Features
Tutorial – Plasma
Pretty (Inter)face
If you want features, bells and whistles, and configurability in spades, your best choice of desktop is probably KDE's Plasma desktop. Navigating and discovering all that's on offer can be a challenge, though.
Charly’s Column – Sysdig
Alpha Beast
In this issue, sys admin columnist and tool veterinarian Charly Kühnast invites Sysdig, the jack-of-all-trades among system diagnostic tools, into his surgery for a quick checkup. The project promises to unite the functionality of lsof, iftop, netstat, tcpdump, and others.
Many Branches
Manage and share files with Git
Software projects often comprise several code branches, some of which exist in parallel. Git supports community code development through remote repositories and code branching.
The Year 2018 in Open Hardware
Emerging Markets
2018 saw several open hardware projects reach fruition. Where the open hardware movement goes from here, remains to be seen.
TreeTime
Mind-mapping tools
Mind maps are designed to help display processes and projects clearly in a graphical format. This review explores the design possibilities offered by five mind map programs.
Tutorials – Cordova Sensor
Sensor & Sensoribility
Frameworks like Cordova make creating simple mobile apps quite easy. Making apps that use your phone's sensor is slightly trickier, but, thanks to a new universal standard, things are not as hard as you may think.
Tutorials – Docker
Docker 101
You might think Docker is a tool reserved for gnarly sys admins, useful only to service companies that run complicated SaaS applications, but that is not true: Docker is useful for everybody.
Tutorials – FFmpeg
Video Wizardry
Linux has some excellent graphical video-editing tools, but sometimes working from the command line with FFmpeg is just better.
Open Source Tools for Writers
The Writer’s Toolbox
When it comes to writing, using the right tools can free you up to focus on your content.
Tutorials – ODF Metadata
Metadata in ODF Files
It is no secret that the native file format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, the OpenDocument Format (ODF), is a truly open standard for word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. What most people do not know is that ODF files contain lots of metadata that is very easy to read or modify.
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