Some Hanoilugers gatered on April 26, 2008 to test migration and start update the Hanoilug repositories Thanks to : Vũ Đỗ Quỳnh, Lê Quốc Thái, Jean Christophe André, , Ngô Huy Hoàng and Nguyễn Đình Trung.
The report of the session is here.
You may want to reserve some of your time for the next hanoilug event.
Now there’s a way to convert native ODF documents, thanks to HanoiLUG volunteer JC you can now convert document from ABC and VNI font to unicode. It’s still a command line tool, but it is very easy to use. More information on here http://www.hanoilug.org/dokuwiki/projects:ovniconv.
If you are a Ubuntu user you can get it by using hanoilug repository.
We are looking for someone to package it for Fedora and other distribution. It would also be nice to have someone who can take care of the Fedora repository.
We worked again on the Intel donated server last saturday. In fact we didn’t work that much but we got the following working :
- Traffic shaping with wondershaper, well it’s ain’t big success so far we have to get better control over what we can do with it.
- The script that will enable rsync and wget to download repositories of Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian
And we ate pizza too..
The hanoilug.org server has been upgraded to PHP 5 since PHP 4 won’t be supported anymore in the next stable Debian release.
Some hanoilug members gathered last Saturday to work on the Server Donated by intel. This server is supposed to become an official mirror for linux repositories for vietnam.
For now it is called “virror” (vietnam Mirror)
We have the base install, some virtual servers, the basic internal networking, the next step is finish the syncing, do the traffic shaping then the put the box at Netnam, who is kindly donating the bandwidth and the place to host it
For the record the machine spec are :