Free software won the source code battle, but it is quietly losing the workflow battle. We can inspect code, fork code, patch code, and redistribute code. Great. And yet, for a huge part of our ecosys ...
AI is everywhere. It is in search, in email, in support systems, in code editors, in photo tools, in your phone and, yes, right here in this very article. We can still pretend we are “evaluating” AI f ...
Free Software Magazine is alive right now because we had AI at hand when we needed it. We moved from an old proprietary publishing system to Jekyll in less than a day -- yes, less than a day! If we ha ...
System resources are always limited, no matter what type of computer or server you're using. You never seem to have enough RAM, CPU threads, or disk I/O. High level tools like `top`, `htop`,`sar`, `io ...
Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create amazingly powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt f ...
Governments around the world are hacking into any computer that they can find. They are not just targeting large companies, but any computer that has information that they can sell. Is there anything ...
Last night I saw a message from a friend of mine in Facebook: she is trying to organise a baby sitting community where people who trust each other will exchange "tokens" when they babysit each other's ...
Bitcoin is the most established digital currency available today. It provides a safe, anonymous way to send and receive a virtual currency everybody trusts. However, managing bitcoins is not _quite_ a ...
For those people who grew up on the "classic", 2D version of Super Mario, and -- why not -- those who like simple, but very refined games, Secret Maryo Chronicles is not to be missed. Mind you, it's n ...
A friend recently asked me to create Secure Vehicle Storage, and it reminded me that somewhere along the way, people were convinced that having a web site means paying somebody forever. You pay for th ...
Governments around the world are hacking into any computer that they can find. They are not just targeting large companies, but any computer that has information that they can sell. Is there anything ...
A friend recently asked me to create Secure Vehicle Storage, and it reminded me that somewhere along the way, people were convinced that having a web site means paying somebody forever. You pay for th ...
In my previous article about creating a "mountable" disk image in GNU/Linux, I explained how to create a file that effectively mimics the functionality of a disk: I explained how to create a file whic ...
In this article I will explain how to create a file that works like a USB drive -- without the "physical" side of a USB disk. The advantage of making such a file is that you can make it encrypted; as ...
Free software won the source code battle, but it is quietly losing the workflow battle. We can inspect code, fork code, patch code, and redistribute code. Great. And yet, for a huge part of our ecosys ...
AI is everywhere. It is in search, in email, in support systems, in code editors, in photo tools, in your phone and, yes, right here in this very article. We can still pretend we are “evaluating” AI f ...
Free Software Magazine is alive right now because we had AI at hand when we needed it. We moved from an old proprietary publishing system to Jekyll in less than a day -- yes, less than a day! If we ha ...
Last night I saw a message from a friend of mine in Facebook: she is trying to organise a baby sitting community where people who trust each other will exchange "tokens" when they babysit each other's ...
System resources are always limited, no matter what type of computer or server you're using. You never seem to have enough RAM, CPU threads, or disk I/O. High level tools like `top`, `htop`,`sar`, `io ...
Bitcoin is the most established digital currency available today. It provides a safe, anonymous way to send and receive a virtual currency everybody trusts. However, managing bitcoins is not _quite_ a ...
I was recently given an ebook by a friend. It was a photography book, with tons of hi-res images and very little text. When I opened it with Ubuntu, Evince (the default PDF viewer that comes with Ubun ...
Nowadays, the Internet is all about the Web. Users seem to have forgotten that it's possible to receive updates about anything that is posted on multiple web sites in seconds: this non secret is calle ...
For those people who grew up on the "classic", 2D version of Super Mario, and -- why not -- those who like simple, but very refined games, Secret Maryo Chronicles is not to be missed. Mind you, it's n ...
When the Glest team started "Glest" as a college project a few years ago, they probably didn't expect their game to go such a long way. While "Glest" stopped being developed a couple of years ago in 2 ...
Talking about online gaming and gambling is a huge issue -- and it has always been. Many people have strong opinions about gambling, and yet Las Vegas exists, as well as many others ways to gamble. Ga ...
I have a number of concerns about a recent article about [games [as] the key top Linux adoption](http://blog.andrewmin.com/2008/12/28/why-games-are-the-key-to-linux-adoption/). It nearly screams for s ...
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. You can't teach a grumpy mutt new tricks
Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create amazingly powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt f ...
I had the privilege to interview Ray Stoeckicht, the co-founder of an exciting new free software/open souce company creating Zurmo. Zurmo is a "social CRM": a program aimed at making CRM fun (if you k ...
*Software architect Gabriel Nistor talks to Trevor Parsons about Ally-Py, the new Free Software framework designed to get the most from web APIs.* Sourcefabric’s Superdesk enables news organisations t ...
Not long ago, after giving a speech about free software I was asked by an audience member whether the free software community had come up with free (as in freedom) gambling software. I answered "no", ...
This has been a very busy year for our "Lunatics" project (a free-film/free-culture animated web series about the first settlers on the Moon). As with many software projects, we keep our assets in a v ...
The artists guide to the Gimp is a book that gets everything right. In terms of design, the book's layout breaks all the rules of how to make a computer manual: it is in landscape format, it's all in ...
[Ubuntu Made easy]( http://nostarch.com/ubuntumadeeasy): A project-based introduction to Linux, published by [No Starch Press]( http://nostarch.com/), was written for the new Ubuntu user. The authors ...
Editors, like file managers and browsers, are legion. To carve out a niche for itself an editor needs to have some compelling or unique feature(s). QuiEdit is unique. No, really. It is. If you want to ...
When I started Free Software Magazine, over 10 years ago, it was a very different world. Magazines still mattered, Facebook was a primitive site for university students, Digg was about to become a hug ...
After an additional year of production work, our free-film project "Lunatics!" is back up on Kickstarter. We have a lot more done - some "finished" animation, voice acting and soundtrack mixing, a lot ...
If you want to learn how to use GIMP, this is your chance to win a book that will teach you just that! Packt made available 5 copies of the great book GIMP Starter Guide by Fazreil Amreen. In order to ...
Packt is one of the first publishers who actively supported us back in 2005, when this mad adventure started. They were just starting up back then, and yet they invested in Free Software Magazine in s ...
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