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Microsoft’s BSD, SourceForge’s Speed Test & More…

Also included: Maru OS brings Android/Debian convergence, three new distro releases, Google making Android more proprietary and EFF asked to investigate Miscrosoft.

Will North Carolina’s HB2 Affect State’s Open Source Conferences?

While North Carolina's HB2, the so called 'bathroom bill,' has already had a major negative economic effect on the state's economy, it's doubtful it will have much impact on the two major open source conferences held in the state.

Learning Inkscape by Video

  • FOSS Force; By Phil Shapiro (Posted by CWH on Apr 15, 2016 6:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial, Video
Another great video tutorial for learning how to use a free and open source program. This time it's the popular vector drawing program, Inkscape.

Ubuntu MATE’s Martin Wimpress Talks Raspberry Pi & FOSS

Recently, I had the privilege to sit down and interview Martin Wimpress, who among other things is the project lead for Ubuntu MATE. One reason I interviewed him was because I wanted to see what he’d have to say about his work with Ubuntu MATE and the Raspberry Pi, as well as to get a gleaning of his overall thoughts on free and open source software. As you will discover, Wimpress is definitely not a person who’s short on thoughts, or shy about expressing them.

Linux: When Uniformity is Good

  • FOSS Force; By Ken Starks (Posted by CWH on Oct 20, 2015 9:44 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: KDE, Linux
In the latest stable KDE release, you go about this task a number of ways, but the best way is to right click on the desktop and click on “default desktop settings.” From there you are offered an extremely slick GUI to choose a desktop picture of your liking. But wait, there are more options available here, let’s take a look.