Work Your Brain Cells with Strategy Games on GNU/Linux
Are you ready to accept the double-barrelled challenge of acquiring hard-to-get natural resources and confronting enemies on the rampage, while in a race against time? GNU/Linux is not all work and no play….
Code Profiling in Linux Using Gprof
Today, performance is a pivotal point in the programming world. Programmers constantly strive to make their code run in fewer milliseconds. Performance analysis can be done in various ways, static as well as…
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…
FreedomYUG: Do You Really Love Yourself?
…or do you use Windows 7 Starter Edition on a netbook? Do you genuinely love and respect yourself? Or did you just agree to buy a netbook with Windows 7 Starter Edition? On…
GNOME 3 is Here!
GNOME 3, code-named ToPaZ (for Three Point Zero), was released on April 6 this year. The release has raised many questions. Can GNOME 3 maintain its dominance in the Linux world as a…
NIT-C Students Use PostgreSQL to Design Their Own Video Repository
The students of NIT-C, who were one of the winners of the EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL contest, share with the LINUX For You team how they created an internal database of MIT and IIT video…
How to Remaster Ubuntu to Get a Customised Distribution
In this article, we look at how to create a custom GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Customisability is a feature most people find amazing about Free Software. The software can be tweaked to…







