Yesterday I installed Arch Linux once again. A clean, bloat-free desktop with Budgie Desktop environment with some must-have open source tools. Everything worked fine except WiFi and some minor bugs in Budgie(I don’t know whether it is a bug in Budgie or just a wrong setting). I also faced the problem of mounting Windows NTFS volumes on the user’s wish. Arch Linux wiki has details about how to automount partitions on start-up.

One more edition of FOSSMeet'17 was successfully organized in NIT Calicut recently. As an active member of the organizing team of this year’s edition (though I sidelined myself at the end) and a keen but silent observer, I want to share my experience, ideas, and some observations through this post. Marketing Website We started planning the next edition of FOSSMeet sometime around September. Not many people were interested in planning. Anyway, Shrimadhav and I began working on the marketing website.

Recently, I again migrated my blog from Pelican to Hugo. So till now, I have experimented with Wordpress, Jekyll, Pelican, and Hugo. Without any doubt, Hugo is the simplest to set up. This time, I have setup Hugo in Windows, as I think, in my system, I reinstall Windows OS much less frequently than the Linux. So that way, it will be less painful for me to set up the blog again.

Recently I was searching for Python projects on Github for contribution. Every single project I found, had a thing common among them. In every project’s contribution guide, it was asked to set up the virtual environment for the project. What the heck is this virtual environment and how does it work? As a beginner to open source projects, the problem I faced, in the beginning, was how to set up the development environments for the projects I was looking at.

After my summer vacation started, I bought a new laptop, and the first thing I did was to install Arch Linux on it. After a standard arch installation procedure, I started putting together my desktop environment, beginning with ArchLinux and Openbox, and then piecing all pieces together to build a proper desktop environment. Building a desktop this way follows the Unix Methodology; have software that each does one thing well, and when you put them together, you get something amazing.