Before I start I should mention that what I am doing here is not supported by VMware, nor anyone else. Further if you follow it the normal rules for any of my posts go, you are on your own. If you mess up your computer or get sued or anything its nor me nor anyone […]
This Article could help not answer only the question in the title, but few other questions showing below that many people will be having when getting any new Linux Distro. Where is Open Office in my new Distro? Why LibreOffice has replaced Open Office in RedHat, Ubuntu, & other Linux Distros? After what have been […]
If you’re a photographer, Linux may not be the first thing that leaps into your mind for managing your images. That is your loss, my friend, both financially and in terms of functionality. I originally got into Linux mainly for surfing on the internet because Linux didn’t run all those wildly popular Windows viruses and […]
You may be reading this on an iPad running iOS 4.3. Did you know that? Did you care? Linux? Android? Windows? What difference does it make? Really, none. All you care about are your applications. Reading email, watching a movie, browsing the web, listening to music. Where does the operating system figure in to that […]
Sadly it’s difficult to get Digikam to run under Windows. It can be done, but it’s a painful exercise. That leaves Digikam as one of the jewels of open source applications only available to Linux users. I don’t use Linux and Digikam for lack of other options, I use them for image work because I […]
I have been running the latest Ubuntu 11.04 for about a month now, and the update manager was always working like a charm, though I had an error few days back when trying to update my Ubuntu using Ubuntu Update Manger. The error was as follow: Could not initialize the package information. Please report this […]
It wasn’t that many years ago that every year was “the year of Linux”. That was the year we were going to gain enough credibility to topple the giant of proprietary operating systems. That was the year we were going to break 1 percent of the market! Yeah! Always there was the constant, amused recounting […]
After Upgrading my Ubuntu the other day to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), My VMware Workstation 7.1.3 that was working perfectly before the upgrade stopped working and kept throwing the following error when trying to compile its modules with the new Kernel: “Unable To Build Kernel Module see log file /tmp/vmware-root/setup-7357.log for details.” Below is a […]
Ubuntu has been so far the best distro I have tried when looking for a windows desktop alternative. The massive repository & ease of usage Ubuntu has to offer makes it a great windows replacement. I have been running Ubuntu on my laptop for the past two months & have been really enjoying the speed […]
As many of you had seen a preview of Google Chrome OS on my blog about a month back. I am glad to announce that a beta has just been released to public. The announcement has been made on Google Chrome Website & can be found at: Google Chrome OS Beta release announcement . Ah […]