Astronomy is for everyone, and even with just the naked eye, it’s a fascinating and rewarding hobby for life. Here’s free software to get you started.
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Author: John O'Donnell
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!
Linux at Home – Take a break with rapid gameplay
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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Linux at Home: Brew Great Beer with Linux
Step forward Linux software that’ll help you brew great beer. Cast aside guesswork, laborious calculations, and expensive disasters.
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Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home
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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Linux at Home: Reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury
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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Linux at Home: Cross-stitching with Linux
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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Linux at Home: Keeping in Good Health with Exercise
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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Linux at Home: Plan your Ideal Garden with Linux
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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Linux at Home: Cooking with Linux
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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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
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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