Category: Open Source

  • Emergency recovery of a shared web and mail hosting VPS [Case Study]

    Emergency recovery of a shared web and mail hosting VPS [Case Study]

    A small side-effect of my community and blogging work is, that I occassionaly (a few times per month) have people reach out to me asking for advice on a variety of topics, or for help if they are in a pickle. The lastest case was a guy from Czechia (Let’s call him Mr. D), asking…

  • Setting up a VPS for several small e-commerce businesses (part 1)

    Setting up a VPS for several small e-commerce businesses (part 1)

    Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to set up a few websites, both static and dynamically generated. A few years ago, I’ve settled on Wordpress as my default choice, initially simply building up sites from themes and plugins, until I bit the bullet and started adding my own snippets of PHP and later building…

  • ElementaryOS 6 Odin

    ElementaryOS 6 Odin

    Since I haven’t written anything in a while, much less a comprehensive distribution review, a little updated background info is in order. In past years, I’ve toned down my “Linux on everything” push and went slightly more practical in my day-to-day life. I probably will write a short story on my transformation from an obsessed…

  • The Sisyphean task of enabling Adobe Flash Player in a modern QT/Chromium based web browser

    The Sisyphean task of enabling Adobe Flash Player in a modern QT/Chromium based web browser

    Prologue and motivation A part of my PhD. research deals with computer science as a source of innovative ways to improve education in Slovakia. My approach is mostly throwing eye-tracking at every problem and see where it sticks. The trouble with eye-tracking as a research method is, you often find yourself spending much more time…

  • Adding OpenCV libraries to a QT5 project in Ubuntu 20.04

    Adding OpenCV libraries to a QT5 project in Ubuntu 20.04

    I’ve recently gained interest in OpenCV. The problem with this is, that in most modern tutorials and walkthroughs it seems like the go-to language for working with this C-library is Python. I have an unreasonable antipathy towards this snake of a language and although I intend to fight through it some day in the future,…

  • Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Mega Review – A complex look at the state of Ubuntu

    Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Mega Review – A complex look at the state of Ubuntu

    As somebody who’s always had Ubuntu in his daily life for the past 13 years, I sometimes find it hard to differentiate between all the versions. I do appreciate the progress though, albeit I’ve felt like the direction Ubuntu was taking was going to force me to abandon it eventually. Lately, though, I’ve enjoyed the…

  • elementary OS 5.1 Hera

    elementary OS 5.1 Hera

    When I received the newsletter letting me know that in just a few days, there would be a new point release of elementary OS, I’ve had mixed feelings. I was happy that the project I find very endearing is chugging along nicely, but I knew it would be a tough review to write. The problem…

  • Fedora 31 Review

    Fedora 31 Review

    Most people know me as a long-time Gnome hater. I admit, I’ve been hard on it, but once in a while, I do try to challenge my own views by diving into stuff I didn’t appreciate at first. For this reason, I’ve decided to give Fedora 31 some time to shine on my primary laptop.…

  • Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine Review

    Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine Review

    If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, you know that I have a difficult relationship with Gnome. I love the aesthetics, but I despise the number of desktop crashing bugs, dropped frames and the number of extra clicks you need to make to get anything done. That being said, Gnome 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10…

  • Manjaro 18.10 (KDE Edition) Non-Review (2019)

    Manjaro 18.10 (KDE Edition) Non-Review (2019)

    Manjaro is a strange beast. It’s a distribution based upon the memetic Arch Linux. That doesn’t mean it’s BFU-hostile, though, or that you have to set it all up from scratch. In fact, Manjaro is an easy to setup distro you could install for your grandparents and sleep soundly knowing they will always have the…