Make music on Linux with Ardour
If ever you’ve been curious about making music, you’ll be pleased to know that the open source digital audio workstation Ardour makes it easy and fun, regardless of your level of experience. Ardour is one of those unique applications that manages to span beginner-level hobbyists all the way to production-critical professionals and serves both equally well. Part of what makes it great is its flexibility in how you can...
Open source photo processing with Darktable
It’s hard to say how good photographs happen. You have to be in the right place at just the right moment. You have to have a camera at the ready and an eye for composition. And that’s just the part that happens in the camera. There’s a whole other stage to great photography that many people don’t think about. It used to happen with lights and chemicals in a darkroom, but with today’s digital tools,...
Vanilla Vim is fun
When you start Vim with the --clean option, it shows up in “vanilla” mode. No plugins, no configuration, just back to the roots. I have collected a ton of configuration statements over the years, some of them dating from MS-DOS or Windows 3.1. Here is the deal: I will start from scratch to find a good starting-point configuration with just the plugins available in Fedora 35. Will I survive a week of coding? I’ll find...
Anyone can draw on Linux with Inkscape
Inkscape is an illustration application, and it works in vectors to ensure limitless resolution for your drawings. Vector illustration is different from freehand illustration. If you’re used to drawing freehand, vectors may at first feel restrictive, but once you get used to how vectors get created and how you can use them to construct an image, it’s a powerful way to build visuals of all sorts. And if you’re not...
Learn more about distributed databases with ShardingSphere
Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database, plus an ecosystem users and developers need for their database to provide a customized and cloud-native experience. In the three years since it joined the Apache Foundation, the ShardingSphere core team has worked hard with the community to create an open source, robust, and distributed database and a supporting ecosystem. read more Powered by...
5 surprising reasons I use Krita for photo editing on Linux
Krita is best known as a digital painting application, but in my experience, it’s kind of a digital imaging powerhouse. Recently, a fork of GIMP called GLIMPSE had to pause its development, and because I like alternatives, it occurred to me that Krita could be a reasonable photo editor for at least some use cases. It isn’t easy to measure the suitability of an application for a group of tasks because different people...
