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Funny Mythness

About Linux desktops in a business environment and virtual machines… best appreciated by experienced Linux users. There are many myths related to Linux in a business environment. For me, the most pervasive and…

Android Tablets Innovating to Stay Ahead

With the craze for the Android OS hitting an all-time high, the LFY team interacted with those in the Android-based tablet space to learn more about their brands equity and where they faced…

To Root Or Not To Root?

We bring you real, live information from our community on what they think about rooting their Android phones. ‘Will you ever root your Android Phone?’ Few weeks back, when we posted this poll…

Developing Android WebApps Using HTML5 Technologies

WebApps are easy to develop and with them, it is actually possible to ‘write once, and deploy everywhere .Anyone who has used GMail or the likes knows what a WebApp is. It is…

Custom ROMs for Android: CyanogenMod and More

  Wondering what’s the next step after rooting your Android phone? Read on to know all about beefing up your phone with custom ROMs for Android.   If you’ve got an Android phone…

Making Your Code Walk: GNU Autotools

Have you ever wondered why so many files are shipped in a software source tarball for Linux? Or dreamt of making your own newly developed package highly portable across various Linux platforms? This…

File Systems A Semester Project-II, Part-19

This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, elaborates on the concept of a file system by simulating one in user space. In the previous article, Shweta readied the…

Localisation: The Status of Indic Localisation

Having understood the history and growing importance of localisation in India, as well as the key local initiatives being taken in the previous article of this series, let us now look at the…

Create a Slide Show with Slidifier

Slidifier is a browser-based, open source slide show creator that is quick and very easy to use. Let’s take a look. Many presenters at conferences these days use browser-based slide shows. This is…

OpenMP Schedule Clause Parallel Matrix Multiplication

Even in this multi-core era, traditional programming methods don’t take full advantage of multi-core systems. To do that, applications must use threads to execute code in parallel. OpenMP, an API for writing multi-threaded…

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