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Another Switch In Arch Linux, To systemd
Close on the heels of migration to GRUB2 comes another switch in the Arch Linux world – to systemd. And I won’t lag behind, though I am getting used to being indifferent towards these switches. With...
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Twitter Joins The Linux Foundation
Twitter now officially backs Linux, by becoming a silver member of the Linux Foundation. Good for the Linux Foundation. Good for Twitter. It will be good for Linux, and us Linux developers as well, if...
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Xfce’s Approach
I am more than a little late in linking to this, but it is worth archiving. Nick Shermer’s interview tells you a lot about the team’s approach towards Xfce. I think that is how it hits the right balance.
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WYSIWYG On Web Is Wrong
I know I have said this before, but WYSIWYG editor is a wrong solution for managing content on the Web. On the Web, we want content to be separated from its formatting, and WYSIWYG editors offer the...
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Inside The Browser
How are the internals of a browser that is trying to show you a simple Web page you requested? You will be surprised! The ‘Render Tree Construction’ section is very interesting. Writing a browser,...
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R.I.P. Aaron Swartz
One of the worst days. He managed to teach a lot to the world – through fighting for Internet freedom, programming, blogging, hacking, everything he did to keep information open. Hats off to Aaron who...
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Why Are All New Technologies Open Sourced?
A friend recently put up this question on the board. He comes from the Microsoft world and is one of the developers at a startup right now. His curiosity fetched him Erlang and Node.js for servers,...
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Technical Colleges In India To Use Office 365, Sad
This is sad! Enforcing a proprietary system on students is sad. Getting the educational institutions locked into vendors is sad. “Microsoft provided enterprise-grade services and support whereas other...
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ISS Laptops Switch To Linux
They are moving to Debian. Unlike a lot of sponsored studies the reasons to switch – stability, reliability, in-house control – are in sync with users’ experiences. Also note that Linux runs on a...
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Valencia Region Government Moves To LibreOffice
LibreOffice has started finding users in governments. The Valencia region Government have completed their switch to LibreOffice. Such applications also enables us to switch to an open standard and free...
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