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FOSS Force on FacebookXfce Releases Version 4.12 fossforce.com/?p=1052225 fossforce.com Evolution, not revolution, to match users' needs: That is what's behind the process the Xfce team uses in developing their desktop environment. So, despite what some consider a long time between relea... The Internet is a series of locks waiting to be picked. FREAK: Another day, another serious SSL security hole | ZDNet zdnet.com More than one third of encrypted Websites are open to attack via the FREAK security hole. The Cat That Has Linux’s Tongue fossforce.com/?p=1033380 The Cat That Has Linux's Tongue fossforce.com Can you hear me now? The question, if it's presented with early 21st century pop culture in mind, is rhetorical. If you are relying on text to speech (TTS) applications in Linux, then it's not…and t... |
First things first: I’m not heavily invested in GNOME. In fact, once GNOME 3 came out and — gasp! — no icons on the desktop, I said “vaya con dios” and made skid marks racing to Xfce, KDE and Openbox (on the CrunchBang box) on various machines in the lab. The reason is a matter of personal taste. For the most part, I like icons on my desktop, not in a tray on the side, […] Continue reading Groupon & GNOME: Doing the Right Thing 
FOSS Week in Review Other than the continuous scrambling to fix Shellshocked — if nothing else we in the FOSS world are both quick to respond to fixes and quick to come up with great names for epic bugs — this has been a relatively quiet week on our side of the digital street. Yeah, we can laugh at Apple for releasing an update that wasn’t really an update and at Microsoft for losing the […] Continue reading Questions on Ubuntu Touch, GNOME and Oracle 
I say this often – a little too often – and I’ve hammered home the point in various blogs, to say nothing of calling out people who “review” alpha or beta versions of distro releases: Reviewing an alpha or a beta version is akin to sticking your finger in a bowl of cake batter and writing about how a baked cake is going to turn out. That said, this is not a review of […] Continue reading Fedora 21 Alpha Gets Off on the Right Foot
The poll accompanied Ken Starks’ article Those Krazy Kids & KDE, which talked about the preference his Reglue kids express for the KDE desktop. Because Starks’ article focused on KDE, GNOME 3 and […] Continue reading KDE Tops Desktop Poll 
In May of this year, our project to place refurbished computers into the homes of disadvantaged kids will turn nine years old. Aside from an extremely short-lived and disastrous trial with Microsoft Windows in the beginning, Reglue (formally HeliOS) has depended on Linux to power those computers and we’ve used a number of distros over the years. We initially made a deal with Jon Danzig at Libranet to supply us with their fantastic Debian-based […] Continue reading Those Krazy Kids & KDE |
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According to the results of our FOSS Force Desktop Poll, our readers prefer KDE over any other desktop environment by a wide margin. In fact, all other desktops were practically left at the gate.
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