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Here in Vienna, there is a thriving small-business, local IT economy... but it is rapidly being countered with "cloud all the things" new-economy bollocks. Also, I once saw a "Linu…

Totally easy to step off the net. You just put bits of it in your own space. I wanna write a book titled: "how to run your small/medium-sized office with just a linux box on the wa…

I've been using a cross-platform GUI framework/engine to do app development on all the platforms: Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android - and it has been a joy to deploy one app o…

Amstrad CPC with a HxC card...

I've been a Linux user since the very beginning, and have settled on Ubuntu as my daily driver for .. now .. decades (or is it, I dunno, feels like it..) .. anyway, I am a systems-…

I use Ubuntu-Studio, which doesn't do this. People seem to forget that Ubuntu is just the front door. You can totally turn all their crap off, run some other window manager, and av…

Given that the indigenous Australian languages hold the record for the longest-running oral traditions (70,000 years worth of story-telling), it would be no surprise to me to hear …

What are your thoughts on the home-grown effort to produce small, portable .. and open .. computing devices, as represented by such as the Pyra Handheld and so on? http://pyra-hand…

Neither of these services are going to work to solve our current dilemna until we can drop a .framework in and use it from a mobile app.. this is really the space that needs adopti…