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A step by step tutorial on how to easily connect and manage your KDE desktop from your android phone. To achieve this, you are going to need a VNC server running on the host computer, and a VNC viewer running on your Android phone.

It is supported by many that the AGPL license for network services which run in a cloud brings back the fairness provision that the original GPL intended and returns the freedom that FLOSS promises to all users and developers. But does the APGL license really provide all that?

An attempt on a more unified login experience on KDE. I was thinking that a change of the background of the KDM Login screen & the Splash screen that follows would do the trick. In the process I learned a few more things that I decided to share.

If you have problems in understanding the substance of Free Software, read the following dialogue between Socrates and Antiphon. How do you feel about this? Does it represent the essence behind FLOSS to you? And in what perspective?

A tutorial on how to make Dolphin show the various multimedia files as thumbnails instead of icons as you browse the filesystem.

The bottom line is that FLOSS is not about cheap software. It’s about control. If you have the source code then you are in control of the situation. A personal story just to give an understanding of this.

Konsole is the X terminal emulator of KDE. I find having the terminal out of my way, but always open and easy to reach out to, very convenient. It also looks cool. With KDE SC 4.3 and above you can easily achieve this with a few clicks without the need of any additional software.

Yet for another time, I find myself switching distros. I hope am not addicted or something . If not for anything else, I am enjoying the ride! This time is Chakra, and I must admit, I'm impressed!

New distros pop-up every day & try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary sins..

A simple and practical tutorial of a full installation of Puppy Linux 4.3 from a CD ,on an internal hard disk.

Surfing the net all this time on topics related to GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software, I came across various interesting, imaginative and some times funny advertisements and videos. Here are the top 12, in random order.

Google is unlocking its data door by launching a new initiative called Data Liberation, an approach to engineering that allows users to move their data - be it pictures, mail or documents - from Google’s servers to any other location.

I have been a GNU/Linux user for a year now, and in this time I changed 4-5 distributions. In this process, even when reinstalling the same distro, I wasn’t aware that I could keep the settings and configurations of my applications. The secret is the /home folder, where the GNU/Linux Operating Systems keep the data of the user, the configuration files of the applications installed and much more.

The Free Software Foundation today launched a campaign against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, calling it "treacherous computing" that stealthily takes away rights from users.

If you are using an OS based on the Synaptic Package Manager, you must have noticed by now that when trying to install a new package through Synaptic, it draws in miscellaneous packages that are needed for the program to work. These packages are called dependencies. Yet, you might have not noticed that when removing the first-original package, Synaptic doesn’t automatically remove the dependencies that were installed with it.

With Linux Distros taking sides, this week’s announcement that Microsoft promises not to make Necessary Claims against anyone using their patented specifications adds to the confusion.

I finally made the switch from Adobe Photoshop to GIMP, and it was a success. Here are some begginers how-tos and tutorials that I found useful and can help you start photo-editing with GIMP.

This article is not about free software, although many ideas in this article are similar. This article is about the rights and respect that the computer user deserves, and have been taken away from him without even knowing it.

Amarok is my favourite music player. I recently installed version 2 on my Ubuntu 9.04 system but I was having some troubles with it. This is a post about how to fix this problems and make Amarok play perfectly on Ubuntu!

A few days ago I downloaded a video file (.flv) from a website. I wanted to convert the video from .flv to .avi (I know it’s not a free format, but I needed to). I searched over the Internet and found out about FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a command line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. Not only it converts video files but it also converts audio files.