In 2019, I watched a fellow writer almost lose her life’s work. We were working in an advertising agency. Like most writers who end up in advertising, we were both secretly working on our novels. One afternoon, after lunch, I noticed her
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If you are a regular reader of ours, then you know that Proton is one of the privacy-focused services we usually vouch for. I have been using their various services personally for quite a while now, and I can confidently say that
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The open source office space has turned unusually dramatic this week, with multiple conflicts unfolding at the same time. First, there is a new entrant called Euro-Office. While it is being presented as a European alternative, it is essentially a fork of
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TDF’s Membership Committee has removed all Collabora staff and partners from membership in one move, covering over 30 developers. This includes, per Collabora’s own count, seven of LibreOffice’s all-time top ten core committers who are still active. To make things more complicated,
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A contributor named Faeiz Mahrus put forward a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would change how per-user environment variables are managed on the system. Right now, Fedora handles this through shell-specific RC files: ~/.bashrc for Bash users, ~/.zshrc for Zsh users.
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Almost two weeks ago, someone on GNOME’s Discourse forum asked whether the missing Google Drive support in GNOME 50 was a bug or a deliberate decision. GNOME developer Emmanuele Bassi replied, confirming that Drive was no longer supported. He went on saying
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Arch Linux needs no introduction around here. It is the distro people flock to for its no-nonsense, rolling release approach and, of course, the right to say “I use Arch, btw” at every given opportunity. Setting it up used to mean having
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There is a new open source office suite. It’s called Euro-Office. As the name suggests, it is a European effort and is primarily meant for European organizations and governments. Before you get too excited, let me clarify that it is not your
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When it comes to open-source office suites, we’re not short on options, despite what it may seem at first glance. Yet, without a doubt, two names stand head and shoulders above all others. LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE sit unchallenged as the most popular
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Ubuntu MATE creator Martin Wimpress has announced that he no longer has the passion he once had, nor the time, to work on the project: As another development cycle passes, I find myself lacking the time I once had to work on
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