In this article, we award 42 medals to superb open source educational software. We identify free software ideally suited for young people, parents, teachers, academics, and administrators – basically anyone involved in education.
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football-cli – World Cup football on the command line
If you’re a big fan of the command-line, what better way to keep track of the latest World Cup scores and standings with a small command-line utility. Let’s take a look at one of the hottest trending football utilities available. It’s goes by the name football-cli.
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What’s New at LinuxLinks
This is our rolling monthly update on the latest developments at LinuxLinks.
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Best Free Voice Chat Software for Linux Gaming
It’s estimated that more than 1.4 billion people play computer games, with about 750 million of them participating in online gaming. That’s a colossal market for Linux to tap. The design of online games is diverse, ranging from simple text-based environments to the incorporation of complex graphics and immersive virtual worlds.
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Markdown – style text on the web
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.
Readability is at the very heart of Markdown. It offers the advantages of plain text, provides a convenient format for writing for the web, but it’s not intended to be a replacement for HTML.
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A Bright Future with GitHub? Microsoft muscles in
GitLab reported that 13,000 projects moved from GitHub to GitLab on the day of Microsoft’s acquisition announcement. That’s, of course, a small drop in the ocean compared to the 80 million projects currently hosted on GitHub.
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Write and Play Interactive Fiction with Open Source Software
Interactive fiction is a form of computer game which shares many traits with fiction in book form, role-playing games and puzzle-solving. It’s one of the oldest forms of computer games. Here’s our recommendations.
Interactive fiction is a somewhat nebulous phrase. It can refer to text adventures where the player uses text input to control the game, and the game state is relayed with text output. They are known as text adventures.
Read moreThe Forge Release 1.06 – Cross-platform rendering framework
Release 1.06 – April 5th, 2018 – Linux Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Alpha Support and Ray Tracing Interface used by DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR).
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Review: Asus Tinker Board S – Single-Board Computer
The Asus Tinker Board S is an ARM-based, single-board computer (SBC) with a quad-core CPU, 2GB RAM and support for 4K video and HD audio. It’s billed as a marvellous computer for DIY enthusiasts and makers.
Read moregvSIG Desktop 2.4 is released
gvSIG Desktop 2.4, a popular open source Geographic Information System, is now available. You can access both the gvSIG Desktop 2.4 installable and portable versions from the download section of the project website, with distributions available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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Linux Means Business – Best Free Business Apps
A business application refers to any application that is important to running a business. The best business applications help an organization to improve how they run their operations, minimize costs, and improve workplace productivity. Sometimes business applications are thought to relate to office software suites which offer word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and email applications. While office suites are very common, business applications extend far further afield.
Read moreFlutter — 5 reasons why you may love it
On the Google I/O ’17 Google introduced us Flutter — a new open source library for creating mobile applications. As you may know, Flutter is a solution for creating cross-platform mobile applications with beautiful UI. Flutter’s way of designing views is similar
Read moreexo 0.12.0 released
Exo is an Xfce library targeted at application development. It contains various custom widgets and APIs extending the functionality of GLib and GTK+. It also ships utilities for defining preferred applications, mounting storage devices and more.
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Atom 1.24 released – Hackable Text Editor
GitHub’s Atom is billed as a hackable text editor for the 21st Century. It’s an open source desktop application based on web technologies, specifically HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js integration. It runs on Electron, a framework for building cross platform apps using web technologies.
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KDE releases new Slimbook II Linux laptops with snappy Intel Core processors
The KDE Slimbook II is shiny, smart, and sleek, but it is not only good-looking: it is also powerful. The new i5 and i7 microprocessors and DDR4 RAM make it much faster than its predecessor. Other improvements include a touchpad that “clicks” wherever you press it, and larger internal WiFi antennas that guarantee you will get a better reception wherever a WiFi network is available.
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BASpi I/O board – 12-point BAS expansion board for Raspberry Pi
The BASpi I/O board is a 12-point BAS expansion board for Raspberry Pi. The I/O board, plus the firmware files provided by Contemporary Controls turn your Raspberry Pi into a BACnet-networked, Sedona-programmable controller with 6 Universal Inputs and 6 Relay Outputs. All 12 physical I/O points, in addition to 24 Virtual Points are served up over BACnet/IP using Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
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Pocketsprite Game Console – Keychain gaming
Pocketsprite Game Console is billed as the open-source tamagotchi of 2018. The device isn’t aimed at a niche, nerdy group, rather, it’s targeting a growing majority of game lovers and capable coders.
The device sports a 240MHz dual-core ESP32 processor and 520KB of RAM, which is sufficient to play 8-bit classic games, and still fit on a keychain.
Read moreMenuLibre 2.1.5 Released
A FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor for desktop environments implementing the Desktop Entry Specification. Some desktops are improperly configured and do not export the expected variables, and patches are included to infer the running environment in other ways. Some older desktops, such as IceWM, do not implement this specification and handle their menus in other ways.
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SiFive: HiFive Unleashed Development Board – First Linux-capable RISC-V single board computer
SiFive has announced their HiFive Unleashed, the first Linux RISC-V developer board.
RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open source ISA that is not subject to patents, and is available under the BSD license.
Read moreAllwinner VPU support in the official Linux kernel – Kickstarter campaign
sunxi-cedrus consists of a Linux kernel driver working on recent upstream Linux kernel, and libva backend. It currently supports MPEG2 decoding and has partial support for MPEG4 decoding, and has been tested on Allwinner A13 and A33.
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