Upterm – terminal emulator for the 21st century

Upterm (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 more

ICQ – a simple way to communicate

ICQ 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 more

Stacer – System Optimizer and Monitoring Tool

Stacer is an open-source system optimizer designed for Ubuntu / Debian based distributions. Stacer welcomes the user with a modern window featuring 9 tabs: Dashboard, Startup Apps, System Cleaner, Services, Processes, Uninstaller, Resources, APT Repository Manager, and Settings. From a

Read more

scikit-learn – Machine Learning in Python

scikit-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 more
Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Write and Play Interactive Fiction with Open Source Software

Interactive fiction is a form of computer game which shares many traits with fiction in book form, role-playing games and puzzle-solving. It’s one of the oldest forms of computer games. Here’s our recommendations.

Interactive fiction is a somewhat nebulous phrase. It can refer to text adventures where the player uses text input to control the game, and the game state is relayed with text output. They are known as text adventures.

Read more

ggplot – Plotting System for Python

ggplot is a plotting system for Python based on R’s ggplot2 and the Grammar of Graphics. It’s built for making professional looking, plots quickly with minimal code. It builds on top of matplotlib and seeks to raise the aesthetics of

Read more

biggles – Simple, Elegant Python Plotting

Biggles 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 more

missingno – Data Visualizations and Utilities

missingno 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

Read more

Grok – Web Framework Based on Zope Toolkit Technology

Grok is an open source web application framework that lets you create flexible, agile web applications. Based on Zope Toolkit technology, the framework is targeted at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok is both easy and powerful. Grok

Read more

Shadow Daemon – Modular Web Application Firewall

Shadow Daemon is a collection of open source tools to detect, record and prevent attacks on web applications. In other words, Shadow Daemon is a web application firewall that intercepts requests and filters out malicious parameters. Shadow Daemon is a

Read more
Free Programming Books

Excellent No-Charge Linux Books – Learn About Linux – For Beginners

Many no-charge e-books are, frankly, little more than spam bait, often published only to entice you to purchase a book from the same publisher. Poorly written, and with very little original content. Whereas the recommended texts below are definitely worth downloading. They’ll teach you the basics about Linux and so much more. They’re the ideal starting point for your Linux adventures. And you don’t have to divulge any personal information to get your hands on them.

Read more

Illuminating Linux Podcasts

Before starting with the survey, let’s deal with a couple of terms that are fundamental to this article. First, the word podcast. In simple terms, a podcast is rich media, such as audio or video, distributed via RSS. Podcast derives

Read more

Illuminating Linux Podcasts – Page 4

Linux Basement Linux Basement is an informational podcast about Linux, open source software, and technology. It offers pretty good coverage of the latest interesting news in the field of Linux and related areas. Chad Wollenberg, billed as a Freedom Hater

Read more

lnav – advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

lnav is the logfile navigator, an open source curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files. It looks for any semantic information gleaned from the files being reviewed such as timestamps and log levels. lnav can do things like interleaving

Read more