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Why Linux Mint?

Linux Mint is by far the easiest Linux distribution. It is extremely fast, stable, full featured and packed with all of your favorite opensource as well as some proprietary software. Installing Linux Mint is a breeze. Far easier than Windows. Linux Mint is a much lighter operating system, using much less CPU, disk space and RAM…

Patreonize Me!

For many years at the Good-N-Free Meetup and Good-N-Free Meetup website I have enjoyed helping you to learn about free software, web applications and security issues. I want to continue to provide these services for a long time to come but there is some cost involved in providing these services. That being said I want you…

Handbtake, Video Transcoding Made Easy

HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed by Eric “titer” Petit in 2003 to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. HandBrake is available for Windows, OS X and Ubuntu from its official website, although it is…

Portable Apps

PortableApps.com is the world’s most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any portable storage device (USB flash drive, memory card, portable hard drive, etc), cloud drive (DropBox, Google Drive, etc), or installed locally. With millions of users all…

Plex, Your Media Everywhere

Plex is a free media server software plus a client-side media player. Plex organizes your video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your screens. In addition, the integrated Plex Online service provides the user with a growing list of community-driven plugins for online content including Hulu, Netflix, and CNN video. The Plex server…

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,200 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 53 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

Chromebox

A Chromebox is a personal computer running Google’s Chrome OS operating system. The device is a desktopvariant of the Chromebook laptop. Like its cousin the Chromebox only runs web applications and Chrome extended applications. Chromeboxs usually have faster processors more RAM more USB ports and ethernet in addition to WiFi. The Chromeboxs like Chromebooks are also manufactured by…

Chomebooks

A Chromebook is a laptop running Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used primarily while connected to the Internet, with most applications and data residing in “the cloud“. A Chromebook is an example of a thin client. Chromebook are manufactured by many companies including Samsung, Dell, HP and Acer.

What is Chrome OS?

Chrome OS is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed by Google to work with web applications and installed applications. Chrome OS is built upon the open source project called Chromium OS which, unlike Chrome OS, can be compiled from the downloaded source code. Chrome OS is the commercial version installed on specific…

Chromebit

Just like the aforementioned items Chromebook, etc. the Chromebit is a Computer running the Chrome OS. It does web and web-apps only. The difference is the Chromebit is only 12 centimeters long and plugs into an HDMI port of a TV. The Chromebit requires a bluethooth keyboard and mouse to operate it.