This post gives some hints about how to use a GNU license (GPL, LGPL, AGPL) in a software project. Free Software Foundation (FSF) explains what it needs to be done on this external link. There are some additional instructions on…
This post explains how to update and install packages in Ubuntu from a terminal. It also explains how to perform a version upgrade. apt-get and apt is the same command. We use apt in this post because is shorter. To…
This post explains what a sound server is, specifically in a Linux context, and provides a list of Sound Server APIs for Linux. What is a Sound Server? A sound server is software that manages the use of and access…
This post is about how to convert a computer with vanilla Ubuntu OS installed into a FOSS DAW. The steps will be quite similar for other GNU/Linux distributions, but extra steps may be needed, for example, to allow JACK working…
This post summarizes the types of software licenses. When comparing software licenses, some are more permissive or restrictive than others, indicating that the limitations of use are more expanded or limited. These licenses are introduced on this post in descending…
This post explains how to check if your user has admin rights using your command line. Linux Using sudo command You can run a command like this: timeout 2 sudo id && echo Access granted || echo Access denied Mac…
This post lists some popular disk file systems. List of file systems FAT FAT is a very old file system, based on 12 or 16 bits. It was replaced in more modern system by FAT32, and eventually by the current…
Sometimes USB memory sticks just become unreadable, probably because we have remove it from the port before unmount it or because we had to force to stop a process that was operating with it. In any case, we would like…
OpenFortiGUI is an open-source VPN-Client to connect to Fortigate VPN-Hardware. It is based on openfortivpn and adds an easy to use and nice GUI on top of it, written in Qt5. This is a tutorial of how to install OpenFortiGUI in…
There are different virtual machines available for Linux/Ubuntu, but in this tutorial we are using Oracle VM VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a free and open source virtualization software from Oracle. This post was written on November 2018, so instructions may vary…