Sunday, February 14th, 2010
OpenOffice Marketshare India and other countries
WebmasterPro has an interesting way to calculate the percentage of people using OpenOffice. Poland & Czech Republic lead in OO usage and have 22 percent people using OpenOffice. Germany 21 percent and France 19. UK/US at 9 percent. India is low at 5 percent. See more at WebMasterPro.
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Avatar was created on Ubuntu
What common between Avtar, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four, X-Men, i-Robot? They were all created at Weta Digital in New Zealand. Now some vital stats: 2 Petabyte disk array 10gbps networking 10 TB Ram 35,000 cores (4,000+ blades) Ubuntu 🙂
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Symbian goes Open Source
After Google Android, now Symbian has decided to go Open Source. Since Android is Linux based and this had a good chance of Linux becoming the de facto operating system in Cellphone too. So Symbian reacted and released all its source code too, in the hope that their customers don’t switch to Linux and they […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Skype to go Open Source
This is awesome News. Skype is planning to open source its Linux client. The current Skype client on Linux is functional but buggy and it lags behind the Windows version in terms of features. Now if Skype opens up, it will make the client development go faster, people will be able to fix bugs faster […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
AWN Manager – Mac OSX like dock for Ubuntu
I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions here. Here is what I liked. It looks cool 🙂 Can auto-hide, giving you more desktop real estate. Has cool applets like fortune which I enjoy reading and reminds me of bash days. What I didn’t like It crops up when you don’t want it to. […]
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware Requirements
I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop: Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows 7 both of which were released last month. Hardware Windows 7 Ubuntu 9.10 RAM (MB) 1024 MB 256 MB Processor (MHz) 1000 MHz 300 MHz Disk Space (MB) 16 GB 4 GB Ubuntu 9.10 remained a modest 265MB memory with 300MHz […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Plug Computing is a very interesting
What’s a plug computer? Small ARM Based Computer Runs Linux and other OS: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and FreeBSD Consumes just 2 watts of power Can be kept always on to run those long nightly downloads such as Torrents Can you used for any application that requires an always on computer Access through browser or […]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Open Networking alternative to Cisco
Vyatta is providing a Linux based Networking routers and equipments to compete with Cisco. All their software is open source and they have very competitive pricing. Seem to also have an impressive customer list so far including Toyota, Rackspace and Boeing.
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market
Forget what Microsoft wants you to believe, Linux is a success on Netbooks. The cat is out of the bag. ABI Research is projecting that in 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report. ABI also estimates that Linux will overtake […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Ubuntu bets on cloud computing, tie-ups
Ubuntu that it launched last week, to penetrate markets such as India where an impending launch of third generation (3G) services is expected to make cloud computing accessible to individual users. I have been quoted in this article in The Mint: Prakash Advani, partner and manager, central Asia, at Canonical, said once broadband connectivity improves […]
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Open Source Gains More Traction
IT budget cuts, an improved ecosystem and more maturity have boosted the demand for open source applications in Indian enterprises. Read this article. I have been quoted in this article. It’s benefits like these that have changed the attitude of enterprises towards open source solutions. Opines Prakash Advani, Partner Manager for Central Asia, Canonical, “Initially […]
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Workflows and Dependency maps
Dr. Nagarjuna, Founder of Gnowledge and Director FSF India, shared this very interesting app. It creates a dependency map for any Debian package. It can also create similar maps for any concept not just packages.. Now this opens up a whole new opportunities to graphically represent many ideas and concepts. Ff someone wants to track […]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Economic impact of Free and Open Source Software
Prof. Rahul De of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has carried out this study. Economic Impact of Free and Open Source Software – A Study in India. The study has reached out different organisations and has documented to total amount that they saved after moving to Free and Open Source software.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Replacing Photoshop with Gimp
If you are looking for replacing Photoshop with Gimp and are finding limitations, here is a nice article: Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop Some more links. 1000 HQ Brushes 30 Exceptional GIMP Tutorials GIMP Equivalent of PDSTuts 17 Awesome Plug-Ins for Web Designers 25 Plug-Ins for Photographers Official Online GIMP Manual Happy Gimping […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Attachment reminder for your email client
Has it happened to you that you write a nice long email and mention, please see the enclosed presentation and oops forgot to attach? Thank goodness for this extention. Attachment Reminder for Thunderbird reminds you if you have forgotten to attach a file with your email. It check if you email contains keywords which can […]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Microsoft A History of Anticompetitive Behavior
The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), part of the European Commission, has compiled a detailed repor titled: Microsoft A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm. “For more than two decades, Microsoft has engaged in a carefully designed and extremely successful campaign to protect and extend its monopolies. Microsoft has repeatedly made market allocation […]
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
5 Reasons why Linux is Secure against Viruses than Windows
I have been saying this for a while, why Linux is not affected by Viruses This is Nice article which explains: 5 Reasons why Linux is Secure against Viruses than Windows Summary, from the article: User Privileges. No Executables. No Registry. No Internet Explorer (IE) Linux is not soo common like windows. Don’t agree with […]
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Editing PDFs in OpenOffice
If you thought PDFs are read only, guess what you can edit them. To edit PDFs, install this plugin in Openoffice: Sun PDF Import Extension Once installed, you can open .PDF files in OpenOffice Draw, edit and export back as PDF.
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Google announces new operating system
Google has announced a new opeating system: Crome OS. The interesting bits. – Open Source – Linux based – Free of cost – Working with various partners for bundling – Designed for Google Crome Browser Read the rest of the announcement
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Amazon Kindle source code released
Amazon has released the source code for its e-book reader Kindle. And guess what it runs Linux. Have a look if you are interested in the source. Way to go Amazon!
