Category: open-source

Pre-installed Windows and competition in the European Union

StatCounter statistics for the use of Linux in Europe

Did you manage to buy a new computer (desktop or most commonly a laptop) and avoid paying for the pre-installed Windows, even if you do not intend to use it? Even if you already have a license (such as with those MS Academic licenses from your school)? Let’s dig some numbers for Europe. According to …

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How to install LibreOffice in a directory (in Linux)?

So you want to grab the latest version of LibreOffice or the bleeding-edge beta of LibreOffice? How do you install these if you want to test them first, or just try out the pre-release/beta? There is a helpful how-to on how to run different versions of OpenOffice.org, which applies to LibreOffice. Here is how we …

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Ήρθε ο Firefox 4!

Είναι διαθέσιμος ο Firefox 4 και είναι ώρα να προχωρήσετε με την εγκατάστασή του! Μπορείτε να δείτε τα στατιστικά λήψης του Firefox 4 σε σχεδόν πραγματικό χρόνο. Αυτή τη στιγμή έχει ξεπεράσει τις 10.5 εκ. λήψεις, με ρυθμό γύρω στις 7000 λήψεις ανά λεπτό. Από Ελλάδα έχουν γίνει 92.000 λήψεις περίπου μέχρι στιγμής. Σε σχέση …

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Στα περίπτερα το ελληνικό περιοδικό Linux Inside, τεύχος 1.

LINUX inside Τεύχος 1

Πριν λίγες μέρες κυκλοφόρησε το νέο ελληνικό περιοδικό LinuxInside, για το Linux και το ελεύθερο λογισμικό, και είναι το μόνο ελληνικό έντυπο περιοδικό για Linux. Το πρώτο τεύχος περιλαμβάνει άρθρο μου για το Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), το υποσύστημα ήχου του πυρήνα Linux. Όταν εγκαθιστάτε μια διανομή Linux, ο ήχος είναι ένα από πράγματα …

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Accessing your Android from Ubuntu and compiling stuff

So you got an Android mobile phone and you want to access it from your Ubuntu. You can get shell access to your phone, you can copy files from/to, and much more. In this post I cover the overall process. You connect your mobile phone to your computer with a USB cable. Most Android phones …

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Announcing the Certificate Watch (CertWatch) Firefox addon

CertWatch is a Firefox add-on that helps you control how digital certificates are used when you visit secure websites. While there exist tools that help control how, for example, scripts like Javascript are executed (NoScript addon), there has not been a tool for digital certificates. The closest Firefox addon to the functionality of CertWatch is …

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