About Us

Who we are and what we do? 

We are a group of free-software (open source) enthusiasts looking to spread the awareness and benefits of the GNU/Linux operating system (Debian, Ubuntu, etc).  The benefits of GNU/Linux OS are innumerable and you have to experience it yourself to know more.  However, I will outline a few of the benefits here.  First off, its free (free as in air!!!). The operating system itself is free and on top of that, you will be able to get software packages for this operating system for almost all known purposes (photo editing, video editing, chatting, audio players, video players, forensic software, internet browsers, mail software, accounting software, and MANY MORE).  Currently there are over 37493 packages available to install and use in Debian operating system, and that too, FREE.  Secondly, Linux is the most secure operating system because of its complex nature of permissions and data handling.  It has got layers of security permissions, which makes hackers think twice before attacking a Linux machine; also the time/effort taken to hack a Linux machine will almost always outweigh the benefits. Thirdly, GNU/Linux is flexible.  You can customize your operating system to meet your needs.  Because of the above features, Linux is the operating systems used in around 95% of supercomputers.  World's fastest supercomputer, Milky Way 2, uses a customized version of Linux called Kylin Linux.  Out of the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world, 467 of them run some version of Linux on it.  Wherever there is a mission-critical task, or an area of computing that requires stability, security, and flexibility, Linux is the number one choice (there is no number two choice so far). Come on, wake up, get to know about open-source software.

There are a lot of free operating systems based on Linux out there and you are free to choose from a variety of options; however we specialize and provide technical support for the Debian operating system.  You are free to download and install the operating system freely available from the Internet, or if required, we can assist you with the installation for a nominal fee (transportation charges, etc) anywhere in Kerala.

Feel free to contact us @ +91-8086627747 / varunedamanayil@gmail.com (Varun Das), +91-9947433666 / solvintom@gmail.com (Solvin) for any assistance with GNU/Linux.

If you want to know more about administration visit our blog Grow With Linux or feel free to contact us.

Step by Step Installation

Debian is distributed freely over the Internet, so feel free to download it from http://www.debian.org/CD/

The DVD set is also available from many vendors or you can contact us by phone or e-mail (Varun Das @ +918086627747, varunedamanayil@gmail.com or Solvin Tom @ +91-9947433666/solvintom@gmail.com. There are some advantages with DVDs:

Installation from a DVD set is more straightforward. You can install the OS without an Internet connection. You can install Debian (on as many machines as you like) without downloading any package. The DVD can also be used to repair a damaged Debian system.

If you already have a DVD, follow the steps noted below to install it on your PC.  

First off, insert the DVD labeled "Debian 7.1".

Choose "Graphical Install"

Then choose the language; by default it's English

Choose the country.

 Choose the keyboard language you want to use.

  

Just a host name to identify in a network if you installing this in your office network or any type of network. If you using just one PC, leave it as it is. 

Choose a desired network name; you can also ignore this part.

You have to give this password carefully, because we need this password later on for the installation/removal of softwares.

Create a username; for that give the full name as desired.

Enter the username

Enter the password for the given username.

Need to partition, format and create file system in hard disk, If you are new to PC, just give 1st option. if you have know more about how to partition a hard drive take the 4th option.

Give the "continue" so that hard disk will be formatted.

1st option is that the hard disk will not logically seperated, so that after installation the user can see the hard disk as one storage space.

Here the system will write the file system.

This part is just the confirmation of the above part.

If you buying the DVD from a vendor it contains 10 DVD's where cover all packages used in debian. We can add DVD's later. That we discuss later.

If you have a good Internet you can consider "yes", but it will consume 1-2 hrs to install.

It's just a contest, normally we can neglect it.

Here we can select what purpose we installing this if just PC 1st and last option only we need. If you want to install it on a Laptop choose Second last also, so install the packages for bluetooth, touchpad etc..

If you want to install the windows same with the linux. Stop installation after this and install windows, then continue install linux. We strongly recommend don't install windows with linux, because the virus for windows destroys grub, linux become non bootable. No need to worry in that just reinstall GRUB and linux is there.

Completed, Reboot the PC enjoy the world of virus free with full freedom.

Graphical user interface to add user in Debian XFCE

Why are we unable to add a user in Debian XFCE the graphical way?

By default, you are unable to add a user in the XFCE version of Debian Wheezy with the graphical user interface, as the associated package is not installed by default. In order to minimize the total installation DVD size, Debian XFCE has retained only the most vital packages.  Hence, the package gnome-system-tools (the package required to add a user graphically) is not included in the installation DVD.

All you have to do is fire up a terminal, change to root by doing the following:

$ su

enter password

# apt-get install gnome-system-tools

This will require you to download around 110 MB data.

If you feel uncomfortable downloading above 100 MB data, you can also install this via the following command to minimize package contents:

# apt-get --no-install-recommends install gnome-system-tools

This will require only about 5 MB of data.

Thats it!!!