A geeky thing for the geeks, but generally touted as an educational device – that’s what Raspberry Pi (wiki) is in simplest words. It has pretty much the same hardware configuration as did my first PC. And now that it’s finally out in the wild, it’s perhaps every geek’s dream to extract the hell of […]
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Mint 13 Screenies
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 6 CommentsHere’s the fast, beautiful thing on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. 🙂
A new init system in Linux
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentIt was bound to happen some day. The existing init system in use by most of the present Linux distros is really not leveraging the performance capabilities of modern hardware to the fullest. Spawning processes one-by-one to get the system up and running costs a lot of precious time, when it is possible to do […]
Here comes GNOME 3
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 1 CommentGNOME 3 is finally here, and it looks so darn beautiful in the screenshots. I admit, being a KDE fanboy, I was not as excited about this release as I was about KDE 4, but going by the looks, GNOME 3 looks elegant, modern, and [most importantly] stable. Cannot wait to put my hands on […]
Why Switch? Dual-boot!
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 2 CommentsI keep hearing people say, “I am happy with my Windows; don’t want to switch to an alien OS such as Linux.” And, “Hey, this Linux thing looks cool. But I do not want to switch over to it suddenly (or at all) because my Windows just works.” Even, “I would really like to switch […]