Category Archives: Linux

Brand new Suse 11.0 beta 3 for all

(Screenshot of KDE 4 in action ) I hope to post some of my own desktop screenshots of KDE 4 soon, as soon I finish my Suse 11 download OR my friend Swaroop finishes the Fedora 9 with kde 4 download The much awaited beta 3 release of Suse 11.0 was released today. You can… Read More »

nrg to iso -Burn images in Linux

hi guys, Recently I came across a neat solution to convert nrg files to iso in Linux which I though I would share it with you. I guess, most of you would have faced the situation when you want to burn an image to disk and its in the “.nrg” format. Note that, the famous… Read More »

Virus Attack!!

(The virus attack, reminds me of this ^) Hi guys, From what I perceive, my XP seems to down due to a pretty nasty virus. I guess, it might have got into my system from one of the USB thumb drives(flash drives )that i use. Anyway the funniest thing(if any) here is that, even though… Read More »

Searching for Torvalds !

(Linus Benedict Torvalds :best known for initiating the development of the Linux Kernel) All along my life, I wanted to learn about linux and its creators(note the plural here!) and this journey has been going on for sometime. Below, i would love to share with you, some search adventures, that i had today. First, i… Read More »

A brush with “Wow” effects of the Linux world

(Slax with lg3D)  It was the first time, I took a screen shot of the power of graphics in Linux in action, and I thought I would share it with you guys. In the screen shot you can see the start menu, yeah the 3D “thing” at the left corner and the minimized windows get… Read More »

Emacs touch

I recently came across a thread in comp.lang.python namely The Modernization of Emacs which stressed the need for changing emacs to “appeal to the masses” I actually clicked the thread just because of the sheer number of replies to thread – 269 last count. But upon reading, I found it really interesting. I had almost… Read More »

Broad Band in Linux

(Page in screenshot:Home page of distrowatch.com)  Enjoying broad band in Suse Linux Hi guys, Its 11:00 pm now, and the day was just superb. So many cool things happened. First of all, configuring Suse for broadband was just so cool. I just switched on my modem, and Suse immediately recognized and configured everything, Automatically!! And… Read More »

I rescued Linux

Yeah I did spell those words correctly, ” I rescued Linux” . Usually, its the other way round. Linux rescues me from problems/ dead-ends. But this time, i was able to resucue my dear own Vector Linux which I though I had lost, because Suse Linux failed to discover this cutie – during the Suse… Read More »

Linux from scratch adventure

Yesterday I tried out my luck again with Linux from scratch. The last time I tried it was, some 6 months back. At that time, i was a bit shy about partitioning and formatting the drive in a particular file system. And therefore I could not proceed much with the Linux from scratch project. (Note:… Read More »