The folks over at younevercall.com have put together a handy guide for Linux users looking to create their own ringtones. With cellphone companies charging as […]
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OpenOffice deal pushes open-source to business
Open-source business intelligence (BI) software vendor Pentaho is hoping a new tie-up unveiled today with the OpenOffice.org community and Sun Microsystems will bring its BI […]
Microsoft tries to maintain its monopoly…are you surprised?
On one hand, Microsoft needs to figure out its future. Clearly, open source is going to play some prominent role in that future. It has […]
Red Hat tries spreading open-source idea
Red Hat is taking a second crack at trying to spread its open-source philosophy beyond the realm of software development. On Wednesday, the Raleigh, N.C.-based […]
Open source protester crashes speech by Bill Gates at Chinese University
A protester calling for free computer software and open source programming crashed a speech Friday by Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates at one of China’s […]
Debian/Ubuntu Package Management Using dpkg
Dpkg is the Debian package manager dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end […]
How to extract .deb or .rpm in Linux
The best and the easier way to extract .deb files to Linux is to download the alien binary package and convert the .deb file to […]
Using UML in linux :)
Umbrello UML Modeller Umbrello UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language diagram programme for KDE. UML allows you to create diagrams of software and other […]
Best Program to write CD’s/DVD’s in Linux
K3b is a comfortable CD/DVD writing suite for Linux/KDE. yum install k3b.i386 (recommended) or download Using K3B GUI: Make Audio CD Data DVD Data CD […]
ISO image to CD/DVD
[root@localhost govath]# cdrecord dev=help Now write to disk: [root@localhost govath]# cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,1,0 test.iso In this example: -v is verbose -eject ejects the […]