You Said It

YOUSAID IT

An innovation based on open source

I am in my final year B.E. in Computer Science at Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering College at Thiruvarur in Tamil Nadu. I have developed an open source operating system from Debian Source (Linux) for ARM. It runs on Cubietruck–a single-board computer, which is a new embedded device released just one month ago. Would you have any suggestions on how best my work ought to be taken forward?

—Pravin Selva, gselvapravin@gmail.com

ED: Thanks for writing to us. It is nice to know about your achievement and many congratulations. After all, the spirit of FOSS lies in giving back to the community. According to us, the best way to let people know about your innovation would be through an article. Let us know if you can write for us about your work. We look forward to hearing from you regarding this.

Looking for content on open source proxy servers

I would like to know more about any Linux-based open source proxy server that is easy to use. It would be great if you could provide some content about this topic in your magazine. I am sure a lot of readers will benefit from the articles. I hope you will consider my request.

—S Sasikumar, lovelymicrobes@gmail.com

ED: Thanks a lot for getting in touch with us and letting us know about your wishes. The topic is indeed good and we are sure it will be of interest to many of our readers. We have taken note of your suggestion and will definitely consider publishing articles on open source proxy servers in forthcoming editions. Till then, keep reading Open Source For You and feel free to give us more suggestions.

Non-delivery of magazine

I have been a regular reader and a great fan of Open Source For You since I was in Standard 8. It would be great if you improve your delivery service as I have subscribed for the magazine for a two-year period, but it does not get delivered to me on a regular basis. In fact, earlier when I complained about this, I was sent two copies of ‘Electronics For You'! I am a computer science student and I need all the articles from the ‘Device Driver’ series urgently for my projects and academics. Due to the magazine not being delivered to me, I’ve missed them. I request you to arrange for the articles to be delivered to me as soon as possible as they are very useful.

—Vikas Malviya, vikasm.dtu@gmail.com ED: Apologies for the inconvenience. We are forwarding this mail to our support team to immediately sort out this issue. Please feel free to contact Molly Nair (manager, Customer Support) at complaints@efyindia.com or call her up on 0112681 0601/ 02/ 03 (extension: 201 or 202). Meanwhile, you can browse through the series on device drivers on our website www. opensourceforucom. Here is the link: http://www.linuxforu.com/ tag/linux-device-drivers-series/. Hope this helps.

On sharing my tutorial

Mahendhar Reddy: I have done a tutorial on ‘How to create your own Twitter using open source software?' Can you let me know how I can share my work with the open source community through your magazine? Thanks.

Open Source For You: Hi Mahendhar.

That's a nice initiative. Can you write an article about it? Just ensure that the content is original and not published anywhere else. But first, you need to send us a mail at osfyedit@efyindia.com so that we can send you the editorial guidelines.

Ezines on Kindle devices

Arunprasad Rajkumar: I have been reading OSFY for the last four years and it is really awesome! I have a suggestion for you. Why don't you publish your ezines with Amazon so that they would be readable on Kindle devices?

Open Source For You: That's a nice

suggestion. Thanks. However, as of now, we do not offer that facility, but will definitely try and do so for future editions of our ezines.

Share Your Please send your comments or suggestions to:

The Editor, Open Source For You, D-87/1, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I, New Delhi 110020, Phone: 011-26810601/02/03, Fax: 011-26817563, Email: osfyedit@efyindia.com