On account of high cost of maintaining IT systems, businesses are looking into possible integration of open source into the current proprietary system. It might be obvious to say that implementing open source systems are significantly less expensive than proprietary systems in initial cost. Open source software is freely available for commercial and non-commercial use, […]

Laptops are getting cheaper and cheaper. Various programs like One Laptop Per Child pushed the limits to have a $100 US laptop. This is a feat in itself which is slowly becoming a reality. I was asked on which laptop would I recommend for an on the move blogger. Thinking of my experience with a […]

Firefox browser release 2.0.0.10 was a bugy one. I experience not being able to open password protected WordPress pages. I have also experienced the browser just close while loading up a gmail after login. Web pages that have some scripting on it hangs up to oblivion. This might be some of the reason why a […]

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1, dubbed as Gran Paradiso is out already; not as an official release though. This beta release is intended for testers who would like to try out the new Firefox browser. Beta testers give feed back to the developers of any bugs for corrections prior to final release.
I have downloaded the 8.6Mb […]

The battle on the desktop arena by Microsoft and Linux systems comes to a new height. It’s a brave move by a Los Angeles based company Everex to join the desktop area. Everex manufactures low-priced and energy-efficient PC’s known as gPC. Some people are touting it to be a Google PC as it comes packed […]

I have a desktop pc at home running Fedora 7 as OS. The normal question when a Windows user sits on it is where’s your sound or MP3 player? Since it’s something new to them they often look for the all familiar Windows Media Player.
Fedora 7 as an open source OS does not ship […]