Jamendo Android App: A Perfect Companion for Discovering ‘Free’ Music
A few hours ago I discovered a service called F-Droid — a catalogue website for FOSS Android apps. Installed the F-Droid APK on my SGS2, and while browsing the multimedia category on it…
BackWPup: The All-in-one WordPress Files and DB Backup Utility
Your Web server is somehow nuked — could be anything from an attack to a silly mistake from the webmaster. Maybe the only way to get back on track is to restore the…
Dealing with WordPress Post Revisions
Did you know WordPress, like a good boy, saves all post/page revisions in your DB — by default — for those just-in-case situations where you might need to revert to an old version?…
Fedora 17 Review: It’s an Upstream Experience
Fedora 17 came out just last week. This is the first time I’ve installed it as a desktop in more than a year — last time was Fedora 14 (or was it 13?)….
Ubuntu 12.04 Review: An LTS Done More or Less Precisely
Ubuntu 12.04 is the fourth LTS release from Canonical that came out about a month back, and the first LTS with the revamped user interface, Unity, as the de-facto interface. Let’s take it…
Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon Edition: Makes the Old-timers Feel Right At Home
No Unity. No GNOME Shell. But a GNOME 2*ish-looking GNOME 3 + Compiz Muffin window manager, dubbed Cinnamon. It comes with a certain amount of polish, subtle desktop effects, and the right amount…
Chrome OS: Good Gimmicks, But What Else?
I don’t own a Chomebook; and it’s been a couple of years since I’ve tried the Chrome OS — a pre-alpha release or something. Anyway, the new version came out yesterday. Most of…
Methods To Lock Down WordPress wp-admin, and Accessing it Using SOCKS5 Proxy
It’s as simple as this: have SSH listen on the standard port 22, and when you check your server logs, you see all sorts of random people trying to login to your server….
KDE 4.8.2 Maintenance Release Out — Grab it!
First week of the month is typically when the KDE team releases its maintenance updates. These releases are nothing to get excited about — but they still hold water for us users. Why?…
Sabayon 8 Serves a Multitasking-optimised GNOME 3
Last time I tried Sabayon was when version 5 came out. It’s been a few years since, and I don’t exactly remember what it was like using it. Guess it still is a…
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
May 18, 2013
MF Hussain — Best training center in bangalore for RHCE is Linuxlearningcenter they train only on REDHAT....
May 17, 2013
santosh yadav — hello everyone!
i am trying to do gpio access and encounter segmentation fault.
so to overcome it i will have to map...
May 17, 2013
David — Its Fantastic !!
Thank you for your valuable Linux device driver articles.
Could you please start the same for BSP also.
May 16, 2013
Roberto Spadim — what about mysql otp?
