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First 5 Things to Do After Booting Your KDE Slimbook II

05/03/201815/02/2019 Paul KDE, Plasma, Slimbook

You unboxed your KDE Slimbook II, posted the pics to Instagram, and logged into the desktop. What you are seeing

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The new and subtle Microsoft

19/11/201619/11/2016 Paul free software, linux, microsoft

Deep, deep, very deep inside me, I just hope all of this will turn out not to be true. Hopefully

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Do not get excited about Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation

18/11/201618/11/2016 Paul free software, linux, microsoft, open source

Let’s not get too excited about this. Firstly, Microsoft does not <3 Linux to any degree. Microsoft wants to contain

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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead

12/07/201629/08/2016 Paul arduino, blockly, children, education, programming, scratch, Snap

The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could

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Tailor-made Distros with SUSE Studio

11/05/2016 Paul customised, distributions, DIY, repositories, SUSE Studio

One of the things about Linux is it’s super-customisable. If you would like to go deeper than picking your desktop

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KDE Neon out now – An Interview with Jonathan Riddell

20/04/201629/09/2017 Paul APT, desktop environments, KDE, Neon, paul, Plasma, qt, ubuntu

Is KDE’s Neon a new Linux distribution? Is it a showcase? Is it a test bed? Neon (“tech preview”) User

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Build your own YouTube-like platform in 45 minutes or less

13/02/2016 Paul Facebook, mediacore, mediadrop, self-hosted, Videos, Vimeo, YouTube

Reddit is full of YouTube drama these days: users are accusing each other of plagiarism, and things have even moved

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Video: Installing Coreboot — HOWTO & WHYTO

03/02/2016 Paul bios, coreboot, firmware, libreboot, uefi

That the UEFI firmware should die in a fire and that its instigators for its adoption should hang their collective

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The Video Editing Challenge – Part I: Kdenlive

22/12/201529/09/2017 Paul effects, kdenlive, masking, paul, transitions, video, video editing, xor

How easy is it to edit video on a GNU/Linux system using free software? Can the likes of Kdenlive, or

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Linux Inside Tutorials 

3 Days of Networking Troubleshooting – Day 3: Polling and configuring WiFi from the command line

22/10/2015 Paul bash, configuration, network, problem, shell, troubleshooting, wifi, wireless

Having Linux’s hardware detection software configure your network devices, including your WiFi, is the usual thing. But you may come

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