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Don’t use Ubuntu…..until you have read this!
Posted: September 7, 2010 in Demystify LinuxTags: Linux, Ubuntu, Wubi
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Yep the title says it all! I like to think that what I am going to write about is the future of Linux Gaming atleast what it will look like if things go that way. I have been a fan of the Age of Empires series published by Microsoft. I remember losing any sense of [...]
I have been fortunate to get a job in an Open Source Company quite near my house. We like to associate with Linux and everything Open Source. In that spirit we are promoting the use of Free and Open Source Software especially Linux. So if you live anywhere within India you can order a Linux [...]
Linux has a concept called workspace. A workspace is simply equivalent to a desktop. Of course there can only be one desktop on a system therefore a workspace is a virtual desktop.I like to compare it with the opening a new web page using a new tab in a web browser. Workspaces help to categorize [...]
I fell in love with Linux after using Ubuntu 7.10. It felt it was much better to use than other Linuxes out there. I just wanted to try it out just because it was free and not because I was addicted to the open source philosophy(I hadn’t hear about that yet) or because I hated [...]
When I first got in touch with computers which I used exclusively for playing games I realised that the computer would become slow after a few months of use due to a large no of useless software leaving their remnants in the registry. Also their is a chance that the disk would become fragmented resulting [...]
Linux has lots of programs and software with strange names. Grub is one of them. Grub stand for GRand Unified Bootloader. Grub is a Bootloader, a program which loads the OS onto the main memory aka ram when the computer boots up. Hence the name bootloader. Suppose you have more than one OS installed in [...]
Okay Linux is such a great OS, so then why is windows so popular? Apart from good marketing tactics the No 1 reason for windows succes is that it is so incredibly easy to use. For users who are new to computers, stability isn’t an issue,neither is the fact that the OS is proprietary or [...]
If you have been reading through my posts you might get the idea that I am a Linux fanboy. I am today, but four years ago it was a different story. My first experience with Linux was anything but positive. Actually I hated it in the beginning. I had a spare HDD about 10 Gb [...]
The fundamental difference of Linux from other Operating systems is. Linux is licensed under the revolutionary GNU General Public License. It is maintained by a team of developers from all parts of the world, some are volunteers others are paid programmers working together over the internet. Nobody really owns it, but everyone is part of [...]
