Best Xfce distro of 2017

One more. After exploring the ups and downs of the Gnome and KDE/Plasma crop of this year, we now focus on what Xfce…

Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2017

Plasma me, Plasma you, a-ha, there was nothing we could do. But wait! Yes we can. Let us glimpse back upon Year 2017,…

Following in the best of traditions, it is that time of the year, when we wrap up the previous twelve months of hard…

15th September 2015 by dedoimedo 9 comments

If there’s one aspect of Linux that has more Wild West in it than a typical Charles Bronson movie, it’s fonts. Linux fonts.…

31st August 2015 by dedoimedo 3 comments

Why Leclerc? Because Houston sounds American, and Leclerc sounds more French, and Libre is sort of French, ergo title. The reason why we’ve…

26th August 2015 by Bruce Byfield No comments.

To many users, security begins and ends with anti-virus and malware protection and regular software updates. But there is much more to security,…

21st April 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

I guess I’m insecure like that, but I often find myself trying to rationalise my affinity for Free Software. How I do this…

5th October 2014 by Paul Brown 1 comment

The late 70s and early 80s were arguably the golden age of computer nerdiness. This was an age of innovation and invention: the…

18th August 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

A new restrictive copyright legislation, ready to be passed into law in Spain, may very well hinder the interchange of ideas and render…

25th July 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Over at Linux Magazine, Bruce Byfield has published an interesting article on Open Source and crowdfunding. Go ahead and read it. It is…