Category Archives: Linux

Writing a Simple Bash Script

The first step is often the hardest, but don't let that stop you. If you've ever wanted to learn how to write a shell script but didn't know where to start, this is your lucky day. If this is your first time writing a script, don't worry — shell scripting is not that complicated. That [...]
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Beautiful projects deserve beautiful sites

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The old cliche is true, and it applies to the Web sites of FLOSS projects as surely as it does a first date or a job interview. Unfortunately, all too many FLOSS Web sites make a very, very poor first impression. Not surprising, since [...]
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Today is Clean Out Your Computer Day: Use Linux...

According to WebWorkerDaily, today is "Clean Out Your Computer Day," which means anything from scanning your system for viruses or getting the rat's nest of files under control on your desktop. Of course, if you want to go squeaky clean, think about putting Linux on your computer or help someone else with their spring clean [...]
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Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts

Good news on the accessibility (a11y) front. Mozilla has donated $10,000 to help with GNOME's a11y efforts. This isn't the first time that Mozilla has contributed to GNOME (and hopefully, not the last). The projects have a long history of working together on a11y efforts dating back at least to 2008 when the Mozilla folks [...]
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Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?

One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the [...]
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Facebook Friends PHP: Introducing HipHop

Are you a fan of PHP? Facebook is. The company has been working behind the scenes to create HipHop, a runtime compiler for PHP to improve the language's performance on Facebook's servers. The company is also friending the rest of the PHP community with its work by releasing its project as open source. Rumors have been [...]
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Video editing in Linux: a look at PiTiVi and Kdenlive

Video editing on Linux has long gotten a bad rap. A few years ago, the only real options for video editing were either deeply limited in features and polish, or incredibly complex to set up and use. While Linux still lacks a direct competitor to tools like Apple's iMovie or Final Cut Pro, the current crop [...]
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