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What about Gnome apps then?

What about Gnome apps then?

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment,…

KDE apps – Any good?

KDE apps – Any good?

What is the one big advantage that Linux distributions have over Windows? If you ask me, that would be the fact that distributions…

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall…

Author Archives: Paul Brown

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3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 2: Hand building a wired connection with and without DHCP support

20th October 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot, more often than not, even while you install. However,…

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3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 1: Hardware, Modules and the Network Subsystem

18th October 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot. Indeed, most will set up networking for you as…

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The State of Gaming on GNU/Linux

9th October 2015 by Paul Brown 2 comments

So Alien: Isolation is probably getting a Linux port. Is this news? Hardly. The number of games, including AAA games, that work or…

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Freedom in a Box: What to look for in a Truly Free Laptop

4th October 2015 by Paul Brown 2 comments

If you like your computers with an extra dash of Freedom, Libiquity and Ministry of Freedom have something you may be interested in.…

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CLI Quickies (II): Fiddling with Sound

25th September 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

The same way you can use the GNU/Linux command line to troubleshoot the brightness of your laptop backlight, it is also possible to…

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CLI Quickies (I): Let there be Backlight

22nd September 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

You can adjust the brightness of your laptop’s screen from the command line to make sure it is working properly. Keep reading to…

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2017 – Year of the Linux Desktop

18th September 2015 by Paul Brown 3 comments

In a recent post Steve Burge reflects on how Free Software has managed to spread into tech companies in a big way, but…

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Enliven Videos with Kdenlive

13th September 2015 by Paul Brown 4 comments

The Kdenlive video editor is simple for beginners, but also powerful enough for those that need to go that extra mile. Distributed under…

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Jonathan Riddell (Kubuntu) demands your hugs

4th September 2015 by Paul Brown 3 comments

Jonathan Riddell, the main developer of Kubuntu (and of large chunks of Ubuntu) has scaled up his personal war on Canonical’s licensing of…

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Monitoring File Access for Dummies

2nd September 2015 by Paul Brown 11 comments

Say you work for Mashley Faddison, an online dating site which handles sensitive user information. Say you suspect somebody is fiddling with files…

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It’s Synfig crowdfunding time! Again!

27th August 2015 by Paul Brown 2 comments

Synfig, our favourite 2D animation suite, is looking for donations to keep development rolling.

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No, Munich is not considering ditching Linux and going back to Windows

24th August 2015 by Paul Brown 36 comments

This “story” surfaces every several months and, for some reason I always fail to fathom, everybody starts parroting it. It goes thus: Munich…

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