FSF Campaign Against Secure Boot

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has started a signature campaign to make people aware of the perils of an upcoming feature in PC hardware namely - Secure boot.

Microsoft To Invest $100 Million More In SUSE Linux

Novell gets acquired by Attachemate Group Inc. And SUSE becomes an independent business unit of Attachemate. However, many things remain the same. For instance, the agreement struck by Microsoft and Novel Inc for broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support.

Microsoft Reaches Out To Linux - Says Happy Birthday!

Microsoft and Linux have been long term adversaries. While the comparison may not be logical - since one is a corporation and another an operating system, it has not stopped people in either camps to lock horns with each other.

However, on the eve of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday, Microsoft is reaching out to Linux via a video that says - "Happy Birthday Linux!".

Watch the video below.

Is Nokia Committing Harakiri By Aligning With Microsoft ?

The big news today - as far as cellular world should be concerned, is the strategic partnership between Nokia and Microsoft to produce smart phones running Windows 7. Nokia says it will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smart phone strategy. Meaning, Symbian OS is going to be relegated to history. And MeeGo project on Nokia smart phones would be in limbo.

We will never kill Mono - Says Microsoft

Microsoft has applied the Microsoft Community Promise to it's C# initiative. What this means is - anyone can develop a C# compiler and use it to create applications in C#.

In layman terms,here is how the Microsoft Community Promise work -

Convert MS Word Files to Other formats using Abiword

Abiword is a word processor which can be used as an alternative to popular commercial counterparts. It comes installed by default on most Linux distributions.

Did you know that you can convert from one file type to another in the command line using Abiword ?

This is how it is done.

It is assumed that you already have Abiword installed in your Linux machine. If not, you can install Abiword using the package manager of your Linux distribution.

First open a terminal of your choice and move to the directory that contain MS Word files you wish to convert to open formats.

Next you can execute the commands shown below. Replace 'myfile.doc' with the filename of your MS Word document.