Archive for February, 2006
Portable Apps
PortableApps.com has got a cool collection of FOSS Applications for Windows that can be carried around on portable devices such as USB thumbdrives, portable harddrives, MP3 players etc.. Once the device is plugged in the applications and the personal data will be accessible like in our own PC and once unplugged nothing will be left [...]
Hands on FOSS
The last day of Foss-ed was a day for Hands on Workshops. The day started off with Chamindra and Arunan doing a great presentation on running windows applications on GNU/Linux using QEMU, Wine and CrossOver Office etc… Most prefer using a dual-boot system or running FOSS apps on Windows platform. Due to few of our [...]
Digging real deep
The day two of the FOSS-ed kicked off with Dr.Nimal Rathnayake of Peradeniya University giving us some piece of history of how FOSS was used on the server-side since 1990. He also covered on how operations have been automated within the universities in Sri Lanka using FOSS.
Suranga de Silva did a great presentation on FOSS [...]
Free beer?
It has been a very informative day learning loads of stuff in the OpenSource World at FOSS-ed today. Today was the first day of the three day conference and workshops. There was also a Panel Discussion on addressing challenges to adopting FOSS in Sri Lankan institutions. Topics covered today were more on what FOSS is [...]
NFS Most Wanted
After completing NFS Underground I was away from all the gaming though NFS Most Wanted was released and I couldn't get my hands on wheels coz of my old machine. I even found playing Underground 2 quite difficult as it ran really slow.
Atlast I got my hands on wheels after upgrading the Processor and the [...]
Why OSS??
Here is a great article that describes why Open Source Software should be considered when we are looking for a software. The market share, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership are considered here.
Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
Its very important that we choose [...]
FOSS-ed
Free & Open Source Software Educational Programs, a three day Conference will be held on the 13,14,15th of February 2006. This will be a great event after FOSSSL which was held last year where top names in OpenSource made that event a great success.
Its a great opportunity to dig deep into OpenSource Software.
