Posts Tagged “opensource”
Come to Refresh Colombo tomorrow
by Nazly on November 24, 2010
In my personal opinion the last Refresh Colombo meetup was the best we had so far. But I get even more excited when I look at the topics lined up for tomorrow. It’s that time again where all the tech (…)
Refresh Colombo
by Nazly on June 15, 2010
A bunch of tech enthusiasts have got together in organizing a meetup for the techy/geeky crowd in Colombo. It was organized in quick time and is scheduled to take place this Thursday. Its totally an informal meetup where we get (…)
Switch to Ubuntu
by Nazly on April 26, 2006
About 3 weeks back I successfully made a switch over to Linux Desktop and my pick was Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger). I would love to share few things in this step I took coz I feel it might help you (…)
Ubuntu 6.06 BETA
by Nazly on April 24, 2006
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) BETA has been released. This Beta Release has introduced the new Desktop CD, which can be used both to try Ubuntu 'live' and to install the system. Installation can be perfomed using the new graphical installer (…)
Award for SAHANA
by Nazly on April 17, 2006
The SAHANA Project has received Software Industry Good Samaritans award at the Sand Hill Group's Software 2006 conference. Sahana's Free and Open Source (FOSS) project was quickly built over a 2-3 week period around the time of the tsunami in (…)
The Magic Word – Ubuntu
by Nazly on April 16, 2006
Finally, finally I have broken the spell of 'M$ Desktop' with the magic word Ubuntu. Ubuntu with a strong motive 'Linux for Human Beings' has been quite popular for being the perfect distro for a Linux Desktop. As you all (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
