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Posted by Anurag Bhandari on May 09, 2013

AICTE has finally agreed to remove the the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing Office365. The decision comes in light of concerns raised by some eminent politicians, free software supporters and people from the academia.

Posted by Rob Boudreau on May 07, 2013

Plasma Desktop is infinitely configurable, here’s some tips I use to be more productive.

Posted by Amit Singh on May 06, 2013

The now defunct Fuduntu team has come together to create a new distribution which they initially called FuSE Linux which was complementing Fedora and openSUSE.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on May 05, 2013

Windows maker Microsoft seems to be investing more time and resources in creating smear campaign against Google and Android instead of actually improving their own products and let the user's and market decide.

Posted by Anurag Bhandari on May 05, 2013

As we reported earlier, Debian 7 has been released today amid much fanfare. Stable Debian releases come out only after years of thorough testing and bug-fixing, and that is why each major Debian release is highly anticipated in the Linux community, more so by the barrage of distributions that are derived from Debian, including Ubuntu, Mint and MEPIS.

Posted by Jasna Benčić on May 04, 2013

Organizers of DORS/CLUC 2013 (Open system days/Croatian Linux users’ convention) have opened attendee registrations.

Posted by Rob Boudreau on May 04, 2013

PIM is one of the more controversial parts of the full Plasma Desktop, do we need it?

Posted by Anurag Bhandari on May 03, 2013

Continuing their love for Linux, Valve made available yesterday its critically acclaimed puzzle-platform FPS Portal on Steam for Linux. Now there's a rumor that Amazon is aiming at adding a 10-inch Kindle Fire to its offerings. All you KDE fans, your favorite programming language Python is now also supported in KDevelop IDE.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on May 03, 2013

MySQL was once the most popular open source database (it still is), but it's declining under the leadership of Oracle. The founder of MySQL Michael Widenius "Monty" founded MariaDB, an open source database, which is gaining popularity lately. It's not only become the default database of the leading open source operating systems, but is also replacing MySQL at WikiMedia and other major organizations and companies. Recently SkySQL merged with MariaDB's parent company Monty Program Ab, increasing its developer force.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on May 02, 2013

An exclusive interview with the team which is planning to create a derivative of openSUSE.