Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – OBS Studio – Week 8
OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. We run OBS Studio on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC and see how it performs.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Standard ML
ML (“Meta Language”) is a general-purpose functional programming language. It has roots in Lisp. Here’s our recommended free ML books.
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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Contributing to Open Source Projects without Coding Knowledge
A common misconception about contributing to open source is that you need to write code. In fact, it’s often the other parts of a project that are in urgent need of assistance.
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Linux Candy: pipes.sh – animated pipes terminal screensaver
pipes.sh is a bash script which draws randomly pathed pipes over the terminal. pipes.sh is free and open source software. Harmless fun, and a screensaver.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Home Computer Emulators – Week 7
For this week’s blog on the AWOW AK41, Luke looks at emulating home computers such as the Amiga, Atari ST, and the ZX Spectrum. Heady days in the early 1980s.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Kotlin
Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Kotlin.
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Vooki – lightweight image viewer offering fast image preview
One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.
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cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Web Browsing – Week 6
Over the years, I’ve tried almost every web browser available for Linux. For the AWOW AK41, my focus has rested primarily with Chrome and Firefox. I’ve used them extensively on the AK41 for the past 6 weeks browsing hundreds of web sites that are laden to the hilt with JavaScript.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn ECMAScript
ECMAScript is an object‑oriented programming language for performing computations and manipulating computational objects within a host environment. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn ECMAScript.
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Byte – music player designed for elementary OS
Byte is a GTK-based music player. It was created with the desire to make a good music player for elementary OS. It focuses on two aspects: features and design.
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Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal
Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Gaming – Week 5
For this week’s blog, Luke looks at gaming on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. This tiny computer uses the Intel UHD Graphics 605, an integrated processor graphics unit from the Gemini Lake generation.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Vala
Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn Vala.
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Stretchly – reminder to take breaks
Stretchly is a cross-platform Electron program that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. Stretchly is free and open source software.
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23 Best Free Linux Window Managers
A window manager manages the windows that applications bring up. We recommend the best c.ompositing, stacking, tiling, and dynamic window managers.
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Linux Candy: Buoh – online strips comics reader
Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Multiple Operating Systems – Week 4
In this week’s blog, I look at some of the ways you can run programs from different operating systems on the AWOW AK41. I examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as well as using a compatibility layer.
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