Open Source

Sparxsys is a professional Drupal consultancy company, specializing in custom development of high quality websites. Our rapid development process allows us to build feature-rich web solutions for our clients quickly and affordably.

Two weeks backs I installed Fedora 11 on my Compaq Laptop. I last installed Fedora 8 in May last year when I bought my laptop and ever since I was using it. In the past one year F9 and F10 also came but I was too lazy to install them. Anyways I finally managed to installed F11 and I m glad I did.

Good things
1. My Wifi card was detected automatically. In F8 I had to install madwifi to use wifi on my laptop
2. It boots in seconds!! believe me you will get the login screen in just 20 sec
3. It looks good. I am a KDE fan and I am happy to see major change in KDE after a long time.
4. Laptop keys for sound control works in KDE
5. Package Manager works well.

Bad things
1. Laptop Keys for brightness control does not work in KDE, it works on GNOME though. I am still finding a way to enable those keys. I found an alternative to directly reduce the LCD brightness. Just issue this command as root

2. There is no progress bar in the package Manager.

I attended OSScamp today at IIT Delhi, reached late there at around 11:30 AM, during that time Kinshuk was explaining about Open Source and Un-conferences. After that all the participants gave a "One minute Fame" speeches.

Finally after almost an year of registering linuxindya.com domain name, I have launched this website.

I am using Linux for so many years now but I also keep windows installed on my PC. I need windows just for one damn single thing, 5.1 sound! I was never able to enable 5.1 on fedora.