Linux 2017 – The Road to Hell
Also known as a really good song by Chris Rea. Also known as, ladies and gentlemen, I am terrified. What will become of…
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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead
The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could have had. Migrating…
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Guix: The Non-Aligned Universal Package Manager
With Ubuntu releasing Snappy and Red Hat releasing Flatpak, suddenly universal package managers are in the news. Maybe we should talk about Guix…
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Budgie-remix: Unity Light and then some
When half a dozen major desktops are used by Linux distributions, what chance does a new one have? In the case of budgie-remix,…
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Snap – I’ve got the package!
Ba-ba-bam. Now, the number of puns and historic and cultural references that can be applied here is way, way too high. We have…
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Tailor-made Distros with SUSE Studio
One of the things about Linux is it’s super-customisable. If you would like to go deeper than picking your desktop and the colour…
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Using Solid State Drives on Linux
If your computer doesn’t already include a solid state drive (SSD), the odds are that it soon will. In less than a decade,…
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Taming Plasma
How does one go about taming Plasma? Well, that seems to be a recurring question I get asked in the emails. People are…
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KDE Neon out now – An Interview with Jonathan Riddell
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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Universal Install Script by XKCD – Combat test
Several days ago, I was gazing at the Universal Install Script comic by Randall Munroe, wondering if he may not have solved all…
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Linux Mint security – 28 days later
Ignore the actual time count. Answer me this: When would you feel more secure, knowing that your favorite distribution has been attacked and…
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Build your own YouTube-like platform in 45 minutes or less
Reddit is full of YouTube drama these days: users are accusing each other of plagiarism, and things have even moved beyond legal sabre-rattling…
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