Lubuntu is working towards gaining an endorsement from Canonical and thus becoming an official Ubuntu derivative. Lubuntu is an LXDE vers...Read more »
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
T91MT vs T101MT - Hands on Review
Earlier this month I talked about why I feel Asus's T91MT is a better computer than Apple's iPad . What I failed to mention in that...Read more »
opening a .chm in ubuntu
Problem : To open a .chm file in linux ( ubuntu). To open a .chm file in linux, you can use the package xchm. To install xchm run the comman...Read more »
Scripting -1 The Shell
Aim: To introduce the reader to the linux shell. A Shell is nothing but an command interpreter that interprets commands entered by a user an...Read more »
Right click to launch terminal in ubuntu gneome
Aim: To add the open terminal option in the right click menu, and launch terminal from the same location where we are presently in the GUI. ...Read more »
Friday, May 28, 2010
N900 Video Call with Skype
If you have graced my page before then odds are you know I love my N900 . This past Wednesday Nokia released the PR 1.2 update for the N900...Read more »
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Crashes and Blue Screens are Normal and a Processor Fan has a Lifetime of 1 year -- Everyday Support Hotline Fun and the Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology
"What do you expect with only 1 GB memory in Vista?" a random second stage Dell support guy just asked me after I told him that th...Read more »
Review: Fedora 13 "Goddard"
With one extra day of delay over the already postponed release date, Fedora 13 is finally out today. Codenamed "Goddard", it is s...Read more »
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Cross Compiling linux for ARM
Cross compiling Linux 2.6.34 for arm (Innovate solutions ARM926 Kit). 1. Download the kernel from http://kernel.org/ 2. untar the file to a...Read more »
POLL RESULTS: A Majority of Ubuntu users
The "Which OS rocks your computer?" Poll finished yesterday, with some very interesting results. Ubuntu is a strong leader judging...Read more »
Starcraft 2 and a bit of Wine - Linux Performance
EDIT: If you stumbled upon this page looking for a HOWTO for getting Starcraft 2 working under Wine check here . I mentioned earlier this m...Read more »
Monday, May 24, 2010
USB Surround Sound in Linux
It's an annoying topic. Not many USB surround sound cards exist anyway, even less of those are good ones. But after an hour of searching...Read more »
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Community Counts: Another Advantage to Linux Mint
A few months back I listed five reasons I thought Linux Mint is a better choice than Ubuntu for a Linux distro. Today I would like to add a...Read more »
Friday, May 21, 2010
Mandriva 2010 Spring RC released
The Mandriva developers have announced the arrival of a release candidate (RC) for Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring (2010.1). This is to be the ...Read more »
Review: Linux Mint 9 Isadora
Linux Mint 9 (codenamed Isadora) was released just two days ago, on May 18th. You can read the official ANNOUCEMENT from their site, which...Read more »
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Missing battery and network icons from the panel
Problem: The icons of batters(if you are using a laptop) and the network icons have disappeared from the panel in ubuntu. ( This is for Gnom...Read more »
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Invalid ABI Option abi=aapcs-linux
In case you are trying to cross compile linux for arm and your make gives you the error Invalid ABI Option abi=aapcs-linux This is because y...Read more »
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Review: Peppermint OS
While we wait for the release of some of the major distros' mid year upgrades, I thought I'd present a new Linux flavor which looks ...Read more »