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 […]
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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
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Symbian goes Open Source
After Google Android, now Symbian has decided to go Open Source. Since Android is Linux based and this had a
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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
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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
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Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware Requirements
I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop: Ubuntu 9.10 with Windows 7Â both of which were released
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Workflows and Dependency maps
Dr. Nagarjuna, Founder of Gnowledge and Director FSF India, shared this very interesting app. It creates a dependency map for
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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
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Replacing Photoshop with Gimp
If you are looking for replacing Photoshop with Gimp and are finding limitations, here is a nice article: Handy Tweaks
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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
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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
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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
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Editing PDFs in OpenOffice
If you thought PDFs are read only, guess what you can edit them. To edit PDFs, install this plugin in
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Google announces new operating system
Google has announced a new opeating system: Crome OS. The interesting bits. – Open Source – Linux based – Free
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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