If you’ve got a collection of movies, TV shows, or music sitting on a hard drive, you’ve probably thought about setting up a media server. The big thr[……]
Category: OpenSource
News and not only from the open-source world.
GIMP vs Krita — which image editor is right for you?
So you need a free image editor — you’ve heard of GIMP and Krita, both free and open source, both powerful, but you’re not sure which one to install.[……]
AI Hasn’t Torched Junior Dev Jobs — It Has Changed What The Job Looks Like
A post doing the rounds this week looks at employment data and concludes that AI has torched the market for junior programmers. The headline numbers[……]
Debian at 30: The Quiet Operating System That Keeps the Internet Running
I have been using Debian for more than fifteen years now. Not exclusively — I have used Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, even some BSDs here and there — but D[……]
Broadcom Torched VMware. Here’s the Open Source Lesson.
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware sent licensing costs through the roof. Here’s what it teaches us about open source, vendor lock-in, and why the safe choice isn’t always safe.[……]
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware sent licensing costs through the roof. Here’s what it teaches us about open source, vendor lock-in, and why the safe choice isn’t always safe.[……]
The politics of the Linux desktop
Open Source software was becoming more and more popular in 2009, even though many of these applications were still little known. According to PCWorld,[……]
Drush intro – Drupal
Drush is a command-line shell interface for Drupal. It lets you do almost anything you would do through the Drupal admin interface — enabling modules,[……]
XBMC 11 (aka Eden) stable release download available
XBMC Media Center (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source cross-platform media centre and HTPC application. I have been using it for ju[……]
IDE Netbeans 7.0 is out: PHP, Java SE/EE and C/C++
Netbeans 7 is out. I have been using it for PHP, at work as well as at home, for almost two years and I have to say it has become by far my favourite[……]
10 reasons open source is good for business
According to PCWorld, Open Source software is good for business for exactly ten reasons. Here is a summary.
Security — The more people can look at th[……]