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A few weeks ago, I felt inspired by articles from Jeff Kreeftmeijer and Armin Ronacher. I took some time to configure and fine-tune my Vim environment. A lot of new stuff made it into my .vimrc file and my .vim directory. This blog post is a summary describing what I’ve added and how I use it in my daily work.
Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line.
The ability to customize tools to suit your needs is one of the great advantages of many Linux utilities. However, when you find yourself working on a new server, there is the issue of getting the settings you are comfortable with working in a new env.
Like for every thing, there are plenty of commands to check information about the hardware of your linux system. Some commands report only specific hardware components like cpu or memory while the rest cover multiple hardware units.
This post takes a quick look at some of the most commonly used commands to check information and configuration details about various hardware peripherals and devices. The list includes lscpu, hwinfo, lshw, dmidecode, lspci etc.
Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.
Plugin based document file visualizer (PDF, DejaVu, PS); strongly key-based control.
Through the years, I have settled on maintaining my sensitive data in plain-text files that I then encrypt asymmetrically.
Open source downloads galore: arcade, board, puzzle, shooter, adventure, simulator and role-playing games -- something for everyone.
Autojump utility learns from user and helps in easy and faster directory navigation from Linux command line, as compared to traditional 'cd' command.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we will look at 34 outstanding open source backup tools that you can use on Linux servers or systems. There will be something of interest for anyone who attaches any importance to their hard work.
PeaZip is a free and open-source archiver tool, that supports more than 182+ file extensions and native archive format known as PEA archive.
A helper script to manage duplicity backups.
The "Internet of Things," or IoT, has the potential to change the way we interact with the devices and objects in our homes and lives. The IoT is the idea that all of the devices and gadgets that you interact with could be connected to the internet.
Audio processing plugins implemented as LV2.
Google has extended the support for its ARC Welder app and now Linux users can also run Android apps (APKs) right in their browser, with just the help of a downloadable Chrome app.
Tuesday marks the anniversary of Git, the distributed revision control system Linus Torvalds wrote in a weekend 10 years ago.
Make ASCII art, talk to your computer and play text adventures. Your Linux command line isn't just for work: it can be weirdly entertaining, if you know the right commands.
Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events; custom, plain text storage format; interesting and fully functional.