Tiny Core Linux: Smallest OS(10 MB), Fast Internet with X Desktop

April 13th, 2008 I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% faster.

August 23rd, 2007 According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in 2006, and Ubuntu remains the no. 1 Linux distribution of choice for desktop users.

May 21st, 2007 Microsoft's True Type fonts can also be used on Linux. Not only can they improve visibility, they are essential for proper look and layout if you are using Internet Explorer on Linux for testing etc.

March 8th, 2007 I have been evaluating both Xubuntu and Fedora Core along with Cent OS (Open Source version / fork of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition). The key value and differences between these releases are: Xubuntu Xubuntu is definitely faster to use in general due to its light-weight Xfce desktop interface.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

June 23rd, 2008 While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn't find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later.

May 2nd, 2007 The Trashcan on your Fedora Core desktop (tested for gnome) is actually located in ~/Trash directory. So a simple commaond as below should clear your trash: rm -rf ~/.Trash/* Why did I need this? There were some files in the Trash can which I didn't have permission to clean.

April 22nd, 2007 BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However I found that you can setup much easier and without using their custom software.

November 16th, 2007 Lenovo (formerly IBM division) announced very good price for Lenovo H Series (531188Q) Desktop with Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2140 (1.6 GHZ), 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD and 17" Flat CRT monitor. E2140 Mini Review E2140 processor has 1MB L2 cache at 1.6Ghz speed.

September 26th, 2008 We recently bought several high-end computers for our office which will be used with Linux Operating System (Fedora 8). The price including VAT comes to Rs 19, 214.

May 6th, 2007 Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch to Linux but cannot do so because of strong requirement for testing on Internet Explorer. You are in luck.

October 10th, 2008 Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

September 28th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 has recently been updated to Kernel version 2.6.22.5-49. When you depend on compiled kernel modules, as in the case of nVidia drivers from Livna, you have to update them too.

June 22nd, 2007 Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called "free" (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this "free" JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too.