Today, almost all in my class(May be all @ college) came to college thinking of strike. But surprisingly, nothing was there in front of the college gate(For all strikes, we usually see a lot of students gathered there blocking the way to college). So, everyone went to classes sadly… 🙁

There were rumors that the class will be suspended by noon. After the 2nd period, few seniors came with the notice and all was happy. I have nothing to do at home, so, I stayed at college and with the permission of HOD, continued with the Debian installation in the Internet and Multimedia lab of CSE department. Though Mahesh was present, he was busy with some other works. My classmate Mansoor KPA also helped me in the installations. By 4.30PM, we installed 15 systems with Debian and the one alloted for GNULab with gNewSense.

At Fastech Systems, Valanchery, I installed one of the systems with gNewSense 2.0 delta-h. It is a distro derived from Debian and Ubuntu, but follows the philosophy of GNU in the packages. It comes in a CD with both live and install features. Its similar to Debian and Ubuntu in the visual aspects, but has got more packages than the Debian installation CD. Since installation is from the Live CD, its much easier. Also, I felt it more faster than Debian which was in the same system earlier.

Another important feature is that gNewSense has got a repository located in India, which I felt faster than the Debian’s, located in US.