Bits of Linux: 2015 #15

In this edition: Larry Wall interviewed by Linux Voice, Neil McGovern AMA on Reddit, Purism Librem 13 review, manage your music from the command line and learn keyboard shortcuts.

📰 Articles

Interview with Larry Wall

Mike Saunders from Linux Voice interviewed Larry Wall at this years FOSDEM talking about Perl, the programming language Larry first released 28 years ago. Don't miss this if you are interested in human languages, programming language design or the future of Perl.

💬 Discussions / Q&A

Debian project leader AMA on Reddit

The leader of the Debian project Neil McGovern did an AMA on Reddit answering questions from the Linux community. Obviously this is quite Debian specific, but Neil also talks about what he likes from Ubuntu and what not so much and and calls the Arch Wiki an absolutely amazing resource.

💻 Linux Devices

Review of the Purism Librem 13

The Linux Journal published a review of the Purism Librem 13, a 13" laptop focused on privacy and security. It is built on open source from the ground up, including the BIOS replacement Coreboot as well as its hardware drivers.

The Librem is in the crowd funding phase and the first units are expected to ship in September if the campaign succeeds. It is a high-end device with prices starting at $1,449.

New specs pages and a review

The Chromebook database now contains hardware specs for the Acer 15 C910-54M1 and the ASUS Flip C100PA-DB01 and there is a new video review for the former Chromebook.

📖 Open Source Projects / Resources

Beets playing music from the command line

Beets aims is to get your music collection right once and for all by cataloging your collection, automatically improving its metadata and providing tools for manipulating and accessing music.

Beets is a command line tool written in Python, the source code is on GitHub.

Keyboard shortcuts for various systems

Wikipedia has a page with tables of keyboard shortcuts that cover general usage, navigation, power managment, taking screenshots, text editing, web browsers, tab and window managment and more for different operating systems and applications including Gnome, KDE, Emacs and Vim.

Comparison of keyboard shortcuts — Screenshot: Wikipedia

Bash Fork Bomb T-Shirt White Print

How to create a fork bomb to crash a computer system? Use this cryptic bash command:

:(){ :|:& };:

A t-shirt with the code for a Bash fork bomb printed in a white monospace font.

Bits of Linux is a bi-weekly round-up of interesting articles, discussions, Q&A, open source software projects, new Linux devices and reviews as well as a dose of fun stuff related to Linux, that have been published or I have discovered during the past 2 weeks. To not miss posts in this series, subscribe to the Bits of Linux RSS feed.

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