Streamlining apt-get with netselect-apt
High-speed Internet connections have made download times less of a concern than they were in the days of dialup connections. Still, no one…
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Space Nerds in Space – The Interview
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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Can Gnumeric excel over Calc?
See what I did there? I dropped a name bomb on you. But what I’m trying to say is, there’s this niche little…
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KDE’s tabbed windows
In the first years of the millennium, tabbed web browsing became the norm. Overnight, browsing habits changed. Instead of struggling to manage multiple…
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Calligra Flow is a work in progress
For those looking for a replacement for Microsoft Visio, Calligra Flow is may be what you need, despite having a few shortcomings and…
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Using diff for group text editing
The diff command is generally used for applying code patches. However, it can be almost as useful for comparing and merging two versions…
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Poisoned Apple: Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio for Linux
Microsoft announced yesterday they were publishing an IDE dubbed Visual Studio Code that works on MacOS X and, surprise, Linux. It would seem…
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Cinnamon’s applets and desklets
GNOME and Unity may have banished applets from the panel, but Linux Mint has chosen the opposite approach for Cinnamon. Instead of removing…
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Give me Support or Give me Death
I guess I’m insecure like that, but I often find myself trying to rationalise my affinity for Free Software. How I do this…
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New KDE5 – Now with Added Intelligence!
Inge Wallin, a developer of KDE’s office productivity suite, Calligra, has just released the very first KDE-specific AI library. Wallin, who has previously…
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From Windows to Linux, Part 4: Devices & Drivers
Our tutorials on Windows to Linux migrations are slowly getting progressively more complex. We started with the office applications, a well familiar field,…
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Top ten alternative software
Let’s have a short break from the more tutorialesque side of articles on Windows to Linux migration. Only not quite. We will remain…
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