Portable Apps

by Nazly on February 18, 2006

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 (…)

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Hands on FOSS

by Nazly on February 15, 2006

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 (…)

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Digging real deep

by Nazly on February 14, 2006

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 (…)

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Free beer?

by Nazly on February 13, 2006

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 (…)

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NFS Most Wanted

by Nazly on February 6, 2006

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 (…)

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Why OSS??

by Nazly on February 5, 2006

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 (…)

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FOSS-ed

by Nazly on February 3, 2006

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 (…)

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