Being a regular tmux user. Migrating a running process into tmux using reptyr comes handy. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home. The package available in Fedora/Ubuntu repositories. ...
After a long time, we had a Bangalore Fedora meetup(March 8, 2014) at Red Hat, Bangalore. The attendees for the event were: Anil Shah Varun Shastry Rejy M Cyriac Ratnadeep Debnath Sayan Chowdhury Sarup Banskota The discussion took place around the following agendas: Fedora Monthly Meetup We decided start off with a local Fedora meetup here in Bangalore every month to chalk out on how to reach to a greater audience in and around city to evangelize on Fedora, FOSS and contributing back to the community. ...
We are elated to inform you that Waartaa has been accepted as a project idea for GSoC under Fedora’s umbrella. For those who are new to Waartaa, Waartaa is an open-source communication tool for teams and groups. It is built on top of IRC. Currently, Waartaa is an IRC client as a service and it supports centralized logging, 24x7 idling, notifications and unique identity to a user on IRC. The source code is available at https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa for you to download and hack on it. ...
Mukti 2014 is the annual national level technical symposium on Free and Open Source Software of the GNU/Linux Users’ Group NIT Durgapur held from 31st January - 2nd February 2014. I’ve been attending Mukti for last four years. Unlike, the previous years when i usually attended Mukti as a student participant, this year I attended Mukti as a guest speaker. Day 0 (30th January 2014) After a hectic travel from Bangalore to Durgapur via Kolkata. TMC called of the largest Brigade Rally in Kolkata on the very day. The bus i was travelling from Kolkata Airport to Howrah station dropped me at an unknown location. I somehow dragged myself and my luggage to station. The condition at the station was worse, packed compartments including the reserved ones and people fighting for their seats. After a big quarrel, I somehow got my seat. ...
I have been involved in Durgapur Linux User’s Group for around last five years. I have been contributing to various open source projects quite sometime. The primary reason on why I contribute to open source is the feeling, the enjoyment when you send a patch or a PR to a open source project. It makes you happy when millions of people use your few lines of code in day to day life. ...