For this week’s blog, Luke conducts a detailed survey of open source internet radio players that purr on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Excellent Free Books to Learn Factor
Factor is a dynamic stack-based programming language inspired by earlier stack-based languages like Forth and Joy. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Factor.
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Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts
Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.
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Linux at Home: Reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury
In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can make the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons,
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Professionally manage your photo collection – Week 29
digiKam is billed as an advanced digital photo management program. Here’s my findings of digiKam on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn F#
F# (pronounced F sharp) is a general purpose, strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language. Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn F#.
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Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time
Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Linux at Home: Cross-stitching with Linux
In this article, we recommend some great open source software for cross-stitching. Create great patterns from image files. Simple to use.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Typeset beautifully with LyX – Week 28
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). How does it fare on the Raspberry Pi 4?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn ABAP
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a fourth-generation, high-level programming language created by the German software company SAP SE. Here’s our recommended ABAP tutorials.
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Linux Candy: oneko – animal chasing fun
oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!
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Linux at Home: Keeping in Good Health with Exercise
In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.
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Is VPN secure for the Linux server?
Even though there are plenty of VPN options for those who use Apple and Windows products, some might be in search of a VPN for Linux.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Learning about Computers for Kids – Week 27
This weekly edition showcases software for the Raspberry Pi 4 that teaches young people how to use a computer. Basic computing skills and beyond.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Dart
Dart is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, class defined, garbage-collected, scripting language using a C-style syntax that can transcompile into JavaScript. Here’s our recommended free tutorials.
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Linux at Home: Plan your Ideal Garden with Linux
In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged, safeguarding our physical, mental and emotional health.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Firefox Revisited – Week 26
I’m a big fan of Firefox. But I’ve been disappointed with the performance of this web browser on the Raspberry Pi 4. Does the latest version in the Raspbian repositories change my opinion?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Elixir
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Here’s our recommended tutorials to master this language.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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