John is an ardent fan of KDE Plasma 5. He spends most of his time writing about KDE based software. If you catch him using GNOME, there's a prize coming your way!
In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can make the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.
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Step forward Linux software that’ll help you brew great beer. Cast aside guesswork, laborious calculations, and expensive disasters.
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Here’s our recommended open source solutions to create your own Linux-based surveillance system. ZoneMinder, Motion, and Kerberos.io are featured.
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In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can make the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons,
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In this article, we recommend some great open source software for cross-stitching. Create great patterns from image files. Simple to use.
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In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.
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In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged, safeguarding our physical, mental and emotional health.
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Home cooking is an activity that’s great for individuals as well as families, where we can teach our children the joy of creating freshly cooked home food.
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This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
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KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.
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Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
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Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor for users needing an easy way to manage systems with different aspects. It’s an all in one system utility featuring a responsive design. Stacer welcomes the user with a modern window featuring a variety of tabs.
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