Another lost year for Linux

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I found this article in the Orkut community for Linux . Do check it out. “Another lost year for Linux” It nicely focusses on the various issues the Linux community still has to address; especially for a user migrating from Windows to Linux. The blogger has described an intersting situation: Lot’s of Linux fans think… Read more »

Trackpoint on openSuSE 10.2

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Well, today I finally managed to configure the trackpoint on my Linux. I was doing so advanced for a long time, trying to install some extra drivers and re-compiling the kernel (some file configure-trackpoint.tgz), but the solution lay in the xorg.conf file itself. Beauty. For those of you who want to configure it on their… Read more »

openSuSE 10.2

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Well, it is a great distro I got my hands on a month ago, and as far I have seen it is quite good considering the fact that it was not a full release.  It was pity that I had to disable the xgl effects (they looked really cool) because it slogged the processor and… Read more »

The standard of teaching

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Yesterday, we had our second ITWS (IT WorkShop) teacher teaching us for the first time. His part is to teach us Advanced Bash scripting. As he entered the class, he moved towards the PC kept there and booted to Linux (Red Hat 9). The first thing he did was that he plugged in his flash… Read more »