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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...

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...

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...

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...

Linux Creative Group

October 27, 2008 | In: GNU/Linux

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 :D Rati, Subu, Manoj and Abhishek (behind...

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 -...

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...

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)...

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 -...