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Filemanagers

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21

March 18, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.

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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn LaTeX

November 5, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

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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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scheme

September 26, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. It is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp.

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Excellent Utilities: fkill – kill processes quick and easy

June 24, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

One thing a newcomer to Linux learns quickly is that they’re never limited to a single way of performing a task. And killing processes is no exception. In this article, we’ll look at an alternative to kill. It’s called fkill. It’s billed as offering a quicker and easier way to terminating processes.

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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software

July 1, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.

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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn C

July 25, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Here’s our recommended free books to learn about C.

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18 Excellent Free Books to Learn JavaScript

August 3, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

JavaScript is possibly one of the easiest language to get up and running with. But to truly master the language requires a firm foundation of its intricacies. This compilation of free books ticks all the boxes.

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Music Players

Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player

September 13, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.

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23 Excellent Free Books to Learn Perl

August 29, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The popularity of a book is influenced by personal feelings, tastes, and opinions. Programming books accord to this general rule. There is a wide range of Perl books. Here’s our recommended free Perl books.

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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?

May 29, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Software

X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.

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