FreedomYUG: GPL v4 — A New Decade of Delight
Fresh Thinking on Freedom in the 21st Century. Within days, your life is going to be touched by the next ten years of the new century. The second decade cometh; and hopefully, with…
Browser Wars: There are Just Way Too Many Options Currently!
With the growth of the Internet, there has been a considerable increase in the number of Web browsers available for the Linux/BSD/Solaris platforms. Not so long ago, in this world of FOSS, there…
Setting Up an External Laptop Display on Ubuntu
This article tells you how to set up a secondary (external) display connected to your laptop, using Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. You may have wondered if you could extend your laptop display to…
Offline Package Install on Linux Made Easy with Keryx
In countries like India, where broadband penetration is very low, Linux users find it difficult to grab updates, or install those missing codecs. This article offers a way around the problem. We all…
Write Your Next Program on Linux
Quite a few colleges and schools still teach C/C++/Java programming on Windows — and even worse, on DOS (using Turbo C/C++)! GNU/Linux provides a first class operating system, replete with support for dozens…
Learn Image Manipulation & Create a Glassy Wallpaper on GIMP
Here’s a tutorial on how to create glassy effects on images and text, using GIMP.
Google’s OS: Just A Chrome Polish or Is There Some Metal Inside Too?
Google has announced the development of the Chrome OS. For the first time, this search engine giant has taken its archrival Microsoft head-on. But the emergence of Google as an omnipresent player could also have a flip side.
Fight Club: Windows 7 vs Mandriva 2009.1
A face off between Mandriva Linux 2009.1 Spring and the release candidate of Windows 7.






