Intriguing ***doz user

I always see ***doz users always running away from linux. Now one hardcore ***doz friend of mine happen to see me using linux and immediately made comment dat he needs ***doz for some work. And I grabbed opportunity to show a hardcore ***doz user few basic linux stuff and desktop effects. This particular friend of mine is vista user. He was dumbfounded by what was running in front of him. Now I think he got his lesson...wont ever ask for ***doz to linux fan...\m/

Here comes UBUNTU 8.10

Well while my laptop was not working, something was missing in my life. I was feeling all those break up blues. Well not much different from guy in relationship, having 1st thought of his gal when wakes up, first thing that I was used to see was my laptop. As Barney (How I met your mother) says "Its gonna be legend-wait for it-dary", ubuntu 8.10 wait was worth it. As I heard of release of Ubuntu 8.10, I immediately got my laptop repaired. Cant wait any more to get my hands dirty on Ubuntu 8.10, within minutes of getting laptop up, I was installing Ubuntu 8.10 in my system. Now that I've booted up to Ubuntu 8.10 kernel, m writing this blog from Ubuntu 8.10. Well comes with lot of newer versions of packages as compared to 8.04 LTS. Best part being gnome tabbed browsing feature which was part of critism for long time by KDE fans. Installed AWN-dock and its awesome. Its must try for any geek. I want to explore it more so for time being m taking leave...if you happen to try it, do post your comments...\m/

Rock on FOSS!!!

Lets face it...FOSS has got more features than any of its proprietary counterparts. There is a reason for it and apparently as a developer I've realized it. It so happens that proprietary softwares are developed inside an organization where developer is restricted to think. Developer is actually a moron inside most of the IT companies where he is to do what is requirement which is decided by market survey. Probably this survey is too old or may be it has incorrect observations. But developer has just to look into requirements and design software. He cant use his imagination, ideas, innovation etc in project. Hence it has got limited functionalities. But when it comes to open source, developer is at liberty to explore his ideas and creativity. Sky is also not limit to the features that developer can add to FOSS. Developer works for money in company but FOSS developers work for themselves. They work for satisfaction and of course geekism is the motive.

People do complain that there are bugs in FOSS. If we use proprietary software then we get good technical support. But while making such statements they don't realize that actually when using proprietary software, they are actually rejecting huge support from FOSS community which is probably 100 times the size of any technical support team in company. Bugs are solved faster in FOSS software than in proprietary ones. And of course they should be, as the number of developers working on FOSS software are huge as compared to small team working on any proprietary software.
On the top of this, developers/organizations do use FOSS to develop proprietary softwares. Extent to which FOSS is used by proprietary software developers is something remarkable. And why does features of open source and proprietary softwares overlap. Well now we know from where exactly proprietary software survey comes from (something is fishy huh). Thats the reason why very few innovative ideas are originated in proprietary softwares. Isn't this difference visible in desktop effects of any linux distro and ***doz Vista? Vista looks like primitive version of compiz/beryl desktop effects.
FOSS really is "by the people, for the people and of the people" which provides freedom in true sense to everybody!!!

Customize your linux ISO

Lot of things are happening in arena like launch of google G1 and apple iPhone. But the thing that caught my attention in particular is one more step towards OS customisation. Well now if I tell you about the kind of services and softwares by which you can customise your linux OS then it wont be something new. But what about installing an OS which will have default wallpaper of your own choice. Yea, stop rubbing your eyes...its true.

With NimbleX it is now possible to build your own Linux distro with your own wallpaper (for eg, your photo), your choice of login name and password, your choice of root password, and your very own boot greetings. You can add your own software, at click of button to a given base Linux distribution. Its like having your own distro. With all things said, real treasure is at http://custom.nimblex.net.
Navigate to custom distribution and from the group of games, office, network, multimedia, system, dirvers etc, select the softwares that you need. Rest unwanted softwares are eliminated. Finally ISO image is created. Each ISO image has its unique number and 12 hrs to download. For those folks who are facing power problems, I recommend they use wget with -c option hence the remaining download is resumed when power is back. This is a live ISO image. You download a fully-customised Live OS with the software you need, rather than depending on what the distro vendor thinks is rights for you. This is what they call "giving power to people"!

Is linux really so difficult?

As my friends know, I'm OS enthusiast. Linux user for long time n fan of debian based OSes. I've laptop with ubuntu 8.04 installed. Desktop effects 've made it look eye candy. Although now I've upgraded it, ubuntu used to run smoothly on my laptop, when it had 512 MB RAM. Actually previously I was KDE user, but found kubuntu 8.04 somewhat unstable on my hardware, and hence shifted to gnome. Though i've fallen in love with gnome because of its ease of usability

I come across many people on daily basis who are engineers, MCAs etc n asking me the reason 4 using linux on my machine. All of them complain of it being very unuser friendly and ****doz based systems being very user friendly. One thing that I always tell them that the smoothness that I get on my system wit linux is that keeps me attached. Also i get all the tools required for my day to day work on linux for free.

This blog is for those who say linux is not user friendly. Now I met this particular friend of mine who has just joined college. He is from remote area of maharashtra and has not been in touch with computers much earlier. Good for him, his college has all PCs based on fedora. He came to my house coupla days back and saw me workin on my ubuntu machine. Yea, next to it was ***doz machine running (with viruses). This young lad, was mesmerised by desktop effects of beryl/compiz and had his view fixed on my lcd. Later when we were talking, he asked me "why is ****doz so difficult to use"? This was the most shocking statement i've ever heard (although internally i knew some where that this is obvious). He liked the ease of gnome desktop. The way all menus are arranged nicely in submenus releated to context. Things become more easier rather than staking everything into "all programs" n letting user to search for application.
Now those who say linux is not user friendly think again. Imagine if you knew linux quite early in childhood when you are started to learn computers (then you would have been similar to this lad). ***doz is for our grandpa and grandma who didnt knew much in computers. Now for geeks like us, linux is perfect solution. There are 'n' number of reasons why I like linux. One of them because I its FOSS (free and open source software). A country where people are not able to afford bread and butter for day, hardly can they afford hardware for computer, how can they purchase OS that costs more than 5K bucks. On the top of that cost of other propreitary softwares like MS Office.Moreover the hardware itself required to run ****doz OS is very demanding, and costs more because of system requirements n doesnt even perform half what linux performs. Many times at my work place people compile their programs on linux because of half the time it takes as compared to windows. This country has seen many revolutions in past. Now it needs to get ready for FOSS revolution , and it is you who can bring it. I feel title of this blog should be "why is windows so difficult"?

Open ID

Now this is great initiative taken in web world. I'm bored remembering and changing my passwords for 8 email ids that I've. Hope this clicks up big and bring revolution on web. Long live openID. \m/