Linux on POWER
Anyone familiar with GNU/Linux will not be surprised by the fact that this operating system runs on almost all known processors. However, very few people are aware that mere support just might not…
Adoption of Linux/FOSS: Challenges & Opportunities
The hurdles faced in the adoption of open source by enterprises and the Indian government can easily be overcome if a planned, six-step approach is followed. Open source has opened minds and provided…
Fedora Scientific: Open Source Scientific Computing
Fedora Scientific Spin is a Fedora Linux spin that aims to showcase the open source tools for scientific and numerical computing. It was first released officially with Fedora 16 in November 2011, and…
Getting Started with SystemTap
If programming is an art, then debugging is even more so. To be a good programmer, one must master debugging. We have seen some good methods of kernel debugging, e.g., gdb, kgdb, kprobes,…
Setting up a LAMP Server Remotely
It’s been said a million times over — Linux is awesome on servers! With over 60 per cent of the Web’s servers gunning away on the mighty penguin, the robust, resilient, scalable and…
Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Spoofing
Last month, we started this series to cover the important cyber attacks that impact critical IT infrastructure in organisations. The first was the denial-of-service attack, which we discussed in detail. This month, we…
Supercharge Your Self-Hosted WordPress Blog with Nginx & FastCGI
If you are running WordPress on a VPS, you’ve got all the power in the world to run the site exactly the way you want. If you know how to use that power,…
It Can Be a Multi-billion Dollar Industry: Dries Buytaert on Drupal Businesses, Drupal 8…
Dries Buytaert, the creator and project lead of Drupal, recently visited India. LINUX For You caught up with him to understand his plans on expanding Drupal’s reach in India, what we can expect…
Aadhaar: A Testimony to Success of FOSS in India!
It is heartening to see how FOSS is powering one of India’s most prestigious and mammoth e-governance initiatives — the Aadhaar project from the Unique Identification Authority of India. For those of you…
An Interview with Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith
John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, once said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” Jared Smith,…
May 21, 2013
JKR — More efficient? Probably. More readable? Definitely not.
May 21, 2013
Prashanth Joshi — The author assumes that the first article being introductory in nature is for the beginners. So there is no question...
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
