Tag: LFY October 2011
Reflections — Open Source India 2010 CXO Summit
Gone are the days when Open Source Solutions were considered the play-tools of geeks. Over time, open source tools and technologies have emerged as...
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...
Virtualisation and Disk Management in OpenIndiana
In the previous part, we got acquainted with OpenIndiana -- how to install the base system, find and deploy packages, and perform maintenance tasks...
Dell India R&D Centre is 10 — Team’s Take on Milestones,...
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Dell India R&D Centre, the LINUX For You team caught up with Rudramuni B, executive...
Automate Your Office Yourself with ProcessMaker, Part 1
This article covers the basic setup and how to get started with ProcessMaker, an open source workflow automation software. This should interest small and...
Device Drivers, Part 11: USB Drivers in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, gets you started with writing your first USB driver in Linux.
Pugs' pen...
Let’s Play with CodeIgniter
Here's a basic introduction to CodeIgniter, an open source Web framework that helps to quickly develop dynamic websites with PHP.
To get started, you need...
GNU Binutils: A Collection of Binary Tools
With years of experience as a systems programming engineer, I've realised that to be a great artist of programming, you must understand the basics...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 5
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic...
A Letter to Foxy Developers
A look at what makes Mozilla Firefox the most developer friendly browser around, and how you can get the most out of the community-developed...