The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.
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Monkey is a fast and lightweight Web Server for Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption.
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Newsboat is a sleek, open source RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It’s a fork of Newsbeuter. RSS and Atom are a number of widely-used XML formats to transmit, publish and syndicate articles, typically news or blog articles.
Newsboat is designed to be used on text terminals on Unix or Unix-like systems. It’s entirely controlled by the keyboard.
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Winds is billed as a beautiful, modern, open-source RSS Reader and Podcast app. It’s certainly garnishing attention among open source enthusiasts. It’s picked up over 5,000 stars on GitHub, so I’ve been putting this JavaScript software through its paces.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreIn our technology driven world gadgets from computers, smartphones to tablets are an integral part of life. Children are tech-savvy, they can often master a tablet quicker than their parents. Research shows the earlier a child learns the basics behind
Read moreReference management software is software for academics and authors to use to record and use bibliographic citations. This type of software typically uses a database to store the bibliographic references, together with a system for filtering the list in a
Read morehelm is an open source MIDI enabled polyphonic music synthesizer with an easy to use parameter modulation system with real-time graphical feedback. helm can run as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3, AU or AAX plugin. helm
Read moreUpterm (formerly known as Black Screen) is an open source IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, the software is both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron. It uses Electron, TypeScript, ReactJS, as well as
Read moreTerminus is an open source terminal emulator designed for a modern age. Terminus is an Electron app, with the frontend written in Typescript with the assistance of Angular framework. The software is built using webpack, a static module bundler for
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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.
Read moreICQ is an open source instant messaging client. This is an official Linux client. The latest update is in an experimental stage of development; there are some issues with users reporting memory leaks and instability. The ICQ client includes software
Read moreTelegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. Telegram’s client-side code
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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.
Read morescikit-learn is an open source Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy. It offers efficient versions of a large number of common algorithms. The software displays a clean, uniform, and streamlined API, with good online documentation. The
Read moreHigh Performance Analytics Toolkit (HPAT) is an open source big data analytics and machine learning framework that offers Python’s ease of use combined with fast operation. It’s a compiler-based framework for big data. It accelerates data analytics and machine learning
Read moreBiggles is a simple, object-oriented plotting library for creating publication-quality 2D scientific plots. You declare a container and then add components in order to make a plot. Biggles provides a set of objects useful in the creation of scientific plots.
Read moremissingno provides a small toolset of flexible and easy-to-use missing data visualizations and utilities that allows you to get a quick visual summary of the completeness (or lack thereof) of your dataset. Features include: Data-dense display which lets you quickly
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