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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12

January 15, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

The best open source comic book readers for Linux are YACReader, MComix, and QComicBook. Let’s see how they perform on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Melody – music player written in Vala

January 13, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.

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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Perl

January 9, 2020 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, scripting, dynamic programming language. Here’s our recommended Perl tutorials.

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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6

November 27, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Office

This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript

November 21, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.

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RPI4 - Surfing the internet

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4

November 13, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

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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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn TeX

November 7, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

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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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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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Bash

October 29, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

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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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn ECMAScript

October 24, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

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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