Features
Tutorial – Printing in the Shell
From disk to paper
A few commands and some simple shell scripts make it easier to manage your printer so that you can access print functions quickly and automate recurring tasks.
What's Old Is New
Reviving old tools and games with FreeDOS
The FreeDOS Project turned 25 years old this year. We'll show you why a free version of DOS is still cool in 2020.
Interview – The FreeBSD Foundation
Meet the FreeBSD Foundation
As the FreeBSD Foundation approaches its 20th anniversary, we talk to its top brass about the project's growing visibility in the open source ecosystem.
Picture This
Drawing diagrams with PlantUML
With PlantUML, you can quickly create all kinds of diagrams using human-readable text and reuse them anywhere.
Touch and Go
Managing and provisioning VMs
With Vagrant, you can automate the creation and management of consistent virtual machines that work across platforms.
Tutorial – LÖVE
Detecting collisions in LÖVE games
To create an action-packed game with LÖVE, these are a few last things you should learn how to do – overlay fancy images to "physical" objects, detect collisions, and get input from the keyboard or mouse.
Tweak Talk
Tips for speeding up your Linux system
If you are looking for ways to speed up your Linux, consider this collection of curated performance tweaks.
Tutorial – CalDAV/CardDAV
Personal Data Manager
You can manage your calendars and address books with the CalDAV/CardDAV standards, Nextcloud, and a few open source tools.
Interview – The Xen Project
The Big Picture
Lars Kurth of the Xen Project talks about trends, markets, and the project's various threads of development.
Convenient Connection
Tangram integrates social media services in a single app
Tangram lets you track social media portals like Facebook and Twitter, as well as web-based messengers like Whatsapp and Telegram, in a single application window.
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