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Good morning people, Recently one of our children has given us a device known as Portal and which is produced by Facebook, the idea being to assist communications between ourselves and our children & grandchildren. And in this it works very well, is easy to use, and seems far better than Skype. It works by connecting to our home network by wifi, and hence to the internet via high speed broadband. But, I do have a nagging suspicion about Facebook. To put it bluntly, I dont trust them to not use ...

Its FOSS Dual Booting Ubuntu With Windows 10 Pro With BitLocker Encryption Last updated I have written about dual booting Windows and Ubuntu in the past. The process has improved so much in the last few years. Ubuntu and other Linux play very well with secure boot and UEFI now. So, why I am I writing about installing Ubuntu with Windows 10 once again? Because these days Windows 10 Pro version comes with BitLocker encryption and hence when you try to dual boot like normal, it either refuses or ...

December 28th, 2020 Another monthly release of Nuvola Player is out in the wild. Version 4.20 introduces two new services Audible and Emby, fixes integration of Bandcamp, drops Tiliado accounts and begins preparation for feature requests voting. Continue reading this article. November 29th, 2020 Nuvola 4.19 was released. It brings two new services - iHeartRADIO and Pretzel and updates three services - Amazon Cloud Player, Spotfy and YouTube Music. Continue reading this...

Author(s): Jon "maddog" Hall In Latin America, there are many students who qualify for free college tuition but dont attend a university because they cant afford the living expenses. To bridge that gap, maddog has been working on a new pilot program designed to help students with computer skills. About 15 years ago, a student in Brazil asked at a conference: "How can I make money with free software?" Of course there are many ways to make money with free software, but if you add open...

Use Gnuplot with command-line utilities. Some excellent charting and plotting packages can be found, but if youre like me, you sometimes just want to do a quick dynamic test plot without a lot of custom setup. Gnuplot is a command-line charting utility that has been around for a while, and I was amazed how easy it was to get up and running. In only 20 lines of scripting code, I was able to create real-time line and bar charts. In this article, I introduce Gnuplot with two dynamic examples: The ...

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Daksh Khorana  | Published on 27 Jan 2021 Windows has been dominating the gaming space on PCs. Many people switch to Linux either for work purposes or just to try out a new flavour of an operating system, but are left aloof when it comes to gaming. Linux has a lot of flavours and customizations available. You can customize every aspect of the system. If you have a Linux based system and are looking to play games on it then this is a guide to help you find and play the best games for your s...

Linux Operating System Market Analysis, Growth Forecast, Investment Opportunities, Competitor Strategies, Development Status, Challenges and Impact of COVI

Jack Wallen kicks the tires of Linux Mint 20.1 and comes away astonished at what the developers have accomplished.

"A few weeks ago, my kids wanted to hack my Linux desktop, so they typed and clicked everywhere while I was standing behind them looking at them play," wrote a user identifying themselves as robo2bobo. According to the bug report, the two kids pressed random keys on both the physical and on-screen keyboards, which eventually led to a crash of the Linux Mint screensaver, allowing the two access to the desktop. "I thought it was a unique incident, but they managed to do it a second time," the use...