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Freeing Your Music Player with Rockbox
Musical Freedom
Turn your music player into open hardware with Rockbox’s free firmware.
LibreOffice Writer Versus LaTeX
Different Means to a Similar End
LibreOffice Writer and LaTeX both have their strengths and weaknesses, but at the end of the day they both produce high quality results.
Open Source Prosthetics
The Hidden Revolution
Open source software and hardware quietly transforms the field of human prosthetics.
Choosing an Ebook Manager
Buka, Calibre, and Lucidor
When it comes to organizing your online reading materials, the three main contenders on Linux are Buka, Calibre, and Lucidor. Read on to find out which one is right for you.
ADC Breakout
Use an analog sensor as a video game controller
We put our Analog-to-Digital converter to work reading positions from an analog sensor (a potentiometer) and control a bat in a simple implementation of the classic Breakout game.
Librem 5 and Ubuntu Touch
Mobile Desktop Innovation
Recent news of Ubuntu Touch being ported to the Librem 5 phone promises innovation for mobile desktops.
Working Around Template Limitations
LibreOffice Writer
If you are looking to change or combine templates in LibreOffice, there three workarounds can help you accomplish the task.
Putting LibreOffice in the Cloud
Collabora Online
The Collabora Online developers rethink LibreOffice's long-time interface.
Purism
Developing an Ethical Business
With ethical products that offer convenience and control, Purism hopes to compete with big tech.
What’s Taking Wayland So Long?
Waiting for Wayland
What do we do now?
Wait.
Yes, but while waiting.
What about hanging ourselves?
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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United Nations Open Source Portal Goes Live
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KDE Linux Drops AUR
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Another Logic Bug Found in Linux Kernel
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AI Flooding the Linux Kernel Security Mailing List
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Container-Based Fedora Hummingbird Designed for Agent-First Builders
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Linux kernel Developers Considering a Kill Switch
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Fedora 44 Now Gaming Ready
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