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Yep! I’m running Karmic Koala

So if you are in a same situation as mine, you probably… Are on an MNC’s intranet which is being simultaneously used by a ton of other souls Get pathetic internet speeds, at times – measurable sometimes in BYTES! Even “git pull” takes like ages to complete… Any connection to Twitter is severed before it [...]

The much awaited Karmic Koala beta is due today from Ubuntu team… With a ton of new features – and as always, the bleeding edge of the Linux world, I just can’t wait to test it out. These features include Gnome 2.28 Software Center (replacing the old Add/Remove) Ubuntu One file sharing service Kernel 2.6.31 [...]

Very recently, I upgraded from Ubuntu Intrepid to Ubuntu Jaunty – and to my horror, the system went very slow! I wasn’t sure what was causing the problem but Xorg reported near 100% CPU utilization in “top” output, Firefox felt very very heavy, flash videos on youtube were choppy and slow – even Gedit felt [...]

I’m nothing short of saying – “Holy cows”!! Check this why… If you noticed, thats Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron running on top of my Windows XP!!! Click on the image to see a bigger screenshot. All thanks to Ubuntu Portable So what does this means now? I get to use apt-get and install a [...]

After a long gap, the guys at Linux Creative Group (LCG) met again today @ 3PM at Mocha Cafe in Koregaon Park in Pune. We discussed stuff ranging from girls to virtualization, startups including Rati, Subu, Manoj and Abhishek (behind Subu) Ofcourse, I was there too Feel free to join in at the LCG Orkut [...]

The day was very hectic… was up @ 10 AM, saw “Horton hears a who” @ 11 AM, had a quick breakfast @ 1PM, started for LCG meeting @ 3PM and then finally met the Entrip.com guys at 6PM – all as I planned yesternight …and by now I am dead tired – just enough [...]

After setting up the feed aggregation at ApnaBill.com’s Blog, I now had an uphill task in front of me – to tell people that such a blog exists. Writing about it at my blog was one thing, letting it known to ApnaBill’s users was another. And those small sticker like graphics on the topmost right [...]

Yesternight, I finally installed Fedora 7 on my laptop – only to find the boot process was hanging at “Uncompressing linux kernel” message. Adding an “acpi=off” to grub did the trick. Out of the box support for Dell XPS M1210 with default (& full) installation of Fedora seemed a bit lacking to me. The Wifi [...]

If OLPC is designed to run on hardware which is very minimal – & considering my old chap PC is almost as minimal on hardware – 800 Mhz CPU, 256 megs RAM (though it sports a 100 gig hdd) – only Gentoo manages to run well, all other – FC/Ubuntu crawl – Giving a shot [...]