Archive for November, 2007
My Laptop Chronicles: It’s here!
Yup! Finally my laptop is here, delivered to my office at OMR, Chennai! After all those hassles(read this and this post to know more!) I received it 12 days after my order was registered(ie, the day the amount was realized). In case you’re wondering, my Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1520, featuring an Intel [...]
Torvalds on where Linux is heading in 2008
In an interview with the IT news magazine, InformationWeek Linus Torvalds speaks on where Linux is heading in 2008. He says that he is very gung-ho about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
Here’s an [...]
NVIDIA 169.04 Driver Brings Improvements
Phoronix reports that NVIDIA’s 169.04 driver brings out a lot of improvements over its predecessor. This X.Org driver contained a number of GeForce 8 fixes, initial support for the GeForce 8800GT graphics card, monitoring of PowerMizer state information, and other changes.
What Phoronix had not tested, however, at that time was a performance comparison of the [...]
10 Reasons why Command Line is better than GUI
“Penguin Pete” gives 10 reasons as to why the command line is far better than GUI. And yeah, I do agree with him. Something as simple as installing as application is a lot easier! I mean c’mon tell me, which is better, telling someone to type “sudo apt-get install xxx” or “Click on the Button, Click [...]
You’ve gotta give it to windows
Whacko : lets pay a tribute to the worlds best software windows
Geek : Yeah! Right!
Whacko :At present its the most used Operating system in the world
Geek :Not to mention the worst.
Whacko :Hey Windows XP and Windows Vista are the best.
Geek : Its more like Windows letsPee and Windows it’s-Stuck
Whacko : Why do you say that?
Geek [...]
DirectX 9.0c in Linux using WINE
I found this blog giving a step-by-step tutorial on how to get Direct 9.0c installed on your Linux box. Worthy of a look I say!
Excerpts:
About DirectX
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all [...]
Must Try Linux Distro’s
This for all those guys who don’t know which linux to try. These are the ones that had us awed at their usability and features.
Aditya’s Picks:
Ubuntu
Xubuntu
Puppy
My Picks:
openSuSE
Kubuntu
DreamLinux
[Combat]The Right Desktop Operating System
Windows vs Linux in a friendly fight to be choosen as the right OS for basic everyday use.
How we ranked
Installation
Installation shouldnot be too messy and should be user friendly. A GUI is preffered and faster installation obviously scores well.Live Cd’s/DVD’s score plus points.
Default Software
The operating system must come with a good suite of [...]
NVIDIA 169.04 (beta) Drivers for Linux
NVIDIA has released new BETA drivers for x86 and x64 (AMD64/EM64T). This new driver is now off of their latest 169 code line and will possibly net some performance benefit on top of the long release highlights list:
Added support for GeForce 8800 GT.
Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series GPUs.
Fixed stability problems with some [...]
Trivia: Why Penguin is Linux Logo?
Penguin as logo/mascot for Linux was discussed first in early 1996 by several people in the linux-kernel mailing list. The idea of such mascot came from Alan Cox first. Among many other suggestions made by different people there were parodies of other operating system logos, sharks or even eagles.
At some point Linus Torvalds casually mentioned [...]
