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Final judgment: SCO owes Novell millions (plus interest)

Posted by sudhirmangla November 26, 2008

Federal district judge Dale A. Kimball has handed down the final judgment in the SCO case. The decision dismisses SCO’s latest claims, grants declaratory relief to Novell, and sustains the court’s previous judgment that SCO owes Novell over $2.54 million (plus interest) for unjust enrichment. SCO’s protracted legal shenanigan has been running for roughly five years now. The company originally claimed that it owned the UNIX SVRX copyrights and that incontrovertible evidence had been... Read more »

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BSD or GPL: Choosing an open source license

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

If you ever plan on writing an open source program, then you must make an important decision, selecting a program license. Generally for open source programs, there are two main licenses that most developers take into consideration. These licenses are the Gnu General Public License, and the BSD license. This article will explain the fundamentals of each license, and will help you in choosing the right license for your open source project. The first software license that comes to mind for an open... Read more »

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HOW TO Get Your Linux Bootloader Back, For both LILO & GRUB users

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

This guide shows HOW TO Get Your Linux Bootloader Back, For both LILO & GRUB users: GRUB Boot into the first CD Type linux rescue when asked what to boot. After you have chosen Language and Keyboard layout, you are asked if you want to mount your harddisk system. Say yes to this. Now you system is mounted as /mnt/sysimage. Say ‘OK’. Now type: chroot /mnt/sysimage. This will make you run on your already installed system, instead of the CD-ROM Type /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda... Read more »

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How the kernel, OS and GUI are layered in Linux

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

"I don’t understand how the kernel, OS and GUI are layered in Linux…" This FAQ is a quick run-down that I have written to briefly introduce GNU/Linux (often referred to as just "Linux") to someone completely unfamiliar with how a typical Linux system is structured. The target audience for this is quite likely someone who is considering installing Linux for the first time, or who has installed it recently, but is having difficulty dealing with the variety of choices.... Read more »

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List of Killer Applications for Linux

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

Here is the list of most useful applications I have ever come across. Audio Players: iTunes style: Amarok:? ?Amarok? (?formerly known as amaroK?) ?is a free software music player for GNU/Linux and other varieties of Unix.? ?It makes use of core components from the KDE desktop environment,? ?but is released independently of the central KDE release cycle,? ?and is developed with a desktop-agnostic policy.? ?It has been voted the most popular audio-playing application for Linux on several occasions.?... Read more »

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Linux File System Overview, a very basic look

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

"This Linux file system is crazy…" This FAQ is a quick overview that I have written to summarize how the files are generally organized into their directories. I have often described this, in the past, as looking at a vertical vs. horizontal method of determining where different files should be placed. However, that doesn’t really clear things up for 99% of the people I have tried to describe this to, so I will attempt to better explain this here. I will cover the file &... Read more »

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Linux Vocabulary to clear your doubts

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

I’ve seen many people here ask what a distro is or what KDE is many times. Hopefully this topic will clear those questions up. The words are categorized. Beginner Linux Vocabulary Distro – Short for Distribution, a distro is a set of programs combined with the linux kernel to create an operating system. Kernel – The core of Linux. The kernel is what controls the hardware and is what every linux distro is built upon. The latest kernel to the date of this writing is 2.6.11.... Read more »

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