Kernel 2.6.28. Now with stable EXT4!

So.. A few days back, Kernel 2.6.28 was released. And amongst the many new features, the thing that attracted me most was stable EXT4 support. For those of you who dont know, EXT4 is the successor to the most widely used linux filesystem, EXT3. EXT4 boasts of being a hell lot faster than EXT3, and ofcourse with added features. Archlinux just released Kernel 2.6.28 into it鈥檚 [core] repo a few days back, and since then im in a dillema whether i should switch to EXT4, or be content with my current filesystem, JFS....

January 18, 2009 路 2 min 路 258 words 路 Kalpik Nigam

Flash 10 Native 64 bit for Linux!

Well, i know its kinda old news, but still im pretty excited that Adobe has released an alpha version of a native 64 bit Flash plugin for Linux! The best part is that Linux is the first platform that gets the alpha version, though Adobe says that it will ship the final version for Linux, Mac and Windows together. Thankyou Adobe for showering some of your love to us Linux users 馃榾...

November 19, 2008 路 1 min 路 145 words 路 Kalpik Nigam

Google’s workshop on Social Web and Cloud Computing

Google conducted a workshop on their AppEngine and OpenSocial on 5th September at the Taj Palace, New Delhi. Im sorry i couldn鈥檛 blog about it earlier, to let all the Delhi readers know 馃槢 I myself was an unconfirmed guest at this event, but the people from Google were friendly enough to confirm my seat once i reached there 馃檪 The event started with Rajdeep, Anash and Seshu going into the depths of the OpenSocial API and what it stands for....

September 6, 2008 路 2 min 路 278 words 路 Kalpik Nigam

Google’s Web Browser: Google Chrome

Ok, this just in! Google鈥檚 planning on an open source browser based on the WebKit engine. Via Googlesystem blog, Google Chrome has been built in a time when browsers no longer render mostly web pages, but full-blown web applications. That鈥檚 why browsers need to be more powerful, more stable and more secure. One of the problems of the existing browsers is that a web page can lock the browser and there鈥檚 no way to isolate that tab and close it....

September 2, 2008 路 1 min 路 204 words 路 Kalpik Nigam

Im back!

Hmm.. So i鈥檝e been out of the blogging scene for quite sometime now. Mostly, i鈥檝e been busy with work, and yeah, i鈥檝e been spending all my free time watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S, just like Nidhi 馃檪 Now that i鈥檓 finished with all 10 seasons, i think ill get some time to post here 馃檪 So lets see.. What all is new.. On the linux front, i鈥檝e migrated from Ubuntu to Arch Linux, which according to me, is the BEST distro out there!...

August 31, 2008 路 2 min 路 261 words 路 Kalpik Nigam