GSOC: Amazing Summer of Code

GSOC is over. And my project apertium-tr-ky MT between Turkish and Kyrgyz languages is ready to use.
You can read my final report here.
It was amazing summer, thank you Google, Apertium.

Kyrgyzstan first time in GSOC.

I am proud to announce that this year one student from Kyrgyzstan ;) accepted to one of the biggest open source event GSOC first time. Details you can read in official GSOC blog.

Acer Aspire 4710 White screen...

It is almost 4 years since I am using laptop Acer Aspire 4710. Almost all Fedora and OpenSUSE releases worked on it out of the box. But there is one "but" , screen turns white randomly. Before it happened rarely, i was solving it just by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 (switching tty) and back. But after Fedora 12 it was not helping me anymore. And it started to become white more frequently last days. So i decided to solve it or to buy a new laptop.
I found this blog http://blog.shimpossible.com/2007/07/18/white-screen-of-death/ and followed one of it's comments. I removed a small magnet located under the lid cover and it is working now. Seems to be the magnet could have affected the video signal. But than why it was located there?

Fedora 12.

I have installed fresh Fedora12 without problem. Running ,loving . Nice release congratulations.
You can download it here.

Get to know a Fedora Ambassador or User

Name : Mirlan Ipasov

IRC Nick : gantu

IRC Channel : #fedora-ambassadors #fedora-meeting and a ton of others on irc.freenode.net

Fedora Ambassador : Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan

LTSP on top of Fedora 10 is up and running.

Finally our LTSP set-up is completed and it is running now. I installed LTSP on top of existing Fedora 10 installation. My server configuration is: Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM 320 GB of HDD. I am using old PC's as a ThinClients for now.
I followed all instructions which are written on installation guide.
Difficulties which i faced during the configurations are: old switch and old network cables. I spend one day to figure out that my switch is not working correctly so finally i replace the switch with new one. Cables were also old. It is always better to have new one than old one :).

Now i am going to monitor the performance. 6 clients are going to be connected to the server. The work load is not so high (Open Office, Internet surfing and printing). I hope performance will be well.

Linux and LTSP as a solution for Educational Institution.

Last week there were a small gathering of computer teachers of International Sebat Educational Institution. I was invited to this gathering to give talk about Open Source , Linux and Fedora. I talked about Fedora especially Fedora education Spin, OpenSUSE life Education and LTSP (according to my friends suggestion).
So after some questions about how Linux can be the solution for labs we decided to try LTSP with Fedora.
And in this week we are going to install and see the performance of LTSP in our lab at out university, which Fedora is already installed. According to the results we will try to adopt it in other schools and institutions.