August 12, 2010
- Strace is a command line tool which can be used to figure out what is wrong with an errant application running in your Linux system. Some even look at strace as the Swiss army knife of a systems administrator.
Check out how I used strace to troubleshoot a multimedia problem in Ubuntu a long time back.
More recently, Greg Price at the Ksplice blog has written...
August 5, 2010
- Remember Google Wave - the innovative way of communication which Google unveiled amidst much fanfare a year back ? When it was released, Google Wave was considered to be a potential replacement for the ubiquitous Email.
However, things did not work out the way Google envisaged. While the Google Wave interface was well designed, and the idea captivating,...
August 1, 2010
- As a GNOME user, have you ever wondered - How big is the GNOME project ? What is its make up ? How are decisions taken ? And how many GNOME developers are there ? If yes, then you need look no further. Because Neary Consulting - A Free software consultancy, has released the GNOME Census giving an overview of the GNOME project and its functions. The census report analyzes how developers participate in the GNOME project and looks for patterns within the project itself.
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July 18, 2010
- openSUSE 11.3 - the latest version of Linux distribution from Novell has been released. One of the highlights of openSUSE 11.3 is its enhanced support for netbooks.
openSUSE 11.3 provides improved hardware support for netbook users. It also bundles with it two netbook desktop environments namely - KDE's "Plasma netbook workspace", and MeeGO - A...