If you visit an average website today, countless scripts and trackers are loaded. This allows the website operators, Google, Facebook, etc. can collect data about you and track you through the vastness of the internet. Fortunately you don’t have to Read more…
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For many years, we have been relying heavily on open source applications in our school – on the server, but also on the computers and laptops. Especially on the server-side, open source software is widely used and many great software Read more…
For 1.5 years our school uses almost exclusively Open Source software. This step has already saved us more than 5000€ in license costs in this short time. But that’s not our main reason for using open source software. The reasons are Read more…
In the last two weeks I’ve started to upload some videos about linuxmuster.net – the free and open source school server we use in our school. The whole series will cover all the main features and how you can get Read more…
Today I would like to introduce a command-line tool that I have been using for some months for time tracking. Until Ubuntu 18.04 I always used the hamster applet, which was great. But under 20.04 this applet does not work Read more…
LXD is a hypervisor for Linuxcontainer, which is available in Ubuntu since several versions. A Linux container is basically like a virtual machine, only more lightweight. We use LXD / LXC for many of our applications at school. LXD is Read more…
Koha, an integrated library system, is one of the best open source projects I know. We use it in our school and teaching materials library. It is used by many schools, universities and libraries all over the world. It has Read more…
Koha is a free library software that we use at our school. We use it to manage both our teaching materials and our school library. Previously we used LITTERA for this, but since last summer we have switched completely to Read more…
At our school we have not issued BIOS passwords in the last few years. This hasn’t been a problem so far (especially for Linbo), as we only have nice students 🙂. For some time now, however, some of them have Read more…
