Tag: GNU/Linux
Microsoft releases Source Code for an Open-Sourced OS
Microsoft releases an open source OS which can be downloaded from Microsoft's Azure GitHub repository.
Microsoft has released the source code for an open-sourced operating...
An Introduction to GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs, created by Richard Stallman, is an extensible, customisable text editor. While Emacs has many variants, GNU Emacs is the most widely used....
A Beginners Guide to the Linux File System
This is an article targeted at Linux beginners. It helps readers get an understanding of the Linux file system through a few experiments that...
The Best Open Source Storage Solutions: An Overview
Millions of bytes of data are being generated every moment, every day, around the world, and this volume will only increase in the future....
Write Your Own conio.h for GNU/Linux
Here's a close look at the technique and code for console handling in Standard (i.e., ISO/ANSI) C/C++. In the latter part of the article...
UEFI: Should Linux Users be Worried?
Microsoft intends to capture UEFI and make GNU/Linux and other free OSs "unauthorised"! Is this true, and if so, what is the community doing...
Linux on POWER
Anyone familiar with GNU/Linux will not be surprised by the fact that this operating system runs on almost all known processors. However, very few...
Taming Beamer
This article introduces LaTeX and the Beamer extension class, which is ideal for creating professional-quality documents and presentations.
The OpenOffice.org suite, and even the new...
OpenIndiana — a Free Fork of Solaris
OpenIndiana comprises the Illumos core, taken from OpenSolaris, with a set of GNU user-land tools. OpenIndiana can even be called an analogue to GNU/Linux,...
FOSS Trainer Powers Up 170 College Labs in Tamil Nadu!
"In India, open source software will have to come and stay in a big way, for the benefit of our billion people," Dr A...