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Samsung Planning To Merge Bada OS With Tizen

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:15:00 PST

Samsung will be merging their homegrown Bada OS for smart phones with Tizen. No time frame has been set for the merger however, it is expected that Samsung will be releasing at least two new smart phones this year(2012) itself running on the Tizen platform.

PC-BSD 9.0 - Isotope Edition - Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:48:00 PST

PC-BSD 9.0 (Isotope edition) has been released. PC-BSD is a FreeBSD variant operating system that is targeted specifically at desktop users / end users. One of the uniqueness of PC-BSD is its PBIs or Push Button Installers that allow you to install and uninstall applications just like you are used to in Windows.

FreeBSD 9.0 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:27:00 PST

FreeBSD engineering team has released FreeBSD ver 9.0. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features.

GIMP 2.7.4 Released As a Precursor To Stable 2.8

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:04:00 PST

A new version of GIMP - the free graphics suite par excellence - has been released. GIMP ver 2.7.4 , which is termed as an unstable release leading to a stable version 2.8 sometime in January next year, brings a lot of new features.

HP Contributes webOS to the Open Source Community

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:08:00 PST

HP has contributed webOS to the open source community. webOS is a mobile OS originally created by Palm. It uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript heavily in the application layer of the stack. This is an obvious advantage for developers as applications can be easily built using standard web technologies.

And webOS is based on Linux.

How To Customize Your GNOME Shell Easily using GNOME Extensions

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:02:00 PST

GNOME team have unveiled GNOME Shell extensions. These are small bits of code that help you customize different user interface aspects of your GNOME 3 desktop.

VectorLinux 7.0 released after a gap of 2 years

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:26:00 PST

VectorLinux is a fine Linux distribution originally based on Slackware. A new version of VectorLinux (version 7.0) has been released after a gap of 2 years.

Top 5 Linux Distributions

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:25:00 PST

As a Linux user, I am sure, you will be interested to know which is the most popular Linux distribution. Till recently, if you go by Distrowatch stats, Ubuntu ruled the roost as the most popular Linux distribution. However, after Ubuntu team made a switch to the Unity interface, its popularity has declined considerably.

Vim Celebrates 20 Years - Happy Birthday Vim !

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:21:00 PDT

20 years ago this day (November 2), Bram Moolenaar created Vim - an improved version of Vi text editor found in most Unix systems. Since then, Vim has flourished to become the Swiss army knife of text editors. The latest version of Vim is 7.3 which was released a little over a year ago. Vim is truly cross platform and works on Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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FSF Campaign Against Secure Boot

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:00:00 PDT

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has started a signature campaign to make people aware of the perils of an upcoming feature in PC hardware namely - Secure boot.
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Dennis Ritchie - The Creator of C Language, Passes Away

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:51:00 PDT

Dennis Ritchie, who is credited with creating the C language, has passed away.

Ritchie was one of the pioneers of computer science, and a well-deserved Turing winner for his many contributions, notably the creation of C — by far the most influential programming language in history, and still going strong today.

Source(s) : Rob Pike, via Herbsutter

Ubuntu 11.10 - Oneiric Ocelot Has Been Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:44:00 PDT

Ubuntu 11.10, code-named "Oneiric Ocelot" has been released. This latest version of Ubuntu improves on the previous release which marked the introduction of a whole new Desktop concept in Unity. In this version of Ubuntu - 11.10, the Desktop shell Unity has been updated to make it even better.

KDE Releases Plasma Active One

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:38:00 PDT

KDE team has released Plasma Active One.

Plasma Active One is a user interface framework intended for tablets, mobile phones, desktops, laptops, set top boxes, smart TVs, and any other touch enabled devices.

Currently, you can test drive Plasma Active One on a Meego or a SuSE Balsam distribution.

Read the details at kde.org.

Tizen - A New Mobile Operating System Based On Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:30:00 PDT

Intel and Samsung have come together to develop Tizen - a brand new Linux OS geared to be used in mobile devices. Both these companies are working under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation and the LiMo foundation.

LiMo Foundation is an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.
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Learn To Use Vim Text Editor The Easy Way

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:59:00 PDT

Vim is an enhanced version of the ever popular command line text editor vi. If you master the use of Vim text editor, it can be a very powerful tool in your hands, and allow you to do amazing text editing feats with just a few taps on your keyboard.

In 2007, this site had conducted a poll, and over 50% of the respondents said their favorite text editor is Vi.

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Learn Linux Commands The Easy Way

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:53:00 PDT

There are hundreds of command line tools in Linux. For a person who has just started using Linux, learning the various commands could at times, be a chore. But not any more, if you see what this website has achieved.

Playterm is a site which hosts videos of commands / tasks executed in the Linux terminal.

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9 Cool SSH Tricks You May Not Know

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:32:00 PDT

If you are running a website, even if it is a blog, chances are, you might have used SSH at least once. SSH stands for Secure SHell. When you use SSH, the communication and data transfer between the local machine and the remote machine occurs in a secure encrypted tunnel. So no one will be able to snoop on your data.
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Linux Kernel Gets Hosted At Github

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:55:00 PDT

Linus Torvalds has moved the entire Linux kernel to Github. This comes in the wake of Kernel.org site (The original home of Linux kernel) getting hacked.
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KDE 5.0 Will Be Modular, Will Support Mobile Devices - Aaron Seigo

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:46:00 PDT

Aaron J.Seigo - Project leader and developer at KDE, in an interview with Andreas Proschofsky of der Standard says, the next big thing for KDE users and developers is the KDE Frameworks 5.0. Aaron was speaking on the sidelines of the Desktop Summit.
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A Cheat Sheet That Teaches Linux Commands To Beginners

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:20:00 PDT

I like cheat sheets. They give a birds eye view of the whole picture. Cheat sheets are also massive time savers in that, you don't have to pour over reams of content to find what you want.
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PC Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary - Does It Have A Future ?

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:25:00 PDT

Way back in 1981, when IBM first introduced IBM PC's 640KB usable RAM limit, a certain luminary supposedly uttered this (now famous) statement - "640K ought to be enough for anybody". Bill Gates can however take solace in the fact that in the late 1950s, the then head of IBM, Thomas J Watson, predicted a potential world market for "maybe five computers".

Both these prophecies have been proved wrong. There are hundreds of millions of computers being used the world over. And technology permeates every aspect of our social, family, and business lives.
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Get Free Printed Copies Of The Book - Version Control By Example

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:45:00 PDT

Eric Sink the founder of SourceGear - a company that has developed a slew of products revolving around Version Control has published his book named - "Version Control by Example".

And guess what, he is offering a printed copy of the book for free to whoever asks for it.
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Gentoo Linux releases 11.2 LiveDVD

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:04:00 PDT

Remember Gentoo Linux ? Yes the very same Gentoo which stood apart from the rest of the Linux distributions in its uniqueness. For instance, when most Linux distributions out there including the main stream ones provide binary packages for download, Gentoo's packaging system uses source code.
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Raspberry Pi - A $25 PC That Runs Ubuntu Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:14:00 PDT

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK based charitable organization is developing a computer that will cost only (US) $25. Merely the size of a credit card, this $25 computer's design will allow it to be plugged into a TV, or a touch enabled screen that transforms it to a low cost tablet.
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Microsoft To Invest $100 Million More In SUSE Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Ravi) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:15:00 PDT

Novell gets acquired by Attachemate Group Inc. And SUSE becomes an independent business unit of Attachemate. However, many things remain the same. For instance, the agreement struck by Microsoft and Novel Inc for broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support.