Tag: Fedora
Exploring Software: What Makes Netbook Hotkeys Tick!
This article explores the often confusing issues around ACPI handling in Linux, with the particular perspective of getting hotkeys working on netbooks.
One weakness of...
Fedora 14 Review: I’m Smiling About Laughlin
I was initially a KDE user, but for a long time, I've been using GNOME on Ubuntu. This is because there has always been...
Exploring Software: Understanding a Netbook Desktop
Desktop environments are wonderful in the way they just work. The complexity of what is happening "below the hood" is well hidden from us....
Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 1: Setting Up Master &...
Managing data centres comprising hundreds of systems is tough. Fortunately, configuration-management systems help bring things under control, by automating common configuration tasks, making systems...
Exploring Software: Netbook Operating Systems
A modern netbook is likely to have 150 GB of disk space, 1 GB of RAM, a screen resolution of 1024×800 pixels, and a...
The Pocket Penguin: A Customised Linux-In-Your-Pocket!
You are spending a weekend at your cousin's. Suddenly you feel like working on your Web project. You ask your cousin's permission to use...
SystemTap Tutorial, Part 1
This is the first of a two-part series on SystemTap, a dynamic method to monitor and trace the operations of a running Linux kernel....
Exploring Software: Delta Packages — Speed Up Updates By Downloading Less
An RPM package is essentially an archive with packaging and control information -- for example, you can extract the contents of a .rpm file...
Leading Local Search Engine (Just) Dials Open Source for a Growth...
Open source technology enabled Just Dial, India's leading local search engine, to grow at a much faster rate and achieve a lot more than...
Let’s GO: A First Look at Google’s Go Programming Language
Go is a new systems programming language launched by Google, and has received wide attention in the programming community. This article gives you an...