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My dad, Linux, and me

When I was a young girl, I remember my dad showing me Linux on his computer. He was showing me what was known then as Red Hat Linux—it was a fresh version of Colgate 4.0 from…

Take control of your file systems with Konqueror

Having briefly discussed eight Linux file managers in my previous article, this article concentrates on my favorite GUI-based file manager. Konqueror is an amazingly versatile…

Top 5 articles of the week on Opensource.com

Top 5: Hubble, Karma, Raspberry Pi, Midnight Commander, and more

Welcome to the Opensource.com weekly top 5! Alex Sanchez, the social media guy (and more) at Opensource.com, and I talk about myths in open source and some fun names in the…

Goodbye to Mandriva, Google's double dose of open source, and more news

In this week's edition of the open source news roundup, we take a look at Madriva's liquidation, Google double dose of open source, and more! Open source news: May 23 - 29…

Freer than free, opener than open: The fight for the learning management systems

Get started with Midnight Commander, a Linux file manager

In my previous article, 8 Linux file managers to try, I compared a number of file managers, but there was not enough space to go into detail about any of the several file…

Why your hardware needs an open source debugger

Working directly with hardware is hard. Each project brings with it mundane questions of which compiler to use, what communications protocols to work with, and how to load…

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