Closing the Digital Divide One Computer at a Time
Reglue is a non-profit whose main aim is to put working computers into the hands of kids from families that can’t afford them. To do this, they rely on donations of hardware, Linux as the operating...
View ArticleMicrosoft Legally Contradicts Itself
In what seems to be a new and much welcomed trend towards true openness, Microsoft announced yesterday they were opening up the source code of .NET under a Free Software License. And they weren’t...
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A Windows Videographer Tries Free Editing Apps
Sean Riley, one of the creators of Computerphile, a web series about Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, tried to create an episode for his series using just free software. See how he...
View ArticleWhatsApp CEO donates USD $1,000,000 to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation, creators and maintainers of the free and open sourced FreeBSD operating system, have received a very generous donation of one million dollars from Jan Koum, CEO and founder of...
View ArticleCERN just Opened all its Data
Be it for educational purposes or for research, you can now download all the data of all the experiments carried out on the LHC and much more. The data, distributed under a CC0 (public domain) license,...
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A Very Open Xmas! – Part I: Hardware
Yes, ’tis time to drink, dance and go shopping. To satisfy the compulsive Christmas shopper we all carry within ourselves, we’ll be running a series of articles which will give you some ideas as to...
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JPEG is Dead… Long Live BPG!
Fabrice Bellard has just introduced the BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format to the world, an image format that achieves amazing quality at a fraction of the size of prior formats. The BPG format is a...
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Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) Will Die Without Your Donation
The GPG team is running a donation campaign to keep the project alive. GnuPG keeps your email and communications secure by encrypting your messages and validating signatures. Up until now the GNU...
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Fixing the Throwaway Society
A new breed of makers – the fixers, is subverting the status quo by doing something that not so long ago was so commonplace, it was considered mundane: they’re mending their own stuff. My son recently...
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LibreCalc – The Free Calculator
The LibreCalc is a scientific calculator that has it all: it’s open source, it runs Linux, and it’s 3D printed. What the final calculator will look like. LibreCalc is the brainchild of French engineers...
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KDE Screen Edges
Screen edges are one of the simple yet powerful options introduced in the KDE fourth release series. Screen Edges refer to hotspots on the edge of the screen, each of which is programmable with one of...
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The Keyboardio Model 01: Six Months After
One trouble with software and hardware reviews is that they are usually based on a few days of testing. If any long term problems exist, reviewers are unlikely to detect them. So, after six months of...
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