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Download of the day: GNU/Linux Advanced Administration PDF Book

Vivek Gite — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:30:48 +0000

The Free Technology Academy (FTA) has released excellent book called "The GNU/Linux operating system", the main contents are related with system administration. You will learn how to install and configure several computer services, and how to optimise and synchronise the resources using GNU/Linux.

Download Fedora 12 CD / DVD ISO

Vivek Gite — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:08:01 +0000

Fedora Linux version 12 has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Fedora Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc. Fedora is considered as the second most popular distro, behind Ubuntu Linux.

Linux / Windows Application For Prevention Of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)

Vivek Gite — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:21:00 +0000

Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is occupational overuse syndrome, non-specific arm pain or work related upper limb disorder. RSI caused from overusing the hands to perform a repetitive task, such as typing, writing, or clicking a mouse. Unfortunately, most people do not understand what RSI is or how serious it can be. You can easily prevent RSI using open source software called Workrave.

Download Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic koala) CD ISO Images

Vivek Gite — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:43:27 +0000

The latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution Ubuntu 9.10 has been released and available from the official project web site. New features since Ubuntu 9.04 includes - Firefox 3.5, GNOME 2.28, an enforcing AppArmor profile, Linux kernel 2.6.31, ext4 file system (default), Empathy instant messenger instead of Pidgin, the Ubuntu One client, which interfaces with Canonical's new on-line storage system. It also includes a new application called the Ubuntu Software Center. A quick screen-shot tour of new features available here on our website.

Download of the day: OpenBSD 4.6 CD ISO Images

Vivek Gite — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:17:27 +0000

OpenBSD 4.6 has been released and available for download from the official website. OpenBSD is well known for record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. The OpenBSD is widely known for the quality open source code and documentation, uncompromising position on software licensing, and focus on security and code correctness.

Download Slackware 13.0 CD / ISO Images

Vivek Gite — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:28:43 +0000

Slackware version 13.0 has been released and available for download from the official project website. This release brings with it many major changes since Slackware 12.2, including a completely reworked collection of X packages (a configuration file for X is no longer needed in most cases), major upgrades to the desktop environments (KDE version 4.2.4 and Xfce version 4.6.1), a new .txz package format with much better compression, and other upgrades all around -- to the development system, network services, libraries, and major applications like Firefox and Thunderbird. Also, this is the first release of Slackware with native support for the 64-bit x86_64 architecture!

Top 5 Email Client For Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Users

Vivek Gite — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:41:12 +0000

Linux comes with various GUI based email client to stay in touch with your friends and family, and share information in newsgroups with other users. The following software is similar to Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail and is used by both home and office user.
Webmail interfaces allow users to access their mail with any standard web browser, from any computer, rather than relying on an e-mail client. However, e-mail client remains extremely popular in a large corporate environment, small business, home and power users. An e-mail client (also mail user agent (MUA)) is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail. Mail can be stored on the client, on the server side, or in both places. Standard formats for mailboxes include Maildir and mbox.
The following are top five amazing piece of cross-platform software from various projects to make your life easy with wide variety of plug-ins / add-ons.

Top 10 Open Source Web-Based Project Management Software

Vivek Gite — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:18:10 +0000

Project management software is not just for managing software based project. It can be used for variety of other tasks too. The web-based software must provide tools for planning, organizing and managing resources to achieve project goals and objectives. A web-based project management software can be accessed through an intranet or WAN / LAN using a web browser. You don't have to install any other software on the system. The software can be easy of use with access control features (multi-user). I use project management software for all of our projects (for e.g. building a new cluster farm) for issue / bug-tracking, calender, gantt charts, email notification and much more.

Obviously I'm not the only user, the following open source software is used by some of the biggest research organizations and companies world wild. For e.g. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses track software or open source project such as lighttpd / phpbb use redmine software to keep track of their projects.

Download Of the Day: Firefox 3.5 For Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

Vivek Gite — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:25:00 +0000

Firefox version 3.5 has been released and available for download. Firefox 3.5 is the fastest web browser. It is twice as fast as Firefox 3. As a result javascript and multimedia enabled web apps loads faster. Firefox is the first browser to support open video and audio formats, allowing practically limitless new ways for sites to display rich content. This is based upon the open formats (HTML 5) which allow displaying media without a plug-in and/or proprietary software.

Download Fedora 11 CD / DVD ISO

Vivek Gite — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:06:24 +0000

Fedora Linux version 11 has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Fedora Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.

One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain free and open source software, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora 11, codenamed "Leonidas", was released on June 9, 2009. The features include ext4, a 20-second startup, and the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases. Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3's latest pre-releases are available as well.

Download of the day: Ubuntu Linux 9.04 CD / DVD ISO

Vivek Gite — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:38:24 +0000

Ubuntu Linux 9.04 has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Ubuntu Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. The latest release of Ubuntu brings the best open source technologies together on one platform, with the benefit of free updates for 18 months. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix (UNR).

Download Debian Linux 5 Lenny ISO / CD / DVD Images

Vivek Gite — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:41:18 +0000

Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 has been released ( jump to download ) after 22 months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.

How To Tail (View) Multiple Files on UNIX / Linux Console

Vivek Gite — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:28:32 +0000

tail is one of the best tool to view log files in a real time (tail -f /path/to/log.file). The program MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). This is one of those dream come true program for UNIX sys admin job. You can browse through several log files at once and do various operations like search for errors and much more.

Download Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference [ PDF Book ]

Vivek Gite — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:52:39 +0000

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference has been released and available for download from the official (authors') website. This guide is written by Keir Thomas and he claims that it is a totally unique and concise guide for everyday Ubuntu user.

Download of the day: FreeBSD 7.1 CD / DVD ISO Images

Vivek Gite — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:00:06 +0000

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features.

Download of the day: Linux Kernel 2.6.28

Vivek Gite — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:36:54 +0000

Linux kernel version 2.6.28 has been released and available for download. The new version includes following stable and new features:

a] ext4 file system - The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up to 1 exbibyte and files with sizes up to 16 TiB. ext4 removes ext3 64-bit storage limits and adds other performance improvements.

b] Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) - It is a a modern memory manager specialized for use in device drivers for graphics chipsets. It manages graphics memory, controls the execution context and manages the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) environment on modern graphics chipsets. The "xf86-video-intel" device driver will feature GEM integration.

c] Other features - Stable USB drivers, KVM, bug fixes and other stuff.

=> Download Linux kernel 2.6.28 here. You may also find our kernel compile tutorial useful.

trillr1: Build a Twitter-like Microblogging Website

Vivek Gite — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:20:02 +0000

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (also known as tweets). Now, you can build your own Twitter like service using trillr1.

Download of the day: openSUSE 11.1 CD / ISO Images

Vivek Gite — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:44:53 +0000

openSUSE version 11.1 has been released and available for download (jump to download) from the official project website. The 11.1 release includes a ton of new features and improvements, an improved desktop experience with GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1.3, OpenOffice.org 3.0, YaST improvements, updated Linux kernel, and much more.

Download Slackware 12.2 CD / ISO Images

Vivek Gite — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:55:30 +0000

Slackware version 12.2 has been released and available for download from the official project website. A must-have upgrade for any Slackware user. Download link.

Download of the day: Wordpress 2.7

Vivek Gite — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:32:57 +0000

Wordpress version 2.7 has been released and available for download. From the announcement page:

The first thing you'll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we've listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that's just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

What is new in Wordpress 2.7

For a visual introduction to what 2.7 is, check out this video (available in HD, and full screen):

Download the latest release of WordPress version 2.7, released on 10 December 2008.