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This article spotlights alternative tools to chmod, software that changes file mode bits.

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit. It’s written mostly in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

Webcams spice up online communication by offering real-time video chat and webcasting.

This is the fourth article in our series looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD. It’s an extremely inexpensive machine costing little more than a Raspberry Pi 5 yet it’s much more powerful. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux on the desktop.

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Font rendering is the process by which operating systems take text and turn it into display text.

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It takes an image file as input, resizes it according to specified width and height parameters, and then converts the image into ASCII characters.

March 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

A screen recorder is software which lets you capture a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration.

Plattenalbum (formerly known as mpdevil) is a GTK front-end for MPD. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC and compare it to three other machines.

There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.

This article benchmarks the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated. We compare the FIREBAT’s benchmarks with a couple of other tiny computers.

UrBackup is billed as an easy to set up client/server backup system. It can make image and file backups with both data safety and a fast restoration time.

This is a multi-part blog looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD and is available for under £100. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system.

A music tracker (short version tracker) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. The music is represented as discrete musical notes positioned in several channels at discrete chronological positions on a vertical timeline.

A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users with their daily work in managing their files on a hard drive or other storage device. With terabyte hard disks becoming prevalent, file managers represent an essential tool in managing file systems.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a powerful server-side application for playing music.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a powerful and flexible server-side application for playing music. In a home environment, you can connect an MPD server to a Hi-Fi system, and control the server using a notebook or smartphone. You can, of course, play audio files on remote clients. MPD can be started system-wide or on a per-user basis.