Seth Kenlon

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New Zealand (South Island)

Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.

Open Source Super Star Moderator's Choice Award 2011 Best Interview Award 2017 Author 100+ Contributions Club Columnist Contributor Club

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Learn Lua with our new downloadable guide

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What does ChatGPT mean for the open source community?

The open source community thrives on the genuine interest in sharing. That's something ChatGPT cannot emulate.

5 escape sequences for your Linux shell

Use these secret codes for your Bash terminal. Download our new Linux metacharacters cheat sheet.

How I use Ansible to add a feature to my Linux KDE desktop

Follow this tutorial to see how I use KService and Ansible on my Linux KDE desktop.

Lua loops: how to use while and repeat until

Learn how and when to use while and repeat until loops in Lua.

What an open license means to gamers

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Contributed Content

Our favorite fonts for the Linux terminal

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Learn JavaScript in 2023

Download our new JavaScript programming guide in honor of the popular programming language's 27th anniversary.

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Our community contributors share their gift ideas for fellow fans of open source.

4 ways to use the Linux tar command

How do you use the tar command? That's what I recently asked our community of writers. Here are some of their answers.

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7 summer book recommendations from open source enthusiasts

Members of the Opensource.com community recommend this mix of books covering everything from a fun cozy mystery to non-fiction works that explore thought-provoking topics.

Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

28 Feb 2023

Learn Basic by coding a game

Hi KHORFOX, running the code as written, using bwbasic, definitely works as expected. I wonder if you might be encontering a difference in BASIC implementations, or else some shell escaping issue.

What BASIC are you running?

sethkenlon

24 Feb 2023

How I use Ansible to add a feature to my Linux KDE desktop

That's a great use for this. I might add that service on my desktop too.

I'm glad this article has helped!

Seth Kenlon

Authored Content

Learn Lua with our new downloadable guide

What does ChatGPT mean for the open source community?

5 escape sequences for your Linux shell

How I use Ansible to add a feature to my Linux KDE desktop

Lua loops: how to use while and repeat until

What an open license means to gamers

Contributed Content

Our favorite fonts for the Linux terminal

Our favorite markup languages for documentation

Learn JavaScript in 2023

9 holiday gift ideas for open source enthusiasts in 2022

4 ways to use the Linux tar command

7 summer book recommendations from open source enthusiasts

Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

A guide to Lua

Linux metacharacters cheat sheet

Cheat sheet: Old Linux commands and their modern replacements

Linux compose key cheat sheet

A guide to orchestration with Kubernetes

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