Now a days, most computers include hard drives with 100s of gigabytes of space. In such a scenario, it is inevitable that you partition the hard drive to optimize the use of space. Dividing your hard drive into individual partitions for your operating system, programs, data files, music, and images provides better organization and, most important, much better data safety in the event of a drive crash.
Innotek are the makers of the popular open source virtualization software called Virtualbox which is an excellent alternative to the closed source Vmware product. Virtualbox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Sun has revealed that it has acquired Innotek.
Almost all Linux users who are at least familiar with bash shell commands will be at home in writing simple bash scripts to automate tasks. For those who do not know how to write a bash script, here is how you do it.
Fedora 9 is a release which is bound to turn the heads of most people. The exciting features and many improvements are reason enough to embrace this version of Fedora by Linux users with gusto.
Forbes magazine recently compiled a list of the top 25 fastest growing companies in America. And guess what, Red Hat is placed 11th in the list (See Fig. below). The criteria for Forbes’ list mainly focused on sales growth , profitability (at least $25 million in sales over the past four quarters), growth outlook and the lack of legal, accounting or corporate governance issues.
Internet has become a part and parcel of most of our lives. But I did not realize the extent to which I personally was dependent on the Internet till two days back when due to a major underwater cable breakdown in the Mediterranean sea, the Internet slowed to a crawl
Here is news which will be interesting for all Linux users. Nokia the cellular giant headquartered at Finland has acquired Trolltech the Norwegian company which is developing the Qt library.
Asus EeePC - the consumer friendly laptop with Linux preloaded
Asus is a Taiwan based hardware manufacturer which is known the world over for their superior motherboard designs apart from many other products they manufacture. It has been ranked No.1 by the Wall Street Journal Asia for best quality products in Taiwan. Recently Asus grabbed the news headlines when it unveiled what is now known as the EeePC.
Keynote address by Aaron J Seigo at the KDE 4.0 release event
On January 18th 2008, Aaron J Seigo, President of KDE e.V. and its lead developer gave a keynote address at the KDE 4.0 release event held at Google campus in Mountain View, California. This is a video recording of this august event.
Wordpress.com is the alter identity of Wordpress.org, where anyone who is interested in blogging can start his or her own blog for free. What is more your blog can use as much bandwidth as needed; you could even host your blog on wordpress.com servers using your own domain albeit for a nominal yearly fee.
Richard M Stallman speaks on HD DVD, Blue-ray, DRM and other topics
You never tire of hearing Richard M Stallman speak; especially when he talks about his pet projects namely fighting against software patents and exhorting all people to use free (as in Freedom) software, thus safeguarding people's computing freedom.
Trolltech is to release Qt library under GPLv3 license
Qt is a high-performance, cross-platform application development framework. It includes a C++ class library and tools for cross-platform development and internationalization.
Sun acquires MySQL arguably the most widely used database on the net. Read the announcement here. Jonathan Schwartz the CEO of Sun Microsystems, on his blog, has termed this acquisition as putting a billion dollars behind the 'M' in 'LAMP'.
Blue-ray vs HD DVD Format war move closer to an end
Blue-ray and HD DVD are two divergent high-density optical disc formats for the storage of digital information, including high-definition video. For a couple of years now there has been a war of sorts going on between the Blue-Ray and HD DVD camps to gain dominance over how people would view future digital entertainment.
Reasons why schools should exclusively use Free software
Richard M Stallman who is the father of GNU and Free Software movement provides compelling reasons for schools to decide to embrace Free software over their proprietary counterparts.
