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The Ultimate Distro Showdown: Ubuntu 9.10 vs openSUSE 11.2 vs Mandriva 2010
After pitting the three against each other what followed was the battle of the century, as each distro pulled off one unique trick after another to stay on top of the game.
Experiencing Sabayon 5, oh
The current releases have done away with the idea of showcasing the games factor and concentrate on giving an out-of-the box desktop experience.
Ubuntu 9.10 Unleashed, Amid Windows 7 & Snow Leopard
The latest Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala gets reviewed, along with the GNOME 2.28 desktop environment.
SubConf 2009 – A Report (Day 3)
The talks in day-3's agenda was mostly concerned on Software Configuration Management and general concepts.
SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 2)
Oct 29, '09, marked the Day 2 of SubConf 2009 in which there were plans for many talks by prominent subversion developers and others.
Learn Image Manipulation & Create a Glassy Wallpaper on GIMP
Here's a tutorial on how to create glassy effects on images and text, using GIMP.
SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 1)
1st day of the Subversion conference, 2009 -- 2 events planned were the "Subversion Hackathon" and "Subversion Developers RoundTable".
Software Freedom Day ’09 Celebrations @ Jaya Engineering College, Chennai
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source software held during third Saturday of September every year. SFD 2009 was celebrated around the world with great zeal and vigour on the 19th September this year.
Hackfest @ Shaastra ’09, IIT Madras
I was never into coding/development for FOSS. Though I had decent coding skills in some languages, I had never gotten the opportunity to develop mainstream FOSS. When I was told about HackFest at Shaastra '09, I decided to give the event a try.
WACOM Launches Interactive and Multi-Touch Tablets with Bamboo
It has been a while that WACOM is noted as a leading tablet manufacturer, among the graphic designers. However, this is the first time they launched a series of products that could not just be used by the designers, but by the "aam junta" as well, with equal ease.
