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Firefox 1.0 (p)review
For nearly an year now, me and Firefox have become unseparable. Ever since I started using this browser, I have talked about this browser to hundreds of people. This is certainly the best thing to have happened to the Internet in recent times. With the launch of version 1.0, Firefox has clearly proved that it…
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Fedora Core 3 Released
Fedora Core 3 is now available on all the mirrors and also in the torrent. Keeping in track with Redhat’s policy of 2-3 releases every year, this new version has come out within six months from the release of Fedora Core 2. It is good for the OSS community, in the sense that there are…
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Linux in Tamil language
I have set up a new blog called Linux Ulagam, where I am going to write about the Linux OS and how to use it in Tamil language. Initially I thought about participating in the localisation projects to translate Linux and other OSS to Tamil. But then considering my command over Tamil language, I decided…
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Dumping Fedora Core
Dumping Fedora Linux
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Oracle 10g Installation (no) Woes
I don’t know what has got into my head. For the last two days, I have been fighting with a strange problem with Oracle 10g’s TNS Listener. I could not establish a connection to from the remote clients, the TNS Listener was not responding at all. And at the end I traced to problem to…
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Suse Linux Personal Edition – Free Download
German based SUSE which normally does not provide free downloads of its distribution has now anounced a free edition of its personal Linux edition. SUSE Linux 9.1 personal is now available for download from SUSE’s FTP server and also from its mirrors. I have always rated SUSE higher than other major distributions for a personal…
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Openoffice.org releases new version
Openoffice.org has anounced the availability of version 1.1.2 of its open source office suite openoffice.org. The new version for the first time comes with the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts. Openoffice.org’s release announcement also claims that a lot of bugs have been fixed through this new release. The software is available for free…