October 31st, 2009 
raseel With Verizon’s Droid all slated for a release next month, it will be releases with the latest Android Release, “Eclair“.
Going with their tradition of naming their major Release after pastries, Android 2.0 seems to be feature filled.
Some of the interesting features I feel are as follows :
Microsoft Exchange support
Digital Zoom and In-build Flash support in [...]
August 19th, 2009 raseel I have started making frequent and regular posts.
Maybe not on my own blog here, but that’s besides the point
Ashish Sinha from Pluggd.in and Kiethh Dsouza from Techie-buzz.com had sent out a call for Authors for their excellent and growing blogs. I applied to both the blogs and to my genuine surprise both of [...]
May 5th, 2009 raseel I have been upgrading my work Laptop (a Dell D630) since Ubuntu 7.04.
The first couple of times there were a few glitches, nothing a few Google searches and “sudo apt-get install”s couldn’t fix.
However, the process is getting increasingly reliable and I urge users to go this route.
For upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex to 9.04, [...]
May 5th, 2009 raseel Ubuntu Linux has opened a lot of doors for open source developers.
The real enthusiasts, the midnight oil burner are coming up with some AMAZING applications.
One such KICK-ASS app is the Portable Ubuntu, although I think the name of the project is a misnomer.
Portable Linux installs a Windows app that emulates Ubuntu Linux. In fact, it [...]
April 2nd, 2009 raseel Disclaimer : This was a blog I wrote after I bought my Dell and had most things working on it on Ubuntu.I just found this one lying around in my drafts and decided to post it anyways.
I bought my Dell just over a couple of months ago. I was considering buying a Macbook, but [...]
February 18th, 2009 raseel I’m a little late in posting this article, since most of the Distros mentioned here are out with newer versions.
But since it was so informative, I thought I’d post it anyways.
I thought I was the only jobless person interested in trying out Linux Distros on my VirtualBox or sometimes triple booting. But it turns out [...]
Posted in open source 
Tags: CentOS, fedora, Linux, mandriva, mepis, opensuse, pclinuxos, Ubuntu 
No Comments » November 4th, 2008 raseel As any software engineer worth his salt knows, Regression , especially after an upgrade, is one of the most important aspects to take care of.
Professionally, I have taken care of a LOT of upgrade bugs and I so I have felt, first-hand, the pain caused by Regression Bugs.
I work on a tightly integrated embedded system [...]
November 2nd, 2008 raseel This post is in response to a notion I encountered more than once, by different people (blogs) at difference times. The argument here is : as more and more people start losing their jobs due to the Financial turmoil thats taking place in the world today, the number of open source contributions will increase since [...]
October 14th, 2008 raseel I bought my Dell XPS M1530 just over a couple of months ago, before Dell started selling the Ubuntu pre-installed ones. I was considering buying a Macbook, but after I saw the specs on this baby, I knew I was left with no choice. I got further bargain, after a little bit of haggling with [...]
August 27th, 2008 raseel The Ubuntu Developer Week is designed to give you an overview of what
’s going on in the Ubuntu Developer world. Speak to the developers, learn, ask questions and finally realise “It’s true, I *can* make a difference by helping out here.”
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