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Fedora Miniconf and foss.in/2010

A very delayed post on the Fedora Miniconf and foss.in/2010. foss.in/2010 was held on the 15th, 16th and 17th of... →

Auto-login to web proxies using NetworkManager

My ISP uses a web proxy that one has to log into to access the Internet. This logging in is... →

Communication between Guests and Hosts

Guest and Host communication should be a simple affair – the venerable TCP/IP sockets should be the first answer to... →

Upgrading from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13

Having already installed (what would be) F13 on my work and personal laptops the traditional way – by installing a... →

Summercamp artwork

Thanks to Nicu’s excellent step-by-step howto on creating artwork with inkscape and the Open Clip Art Library, I managed to... →

Virtualisation (on Fedora)

A few volunteers from India associated with the Fedora Project wrote articles for Linux For You’s March 2010 Virtualisation Special.... →

Debian moving to time-based releases

http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 I have used Debian since several years now and have always been either on the ‘testing’ or the ‘sid’... →

We open if we die

I wrote a few comments about introducing “guarantees” in software – how do you assure your customers that they won’t... →

Re-comparing file systems

The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with... →

Comparison of File Systems And Speeding Up Applications

Update: I’ve done a newer article on this subject at http://log.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html that removes some of the deficiencies in the tests... →