Tag: GNU/Linux
Indian Government Takes the Open Source Route
The Indian Government has recently proposed to go the open source way in its e-governance projects, and the Department of Information Technology has issued...
Locking Horns: Fedora 15 ‘Lovelock’ v/s Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’
The two titans of the free software operating system arena, Fedora and Ubuntu, usually time their distribution releases a few days apart. This makes...
ILUGC to TN Government: “Why Windows; Why Not Just Linux?”
When ELCOT invited tenders for 9.12 lakh laptops that the government planned to distribute free across Tamil Nadu, it probably forgot to consider the...
How to Remaster Ubuntu to Get a Customised Distribution
In this article, we look at how to create a custom GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
Customisability is a feature most people find amazing about...
Ease Your Ubuntu Experience
So you have made the leap, and are flying away from Windows... welcome to Ubuntu! You must have performed a few common activities like...
Sed Explained, Part 1
UNIX-like operating systems have numerous powerful utilities accessible via the command-line and shell-scripting, which are flexible enough to operate in a variety of problematic...
Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’: What’s New?
With its extremely long release cycle (this one took two years), Debian 6.0 Squeeze was rolled out on February 6th, amidst jokes like, "See...
FreedomYUG: Get Out of Your Own Way
How to Successfully Earn a Living with FOSS -- Part 2
Let's start with a simple example. You convince a friend, colleague, or a client...
Desktop Virtualisation in EduBOSS using NComputing X550
The BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC (the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) is derived from Debian, to enhance...
Write Your Next Program on Linux
Quite a few colleges and schools still teach C/C++/Java programming on Windows -- and even worse, on DOS (using Turbo C/C++)! GNU/Linux provides a...
