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I had recently written about the anticipated release of Gimp 2.8 which brings revolutionary changes to the Gimp user interface and lots more under the hood. However, as of now, if you want to download and try Gimp 2.8 you have to do one of the two things, namely - Read more »
Linus Torvalds Bags the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize»»
Linus Torvalds has been awarded the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize. The award is offered by a Finnish foundation called Technology Academy Finland (TAF). TAF promotes scientific research and innovation to develop new technology which is based on humane values and has a positive impact on quality of life. Read more »
Mosh is a secure shell that is touted as a replacement for the venerable SSH.
How is Mosh different from SSH ? Well, Mosh uses a new protocol called the State Synchronization Protocol (SSP) that runs over UDP. This means it is possible to synchronize the state of an object from one host to another. Read more »
Emacs (barring Vi of course) is the finest text editor around. Many consider it to be the holy grail of software, which allow you to do everything from writing text, to checking mails, coding, and even playing games.
For a person new to using Emacs however, it does pose a learning curve. To use Emacs, you need to learn new habits and unlearn a few others. Having a nice, easy to understand tutorial definitely helps. Read more »
Dr Richard Stallman says people who love their Freedom should stop using Facebook.
On a mailing list of the MIT CSAIL, when some students started a thread asking for more votes on their Facebook page, Dr Richard Stallman responded as follows - Read more »
mutt-kz - A fork of Mutt mail client has been released»»
Mutt is a free email client that you can run in your terminal. However, some people who would like to see more development take place in Mutt find the Mutt developers too conservative and not receptive to changes. Read more »
Gentoo Linux has released a new edition of its LiveDVD - ver 12.1. It comes choke full of software and offers a chance for ordinary folks to try out Gentoo on their machines without making changes to their hard disk. Read more »
tmpfs is a file system that stores all the files in virtual memory. tmpfs doesn't create any files on your hard drive. So if you unmount a tmpfs file system, all the files residing in it are lost for ever. Read more »
Red Hat recently became the first open source company that could garner one billion US dollars in annual revenue. To celebrate this new milestone, Red Hat is offering $100,000 US dollars to the future of open source. Read more »
A process is a fundamental part of any operating system - irrespective of whether they are proprietary or Free. And all Operating systems usually have a lot of processes running at any given time. This begs the question, what exactly is a process ? Read more »
Mozilla releases BrowserQuest - A free online role playing game»»
Mozilla has launched an online game that runs completely inside a web browser. Which means, the game doesn't use any plugins to run in your web browser as it is fully developed using HTML 5 and JavaScript. Read more »
The other day when I was trying out Haiku, I had a sudden brain wave. How many operating systems - old or otherwise can I really name? And how many of these have I actually used? To tell you honestly, I could name only a few including the ones I have used. Of course, I lumped all Linux distributions as one entity.
In fact, this is the list of operating systems I could name : Read more »
Most of you who read this blog know about, and use Linux. But how many of you are aware of terms like Free Software Foundation, GPL and statements like "Linux is GPLed". Have you ever wondered what GPL stands for ? And do you know if there is a difference between GPLed software, freeware and open source software ? Read more »
