An Interview with Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith
Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, once said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are...
View ArticleProprietary Solutions Can’t Milk Money from these Cooperatives!
The dairy cooperative societies in Kerala are gradually switching to open source in an attempt to cut costs and stay secure. While people are still contemplating whether to use open source in their...
View ArticleUEFI: Should Linux Users be Worried?
Microsoft intends to capture UEFI and make GNU/Linux and other free OSs “unauthorised”! Is this true, and if so, what is the community doing about it? This article attempts to answer some questions....
View ArticleAn Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook,...
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company. Richard M. Stallman at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of...
View ArticleM.Sc. in FOSS from Anna University: AU-KBC’s C. N. Krishnan Throws Some Light
The real bottleneck in the growth of FOSS in India is inadequate and commercially sustainable deployment with ‘real world users’… C N Krishnan, programme director, AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna...
View ArticleBest Open Source Apps for Daily Use
What the proprietary world can do, FOSS can do better! That’s what this article hints at, as it takes you through the 11 most used open source apps. Every day, we use a variety of applications without...
View ArticleFOSS Helps Naaptol Take E-Commerce to New Heights!
Naaptol, a leading virtual home shopping platform, grew phenomenally by placing its bets on open source technology. Adopting the FOSS model not only helped the e-commerce giant cut down on its early...
View ArticleWrite Your Own conio.h for GNU/Linux
Here’s a close look at the technique and code for console handling in Standard (i.e., ISO/ANSI) C/C++. In the latter part of the article readers are encouraged to write their own code for the...
View ArticleA Peek Into Open Source Verilog Simulator
Verilog, a hardware description language, is used to model electronic systems, and to design and verify digital circuitry at the register-transfer level of abstraction. It can also be used to verify...
View ArticleOpen source alternatives for commonly used proprietary software
Proprietary software is usually costly and its source code is known only to the company that produces and markets it. Open source software is usually free, and its source code is available to the user...
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