Issue #186 / May 2016

Several databases likely reside on your desktop and smartphone, and it is easy to manage the data in these files or to create similar databases yourself.

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Push notifications to your cell keep you up to date with the details of any clients that log in or out of your home WiFi.

Get started with Fossil, a beginner-friendly software configuration management system that includes everything you need to work on your next great software project.

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Expand the Stellarium virtual planetarium with new objects and environments in just a few simple steps.

Tre-agrep has all of grep's functionality but can also do ambiguous or fuzzy searches without deep knowledge of regular expressions.

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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.