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…
Gaming on Linux: The State of Affairs
How does the gaming hemisphere fare when it comes to the open source world? Read on to find out! All of us have played games on the computer at some time or the…
Microsoft: We Don’t Compete with Linux, But with Linux Vendors
With initiatives like the Imagine Cup and PhoneGap Meetup, Microsoft is surely taking many steps forward to engage with open source communities across the globe, including India. At the sidelines of OSI Days…
Guard Your Network with IPCop, Part 4: Configuring OpenVPN with Zerina Add-on
The first article in this series discussed the basic installation and configuration of IPCop 1.4.21. Subsequent articles discussed five important add-ons used to enhance IPCop’s functionality: Advanced Proxy, URL Filter, Update Accelerator, Calamaris…
An Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Steve Jobs…
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company. Before you even speak a word before RMS (as Richard M Stallman is…
Tiling Window Managers, and Getting Started with dwm
A window manager is perhaps the most ubiquitous yet invisible aspect of any modern desktop operating system. This software manages the placement of windows and dictates where newly opened windows will show up….
UEFI: Should Linux Users be Worried?
Microsoft intends to capture UEFI and make GNU/Linux and other free OSs “unauthorised”! Is this true, and if so, what is the community doing about it? This article attempts to answer some questions….
Hackers and the Open Source Revolution
This piece corrects the confusion created by mainstream media between “hacker” and “cracker”. It also considers the history, nature, attributes, ethics and attire of hackers, plus more. Interested in being one yourself, or…
Taming Beamer
This article introduces LaTeX and the Beamer extension class, which is ideal for creating professional-quality documents and presentations. The OpenOffice.org suite, and even the new arrival, LibreOffice, are not mature enough as truly…
VMWare Player, VirtualBox, KVM: Finding Virtualisation Software that Fits
This article is intended to guide users in choosing the best virtualisation solution for themselves. According to Wikipedia: “Virtualisation, in computing, is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something,…
May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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