Tag Archives: free software

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests €1M In GNOME’s Open-Source Project

By | November 19, 2023

In a groundbreaking development, the GNOME Foundation, a pivotal player in the realm of open-source and Linux desktops for an impressive span of 25 years, has recently unveiled an extraordinary work commission. This momentous endeavour has been made possible through generous €1 million in funding from the esteemed Sovereign Tech Fund, financially backed by the… Read More »

Google’s Bard AI: ChatGPT Rival or The Next Frontier in AI and NLP Technology

By | February 8, 2023

Google has recently announced its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model, Bard AI, as a response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As the field of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) continues to evolve, companies are racing to develop the most advanced AI models. And now, Google has entered the race with its new language model, Bard… Read More »

Support Open source: Hacktoberfest 2022 is Upon Us, Preptember is here!

By | September 14, 2022

Hacktoberfest is an annual event that encourages people to contribute to open-source projects. It was started in 2014 by DigitalOcean and GitHub, and it now happens every year in the month of October. Hacktoberfest, DigitalOcean’s annual month-long commemoration event dedicated to the promotion and celebration of open source is entering its ninth year, and it… Read More »

Facts You Should know About Pyscript: A web Development Framework

By | May 31, 2022

There is a new and you could say shinning web framework in the works – Pyscript. Pyscript is an open-source web framework that allows users to create and implement rich Python applications in the web browser using HTML’s interface with essential web tools to bring an easy web experience to users. The Pyscript web framework hopes to… Read More »

Tweaking Desktop settings in Ubuntu Linux with powerful GUI tools.

By | July 3, 2018

    There are a couple of graphical tweak tools use to give a Linux desktop some customized looks and behaviour(s). Tweak Tools are settings managers for the Linux desktop. It provides users with a fast, simple and easy-to-use interface with which to access many useful and little known features and settings of the desktop… Read More »

Microsoft is Making love to Linux in the Windows store.

By | April 12, 2018

Bringing the unmatched Linux experience to the world of windows is being made possible by Microsoft through its windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) that has been released as open-source software to the public. Though the then newly appointed CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, publicly declared Microsoft’s love for Linux, many in the free and open… Read More »

7 Open Source Alternatives to DreamWeaver.

By | March 24, 2018

Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let’s round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported across… Read More »

3 open source alternatives to AutoCAD

By | February 14, 2018

Open source computer-aided design software may not have all the functionality of proprietary solutions, but it may have everything you actually need. CAD—computer-aided design or computer-aided drafting, depending on who you ask—is technology created to make it easier to create specifications for realworld objects. Whether the object you’re building is a house, car, bridge, or… Read More »

Pineapple Funds donates $1 million to the Free Software Foundation

By | February 2, 2018

The anonymous Pineapple Fund has donated $1 million worth of Bitcoin to promote and defend free software, computer user freedom, and digital rights. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced it has received a record-breaking charitable contribution of 91.45 Bitcoin from the Pineapple Fund, valued at $1 million at the time of the donation. This gift… Read More »

Can Android flourish WITHOUT Google?

By | January 17, 2018

That was the question that lurked in the back of my mind when I heard the news of Gaël Duval‘s quest to produce an android mobile operating system (OS) – eelo – with little or no influence from Google as much as possible. A mobile OS that should respect users’ privacy and rights – a… Read More »