How NOT To Hurt Religious Sentiments

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Below are some guidelines for irreligious chaps who, like me, want to stop hurting religious sentiments. Originally drafted by and for me to follow from today. May be helpful to you too.

  • Stay away from discussions on religion, both offline and online.
  • Unfollow/mute (on twitter) and unfriend/unsubscribe (on facebook) those who share religious stuff 24×7.
  • Stop retweeting @AtheistQ and similar twitter accounts.
  • Stop sharing anti-theistic stuff on facebook.
  • Respect their freedom to believe what they think right. (Don’t give a damn if they don’t reciprocate)
  • Don’t complain if your rational sentiment got hurt.
  • Stop asking why god did this and why didn’t he do that.
  • And finally, don’t write blog posts like this. (This will be my last post on religion on a blog /public forum, hopefully.)

Got a point to add? Drop a line below.

Embracing Minimalism

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I’ve always been a fan of minimalism in design. I don’t like websites or graphics that hold too much colour. Now I think it’s time to bring minimalism to my day to day life too. It helps save money, time and energy. I know it will be hard for me (and almost impossible) to reduce the size of my material possessions into something that can be fit into a single suit case. So, my idea of minimalism is, if something doesn’t add value to life, throw it away!

This is just an experiment. I’m not sure if I can stay in minimalism for too long, but I really want to.

The sites below are really helpful and worth a read.

Why Should We Support The Existence of Debian Even If We Don’t Use It?

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Last week, we had an awesome event, the Debian Utsavam, at our college. It was a small gathering of people who are passionate about free software. Half of the participants where from outside the college. There are more than a couple of blog posts and reports written by the participants, the links to which you will find below, so I will write about an idea that hit me while listening to a talk.

The idea behind this post and the title itself comes from a talk (not really a talk, but an interactive session) by Labeeb Mattra.

Debian is a free operating system (you might have heard the ‘free as in freedom’ thingie a million times by now.) and is platform of choice for many. People choose Debian for a variety of reasons. The server this blog is hosted on is powered by Debian Lenny. At home, I’m not using Debian. I’m running Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, which in turn is a child of Debian.

Why I’m not using it?

There are many reasons. The primary reason is my inertia. It took around half a decade for me to switch my primary OS from windows to Linux (Ubuntu/Mint).

Another thing is, I never felt Debian user-friendly. It’s hard to configure. Yes, it’s hard for me. But I know it’s not impossible. That’s why it is not my primary reason for not using debian.

Reasons to love Debian

1) A number of Linux distributions are based on Debian, and the list includes my favorites (and probably yours too) Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Ubuntu offers professional support and Linux Mint comes with many pre-installed softwares and Audio/Video codecs, making the migration easier for windows users. In Linux Mint, you will feel like home.

Debian is the reason why there is Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Though it enjoys a very small percentage of market where Ubuntu is the ruler, it is Debian that lead to the birth of Ubuntu. It is said that 74% of Ubuntu is rebuilt Debian packages. That clearly means that if the Debian project get ceased, it will badly affect the development of many popular Linux flavours.

2) According to their social contract, Debian will remain 100% free. The system will never require a non-free software.

3) Debian developers give back to the community. The entire free software community gets benefited from the bugs they fix and improvements they make.

These are a few reasons why I love Debian. If you are using Linux, Debian and the strong community behind it are relevant to you and you should love it too.

I feel the post is incomplete. Help me complete this. Drop a comment!

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Below are links to some posts written by the participants of the Debian Utsavam.

[There is an official report written by Sajith Sir. It will be published on the website of our department association soon. The site is now down as something is broken at our hosting providers' end.]