Archive : Open Source

We comes across Linux (Foss) in our day-to-day life. In fact we are surrounded by Foss technologies. The first thing that might come to the mind of ours is that why is Linux appraised so much even in Windows and Mac user Community.Linux is an ArtWhat we answer to these question is Linux is free (in use), Open source (Free source-code provided), Secure, Virus-free, large device support, excellent user community, freedom of choice (from a number...

linuxmessenger app is a “Facebook-like” client for Linux desktop was written in Python language. It allows you to login to your Facebook account right from the command line without installing it on your system and have chat with your loved ones with much a like a Facebook interface. If you want, you can install it as a desktop client. This application has some built-in features like desktop notifications, pop-up alert, friends request...

These days social networking sites have become more powerful for interacting people to people. It has been estimated that more than 80% of students rely on such kind of social networking sites in their daily communication such as surfing online, social activities, discussion etc. In most of the university social networks are considered as a communication method among teachers and students. Social networks improves performance of the students. A wide...

In most cases PHP performance can slow down the performance of websites. To optimize and accelerate website performance you need to improve the PHP performance. For this purpose, you can use opcode cachers such as eAccelerator, APC, Memcached, XCache, etc. Personally, my favourite choice is XCache. XCache is a free, open source operation code cacher, it is designed to enhance the performance of PHP scripts execution on servers. It optimizes the performance...

Wine is an open source and free application for Linux that enables users to run any windows based application on Unix/Linux like operating system. Wine team is keep releasing their versions in every two weeks. Last day the founder of Wine project Alexandre Julliard announced the release of version 1.5.27 with some additional improvements and bug fixes. To know more about new features and changes visit at http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.28 Read...

In our earlier article we’ve provided instructions on Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 installation, now here in this article we are introducing a newly released LibreOffice 4.0.2 office suit for RHEL 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9/5.8, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9/5.8 and Fedora 18,17,16,15,14,13,12 using LibreOffice RPM packages. LibreOffice is similar to Microsoft Office, but it has much advanced features and highly skinned user interface and it’s really a...

Linux is one of the powerful and standard operating system which at present is growing faster and faster in computer operating system planet. It offers excellent performance and speed. Linux is very stable and reliable in terms of usage. It also provides several administrative tools and utilities that help you to manage your system effectively. Going back to 90’s Mandrake Linux was the only one in the list of distribution but today the number is...

ImageMagick is an free open source simple software suite for any kind of image manipulation that is used for creating, editing, converting, displaying image files. It can able to read and write over 200 image files such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and Photo CD image formats and it is also used for thumbnail or captcha generation. It also includes command line options for creating transparent or animated gif image formats and many more feature like resize,...