At the moment there is a lot of talk on the Internet about the micro-blogging site Twitter, but I see less love for its open source counterpart, Identi.ca. The laconi.ca micro-blogging platform, created by Evan Prodromou, is free as in freedom. There is the “original” laconi.ca installation on identi.ca, but you can also download laconi.ca, [...]
Even though I am a strong advocate of learning as much as you can about using the command line, I admit I like my GUI a lot (and Compiz of course ). The CLI can be really useful for repairing your system or just doing some task that takes far more clicks in the graphical [...]
Even before I write this post, I know I’m going to get some real nasty comments. Bring it on, tough guys. The freedom which FOSS gives us, enables everyone with a specific goal in their mind to create their own Linux distro. Most of the time, the goals/philosophy are cool and interesting, but it often [...]
You don’t have a lot of time. On the operating system market, there are lots of great products, like Linux. With Linux, you can easily customize the look and feel of your system, tweak every aspect of the desktop to your specific needs. What many people forget to tell you is that this can take [...]
I just found about about a new start-up on the social media scene (in beta) , called Hurox. Normally, what should follow is a description of this web 2.0 ‘service’ website, but I’m still deciding what to say. Roughly said, Hurox wants to be everything. The sheer wealth of information and apps, which Hurox provides, [...]
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