rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora
Lets first install the rpmorphan package: 1 <td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> &nbsp;<span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan </div> </td> </tr> </table> and here is the description of the package: rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It intends to be clone of deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages. It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example: Continue reading

My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile.

2011-05-20 2 min read Uncategorized
Image via CrunchBase I have been thinking of buying the “N900” Nokia mobile for quite sometime but for certain reasons could not get my hands on this mobile so far. Finally couple of days back, I got my hands on this beautiful and powerful piece of software and hardware. Well, here are some snaps for ya ll: BTW before we go to the snaps, there are some things that you will not see in the pics here but makes the first and the best impressions and they are Browsing, Email, Connectivity, Screen Resolution, Size of the icons (big enough to do most of the tasks with bare hands) et al. Continue reading

Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832

2011-04-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
Slackware released the next version a few days back and guess the complete name : Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832. You must be crazy to tell the complete version to anyone. Development Release: Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832 More fun with Slackware’s version numbers as Patrick Volkerding announces the latest release candidate for the upcoming Slackware Linux 13.37: +ACI-There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release candidate: Slackware 13. Continue reading

Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux

2010-08-26 1 min read Fedora Linux
?Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux &#8221;The long wait is over and Linux users can finally use the Gmail Videochat! The <a class="zem_slink" title="Gmail" rel="homepage" href="http://gmail.com">GMail team recently announced the availability of voice and <a class="zem_slink" title="Videoconferencing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing">video chat on Linux. This feature is currently supported on <a class="zem_slink" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu and other <a class="zem_slink" title="Debian" rel="homepage" href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian-based <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distributions. <a class="zem_slink" title="RPM Package Manager" rel="homepage" href="http://rpm. Continue reading

2010-06-25 4 min read Linux
Note: I am using this and definately this is a big improvement over the previous versions. Here is the blog from gnome blog: After more than a year of heavy development, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/networkmanager" title="NetworkManager" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager">NetworkManager 0.8 was unleashed on the world a few weeks ago. While we obviously couldn’t make everyone happy just yet, this release includes a ton of great stuff. Much of it is under the hood, so while it won’t dazzle you in a blinding flash of light, it should still make your head explode. Continue reading