Scribus is the free software community’s answer to Indesign, Adobe’s program for layout. Along with the likes of Inkscape, GIMP/Krita, Synfig and Blender 3D, it is part of a veritable open source Creative Suite.
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Thanks mainly to Orca, Linux accessibility has always centered on GNOME. During the fourth release series, KDE has started to close the gap, but its efforts have gone largely unnoticed, perhaps because its accessibility tools are scattered across the desktop, and remain works in progress rather than a mature general solution.
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Several days ago, while testing SMPlayer and its Youtube-specific add-on, SMTube, I started thinking about some other cool, useful software that can stream second-person-metro content. Minitube has been on my list on and off, and it’s featured in various distros across the years. I have never given it a proper standalone review. Till now.
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Ever wanted to create a game in which you race speedbikes full tilt through the narrow streets of London without worrying about the congestion charge? Now’s your chance. OSM2World allows you to pick up chunks of the world and represent it in 3D, export it to other programs and create videos and games using free…
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Not too long ago, free fonts were either low-quality or utilitarian, designed to substitute for common proprietary fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica. Today, however, a small but growing number of free-licensed fonts can match the best proprietary fonts.
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Having Linux’s hardware detection software configure your network devices, including your WiFi, is the usual thing. But you may come across a botched configuration from time to time. When that happens, you need to be ready.
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The Collabora flavour of LibreOffice aimed at the public sector, officially rebranded GovOffice, will allow agencies to deploy the free office suite, leading to savings on Microsoft Office license fees and Collabora’s own licenses.
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Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot, more often than not, even while you install. However, you may find yourself on the wrong end of a configuration gone awry and be forced to set up networking on your computer by hand.
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Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot. Indeed, most will set up networking for you as you install. However, there is a (very small) chance something conks out and you end up having to do things by hand, or you may need some sort of special configuration.
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In most of the world, the standard paper size for printing is A4. However, in North America, the standard size is Letter. These contrary standards mean that paper trays on printers and copiers need to be adjustable — and, even worse, that anything printed internationally usually has to be printed in two versions.
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Baby don’t MP3 me, MP3 me, no more… Lame jokes aside, SMPlayer is a cross-platform, free media player, or rather, a frontend for MPlayer, a highly versatile and capable media software, which promises to play all your files and codecs. Cool, no?
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So Alien: Isolation is probably getting a Linux port. Is this news? Hardly. The number of games, including AAA games, that work or have been ported to GNU/Linux, and are simultaneously released for Linux has gone through the roof in the last couple of years.
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