Tag: ubuntu
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...
BackTrack 4: A One-Stop Shop for Security Analysis and Learning
Computer security analysts have plenty of tools available nowadays to evaluate the security of corporate networks, servers and applications. These include Linux distributions specialising...
Setting Up an External Laptop Display on Ubuntu
This article tells you how to set up a secondary (external) display connected to your laptop, using Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx.
You may have wondered...
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...
Install Linux from USB on System without BIOS Support for USB...
Tired of burning CDs each time you want to try out the latest Ubuntu release because your not-so-new computer doesn't support booting from the...
Offline Package Install on Linux Made Easy with Keryx
In countries like India, where broadband penetration is very low, Linux users find it difficult to grab updates, or install those missing codecs. This...
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...
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...
Exploring Software: PackageKit — Overcoming Prejudice
My first reaction to the PackageKit UI, after its initial release on Fedora, was negative. It was prejudice at first sight.
I did not see...
