TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.Like many of you, I’ve been aware that there are several desktop automation utilities available for Linux, but until recently, I’d never used one. However, one of our readers sent me an email s…
Scribus has mixed reputation among free software users. On the one hand, users are vaguely aware of Scribus as a first-rate application that can hold its own against proprietary counterparts lik…
Before anyone shows me something we’ll both regret, let me clarify I’m strictly talking about desktop screenshots. 
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At the Ubuntu Devloper Summit on Monday, it was announced that Ubuntu 11.04 will ship with Unity as its default shell. It will still focus on Gnome applications, and depend heavily on the…
Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don’t know what they are talking about.
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After my fourth desktop installation
in as many days, I suddenly realized a couple of things. One:
I like trying out new distributions, and two: I noted how
uncluttered my pref…
There was a time when Linux was notorious for having what was called “fugly” fonts. Things improved a bit over the years, but thanks to expiring patents things are about to get even better. mor…
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was released on June 4 and a new master workspace was branched off for the upcoming 3.3 on June 5. The code in this branch will be stabilized and later become the product r…
