Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot, more often than not, even while you install. However, you may find yourself on the wrong end of a configuration gone awry and be forced to set up networking on your computer by hand.
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Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot. Indeed, most will set up networking for you as you install. However, there is a (very small) chance something conks out and you end up having to do things by hand, or you may need some sort of special configuration.
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So Alien: Isolation is probably getting a Linux port. Is this news? Hardly. The number of games, including AAA games, that work or have been ported to GNU/Linux, and are simultaneously released for Linux has gone through the roof in the last couple of years.
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If you like your computers with an extra dash of Freedom, Libiquity and Ministry of Freedom have something you may be interested in. But what goes into a truly *free* laptop?
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The same way you can use the GNU/Linux command line to troubleshoot the brightness of your laptop backlight, it is also possible to discover a lot about your audio card from a text terminal. This can come in handy when trying to figure out the cause of problems with the sound system.
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You can adjust the brightness of your laptop’s screen from the command line to make sure it is working properly. Keep reading to find out how.
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In a recent post Steve Burge reflects on how Free Software has managed to spread into tech companies in a big way, but then, those same tech companies have built walled gardens, cutting their clients off from all that freedom goodness.
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The Kdenlive video editor is simple for beginners, but also powerful enough for those that need to go that extra mile. Distributed under a Free Software license, it is available for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, and as a live DVD for Windows users.
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Jonathan Riddell, the main developer of Kubuntu (and of large chunks of Ubuntu) has scaled up his personal war on Canonical’s licensing of Intellectual Property: He now demands hugs from anyone who uses his.
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Say you work for Mashley Faddison, an online dating site which handles sensitive user information. Say you suspect somebody is fiddling with files that should best be left alone. Say you want to catch said somebody in the act…
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Synfig, our favourite 2D animation suite, is looking for donations to keep development rolling.
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This “story” surfaces every several months and, for some reason I always fail to fathom, everybody starts parroting it. It goes thus: Munich is sick and tired of how inadequate Linux is for everyday use and is ready to ditch years of work and millions of euros to return to Windows.
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