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Symbian to go opensource

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Ever wanted to develop an opensource program or software for your Symbian OS powered smartphone, but found it nearly impossible because it wasn’t an opensource type of OS? Or are you feeling a bit left out becuase you can’t enjoy opensourced applications on your Symbian phone? Well, there’s good news in the horizon as it [...]

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Google’s Android source code

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

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Last Tuesday, Google proudly announced the release of the source code for its much awaited mobile phone Android’s operating system. It is now available for everybody FREE of charge. By this bold move of making the operating system an open source code, [...]

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Using ‘dd’ Commands

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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The ‘ dd ‘ command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone’s tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to [...]

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All About UBUNTU

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Ubuntu is an open source operating system designed for desktops, laptops and even servers. It is distributed by Linux based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu is owned by Mark Shuttleworth, an entrepreneur from South Africa where the name Ubuntu originated. In case you are curious about the concept of Ubuntu, it is rendered as “We are [...]

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