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Free Software Magazine: "There are a number of good reasons for installing a virtual machine on your computer — as a way to run software that isn't compatible with your primary operating system, as a sandbox for development, or as a place to test package installations, new distributions, or new server configurations.

Setting one up with VirtualBox OSE is quite easy."

Technology FLOSS: "So, you have a broken RAID5 and found the article I wrote for the Free Software Magazine 5 years ago about it and would like to give it a shot.

First off: Good luck! You are gonna need it."

Free Software Magazine: "After installing Ubuntu 10.10, I had a strange feeling I was seeing something that was already old.

Yes, Ubuntu is a fantastic desktop system, and yes it's better than Windows. But today, in 2010, that's almost a given.

And that's not enough."

Free Software Magazine: "One of the most controversial freedoms of free software is the right to simply take the code and go make your own competing project — what is popularly called a “fork”.

It's controversial because it seems like a betrayal of the original developer..."

Free Software Magazine: "I don't know how many times I've run into this particular mistake, but free software developers keep making it, so I think it's worth a brief post"

Free Software Magazine: "So you've got your GNU/Linux based box. You've installed the base system and you're good to go.

Welcome to the world of freedom. But then what? How do you determine what packages to install. How do you decide which of the alternatives to go with?"

Free Software Magazine: "It's been a long time since I really designed a webpage, and the web — or rather users' expectations of the web — has changed a lot.

“Craft” web pages constructed largely for fun by individual users, designed from the ground-up in simple HTML, went out sometime in the 1990s."

Free Software Magazine: "Recently, I fully expected to repeat this depressing experience when my brother-in-law gave my son a “Flip” digital video camera, but I was pleasantly surprised: it works exactly as it should.

That seemed worth a column in itself."

Free Software Magazine: "if you use GNU/Linux you're already tech savvy and familiar with the politics and philosophy of free and open software, so you'll be particularly sensitized to the impact of threats to net neutrality on free software.

Just how could it affect users of GNU/Linux?"

Free Software Magazine: "People have been talking about “micropayments” since the early days of the world-wide-web, so I'm always skeptical of micropayment systems.

Flattr is an interesting variation on the idea though. It's a voluntary system, without the overhead or chilling effects associated with “pay wall"