oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!
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oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!
Read moreIn this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.
Read moreIn this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged, safeguarding our physical, mental and emotional health.
Read moreHome cooking is an activity that’s great for individuals as well as families, where we can teach our children the joy of creating freshly cooked home food.
Read moreThis is a short introductory training session on the use of R in data science.
Read moreBeets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
Read moreyoutube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. youtube-viewer is free and open source software.
Read moreYou-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.
Read moretetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
Read moreThis is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. UPDATE: In Week 26, I revisit Firefox again, as the Raspbian repositories offer a current version of this
Read moreTerminal Phase is a space shooting game that runs in your terminal. It’s free and open source written in the Racket programming language.
Read moreDeepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
Read moreLXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
Read moreMelody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
Read moreThe vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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