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Making free software culture feel right
- 2008-04-12
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Why it should be a lot more about feeling, rather than knowing, that free software and free culture is right.
Over the last ten years or so, free software has grown from being just a geek-phenomena. GNU/Linux has become a serious force in the business and server market with major companies now throwing their weight behind it. But on the consumer side of the market, things look still quite a bit different. Although GNU/Linux adoption has made some progress on the desktop too, it’s still largely absent, Windows comes pre-installed on almost all new machines sold and you see even die-hard free software advocates using Mac OS X on their personal machine. Why is that?
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Sound filtering... with the Gimp!
Make Gimp work as an ideal digital sound filter
- 2008-02-25
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Gimp is universally used for image manipulation. However, with a bit of creativity and a couple of tricks, it can also be used as an audio filter! Here is how…
How to fix your computer's graphics with dpkg-reconfigure
- 2007-10-23
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There is always a time when your GNU/Linux machine’s screen output stops working. Maybe it’s displaying garbage to your monitor instead of Gnome or KDE. Or maybe it’s displaying 640x480 resolution with 8 colors instead of 1280x1024 with 24 colors. Actually, this will happen with Windows as well. But unlike Windows, GNU/Linux provides a handy tool to fix it. It’s called dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
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Desktop diagramming with Dia and Kivio
Move that stencile
- 2007-06-01
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Don’t let the simplicity of use fool you. Both Kivio and Dia, two free software diagramming tools, are very efficient at what they do. If you need to design a complex flow chart or create a no-fuss UML diagram then you could do a lot worse than to choose either of these packages. The tools have 90% of the expected functionality with only 10% of the hassle and fuss that more complex and unnecessarily feature rich proprietary diagramming tools deliver. The learning curve is small and the end result is potentially professional.
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Graphics drivers: where they are, where they come from, where they are going
- 2007-01-10
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I appreciate NVIDIA’s existing support for free software operating systems: their drivers are various, quite full featured, and they do upgrade the source of their minimalist free “nv” driver for those platforms they don’t support fully.
But where do the others stand?
_The matrix in this article has been superceded by the one in _this article.
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