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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…

Opinion

2017 – Year of the Linux Desktop

18th September 2015 by Paul Brown 3 comments

In a recent post Steve Burge reflects on how Free Software has managed to spread into tech companies in a big way, but…

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Fonts, don’t come easy to me

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.…

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LibreOffice extensions – Leclerc, we have a problem

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…

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The Basic Principles of Security (and Why They Matter)

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,…

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Give me Support or Give me Death

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…

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Age of Makers

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…

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Spanish lawmakers to kill CC licensing and turn the country into a “digital backwater”

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…

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Crowdfunding and Saturation

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…

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