Here’s our recommended free HTML tutorials to master this language.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Pike
Pike is an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language. Read our recommended tutorials.
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Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find
fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 5 Open Source Integrated Development Environments
In 2014, we identified 5 promising free and open source Integrated Development Environments. How did they fare?
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TermTrack – Track satellites in your terminal
TermTrack is a terminal-based program that lets you track the orbits of artificial satellites. The program is written in Python.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – September 2020 Updates
September 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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dupeGuru – find duplicate files
dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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Now and Then: The Journey of 5 Open Source Linux Music Players
Back in 2016, we carried a feature looking at 5 music software that were highly promising. How did this merry band of open source software fare?
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Musiko – cross-platform music player
Musiko is a free to use, open source and cross platform music player. It supports a good range of audio formats including both lossy and lossless formats. Here’s our review.
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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor
Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.
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Excellent Free Books to Learn D
D is a general-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax that compiles to native code. Here’s our recommended D books.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 7 Promising Free Linux Web Browsers
Now and Then is a series of articles that looks at how Linux software has fared over the years. This article picks up on 7 web browsers.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – SNES emulation – Week 11
For this week’s blog, Luke checks out how Snes9x performs on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. Snes9x is an emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System 16-bit home video game console.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Markdown
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. It’s designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write. Here’s our recommended Markdown tutorials.
Read moreBalance – open source load balancing solution
Balance is a load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic TCP proxy with round robin load balancing and failover capabilities. Its behaviour can be easily controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax. Balance is free and
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Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor
Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.
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Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?
This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.
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Cryptonose – Cryptocurrency trading tool
Cryptonose is a small open source utility that might be helpful if you’re interested in trading cryptocurrency. The tool supports 3 exchanges: Binance, Bitfinex and Poloniex.
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