April 22, 2025
Keeping tech free
LibreOffice, an already very strong free office suite, keeps getting better and better. See an overview of the new features in LibreOffice 5.3 in this video.
One of the nice things about open source is that contributions to open source culture come from around the world. Today, I’ve been watching an informative new video blog from Leon Anavi, in Bulgaria. Leon decided to flex his muscle as a journalist. The only thing he needs in order to succeed is willing viewers. Guess what? I’m a willing viewer and I like what I see.
At 2015’s Embedded Linux Conference Europe, Jan Altenberg, who works for Linutronix in Germany, explains how Linux can be optimized to boot in less than one second. Find out more in this fascinating video.
Open source enthusiasts have no shame in explaining that they’re involved in building a better world. One way of doing that is reaching across language barriers. When this Spanish screencast about FreeCAD caught my eye on YouTube, I knew I had to write about it for FOSS Force.
Get a quick overview of Natron, cross-platform open source digital compositing software in this new YouTube video.
When watching this video, imagine how nice this Chromebook would be with a full Linux install.
Virtual reality is the big deal these days and it’s great to see open source is alive and well in this realm. This newly uploaded video shows one of the VR solutions open source enthusiasts can explore and enjoy, the Razer OSVR HDK2 virtual reality headset.
For too long, much of our science has been kept behind doors that are both closed and locked. It’s past time to bring openness to…
Just as GNU/Linux is the world’s best known open source operating system, bitcoin is the best known open source cryptocurrency, which revived and gave new…
Microservices are the wave of the future for Internet technology, partly because they can be tucked out of the way on the “edges” of the…
Community, Maker Movement and Video
When you think about it, “making” is just a more down-to-earth and less abstract version of coding, with results you touch and feel instead of…
