Dell India R&D Centre is 10 — Team’s Take on Milestones, Roles & Responsibilities, FOSS
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Dell India R&D Centre, the LINUX For You team caught up with Rudramuni B, executive director and head of the Centre, along with his…
Exploring Software: GNOME and the Semantic Desktop
Currently, this is a work in progress. So will it mature fast enough and meet user expectations? The state of the semantic desktop in the GNOME desktop environment is still very fluid. Two…
FOSS Trainer Powers Up 170 College Labs in Tamil Nadu!
“In India, open source software will have to come and stay in a big way, for the benefit of our billion people,” Dr A P J Abdul Kalam once said. Dr Kalam’s words…
Exploring Software: KDE’s Semantic Desktop
In this article, you will get an idea of the current state of the ambitious Nepomuk project. As part of KDE’s semantic desktop, it is currently evolving, though some parts are now useful….
Build Android Apps Using HTML with PhoneGap
With all the hubbub around Android, it’s tempting to make an app yourself. But considerations like, “I don’t know Java,” or “I’m just a Web developer and haven’t ever done app development,” hold…
Exploring Software: Sugar on Fedora 15, the Spice for Children
One of Fedora’s spin-offs is Sugar On A Stick (SOAS), which can be installed as an additional desktop environment. It’s unlikely that readers will use Sugar as their working environment; but if you…
Locking Horns: Fedora 15 ‘Lovelock’ v/s Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’
The two titans of the free software operating system arena, Fedora and Ubuntu, usually time their distribution releases a few days apart. This makes the competition between the two fiercer than it would…
The Nagios Setup Explained
In this article, we shall discuss Nagios, an open source software that is deployed in most data centres to monitor various system and network parameters. The practice of appointing prefects is a time-honoured…
Exploring Software: Unity, GNOME Shell and the Notification Area
Do the new desktops succeed in creating intuitive, simple-to-use and distraction-free desktop environments? It is hard to be passionate about something that everyone does! I was reminded of this by a blog about…
Exploring Software: openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolling Distribution Goes Mainstream
Here is a record of my initial explorations and findings about the recently released openSUSE rolling distribution repository, Tumbleweed, as experienced on a netbook. I almost bought an Android phone. I hesitated, wondering…
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?
