Ideas.. I've seen people kill in the name of them... and die defending them. We are told to remember the idea, not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But several years later... his idea can still change the world.
FOSS
Spirula Systems was the defender of opposition websites in the Egyptian revolution
Submitted by linuxawy on Mon, 14/02/2011 - 7:40pm
الترجمة العربية بالأسفل
My presentation in SFD2010
Submitted by linuxawy on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 3:16pm
Today I have given the first session in the Software Freedom Day made in bibalex. As usual it was an introduction about FOSS and a quick look at its history.
Follows is the presentation itself:
Spirula Systems, a dream coming true
Submitted by linuxawy on Thu, 08/04/2010 - 1:48pm
After years of working as a system engineer, I have decided to open my own company. It's called Spirula Systems. The name comes from the sea shell Spirula, as it looks like debian swirl, it's a shell, and it lives in alexandria, where Spirula Systems is located.
EGLUG installfest April 3rd, Call for volunteers
Submitted by linuxawy on Tue, 23/03/2010 - 1:02am
There will be an installfest in cairo on April 3rd, if anyone can volunteer please do in eglug's coordination page.
Eglug is organizing an InstallFest in the Sawy Culture wheel on Saturday the 3rd of April.
compiz and metacity fight to be "compositing manager" in debian lenny
Submitted by linuxawy on Sun, 02/11/2008 - 8:27am
After I managed to run my X fine after my last problem with Xorg configurations, I had apt-getted compiz fusion. After it has run few times ok, It just stopped running, when i try to start it using compiz --replace I get the following error:
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
Thank you EGLUG
Submitted by linuxawy on Fri, 31/10/2008 - 12:10am
I've been promoted to be an admin in Egypt Gnu/Linux User Group as was discussed in this thread..
العرض التقديمى بتاع الندوة الرابعة فى مكتبة الاسكندرية
Submitted by linuxawy on Tue, 28/10/2008 - 1:05pm
مع ان الندوة ديه اللى اداها محمد السيد، لكن برضه حانزلها فى البلوج بتاعى.. غلاسة بقى...
وعلشان ابو عيسى ما جاش المرة ديه، ما حدش صور.. ما فيش صور ولا فيديو :(
الندوة الثالثة للبرمجيات الحرة بمكتبة الاسكندرية
Submitted by linuxawy on Wed, 08/10/2008 - 1:07pm
بعد المرة اللى فاتت والعدد الكويس اللى حضر .. الحمد لله المكتبة بتزود تعاونها معانا :)
ان شاء الله شكل الندوات حتتثبت مرة كل أسبوعين كل يوم سبت.. وربنا يسهل ونظبط مكان للاجتماعات كمان
ندوة عن البرمجيات الحرة
Submitted by linuxawy on Mon, 01/09/2008 - 10:40pm
ان شاء الله يوم السبت اللى جاى (6 سبتمبر) حتكون فيه ندوة عن المصادر المفتوحة فى مكتبة الاسكندرية الساعة 1 بقاعة auditorium. الدخول مفتوح لجميع الناس. يا ريت اللى يعرف ينشر الموضوع ده علشان لو العدد اللى جه مش كويس حيكون صعب اننا نعرف نعمل حاجة خاصة باللينوكس قريب هناك.
My favourite Software
Submitted by linuxawy on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 9:38am
Actually I'm posting this cause lots of people are asking me about what program should i use to do this and to do that, anyway these are my preferences they can be not the best things ever.
OS: GNU/Linux
linux destro for laptop/desktop: ubuntu, but planning to move my desktop to gentoo soon.
linux destro for servers: debian stable, though i use some packages from unstable repository. planning to try gentoo soon.
desktop enviroment: gnome & xfce. planning to try enlightment soon.
terminal: xfce-terminal, i like it.
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