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Using Hugo to Learn Skills

2020-08-30

After spending my free time of the past week enhancing discoverfoss.com , I decided to reflect on why this blog exists, and why I’m using Hugo to manage it. Discoverfoss.com came from a desire to give back to the free and open source community which has given so much to me and my family. I’m not a coder. I have no ambitions of being a “Youtuber”. I enjoy writing, and my profession requires long form writing for teaching and manuscripts for public speaking.…

MX Fluxbox Puts a Shine on Old Code

2020-08-09

Shame on me for taking this long to try MX Linux. My teenage son has been a code contributor to MX since before their October 2019 release of MX-19. He loved MX from his first install, but I dismissed it for my use. I have used distros based on Debian Stable and longed for updated packages. Honestly from a distance, MX appeared to be an eclectic mix of applications from different frameworks on top of a stable (dare I say boring) base of Debian and XFCE.…

Introduction and Terms

2020-08-09

Welcome to Discover FOSS or “Discover Free and Open Source Software.” I have enjoyed FOSS and running a variety of Linux distributions since the early 2000’s. I started Discover FOSS to document my own journey of discovery and to share that journey with the wider community of enthusiastic users. I hope to provide content that tells my story of discovery while at the same time introduces you to perhaps new corners of the free and open source world that you have not discovered on your own.…