Archive for June, 2012

Grive: A free open source Google Drive client for Linux

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When Google Drivefinally launched after roughly a million years of waiting, we got desktop clients for Windows and OSX. As usual, poor unrequited Linux was left out in the cold. Google says a Linux client is coming, but why wait? A free open source Google Drive client called Grive has been put together by a third-party developer, and it looks quite nice.

We all know the dedicated Linuxfan doesn’t have time to pronounce two words, thus Google Drive becomes Grive. The program is still in the early stages of public availability, and is missing some features like full sync. Instead, you will have to manually refresh to upload and download new files. Development is proceeding quickly; the file upload ability was just added recently, in fact.

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Setting LAMP development environment with Linux

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Lamp developers work on open source technologies. We proudly say that we support FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) movement. How still several open source developers work on Microsoft windows, which is a proprietary operating system from Microsoft and putting its user’s freedom at stake.

The reason most users use proprietary operating system is they feel (although its not true) that learning linux is not easy. No doubt learning new OS need some time and patience but still it is not a rocket science. If you wish to start development on Linux, this document will help you to setup PHP development environment on Open SUSE 12.1 on your Laptop (Well it will also work for desktop). However be prepared to download some software (approx 2-3 GB) and prepare CD/DVD of them.

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