Issue #247 / Jun 2021

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.

Doing a hardware inventory in a data center is anything but a piece of cake. In order to quickly assign devices to the appropriate database entry, Charly provides each newly acquired system with a QR code sticker with the help of Zint.

Inotify lets applications subscribe to change notifications in the filesystem. Mike Schilli uses the cross-platform fsnotify library to instruct a Go program to detect what's happening.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic with the Raspberry Pi in ARM64 assembly language.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation regularly adds new features to the official operating system, Raspberry Pi OS. The December 2020 update added the PulseAudio sound server and a print manager.

The Zenity command-line utility lets you create simple dialog boxes with your own data or with the output of utilities and applications.

This month in Linux Voice.

As two examples of how open source code can evolve, maddog discusses the long history of text editors and of the RAND message handling system.

EdUBudgie Linux is an Ubuntu clone created by a teacher and aimed directly at the education market.

Creative writers take note! Kit Scenarist is a free application designed to simplify the process of writing a screenplay.