Linux & Open Source

The computer is the most ingenious device man kind invented as far as the world of multimedia and digital entertainment is concerned. The lifeline of the computer has been altered in tremendous ways with the advent of multimedia applications. Hardware has been revamped, high performance processors have been designed, software has been optimized and people […]

Linux is one of the best development platforms available for application development. No environment will be good for development if it does not have the right set of tools. Integrated development environments, in other words IDEs, are the popular type of developer tools at present. Since these tools have everything integrated (such as the compiler,

Selecting the Best Linux Distribution for You Linux is all about choices. Linux offers you the freedom of choice ranging from the operating system to the software you use. As a part of this freedom, the Linux users are given the option of selecting a suitable distribution from hundreds of flavours. Sometimes, having a lot

Migrating from Windows to Linux So you are thinking of migrating from Windows to Linux? Or you are just assessing the feasibility? Whatever is your reason; let’s try to understand the migration process and general concerns attached to this migration. First of all we need to understand that there are many similarities between the two

Linux and GNU. Are They the Same? Whenever you hear about Linux, I’m certain that the word GNU is also mentioned. As a matter of fact, most of the documents in the public domain mention Linux as GNU/Linux. Before understanding the inter-relationship between Linux and GNU, understanding them separately will give you a good idea

According to the official website, GNUstep is: GNUstep is a free, object-oriented, cross-platform development environment that strives for simplicity and elegance. GNUstep is based on and completely compatible with the OpenStep specification developed by NeXT (now Apple Computer Inc.) as well as implementing many extensions including Mac OS X/Cocoa.

You have heard the popularity and usability of Ubuntu Cloud system and know how it helps enterprises to work faster? Now there’s more. Canonical has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds in enterprises.

GIMP, just like any other free software that runs under GNU project, is open to community based contributions and suggestions by users. There are various ways in which a user can contribute to GIMP–some of them are technical and some of them can be adopted by non-technical users also.

GIMP stands as an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program and was known earlier as the General Image Manipulation Program sired by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis. GIMP is one of the most powerful image manipulation software under the GNU/Linux and Unix needs but it also comes for Windows and Mac.

What is Samba Simply put, Samba stands as an open source software suite, which is used for seamless file and print services geared towards SMB/CIFS clients. It helps in interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients, which is becoming quite common now-a-days among the users who want dual or multiple operating systems on their machines.

For a non-technical user of computer and internet, sometimes the terms like Linux, GNU, Gnome and name of any distro of Linux causes a lot of confusion. I intend to provide some simple information about major distros of Linux in this post. For information about Linux, GNU and Gnome, check this post. What is Ubuntu

While posting images in your blog or in your post, it often is needed that you want to scale down your images to fit into the resolution that you have set for your blog. These images can be resized using software that are free to use and some of them are chargeable. However, if you