C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Read our recommended C tutorials.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript
Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Email – Week 5
Last week’s blog looked at whether the RPI4 cuts the mustard as a desktop web browser. It does although with a few reservations. This week’s blog focuses on another absolutely essential desktop activity. Managing your email.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Java
Java is designed to be simple enough that many programmers can quickly become proficient in the language. It’s one of the most popular programming languages especially for client-server web applications. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Java.
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nuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming
nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Vim
Vim is an open source configurable and powerful text editor. It’s an improved version of the vi editor, with development dating back to 1976. This software can be used to write any kind of text.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4
This week’s blog focuses on an absolutely essential desktop activity. Surfing the web. A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.
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12 Excellent Free Books to Learn Git
Git is a popular choice for revision control because it is fast, stable, flexible, and extremely powerful. It offers a comprehensive feature set, an active development team, and a number of free hosting communities.
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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package
If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn TeX
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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