One would not normally associate Microsoft with Unix. While Microsoft’s interest(s) in Unix may remain minimal in recent times, history tells a very different story.

Only a couple of dates after Cinnamon updated to  version 1.6.5 (on this November 5th) , project leader Linux Mint Cinnamon announced another quick update i.e. Cinnamon 1.6.6. The update has nothing note-worthy or distinguished from its previous release, however … Continue reading →

NetBSD can often be the forgotten Unix distribution. Forgotten to the popularity of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD and others. In truth, NetBSD has been around a very long time.

NVIDIA 304.64  is finally out fixing number of issues and bugs. The posts introduces you to its new features and details installation instructions.

Opera software shortly released Opera Browsers latest version Opera 12.10. The browser upgrade might not be densely feature packed but apart from handful of decent features upgrade, the best thing is that the new release offers something for everyone, may … Continue reading →

It was not until today when I downloaded the Google Earth app and placed it on my Home screen on my secondary mobile set i.e. iPhone 4s, that I realized almost all the most used apps place on the panel of main … Continue reading →

There’s another new, fresh and exciting Ubuntu release out in the wild. As you read this, we can all now accept the great pleasure of what Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’ has to offer.

In our last few posts we discussed the fact that over 90% supercomputers (94.2% to be precise) employ Linux as their operating system. In this post, a sequel to our last posts, we shall attempt to investigate the potentials of … Continue reading →

With time open source software have emerged as potential contenders to proprietary software. Unlike the traditional understanding, open source software have proven to be as capable (or even more capable) than counterpart proprietary software and have been successful in claiming … Continue reading →

Being a Technical Writer involves a lot of reading and research of new and emerging technologies. And one project that recently came to my attention through my email inbox was an Illumos kernel based Unix operating system called XStreamOS.