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Many people find working in Vim quite a feat especially in the learning stages. But not many know of a project called Cream which enhances the Vim editor to make it as easy to use as any other ordinary text editor without sacrificing any of its underlying power. This article explores the Cream project and finds why it is a very interesting project.

This is a very frank interview with Jeff Dike - the author of User Mode Linux. Jeff talks about the advantages and drawbacks of UML with respect to other virtualization technologies and what significant role it will play in the fast changing scenario.

Linux in general is considered easier to install than windows. But the latest release of Ubuntu named Dapper Drake takes the cake in ease of installation. In a mere six steps, one can now install Dapper Drake on ones machine. Check the images!!

This article pursues how Wine could be a turning stone to Linux getting embraced by the masses. And eventually getting a dominant market share in the computer market.

User Mode Linux is a virtualization technology which can be used to create Linux virtual machines within a Linux host. UML gains significance over other virtualization technologies in that it is incorporated into the official Linux kernel tree. This is a review of an excellent book on User Mode Linux authored by Jeff Dike. The fact that Jeff is the creator of UML lends a lot of credibility to this well written book which pursues a niche area.

Many times I have come across seemingly hopeless situations where a program when compiled and installed in GNU/Linux just fails to run. In such situations after I have tried every trick in the book like searching on the net and posting questions to Linux forums, and still failed to resolve the problem, I turn to the last resort which is trace the output of the misbehaving program. Tracing the output of a program throws up a lot of data which is not usually available when the program is run normally. And in many instances, sifting through this volume of data has proved fruitful in pin pointing the cause of error.

Here is a unique opportunity for all students residing in the Indian subcontinent to win scolarships from one of the leading open source software product companies.

Here is a bird's eye view of all Linux distributions and their relation ship with each other. Really interesting.

Here is an opinion which delves deeper into the world of Open Source, GNU, Linux and Java and tries and analyses why it is sound principle to sit up and take notice when RMS talks on topics related to freedom.

This is the transcript of a rather fascinating but a bit controversial talk given by Richard Stallman at the Australian National University.