The State of Plasma
Over the years, my experience with KDE can best be described as a rollercoaster – on ice, with rocket thrusters. KDE3.5 was a…
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SoftMaker Office 2016 – Your alternative to LibreOffice?
Depending on how you look at it, the world of office suites for Linux is either very rich or very poor. As the rather…
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Signal Desktop Beta: Convenience Added to Security
Signal Private Messenger has been simplifying the encryption of voice and text messages for several years now. Not only is it a drop-in…
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Best Gnome distro of 2016
What? Dedoimedo, have you been drinking Peckham Spring lately? No, I have not. The reason why we have the Gnome desktop environment included…
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Best Xfce distro of 2016
Let us continue where we started with the KDE/Plasma nominations. It is time to vector our all-seeing eye toward another desktop environment – Xfce.…
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Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2016
The end is near. I mean, 2016 has less than a month left on its credit. We should now step back and contemplate.…
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Mofo Linux: The Raw Materials for Security
The developers of Mofo Linux talk a good game. From the name’s origin in abusive street slang to its self-description on the home…
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Spotify & Local Files problems on Linux
Roughly a month ago, I reviewed Spotify here on OCS-Mag, testing the recently revived Ubuntu version. My experience was mixed. While the media player…
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I spy, with my little eye, Gnome Pie
Regardless of the factual conclusion of this article, you are already sold on it just based on the title. Anyway. Humans are really…
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Spotify for Linux – In the friendzone
Spotify is arguably the most popular music streaming service out there. Apologies to any diehard fanboys who may have been offended by this…
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Systemd – Progress Through Complexity
A play on the Audi slogan: Vorsprung Durch Technik. Except we’re going to talk about something that is clearly not progress. Systemd. Roughly 6…
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Open365 mail – You’ve got … something?
Ladies, gentlemen, everyone else. Not that long ago, I reviewed Open365, a free, open-source, cloud-based productivity suite based on LibreOffice, with some nice…
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