, or helping with logistics.

RED HAT CHALLENGE

This is your special invitation to participate in the Red Hat
Challenge. The Challenge provides a chance for technology-savvy
business and design school students from top graduate schools
in select countries to compete for a $20,000 grand prize and
a trip to San Diego for the Red Hat Summit.

In addition to the prizes, the Red Hat Challenge provides a
unique way for you to demonstrate innovative thinking to the

After all the speculation, Dell has announced it will start selling computers with pre-installed Linux distributions instead of Microsoft Windows.

Reportedly, the idea is born out of IdeaStorm, Dell's all new Web site that was launched on Feb 16, and has since experienced a flood of requests, with users asking for Dell NBs and desktops loaded with pre-installed Linux distributions plus the open source alternative to Microsoft Office - OpenOffice.org.