PDFsam I am

I was just reading HotPicks in LXF191 and found PDFSam. This sounded a useful tool and I had an immediate use for it.

When I looked in the Debian repos, I found it there, so I installed it and it put an item in my Xfce menu. [It has a] basic interface and no help, but the article was very useful in explaining how to use it. I have a seven-page document which I Neil says: We’re glad you’re finding HotPicks to be of help! It’s certainly the best place to find nuggets of open source gold.

Cupertino love

First Microsoft promoted Linux by launching Windows 8 in all is shocking ugliness. Now Apple has decided to also promote the switch to Linux by releasing Yosemite, which is without doubt the ugliest interface ever. The internet backlash has begun, so I hope your subscription team is ready for the extra workload. I’d like to thank Microsoft and Apple for their efforts in encouraging people to adopt FOSS and Linux. Trevor,viaemail Neil says: Now, now. Microsoft simply decided to stumble into the user issues that the Gnome team discovered with Gnome 3. I’m not quite sure what Apple’s excuse is, though: it seems to be taking OS X down a route of everincreasing simplification, when the majority of people expressly seem to prefer the age-old desktop paradigm.