Archive:Tutorials

This website

• Get started on this wiki
• Get started with our blog
• Use Bloglines

Useful cross-platform programs and formats

• How to install Gaim - This is a tutorial on how to install Gaim in Windows, MacOSX, and Linux. Gaim is a cross-platform open source multi-IM client, it rocks!
• How to use Jabber with Gaim - Add Nelson's Jabber account to your Gaim buddy list!
• How to use IRC with Gaim - Come visit the FreeCulture IRC channel!

• Install Mozilla Firefox
• Install Mozilla Thunderbird

• Ogg Vorbis is an open and un-patented alternative to mp3, to which it is technologically superior at compressing audio
• Xvid is an open source MPEG4 codec (similar to DivX) to compress video

Wireless

• Create an autonomous wireless network

Running GNU/Linux

• Free software
• Use Knoppix
• Install Knoppix
• Install a Debian box

How to free your art

• How to make free music
• How to make free text
• How to make free photographs
• How to make free illustrations
• How to make free clipart -- should link to the Open Clipart project
• How to make free software -- How to use the GPL or LGPL