Breaking: Open Source not to Blame in node-ipc Debacle
All the reasons that lay the blame for the node-ipc debacle at the feet of “open source” are, surprise, surprise, bullshit.
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Who’s Important
I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?
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Missing the Point, PinePhone KDE Community Edition
If you expect the PinePhone to match up to your current pocket supercomputer/surveillance device, you don’t get it.
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First 5 Things to Do After Booting Your KDE Slimbook II
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
Deep, deep, very deep inside me, I just hope all of this will turn out not to be true. Hopefully
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Snap! — Beyond teaching coding to would-be programmers
Following on from our prior article and one more step in my lifelong (?) quest to rectify all the sillines
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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead
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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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part III: Tom Carlos & Inkscape
In the final installment of this series we shift our focus away from FLOSS applications for creating bitmap graphics (in
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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part II: Evelyne Schulz & GIMP
When a Free Software evangelist is asked whether there is a free graphics program that can rival with the proprietary
Read moreFree Software Artists and their Tools — Part I: David Revoy & Krita
The idea that Free Software has no decent design programs, and that it is impossible to produce quality art without
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