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I have downloaded the beta 1 DVD (64bit) of OpenSuse 11.0, it takes 1 week for me (in central India) to download whole DVD. Till then beta 2 is arrived. Installation on quite fast. I have installed kde3,kde4,lamp server and mono development, it takes 25 minute for package installation and in 30 minute my system is ready to use. Installation is quite fast. My fedora 8 installation (replace kde4 with gnome) takes more than 40 minutes to install. OpenSuse installer looks beautiful. the best thing abt installer that it offer choieces between kde3,kde4 and gnome. I it is good to give choice for kde3 because there are many application that are not ported to kde4 and also in kde4 desktop is changed very much so some people will take time to adjust with it. Booting also quite fast. I logged in kde4. performance is quite good. kde4 is quite usable. I have used system for some time. I find beta version in good shape. There are some bug like plasma applets crashes on logout. It comes with flash a...

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | But is it really cricket? Meanwhile, as Bollywood stars dance and cheerleading girls do the jig, electronic scorecards are yet not working in many stadia, and at the weekend match in Calcutta, there was no drinking water available for over 70,000 spectators.

Conditions in Zimbabwe are so bad. BBC NEWS | World | Africa | 'Arrests' after Zimbabwe strike More than 50 Zimbabwean opposition supporters have been arrested after staging a strike, the party says. Police have accused the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of trying to incite violence with their strike call, in protest at delayed poll results. Correspondents say the strike had little impact as 80% of Zimbabweans are without a job.

A great effort has been started by a great lady. She is really a Queen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf897bUW2Y I wish allah make ur path easier.

This year I have applied for mentor of summer of code. I'm waiting for approval. Update: I have granted mentor ship.

This is a really important mile stone for mono project. After a few years in the oven, we are ready to announce the first release of MonoDevelop. Lluis has put together a set of in-depth release notes that covers the major features available in MonoDevelop and links to various tutorials and screencasts as well as extensive screenshots of what is available in MonoDevelop 1.0. MonoDevelop 1.0 is designed mostly for Linux developers creating Gnome and ASP.NET applications but MonoDevelop is also available for MacOS users that download our Mono installer and will still be useful if they are building Mono-based applications on OSX. The IDE has many of the features that you would expect from a modern IDE for Mono: support for programming in multiple languages, an extensible design, editors and designers for ASP.NET and Gnome applications, integration with Unix toolchains and Visual Studio Solutions , support for source code control and following standard...

Danish newspapers again published again cartoon of Prophet Mohammad (peace upon him). They call it "freedom of speech". I don't understand there definition freedom. As much as I know freedom means to do any thing without hurting anybody. Cartoon is an art to entertain the people. It is very creative thing. But they used it do the destructive thing. How bad their mentality is.

I used to do some Qt/C++ development few years back. Qt4 has grown very much since than. It think it is very difficult to integrate Qt designer in Monodevelop which is Gtk based. I never seen an GTk application which host Qt/Kde controls and vice - versa. Now Trolltech is part of now part of Nokia. Nokia is very much interested in Mono. They have ported mono to their mobile platform. I think we should Nokia/Trolltech guys for either start a project similar to QtJambi (Qt for java) or something like that. Both mono and Qt are crucial for Nokia. I expect they will come up some thing soon. One thing I am worrying that how much priority they will give to desktop. Lets see.

I'm have started to moving my asp.net development to Mono from MS asp.net last week. After working for a week I found few few missing pieces First and most important is the asp.net designer Some things breaks when u change mono version (My application build using 1.2.5 is not working on 1.2.6) intellisence for asp.net mark up code , because most of the people (specially ) rely on intellisence (It become more important because of absence of asp.net designer). I'll try keep u updated abt my experience with mono, depends on availability of time. Powered by ScribeFire .

Thanks to K ubuntu . After puzzling much with OpenSuse . I have give up. After release of Ubuntu 7.10, I give Kubuntu a try, thank god it is installed without any error. Now I have Kubuntu on my Machine. I'm a regular user of Fedora. After release of Fedora 8. I will definitely give it a try.

I'm trying to install Linux on my new machine (Athalon X2 4000+, Asus A2m mx vmse). I have tried Fedora 7 and Open Suse 10.3. But failed, after booting from CDRom installer is unable to detect cd rom, I have Pata sony DVD-writer. I think it is driver issue. Since now days motherboard comes with third party Pata chip. Powered by ScribeFire .

I have got AMD Athalon X2 based machine. This is a real power house. Nowdays dual core machines are cheap. It cost just 18k Rs,. This machine will really boost my productivity. I'm very happy to get this machine. Specially because this is the first big thing I bought by my earnings. Powered by ScribeFire .

Novell is running a special internal event this week called Hack Week. " During Hack Week, our entire Linux engineering team -- hundreds of people -- will be working on whatever Linux or open source projects interest them. Everyone will work alone or in teams, on existing open source projects or new ideas of their own. No one will tell them what or what not to do -- it's a free week for free hacking, driven by individual passion. " The Idea Pool web site is where hackers are publicizing their projects and it's open to the public. Powered by ScribeFire .

MS-NOVELL deal is not good for open source. By this deal MS and NOVELL are try gain personal benefits. They r trying to harm open source movement. Read this http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-20Statement.mspx

This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to be by ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley -- It's now November 21, and both Microsoft and Novell are still spending an inordinate amount of energy trying to convince nonbelievers that their intentions in forming their interoperability alliance on November 2 were as altruistically pro-customer as they originally claimed.

Sending mail by asp.net 2.0 In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft deprecated the System.Web.Mail namespace and replaced it with System.Net.Mail. The new library introduces some new features, but it also includes some bugs in how mail is sent. Before discussing some of these in detail, let's go through some code sample (which assumes you've added a using System.Net.Mail at the top of the file): MailMessage msg = new MailMessage(); msg.From = new MailAddress("address@domain.com", "Person's Name"); msg.To.Add(new MailAddress("destination@domain.com", "Addressee's Name"); msg.To.Add(new MailAddress("destination2@domain.com", Addressee 2's Name"); msg.Subject = "Message Subject"; msg.Body = "Mail body content"; msg.IsBodyHtml = true; msg.Priority = MailPriority.High; SmtpClient c = new SmtpClient("mailserver.domain.com"); c.Send(msg); Is'n it so easy.

    I'm writing a short how-to to compile linux kernel. This process is for 2.6 series of kernel. Building kernel requires no programing knowledge. All it require is knowledge of hardware u have. Compiling kernel for ur system improves performance of ur system as much as 40% depending on ur system configuration.     First download latest linux kernel from kernel.org. At the time of writing 2.6.18 kernel is released. Downlaod linux-2.6.18.tar.gz file. Extract this using tar zxvf linux-2.6.18.tar.gz. This will extract all files in foler linux-2.6.18. cd to this foler.     Now u have to configure kernel for your system. To configure kernel run make menuconfig or make xconfig     This command will open an window. In this select/deselect option for ur system. Deselect all other driver for devices that you don't have and select only those devices that u have. For example if u have intel motherboard, then in audio driver enable only i...

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AMD buy ATI : what does this means for nVidia From past few years nVidia and AMD are very good partners, even there is roumer on the net that nVidia might buy AMD. I think this is not the right move by AMD because of this AMD might get away from nVidia (and closer to Intel) which is definately is not good. Also nVidia is a better platform provider for AMD than ATI. This time AMD has to make sure Nvidia might get away from them and AMD has to give more information to Nvidia than before. After this Nvidia will give equal priority both AMD and Intel and they also have to look for other option for innovation. There is one more option for Nvidia, which not in current scenario is to "build processor based on power architecture of IBM ." Power architecture is used my Apple, now Apple has witched to Intel, IBM might be looking for partner to sell Power based processors. IBM is promoting Power architecture as open source processor architecture through power.org. Nvidia has two options...

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