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Top 5 Open Source Software You Must Use.

by Vinit kumar on July 7, 2011 · 0 Comments

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved forcopyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open Source Definition. Some open source software is available within the public domain. This is how Wikipedia defines Open Source Software.Well [...]

Version Control With Subversion

by Himanshu on September 30, 2010 · 0 Comments

Version control is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other files. It allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of version control as a sort of “time machine.” Its most common use is to track changes [...]

Past Speakers At OSI

by Himanshu on September 12, 2010 · 1 Comments

India’s premier open source conference – LinuxAsia Conference and Expo – used to be held every spring in New Delhi. LinuxAsia had become a dynamic meeting ground for leaders from the international community and the Indian government, industry, enterprise users, academia and open source community. What started off as LinuxAsia in 2003, got renamed to [...]

Fluffy Linux: A Linux With Fluff, Bunnies And Unicorns

by Aditya on July 10, 2010 · 0 Comments

Some of you might find this girly but here we show you some images of Fluffy Linux. It is an eyecandy for the pink lovers. Most of the design is in pink and reflects some sort of fairy land with unicorns and bunnies. I was particularly impressed by the Kopete, the chat application. Fluffy is [...]

Ubuntu For Web Development

by A on January 17, 2010 · 0 Comments

Ubuntu-logoUbuntu is now a full fledged desktop OS and has been performing pretty well in the years gone, but users related to web and design still hesitate to take the step forward.Why? Today, Ubuntu has tools that are much more accessible and effective than the tools available in any other operating systems. Below is a list of the available softwares in Ubuntu for website design and development.

Simple Yet Effective Linux Commands

by A on December 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Proper command over the linux CLI mode can save you hell lot of time. Here are some commands that actually help you in your day to day fight with the command line.

What TUX Did In 2009 : Reviewing Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10, openSUSE 11.2 And Mandriva 2010

by Aditya on December 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

tux2009 was a big year in Linux world. With Fedora finally getting rid of its installation issues and Ubuntu giving its user a taste of cloud computing on ubuntuone, the year turned out to be awesome for Linux fans. Here I present before you the review of my four favorite distors, namely Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10, openSUSE 11.2 and Mandriva 2010.

Fedora 12 Released

by A on December 9, 2009 · 0 Comments

Fedora Linux 12 has been released. Check out www.fedoraproject.com for more details and download the latest version of the OS. A review of the latest fedora will be added soon !

How To : Edit Fstab And Access Windows Drive Form Linux

by Aditya on November 30, 2009 · 0 Comments

Many times, after a Linux install Windows partition i.e. NTFS file system becomes inaccessible through Linux. In these cases if you can make appropriate entries on your /etc/fstab you can recover these partitions. Although tools like ntfg-3g and ntfs-config are already there. And these tools are easy to use but knowing the innards never hurts, [...]

Linux Commands For Beginners

by Aditya on November 5, 2009 · 1 Comments

Most of us are afraid of Linux commands, so here is my post to help those people. Although most of the things can be done using GUI now a days but knowing commands help a lot, specially when something goes wrong with your GUI. If you are in a fix about some command then there [...]