In my paint-workshop (and household) open source software rules and eases the dreaded life as an artist. This little text is not meant to complain, but merely a small oversight of what software is actually used in said workshop. And, thanks to an economic crisis and corona, I have the time to doodle about it.

I am an active open source person by promoting and installing open source software on people's computers. For years actually and hardly any complaints. Then a birthday present arrives... :-) A nice letter, a Tux-sticker, a Tux-balloon and a 16 GB Tux-usb-stick (for those handy tools and software to take with me while helping people). :-)

Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video. Generally, the hidden messages appear to be (or be part of) something els…

The Snap application container system released in April with Ubuntu 16.04 is now going to be opened up to many other Linux distros after a surprise discovery by developers. In a press call to journalists, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth (accompanied at times by a rather excitable Labrador) explained that shortly after the Snap release several Linux developers, particularly from Arch and Gentoo, approached Canonical with an idea to make Snap a more universal system.

Dell is releasing new Steam Machines, and AMD will release Linux drivers for its new GPUs!

Choose a Linux desktop should be about finding the Linux environment that works best for your individual workflow. And for me,it's a traditional desktop like MATE.

Linus explains the interesting possibilities of working in open source.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation lays out a plan to open up open-source.

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Swapnil shares his top picks for best Linux distros of 2016, including Best-Looking Distro, Most Customizable Distro, Best Distro for Desktops, Best Distro for Privacy, and more.

Enjoy the simplicity.

Well, yeah. :-)

As some (most? none? who knows =P) of you already know, last cycle I worked as a Google Summer of Code intern with Gtk+ and Nautilus. We saw the very positive results of it. And the picky eyes out ...

With Plasma 5.4.2 out the door, it’s time to look ahead at what Plasma 5.5 will bring to a Desktop near you. Even though we’ve gone mobile, we won’t neglect traditional Desktops. In the upcoming release, I took care of the little things, as well as bringing back specialized tools that haven’t been a priority for the initial releases.

It's the digital equivalent of hunting mosquitos with a hydrogen bomb.

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.4.1. Plasma 5.4 was released in August with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include: Fixes for compilation with GCC 5, Autostart desktop files no longer saved to the wrong location, On Muon Make sure the install button has a size.

Softpedia lists about 2,000 Linux kernel-based OSes. I think it's time to clarify the matter of "too many Linux distributions" once and for all. For a Linux veteran like myself, it is getting annoying to see all sorts of comments on the Internet from people complaining that there are way too many distributions of Linux.

Earlier this week I published some performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar NVIDIA Linux benchmarks while in this article today are similar tests done on the AMD Radeon front with the Catalyst proprietary driver on Ubuntu Linux.