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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Back to the Future with Salix OS
To modern newcomers, Linux means Linux Mint or Ubuntu — a polished desktop with a few advanced details to differentiate it from any…
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AppImage – One app framework to distro them all
Linux is highly portable. Fact. On the other hand, Linux software is the least portable technology in the world. Try running Firefox designed for…
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Open365 – Clouding with style
Office, suite, cloud. Sounds familiar. Google Docs. Yup. Microsoft Office 365. Yup. LibreOffice. No. Wait, what? Buzzwords around modern technology concepts are all…
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