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: New Video: Skating on the Rink of Dreams in Ottawa
: P19 Loop Hike in Gatineau Park
: Last Bike Trip to Osgoode for The Year
: One More Bike Trip to Osgoode
: Hike to the Ramparts Lookout
: New Video: Biking in Ottawa - the Hunt Club Pedestrian & Cycling Bridge
– : Bring On The Bay Volunteering
: Biking the Osgoode Link Pathway
: Ubuntu MATE 24.04 LTS verses Linux Mint 21.3 MATE Edition
: Linux Mint 21.3 MATE Edition
: Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS versus Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon Edition
: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon Edition
: Spring Hike in Gatineau Park
: Skating on the Rink of Dreams
: Hiking Trail 70 to Healey Cabin
: Damn Small Linux 2024 Alpha 1
: Skiing Trails 50, 55 & 54 to Lusk Cabin
Stories
- Ruth's eulogy (36 kB download)
- Ruth Denounces Parking Lot Midways, story & cartoons (170 kB download)
- Are you going to give a High School Valedictory Speech? Why not save yourself all that time writing a new one and use my Valedictory Speech instead? (60 kB download)
Social Networking
We are on Diaspora, the free, disbursed social network that is community run on free software, advertising free and you own your data.
Diaspora runs on many different pods, all networked together. Posts on one pod are synchonized to the other ones, making a seamless social network.
Find a pod, sign up and join us!
Linux
I have been using Linux-based computer operating systems since and you could be too, for free!
I am currently using the Ubuntu Cinnamon operating system. Linux is free, very stable, has tens of thousands of free applications to do everything you need and doesn't run Windows viruses or spyware. If you want to read about my experiences switching from Windows to Linux, have a look at The Ubuntu Diaries.
These two websites have some very useful background for people new to Linux:
For information on free and open source software for Windows have a look at the Windows Open Source/ Freeware Project.
For a list of recommended free software for all operating systems see the Free Software List.
Worthwhile free software that we use
- Android Open Source Project - mobile Linux operating system
- APT - package manager
- Coreboot - firmware
- Evince - PDF reader
- FileZilla - file transfer protocol
- Firefox - web browser
- gedit - text editor
- Gnome Disks - storage device manager
- GParted - partition editor
- GPRename - bulk file renamer
- Gufw - firewall
- Imgp - command line image resizer and rotator
- Kdenlive - video editor
- LibreOffice - office suite
- mtPaint - image editor
- MPV - video player
- Nemo - file manager
- Simple Scan - scanning utility
- Transmission - bit torrent client
- Totem - video player
- Ubuntu Cinnamon - desktop Linux operating system
- Ventoy - live USB boot writer
- Wget - web page downloader
- WhoIs - domain system tool