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Finding Unity in GNOME Shell

As many of my regular readers will know, I am a big Ubuntu fan. I spent nearly eight years working at Canonical and my love of Ubuntu has not ceased since I left. One of the…

Why I choose FLAC for audio

In this article, I focus on music in digital formats. Moreover, because I am a Linux kind-of-guy, I'm going to take a Linux kind-of-perspective on this topic. Most people have…

Embracing the tech world's open source shift

I grew up in the VAX/ VMS world. Our student computing system at the college I attended was a VAX 11/785, and when I would later work for the administrative computing…

Solving clients' problems with open source technology

I still remember the first time I saw Linux. It was in late 1996 during an optional afterschool course, and the PC at school was running Enlightenment window manager. It was…

Where to find high-quality, Linux-compatible music

I'm sitting in my living room listening to Thievery Corporation's Babylon Rewound on the home stereo. A lot of this glorious music is coming from the general vicinity of the…

Iconic Linux debate sparks an open source career

In 1992 I started working for the Tandem Computers subsidiary in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I was part of the team that started Tandem's operations in Brazil, and at the time I was…

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