I am going to tell a story just to give an understanding of the real value of FOSS in business.
I recently developed an SMS (Short Message Service) daemon for a project at work. The daemon is using the SMPP protocol to send messages. To save time (and money) I used an Open Source SMPP library [...]

Konsole is the X terminal emulator of KDE. I find having the terminal out of my way, but always open and easy to reach out to, very convenient. It also looks cool. With KDE SC 4.3 you can easily achieve this with a few clicks without the need of any additional software.
Here is [...]

Yet for another time, I find myself switching distros. I hope am not addicted or something . If not for anything else, I am enjoying the ride! This time is Chakra, and I must admit, am impressed!

I had heard abοut ArchLinux back from the early days that I started experimenting with GNU/Linux distributions. It [...]

New distros seem to pop-up every day in the GNU/Linux world. The majority of them try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find (I sure did) that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary [...]

I was looking for a small distribution to install on my old laptop for a while now. It’s a 7 year old pc, at 1.2GHz with 256mb RAM.
I had first tried Puppy Linux when it was at version 4.2 and I was very drawn to it. Version 4.3 was recently announced to my great pleasure. [...]

Surfing the net all this time on topics related to GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software, I came across various interesting, imaginative and some times funny videos and advertisements. Here are my favourites, in random order:

I have been a GNU/Linux user for a year now, and in this time I changed 4-5 distributions. In this process, even when reinstalling the same distro, I wasn’t aware that I could keep the settings and configurations of my applications.
This can be done by creating a separate partition on the initial installation called /home. [...]

If you are using an OS based on the Synaptic Package Manager, you must have noticed by now that when trying to install a new package through Synaptic, it draws in miscellaneous packages that are needed for the program to work. These packages are called dependencies .
Yet, you might have not noticed that when removing [...]

Manipulating subtitles was for many years a difficult task to perform in GNU/Linux Operating Systems. Many steps in the process of ripping, editing and embedding subtitles on a video file were and still are quite complicated. Lots of users still complete many of the above steps using Microsoft Windows or running Windows applications with Wine.
Below [...]

Let’s start with the basics. What is GIMP?
GIMP is

an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program
Free Software
a high-end photo manipulation application that supports creating original art from images;
a high-end application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages, and art for user interface elements;
a platform for programming cutting edge image processing [...]