Tag: LFY November 2011
Indian Supreme Court Opts for Ubuntu 10.04
A free SMS channel has also been created to increase awareness about the features and functionality of Ubuntu Linux OS among the judicial officers,...
Ubuntu 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’ Review
Oneiric Ocelot was released on October 13. This version of Ubuntu comes with a major overhaul of the Ubuntu Software Centre (USC), Unity and...
Calsoft Labs CEO: FOSS is Something You Learn While You Work
Recently, the French technology consulting and engineering company, Alten, acquired Calsoft Labs, the outsourced product development business of the Chennai-based software company. LINUX For...
Automate Your Office Yourself with ProcessMaker, Part 2
In the first part of this series, we got an overview of ProcessMaker, and how to get started with it; how to set up...
Spicing up the Console for Fun and Profit, Part 2
In the previous part of this article, we manipulated various aspects of the shell and terminals, like prompts, colours, cursor movements, etc, using escape...
Open Source India: A Celebration of True Sprit of Open Source
There is no denying the fact that knowledge sharing is the true essence of the open source movement. However, knowledge seekers in this domain...
Learn to Animate with Blender, Part 1: Modelling the Goldfish
Apart from being a great 3D modeller and one of the best animation programs, Blender is also great for compositing. This article is an...
Digital Magazine Store Magzter Uses Open Source to Slash Costs
A mobile digital magazine newsstand goes the open source way to cut its initial investments, and allow publishers to share digital editions of their...
Aakash: A Historical Mistake?
India created history (of sorts) recently by launching the world's cheapest tablet, Aakash. It almost looked like we'd conquered the world... till the reality...
GDB: Logging Function Parameters, Part 1
Sometimes an application's release version crashes in particular scenarios, but the debug version does not -- and to make matters worse, the call-trace gets...