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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…

Interviews

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part III: Tom Carlos & Inkscape

7th June 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

In the final installment of this series we shift our focus away from FLOSS applications for creating bitmap graphics (in Chapter 1 we…

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part II: Evelyne Schulz & GIMP

31st May 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

When a Free Software evangelist is asked whether there is a free graphics program that can rival with the proprietary apps, the usual…

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part I: David Revoy & Krita

28th May 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

The idea that Free Software has no decent design programs, and that it is impossible to produce quality art without proprietary apps is…

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KDE Neon out now – An Interview with Jonathan Riddell

20th April 2016 by Paul Brown No comments.

Is KDE’s Neon a new Linux distribution? Is it a showcase? Is it a test bed? Neon (“tech preview”) User Edition launches today…

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Bruce Byfield Interview: Designing With LibreOffice

1st March 2016 by Paul Brown 3 comments

Our colleague Bruce has a book coming out! It’s called Designing with LibreOffice. It tackles the subject of how to make documents look…

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How the Raspberry Pi-based Pi-Top Laptop Computer came to be, as told by its creators

19th November 2015 by Bruce Byfield 6 comments

First came the Raspberry Pi, the single board computer the size of a wallet. Now, after a year of anticipation, the do-it-yourself community…

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VLC: An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Kempf

17th July 2015 by Paul Brown 2 comments

We met up with Jean-Baptiste Kempf, President of the VideoLAN Association, the non-profit that develops VLC.

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Synfig Studio: An Interview with Konstantin Dmitriev

11th June 2015 by Paul Brown 2 comments

We had already talked about how great the Synfig animation suite of programs is elsewhere on this site, but what we were missing…

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Space Nerds in Space – The Interview

31st May 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

We met up with Stephen Cameron and Jeremy Van Grinsven, creators of Space Nerds in Space on FreeNode to talk about space simulators,…

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Q&A with Inkscape’s Lead Developer, Bryce Harrington

13th March 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

We finally managed to catch up with Bryce Harrington, one of the original founders of Inkscape and the current Lead Developer. Bryce had…

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Akademy 2012: Conference sessions

Akademy 2012: Conference sessions

1st May 2012 by Luis Augusto Fretes No comments.

While LaKademy, the first ever Latin American Akademy, is happening in Brazil, the biggest KDE event of the year has announced its preliminary conferences schedule.…

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