Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

Now, I am looking at the documentation for bootsplash themeing. I am planning to create a new bootsplash theme. Well, the purpose of the mission is secret for now ;-)


I am planning to do some experiments on User mode linux this weekend.


I have installed Netbeans on my Debian. Too slow. Typically Java ;-) Here is a screenshot.


I have migrated my Debian from Sarge to SID. Not much visible differences. Here is my sources.list

# SID
deb     ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb     ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ unstable ...

Here is a pointer to a good collection of panoramic photography tools for Linux.


Colin Charles released a PDF, showing us what's new in Fedora Core 3.


After enough amount of googling, I admitted that today is the b'day of Linux. Shame on my side for not knowing this so far(I am using Linux since 1999). Anyway, better late than never.

Here is a brief history of Linux from Li.org.

http://www.li.org ...


I recieved a mail (forward) a few minutes back from Rekha, titled "Happy b'day Linux". It also claimed that on Aug 25th 1991, the first public announcement about Linux came from Linus. Find below the mail (supposed to be) from Linus Torvalds.

Hello everybody out there using minix-

I ...


Today I tried to burn my first DVD disk under Linux and it was painless. KIIIB is too good. It detected my TDK DVD burner straight away (was using Fedora Core 2; no scsi emulation). I copied the Matrix all in one DVD which took around 42 minutes (7.3 ...