What’s next to Windows XP: Ubuntu

Published at July 7, 2008   Filed Under Windows, linux   1 Comment  

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Email alerts. Thanks for visiting!PC World has a great article suggesting to move small businesses from Windows to Linux as Windows XP, so far the best Windows OS is no more available in store. I am at the same situation [...]

Yugma: Web Collaboration and Desktop Sharing

Published at March 30, 2008   Filed Under Technology, Web 2.0   6 Comments  

Yugma is a slick web collaboration and desktop sharing tool for windows, Mac and Linux. Yugma is available as a Free and Paid versions, but free version is enough for most of the users, but for business purposes paid may be the way to go.
You need to register to use the app, it takes a [...]

Email checker and notifier for GNOME desktop

Published at December 10, 2007   Filed Under Tools, linux   0 Comments  

cGmail is a small utility for gnome desktop which checks your email accounts and notifies you of any new email, the same way as gmail notifier does.
cGmail is written in Python and supports Gmail, pop3, imap accounts. You might ask what is different in this than gmail notify, the developer has the following explanation. [...]

Get Mac OSX look to Linux Desktops

Published at December 7, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tools   4 Comments  

Mac4Lin is a project to bring the look and feel of Mac OSX to Linux desktops. We have seen how to Get windows vista style for fedora linux, get windows vista look for windows xp, transform windows xp into Mac OSX, now we can get the look of Mac OSX to Linux.
Get your copy [...]

10 Great Wallpapers for Linux Geeks

Published at November 7, 2007   Filed Under Internet   33 Comments  

I stumbled over these great wallpaper collection of tuxbrothers.net. They have a great collection of wallpapers for the linux freaks. Full wallpaper collection is here, below my 10 favourite wallpapers from the list.
Download the wallpapers from here

Get Windows Vista Style Look For Your Fedora Linux

Published at September 23, 2007   Filed Under Tools   15 Comments  

Vixta.org is a Fedora based Linux distribution to get a vista style look for the fedora linux. From the screenshots it looks like Windows vista style. I don’t have access to a Fedora Linux machine to test this one.
If you like what you see on the screenshots go and get your copy from sourceforge
Screenshots

Dell Ubuntu PCs debut today

Published at May 24, 2007   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

Dell Ubuntu PCs finally started shipping from today with Ubuntu 7.04 pre-installed. The three PC models available with Ubuntu are these.

XPS 410n
Dimension E520n desktops
Inspiron E1505n notebook

The above systems will be available for customers today by 4 PM CST from here. Starting price for the E520n desktop and the E1505n notebook is $599; the [...]

Wordpress session save path error

Published at May 15, 2007   Filed Under Wordpress   2 Comments  

Today strangely i saw an error in my wp-admin dashboard, the error is this
Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

I quickly did a search on wordpress forums and on Google but couldn’t find an answer for this. After [...]