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Editorial In the original meaning of the word, hackers are enthusiastic computer programmers who share their work with others. They are not computer criminals. FreeHackers is a portal dedicated to Free Software Development. |
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Knowledge base
Those pages are updated on a regular basis. We use those to share our experience testing and trying computer related stuff, most importantly Free software. Only freehackers people currently have write access. Please contact us if you want to contribute (content, fix, notice).
- State of the art page : Study and comparisons of common tools.
- Linux-windows Software : Some hints on which software is to be used under linux for most common tasks, with their windows counterparts.
- Qt Object Sizes. Curious to know about the size of Qt Objects ?
- How to compile projects with various c/c++ compilers and build tools (cmake, qmake..)
Articles about software development
- Quest for an automated build tool
- Packaging a Python program
- Surviving on Windows for linux freaks
- Developing Free Software on Windows
- Presentation of the KPart technology of KDE
- From Gtk to PyQt, a linux graphical toolkit comparison with source code
- Impressions on MFC vs Qt Programming Comparison between both toolkits
- MFC contre Qt Une comparaison des deux librairies de Widgets
- Building standalone Qt application on windows
- Developing Free Software on windows
Articles about system administration
- An example of hard disk recovery
- Another example of hard disk recovery (2007-08-01)
- Gentoo/Linux on the Asus W3Z
Interviews and reports
Interesting thoughts from people developing free software, and hot news from projects.
- Trolltech interview, 2004 Interview of Eirik Eng, president of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project and director of software development at Trolltech, by Bluebird
- KDE has tea with RMS, 2003, by Bluebird
- Linux Solutions 2003, Report about Linux Solution, 2003, by Bluebird
- KDevelop Team Interview, 2002 Interview of the KDevelop team (may 2002), by Bluebird
- Linux Expo 2002, Report about Linux Expo 2002, by Bluebird
- Fosdem 2002 Report, by Bluebird and Orzel
- Fosdem 2002: Guido van Rossum interview, by Bluebird and Orzel
- Fosdem_2002:_Koffice_team_interview, by Bluebird and Orzel
- Fosdem 2002: Fosdem organiser interview, by Bluebird and Orzel
- Trolltech interview, 2001 Interview of Eirik Eng, president of Trolltech, by Bluebird