Python is a high-level, general-purpose, structured, powerful, open source programming language that’s used for a wide variety of programming tasks. Here’s our recommended Python tutorials.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6
This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn C
C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Read our recommended C tutorials.
Read moreExcellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
Read moreLinux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
Read more5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript
Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Email – Week 5
Last week’s blog looked at whether the RPI4 cuts the mustard as a desktop web browser. It does although with a few reservations. This week’s blog focuses on another absolutely essential desktop activity. Managing your email.
Read moreExcellent Free Tutorials to Learn Java
Java is designed to be simple enough that many programmers can quickly become proficient in the language. It’s one of the most popular programming languages especially for client-server web applications. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Java.
Read morenuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming
nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
Read more8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Vim
Vim is an open source configurable and powerful text editor. It’s an improved version of the vi editor, with development dating back to 1976. This software can be used to write any kind of text.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4
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.
Read more12 Excellent Free Books to Learn Git
Git is a popular choice for revision control because it is fast, stable, flexible, and extremely powerful. It offers a comprehensive feature set, an active development team, and a number of free hosting communities.
Read moreEssential System Tools: TLP – power management package
If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.
Read more6 Excellent Free Books to Learn TeX
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Video Streaming – Week 3
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week we look at video streaming on the RPI4.
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