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I am a big fan of light desktop environments. Well, most people looking for a lighter alternative normally settle for a lightweight window manager, such as Fluxbox or AwesomeWM. When the new version of Knoppix came out earlier this year, it caught my attention that the project dumped KDE3 for LXDE, an environment I’ve only [...]

I was initially reluctant to write a post about Chrome OS, seeing as  Engadget and the other heavy machinery immediately posted murky “details” about Google’s new lightweight operating system, even though everyone fully knew that any screenshots and technical data were most likely fake (as a side-note, I find Gizmodo’s “deep reading” Chrome OS article [...]

The first half of 2009 is over and after your summer vacation, you might want to start gearing up for the new distro releases. Once again open source proved that developers collaborating all over the world deliver constant platform improvement. Let’s see what they have in store for us this time. KSplice – Rebootless Kernel [...]

And finally, my favorite multimedia player has reached version 1.0 I’ve been a VLC user for a long time, it works great on all platforms. I use it to listen to music and watch videos. Let’s celebrate together! If you can, consider giving the project a small donation, now is the perfect time! DOWNLOAD 1.0 [...]

The guest author of this article is Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér. He is a Danish public administrator, linguist, Slackware user and free culture enthusiast. Find out more at technographer.net A hot topic lately in the US technology media has been the discussion of the right to access the source code forming the basis of the software [...]