PyRadio is a command line internet radio player written in the Python programming language. Here's my assessment of this open source software.

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Given there are many different video formats available, a free video converter is an extremely useful piece of software. The best video converters make the process simple, and support a wide number of different codecs and formats. Here's our pick of the best video converters.

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Lua is a lightweight, small, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. This article recommends free books to help you master programming in Lua. As the range of good free books is fairly limited, I close the article with a few carefully selected tutorials that are genuinely useful.

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Scratch is a visual programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. I recommend 7 free books that really help young people to master Scratch. These recommended texts are also open source goodness.

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Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a type of software that enables individuals to design electronic systems. These systems can be printed circuit boards (which mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways) and integrated circuits (an electronic circuit manufactured by lithography, or the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material).

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If you had to describe Rust in just three words, they would be fast, safe, and productive. There's memory safety without garbage collection, concurrency without data races, abstraction without overhead, and stability without stagnation.

I recommend 8 books to get you up to speed with the Rust programming language. There's introductory texts, books that dig deeper into the language, as well as other texts that will help you migrate from C++ and Ruby to Rust.

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Linux has a wide range of e-Learning software available. The purpose of this article is to focus on open source software which is both user friendly for students and instructors.

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Radiotray-NG is a continuation of the discontinued Radio Tray. It seeks to embrace the same philosophy, fixing some of its flaws, and adding a few new features along the way.

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Clojure is a dynamic functional general purpose programming language that runs on the Java platform. There's lots of good reasons to learn Clojure. It offers a modern take on Lisp. There's an excellent parser library, and a fully featured logic engine. In Clojure, immutability is the default. Once an object or data structure is created, it cannot be changed.

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Music education is a field of study connected with the learning and teaching of music. Music is an essential part of the fabric of our society, and the intrinsic value of music is widely recognized. Human culture uses music to carry forward its ideas and ideals.

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Halo lets you view the weather in your town/city and check out the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo identifies your location based on your IP address. But you can also add other locations.

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A student information system (also known as a student management system or school management system) is computer software for educational institutions to manage student data.

This type of software typically provides tracking of demographic attributes, gradebooks, tracking student attendance, calendars, reporting, building student schedules, transcripts, and managing many other student-related data needs.

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I recommend 15 free books which will teach you the basics of Ruby. Many of the books are open source. All of them can be read without requiring payment.

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Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. These log files are typically stored plain ASCII text in a standard log file format, although they can be in binary format. Most logs are stored in the traditional system log subdirectory /var/log. Logs keep track of events, such as system errors, user activities, and transaction histories. These log files are everywhere.

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The PDF file format is one of the most common file formats in use today. This article recommends the best open source PDF viewers.

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Data mining (also known as knowledge discovery) is the process of gathering large amounts of valid information, analyzing that information and condensing it into meaningful data.

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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 13 high quality open source podcast tools that offer an excellent way to manage and download podcasts. The selection includes both graphical and console based tools, software which includes built-in podcast management, as well as standalone tools, so all tastes should be catered for here.

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Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.

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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 useful Linux logfile viewers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone needing to examine and process logfile data.

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This article recommends 27 free books which will teach you the basics of R, how to produce amazing plots, how to apply R to lots of disciplines, and how to efficiently program in R. Many of the books are open source.

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