Using it, its possible to place

breakpoints in kernel code, step through the code and observer variables.

From Delhi, Raj Mathur's Kandalaya <

kandalaya.org

> consults in GNU/Linux, network application integration and network

security. Committed to the Free Software-Open Source movement and its goals,

Kandalaya which means "abundance" in Sanskrit, contributes back its software

packages. Like Hinv (hardware inventory), Gmemusage (graphical memory usage

viewer), PPP Dial-Up Scripts (makes it easier to dial-out to your ISP) and

Simple SMTP (does a "simplistic checking" of how fast a mail server is).

This is not to say that big things happen only in the big cities. From

tiny Goa comes another interesting project. Glibms is Library management software

developed using PHP and PostgreSQL to automate the different activities carried

out in the library. It was put together by young engineering college students

Sharmad Naik, Gaurav Priyolkar and Hiren Lodhiya. Search sourceforge.net

for glibs

GNUYahoo is Parag Mehta and team's initiative to build a freely available

GNUmessenger for Yahoo! Started by few of GNU hackers in end-2000, it's

purely console-based with a geeky "readline" and "guile" interfaces.

One of the unusual stories is that of Anjuta <

anjuta.sourceforge.net

> This software, written by Naba Kumar, a tech-whizz from the North East

working in Delhi, was named after the young coder's girlfriend! Anjuta

is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on

GNU/Linux. It also aims at marrying the flexibility and power of text-based

command-line tools with the ease-of-use of the GNOME graphical user interface.

www.tisya.co.in/indy/

takes one to an alpha release of the Indy Operating Environment for the

Linux kernel. Indy OE has its beginings in a vision to

provide the world with a combination of, power offered by the Linux kernel

and a minimalist yet, an elegant and easy to use interface, according to

its promoters.

There are also more ambitious initiatives being taken.

IndLinux is a project to create a GNU/Linux distro that supports Indian

languages "from a GUI/Application level as well as Kernel level". Wanted: