This article recommends 33 free books which will teach you the basics of R, how to produce amazing plots, how to apply R to lots of disciplines, and how to efficiently program in R. Many of the books are open source.
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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor
Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.
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Excellent Free Books to Learn D
D is a general-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax that compiles to native code. Here’s our recommended D books.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 7 Promising Free Linux Web Browsers
Now and Then is a series of articles that looks at how Linux software has fared over the years. This article picks up on 7 web browsers.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – SNES emulation – Week 11
For this week’s blog, Luke checks out how Snes9x performs on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. Snes9x is an emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System 16-bit home video game console.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Markdown
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. Itβs designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write. Here’s our recommended Markdown tutorials.
Read moreBalance – open source load balancing solution
Balance is a load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic TCP proxy with round robin load balancing and failover capabilities. Its behaviour can be easily controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax. Balance is free and
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Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor
Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.
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Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?
This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.
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Cryptonose – Cryptocurrency trading tool
Cryptonose is a small open source utility that might be helpful if you’re interested in trading cryptocurrency. The tool supports 3 exchanges: Binance, Bitfinex and Poloniex.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – TeamViewer with Linux – Week 10
TeamViewer offers remote access to a wide variety of operating systems.. Here’s my findings on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC.
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Linux Candy – Free and Open Source Software that’s Fun
Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open source software in this series.
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Linux Candy: eDEX-UI – sci-fi computer terminal emulator and system monitor
eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.
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BpyTOP – resource monitor tool
BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.
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