Archive for the “GNU/Linux” category
Switching art students to GNU/Linux
by Nazly on March 24, 2006
Here is an interesting article about an art school that completely switched to Ubuntu in place of Mac OS X in their digital media lab.
SLAX, the pocket OS
by Nazly on March 12, 2006
For all those LIVE CD fans, try out SLAX which based on the Slackware distro. Its a cute little OS that will fit in on a Mini CD or a USB disk. More importantly additional modules can be downloaded and (…)
Babysteps.. babysteps..
by Nazly on March 11, 2006
I installed Slackware lately and really learnt a lot in the process. Babysteps to the Linux World. The only distros I have tried before are Redhat's Linux versions and Fedora Core 4 lately. Other than Redhat I have used Knoppix (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
Fun with a Linux Server
by Nazly on July 10, 2005
I have been having some fun lately with a remote Linux server. I was assigned a task to upgrade from MySQL 3.23 to MySQL 4.1 and after a tough battle, the mission was accomplished. The reason for the upgrade was (…)
