The Amiga is a family of personal computers. It’s the last truly great gaming home computer before the dominance of the PC and the 32-bit games consoles.
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Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du
dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Mastodon Clients
Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Manipulating Files – Part 13
This article explains the fundamentals of manipulating files from the shell. We explore cp, mv, rm and mkdir using Ubuntu 21.04.
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lfs – list your filesystems
lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.
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Goggles Music Manager – music collection manager and player
Goggles Music Manager is free and open source software that lets you play and organize your music collection.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Understanding the File System – Part 12
Ubuntu has a very different file system compared to Windows. It’s organized in a completely different way designed to offer more security.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – July 2021 Updates
July 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Tootle – GTK client for Mastodon
Tootle is a multi-functional Mastodon client that is well designed and intuitive to use.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn PostScript
PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based language similar to Forth but with strong dynamic typing, data structures inspired by those found in Lisp, scoped memory and garbage collection.
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Emulate the BBC Micro home computer with Linux
The BBC Microcomputer System was a series of microcomputers designed and built by the Acorn Computer company.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Getting Help – Part 11
We explain the main ways you can get help direct from your new Ubuntu system.
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Emulate the Commodore 64 home computer with Linux
The Commodore 64 (C64) is an 8-bit home computer released in 1982. The $595 (£399) device took its name from its US maker, Commodore International, and the fact it had 64K of RAM.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10
In this article we’ll take you through the basics of files and permissions. We’ll use the ls command. Part of the Linux for Starters series.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Master Programming
Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn a variety of programming languages. Learn C, C++, Java, Python, R, JavaScript, PHP, and many more.
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NewsFlash – follow your favorite blogs and news sites
NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.
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6 Best Free and Open Source FICS Chess Clients
Free Internet Chess Server is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet.
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Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages
The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9
What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.
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Haruna – video player using libmpv
Haruna is a modern-looking QML-based front-end to mpv. Here’s our review. Haruna is free and open source software.
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