Features
Advanced Features of LibreOffice Impress
Impress at Work
Do more with LibreOffice Impress! It’s a great tool for creating outlines and flashcards, and it has many features and extensions that make it easy to pull together professional presentations.
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.
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.
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.
Inside The Input Devices
Custom Keyboards with QMK
The Quantum Mechanical Keyboard (QMK) firmware offers some powerful options for customizing your keyboard configuration.
Above the Clouds
Free FlightGear flight simulator
The free flight simulator FlightGear has improved in terms of stability and realism in recent years and offers joystick pilots massive potential for fun.
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