Sachin Patil

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Mumbai, India

Sachin works at Red Hat and is passionate about Free and Open source software. He is avid GNU Emacs user and likes to talk and write about open source, GNU/Linux, Git, and Python. He is a developer working on Red Hat Insights and previously worked on OpenStack & ManageIQ/CloudForms. He also likes to explore Swift Object Storage in his spare time. He can be reached on IRC as psachin@{Freenode, OFTC, gnome}. Read more about him at http://psachin.gitlab.io/about

Authored Content

Typewriter in the grass

How to blog with Emacs Org mode

The org-publish tool allows you to publish your website or blog with Emacs Org mode.

Coding on a computer

setV: A Bash function to maintain Python virtual environments

Get to know setV, a lightweight Python virtual environment manager and alternative to virtualenvwrapper.

Out of the trash and into the classroom

How to use Magit to manage Git projects

Emacs' Magit extension makes it easy to get started with Git version control.

Open Data Policy

What is a Makefile and how does it work?

Run and compile your programs more efficiently with this handy automation tool.

x sign

How to kill a process or stop a program in Linux

Here are several options for terminating a program in Linux using the command line or a graphical interface.

document sending

How to create LaTeX documents with Emacs

This tutorial takes you through the process of creating a document in LaTeX, a powerful open source typesetting system, using GNU Emacs.

Contributed Content

Browser of things

What's your favorite screenshot tool on Linux?

There are many open source screenshot tools to choose from, but which one works for you?

Authored Comments

15 Feb 2022

My tips for maintaining dotfiles in source control

I think you are correct. Managing config files is a tedious job but somehow I try to source control [1] them and use rsync to copy them back.

[1] https://gitlab.com/psachin/configs

11 May 2021

3 beloved USB drive Linux distros

Knoppix..another great distro.