Thursday 25 August 2011

KDE 5.0 Will Be Modular, Will Support Mobile Devices - Aaron Seigo

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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Thursday 18 August 2011

A Cheat Sheet That Teaches Linux Commands To Beginners

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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Saturday 13 August 2011

PC Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary - Does It Have A Future ?

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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Friday 12 August 2011

Get Free Printed Copies Of The Book - Version Control By Example

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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Tuesday 9 August 2011

Gentoo Linux releases 11.2 LiveDVD

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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Monday 1 August 2011

Raspberry Pi - A $25 PC That Runs Ubuntu Linux

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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