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Posts tagged opensource
Packaging software with RPM, Part 1: Building and distributing packages
Jan 15th
The principal benefit of open source software is, as its name implies, access to the inner workings of an application. Given the source, you can study how an application works; change, improve, and extend its operation; borrow and repurpose code (per the limits of the application’s license); and port the application to novel and emergent platforms.
Experience with Google Chromium
Sep 18th
I am a die hard fan of google for its free quality services. Sice chromium came out i was looking forward for it to become available on Linux. There were geeky methods like running it on wine, but i, for some reason i dont know, avoid using wine or applications that run on wine. So the other day i was surfing web and found this great link (from which you now that i am using ubuntu, and yes its the distro of my choice), i installed chromium and next thing is i am using it. Personally i like dark themes (because More >
