Features
Tutorial – Zotero
Literature management with Zotero
Reference management software like Zotero helps you easily record and organize citations and create bibliographies.
Brand New Package
Experimental package management with Nix and NixOS
NixOS and the Nix package manager offer a promising new approach to the challenge of managing packages in Linux.
Delivery Service
Improving Linux package management
Linux package managers work too slowly. The experimental distri research project investigates ways to speed up package management.
A Blast from the Past
Setting up a dgamelaunch game server
If you are into retrogaming, dgamelaunch lets you set up a server to play Roguelike games and compete with friends, all while preserving a piece of gaming history.
Finding a Little Zen
Create GUI dialogs in one line of code
The Zenity command-line utility lets you create simple dialog boxes with your own data or with the output of utilities and applications.
Diversions
The new Python match
Exploring the new Python match statement, Python's implementation of switch/case.
A Clone on a Mission
New Linux distro for high school education
EdUBudgie Linux is an Ubuntu clone created by a teacher and aimed directly at the education market.
Tutorial – Obsidian
Markdown-based knowledge base
Obsidian helps you think and work more effectively by giving you a tool to record, connect, and catalog your ideas and related notes.
AltSearch
An alternative search tool for LibreOffice Writer
AltSearch offers extended functionality to LibreOffice Write's default find and replace tools, making it the ideal for editing and formatting longer documents.
Data Dog
Working with the JSON data format
JSON data format is a standard feature of today's Internet – and a common option for mobile and desktop apps – but many users still regard it as something of a mystery. We'll take a close look at JSON format and some of the free tools you can use for reading and manipulating JSON data.
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