Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that’s released under the Apache License 2.0. It blends functional and object-oriented programming models.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.
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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scheme
Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. It is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp.
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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn LaTeX
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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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn C
C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Here’s our recommended free books to learn about C.
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Excellent Utilities: fkill – kill processes quick and easy
One thing a newcomer to Linux learns quickly is that they’re never limited to a single way of performing a task. And killing processes is no exception. In this article, we’ll look at an alternative to kill. It’s called fkill. It’s billed as offering a quicker and easier way to terminating processes.
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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software
Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.
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18 Excellent Free Books to Learn JavaScript
JavaScript is possibly one of the easiest language to get up and running with. But to truly master the language requires a firm foundation of its intricacies. This compilation of free books ticks all the boxes.
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Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player
Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.
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23 Excellent Free Books to Learn Perl
The popularity of a book is influenced by personal feelings, tastes, and opinions. Programming books accord to this general rule. There is a wide range of Perl books. Here’s our recommended free Perl books.
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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?
X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.
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Survey: Console Based Linux File Managers
In the field of system administration, Linux has bags of graphical file managers. However, some users prefer managing files from the shell, finding it the quickest way to navigate the file system and perform file operations. This is, in part, because console based file managers are more keyboard friendly, enabling users to perform file operations without using a mouse, and make it quicker to navigate the filesystem and issue commands in the console at the same time.
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Excellent Utilities: tmux – terminal multiplexer software
This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.
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11 More Enlightening Free Linux Books – Part 2
The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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Linux Desktop Environments: Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE
Our article “Best Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable” surveyed 9 strong and stable Linux desktop environments (DEs). Due to popular demand, this article extends that survey with 3 other desktops: Pantheon, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), and LXDE. We examine their features, user experience, resources footprint, extensibility, and documentation, and compare them to the 9 desktops covered in the original article.
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