Showing posts with label Opensource. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opensource. Show all posts
All blogs from Jun 12th 2007 onwards are posted at www.kaujalgi.net
We use a lot of opensource/"free" software and services at Collabor - not just because they are free (which is cool in itself), but also because they are pretty good. Opensource has classically been associated with Linux and the famous LAMP platform - and a lot of people still think of it as a developer's toolset. Well the developers have.....well.... developed quite a few products which merit serious consideration.
At Collabor and our group companies this is what we use in addition to the development platform/ Here is our list:
Feel free to add or share your list
The fawn has indeed been feisty for me.
You see, I have a home PC which I no longer am best friends with. Well, its old and slow and still has Windows 98, has blown its power supply once - so you can imagine keeping the friendship going is a little tough. I am now with new Vista friends. Ya, I know I am mean. Its kind of like real life, where I am hardly in contact with friends from high school, but still close to guys from the MBA days and of course closest to guys who i worked with most recently.
Anyways, I thought of giving my old PC a new lease of life and loading Ubuntu 7.04 and scrapping the Win98 from the system. Kind of like "Extreme Makeover" on abc.
So I visit the Ubuntu site and download 7.04 desktop from my closest server at Northeastern U. I get a .iso file and burn a CD. When I try to install - NO GO.
Since I could not figure out the problem immediately, I downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06 version after a couple of weeks and read the installation manual (by the way, very tough to find the thing on the site). I found the part where they ask you to match the checksums to make sure the download was clean. Well the check sums did not match.
A month went by, and I downloaded 7.04 again. The checksums again don't match. What is going on, I say to myself. I am 8 weeks into this download thingy and still cannot download a clean version - I probably could have requested free CDs and got them by now. Maybe I will do that now.
So my old friend the Win98 home PC languishes in the closet, while I chum up with my 2 other laptops running Xp and Vista.
You see, I have a home PC which I no longer am best friends with. Well, its old and slow and still has Windows 98, has blown its power supply once - so you can imagine keeping the friendship going is a little tough. I am now with new Vista friends. Ya, I know I am mean. Its kind of like real life, where I am hardly in contact with friends from high school, but still close to guys from the MBA days and of course closest to guys who i worked with most recently.
Anyways, I thought of giving my old PC a new lease of life and loading Ubuntu 7.04 and scrapping the Win98 from the system. Kind of like "Extreme Makeover" on abc.
So I visit the Ubuntu site and download 7.04 desktop from my closest server at Northeastern U. I get a .iso file and burn a CD. When I try to install - NO GO.
Since I could not figure out the problem immediately, I downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06 version after a couple of weeks and read the installation manual (by the way, very tough to find the thing on the site). I found the part where they ask you to match the checksums to make sure the download was clean. Well the check sums did not match.
A month went by, and I downloaded 7.04 again. The checksums again don't match. What is going on, I say to myself. I am 8 weeks into this download thingy and still cannot download a clean version - I probably could have requested free CDs and got them by now. Maybe I will do that now.
So my old friend the Win98 home PC languishes in the closet, while I chum up with my 2 other laptops running Xp and Vista.
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