How to make meony from opensource? There is no way. Opensource is free to distribute. And ubuntu even makes cds and gives them away for free. So how do you make money from open source?

Well, there is no legitimate way. But certain people, who are not legitiamte, but not illegal, download ISOs of these distrols of linux and otheropen soruce software, and put them up for sale on ebay for prices ranging from $5 to $10 excluding shipping. I also came across websites that accept money as donations thru paypal, and courier the cds. Some exchange highly seeded torrents of opensource software in exchange for donations.

So if you too can do all these, you too can make some money. But it spoils the sprit of open source and free software, though you can call it a service fee for things that you are doing, and it is not illegal. It is just a little bit unethica.

What a waste of time. I had an old 40 GB hard disk that I had bought ages ago lying around in my desk for some time now. I didn’t even know if it has been working or not, or if it contains any good data. Well, when I connected it to my antiquated single core computer at home, I found that it still had a good collection of music, images and porn. Well, Not a waste of time. I just copied the contents to my new 500 GB drive that I had bought recently and decided to install Solaris on this drive to test and find out how it works on my computer. Well, solaris is not for me. I am better with Ubuntu. I should try BSD soon enough and find out how it is for me.

Well. Then I decided to Install Windows on this drive to install some games in it so that I could play when I find time and dont have to bother wine and get into trouble. Installation of Windows was quick enough. Not as quick as ubuntu, but still, was quick. No drivers come with it you see. Everything has to be installed seperately. When the computer booted the first time, did the registration and stuff, it didn’t detect display, audio and the network. I couldnt find the dirvers, and hunting for these drivers on the internt for about 3 hours, I found no luck, and found that my complete evening was wasted, and with that time I could have done so many things creatively.

Commercial software always come with a bug, and though open source comes with bugs too, people are free to fix it themselves and use it, and those fixes can be used free of charge by everyone else as well. People just go after the promotional products that they get from commercial stuff, such as free updates for some time and other stuff, or a free T shirt displaying the product’s commercial logo.

Looks like google thinks that my blog is way too diversified. Look at teh number of categories. What I should have done was, I should have put the posts that lie in a few number in their respective categories now into the general category or should just have left them uncategorized.

I hate to admit it, but it was my brother who told me that there is this possiblity. He is the one who is gives me all these advises most of the time. Because other friends fear competition I guess.

Therefore, I have secided to start a few more blogs around subjects. Havent decided on the domain names yet actually.  But I can tell you that it would all start with Ravi. So if you feel like gambling, buy all the domain names that you can think of that starts with Ravi, and offer it to me for sale. If i buy it you win, otherwise you loose. But you get to use the domain for a blog of your own.

Good things in life come free of charge. You pay for something, and you get only bugs. Take Windows of Microsoft for example. You have two choices. Either buy it, or pirate it. You get support in neither ways, so doesnt make a big difference, and both are equally buggy. All commercial software people have gone the the windows way as linux promotes only free and open source software, and for people who need to use adobe photoshop, and have not really heard about gimp and other software, they stick to windows. They havent looked for other options and thats really why linux isnt very popular among the common people.

Ubuntu is the best linux of them all. You have a lot of packages that come with it, and the best repository that there is. Any software that you can think of, you will find in the repository. And most of the drivers of any hardware install automatically.

Ubuntu Studio is a derivative of the proper Ububtu, and it is highly optimized for Multimedia. Anything that you would need to do with multi media such as sound editing, video editing, you can find appropriate software in Ubuntu studio. Want to retain ubuntu, and have ubuntu studio software installed into it? Why not, go to your synaptic package manager, and search for ubuntu studio, and you will get all the packages induvidually, and as sets that you cna choose and install. Im more of an audio guy, so you will find that I have installed everything that is related to audio in my ubuntu pc.

It is a cool OS derivative, and it clearly proves that if its possible on windows, it is possible on linux as well, and, you will never be bothered by the anti piracy department, and you dont have to pay another dime in license fee. I would say that Essence For Better life…(UNIQUE ICON) is in ubuntu