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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Video: Installing Coreboot — HOWTO & WHYTO
That the UEFI firmware should die in a fire and that its instigators for its adoption should hang their collective heads in shame…
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Calligra Suite: The Other Free Office Suite
Calligra Suite is a mature office suite, with a solid set of basic applications, as well as an integrated, often innovative set of…
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The Video Editing Challenge – Part I: Kdenlive
How easy is it to edit video on a GNU/Linux system using free software? Can the likes of Kdenlive, or more specialised tools…
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How the Raspberry Pi-based Pi-Top Laptop Computer came to be, as told by its creators
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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A Survey of KDE Accessibility
Thanks mainly to Orca, Linux accessibility has always centered on GNOME. During the fourth release series, KDE has started to close the gap,…
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3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 3: Polling and configuring WiFi from the command line
Having Linux’s hardware detection software configure your network devices, including your WiFi, is the usual thing. But you may come across a botched…
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3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 2: Hand building a wired connection with and without DHCP support
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
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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Freedom in a Box: What to look for in a Truly Free Laptop
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
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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Enliven Videos with Kdenlive
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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