Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

My freaking harddisk which had Linux crashed again. Yesterday, I got a replacement for that one. I had to install Linux back again. After a long thought of choice between Debian and Ubuntu, I have decided to go for Ubuntu. I installed Hoary from CD and upgraded to Breezy. I ...


The service manager tool is mostly a distro specific tool. We have one common tool in KDE. Gnome lacked one. I always preferred doing it manually. It seems that the problem is now solved and there is a distro independant service manager tool for Gnome. Ubuntu's Breezy pulled in ...


Here is yet another Linux distribution. OpenLX! This time from India. Should wait and see if it suceeds!


Open Source Victoria (OSV), an industry cluster of more than 60 open source and free software providers, has responded to a group of IT teachers who want a simple way to test and deploy Linux servers in schools with a free server software CD.

OSV has developed a free product ...


Dual boot machines with Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux is more widely seen in the Desktop PCs than a machine which is operated by GNU/Linux alone. Most of the newbies somehow manage to install GNU/Linux on their machine by stealing some space which is used by Windows. But ...


After a long thoughts, I have settled with the IRC nick prav33n for FreeNode. It was not registered luckily and I have registered it. Because of the unavailabilty of my usual nick 'rocky' on FreeNode, I was forced to do this. As a result, I am now prav33n on GimpNet ...


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It seems that there is a minor problem with Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD images. Here is a news about it.

Note: 3.1r0 CD image problem A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from these images will have a commented-out entry in ...


The most awaited stable release of Debian, the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 code named 'sarge' is released yesterday. Here is the release notes. Tons of new features and changes. Debian has gone more desktop friendly.


Google recently announced thier "Summer of Code", a program to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software Development. On succesful completion of the project, the student will receive $4500 from Google. $50000+ to be earnt from the Gnome bounties itself. Two Evolution tasks are also a part of ...