TeX is a system for typesetting documents. It’s a powerful low-level markup and programming language that creates professional quality typeset text. Here’s our recommended free TeX books.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Video Streaming – Week 3
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week we look at video streaming on the RPI4.
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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn LaTeX
Here’s our recommended LaTeX books. Most of the books are published under an open source license, and all of them are free to read. LaTeX is a professional document preparation system and document markup language written by Leslie Lamport. It’s a very mature system with development starting more than 30 years ago.
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Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns
lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.
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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn about Arduino
The Arduino is a cheap, flexible, open source microcontroller platform designed to make it easy for hobbyists to use electronics in homemade projects. Here’s our recommended free Arduino books.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Music Players – Week 2
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. For this week, Luke surveys music players on the RPI4.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Bash
Bash (acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again-SHell’) is a shell and programming language. Bash has become a de facto standard for shell scripting. Here’s our recommended free books to master Bash.
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Siren – text-based audio player
Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.
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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn ECMAScript
Here’s our recommended texts to learn ECMAScript. They are all free to read, and a few are open source licensed.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Week 1
This is a weekly blog where I share my experiences of using the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement using free and open source software.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn OCaml
The OCaml system is the main implementation of the Caml language. It has a very strong type-checking system, offers a powerful module system, automatic memory management, first-class functions, and adds a full-fledged object-oriented layer.
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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.
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Linux Candy: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal
Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust with no dependencies and consumes few resources.
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3 Excellent Free Books to Learn VimL
VimL is a powerful scripting language of the Vim editor. You can use this dynamic, imperative language to design new tools, automate tasks, and redefine existing features of Vim. Here’s our recommended free VimL books.
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Excellent Free Books to Learn Erlang
Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, declarative, functional programming language and runtime environment developed by Ericsson. Here’s our recommended free books for you to add another language to your bow!
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starship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips
starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.
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kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn BASIC
BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn HTML
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used to create web pages and other information that is intended for display in a web browser.
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Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
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