Monthly Archives: September 2009

The third article in our series on the GIMP will guide you through Toolbox, and help you to work with the various tools featured in it.

Over the last few years, Linux has proved its worth in every vertical imaginable. Yet, corporate India is caught in a bind with Linux-conversant talent being virtually unavailable. Shenoy Systems has stepped in to speed up the process of getting talent industry-ready, especially in the embedded systems arena.

Getting started with video editing could be easy with this non-linear video editor called Kdenlive. Here’s how...

The ministries and babus of the Indian government departments are all heading towards the road to slavery.

“KDE will very shortly become the desktop you need and not the desktop we think you need,” was something stated by someone from the KDE team. Looking at 4.3, we think there’s a fair chance that version 4.4 actually gets there.

A modern desktop with an office suite, multimedia codecs, wireless support and more. You can have all that in around 10-15 minutes.

The Web-based SUSE Studio service makes the job of rolling out your own GNU/Linux-based distro or appliance child’s play.

It has been scientifically proven that breaks at regular intervals increase productivity and there could be no better game (other than Desktop Towers Defense) other than Pingus to fit into that bracket. What more, Pingus is so addictive that it definitely manages to keep you rooted to your seat, scenario after scenario.

After a hard day at work, you decide to relax and play a nice game on your Linux system. As you don't want anything too complex that could require a lot of attention, you decide to find a game that's simple and fun to play. That's when you decide to have some fun with Tux, sliding him down the mountains, catching fish, and performing tricks. Enter Extreme Tux Racer!

Secret Maryo Chronicles is an open source PC game designed around the original Super Mario World side scroller that takes what was great about that old console game and brings it to the PC, dusts it off and tries to improve on it. While still not completely polished or fully matured, it does offer you a lot of gaming fun. So let's look at a little that it does offer you.