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Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix Gets an Update to 12.04
Canonical, the commercial company backing the Ubuntu project, had launched the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix in February this year, based on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric...
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...
What’s New in Nmap 6
Nmap is Hollywood's most famous "hacking" tool that has featured on numerous blockbusters. It was originally written to find hosts in a network thus...
Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon Edition: Makes the Old-timers Feel Right At Home
No Unity. No GNOME Shell. But a GNOME 2*ish-looking GNOME 3 + Compiz Muffin window manager, dubbed Cinnamon. It comes with a certain amount...
Virtualisation Face-off: Qemu, VirtualBox, VMware Player and Parallels Workstation
In this article, we take a look at four of the most well known and commonly used virtualisation software for Linux.
When it comes to...
Awaiting Mageia 2: Five Things You Can Look Forward To
The final release of Mageia 2.0 is about to embark sometime today (see release schedule). Based on the RC releases currently available for download,...
Best Open Source Apps for Daily Use
What the proprietary world can do, FOSS can do better! That's what this article hints at, as it takes you through the 11 most...
TutorVista: Using Open Source in Digital Education
TutorVista, a digital tutoring website, uses open source software to mimic a classroom experience and maintain its database.
TutorVista is an online tutoring service that...
About JBoss Application Server 7 and Goals for 2012: An Interview
The JBoss' Users and Developers Conference (JUDCon) was held in January at Bangalore, and featured discussions by top open source developers from around the...
Localisation: An Introduction
This article is aimed at language computing enthusiasts interested in using computing devices in their native language, developers interested in supporting localisation, linguists interested...
