Subversion is a server-side application. Yes it comes with a command-line client, but only the uber-geeky use it. TortoiseSVN is one of the “little sung” heroes of Open Source, but is only available for Windows.

I decided to try out the latest Fedora, 11, over the weekend. The biggest reason is that the company I work for "sanctions" the use of Fedora on corporate machines.

PHP programming language is popular among web developers world wide due to its easy to use properties. There is various web development companies in the web world are creating cost effective websites using PHP and ASP.NET languages and helping the internet business.

Everytime after you have reformatted the hard disk and reinstalled the Linux distro of your choice, the one troublesome thing that you need to do is to re-download all your applications and restore all the settings. This is made worst when your wireless connection just don’t work with the newly installed distro.

Fedora by default, does not include any non-free software, as per its goals. This can be irritating if you want to get a particular wireless card working or need to get the media codecs. Fortunately, there are 3rd party repositories that do store this software for you, and it is fairly simple to add these using Yum. The one I will concentrate on is RPM Fusion.

We knew netbook makers were already checking out Android, so I suppose it is logical that it would extend to all portable devices. Apparently, Sony will be producing some future Walkman portable music players built on Android, Google's open-source, Linux-based phone OS.

Basket allows you to organize and take notes through a clean, accessible interface. This program is a must-have for any Ubuntu user in college, and definitely beats shoving all of your notes into a text editor or word processor.

I never thought I’d be switching to Ubuntu — but I can’t believe how painless this Ubuntu 9.04 install just was.