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Scott Nesbitt

I'm a long-time user of free/open source software, and write various things for both fun and profit. I don't take myself all that seriously and I do all of my own stunts.
You can find me at these fine establishments on the web: The Plain Text Project, Open Source Musings, The Monday Kickoff, and Weekly Musings.

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The rebirth of Mapzen, new projects bolster PyTorch, faster AI object detection, and other open source news

Catch up on the biggest open source headlines from the past two weeks.

Scott Nesbitt 25 Apr 2020 36 votes

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3 lightweight text editors for Linux

Improve your productivity with these plain text editors.

Scott Nesbitt 30 Mar 2020 70 votes 19 comments

Open source fights against COVID-19, Google's new security tool written in Python, and more open source news

Catch up on the biggest open source headlines from the past two weeks.

Scott Nesbitt 28 Mar 2020 39 votes 2 comments

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4 Markdown tools for the Linux command line

Command-line Markdown tools are fast, powerful, and flexible. Here are four utilities to try.

Scott Nesbitt 19 Mar 2020 84 votes 5 comments

Linux Foundation prepares for disaster, new anti-tracking data set, Mozilla goes back to mobile OSes, and more open source news

Catch up on the biggest open source headlines from the past two weeks.

Scott Nesbitt 14 Mar 2020 49 votes 3 comments

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Top 9 open source ERP systems to consider

There are a number of flexible, feature-rich, and cost-effective open source ERP systems out there. Here are nine to check out.

Opensource.com (Red Hat) 07 Feb 2020 397 votes 8 comments

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Matthew Broberg (Red Hat) 25 Nov 2019 174 votes 4 comments

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How did you get started with Linux?

Celebrating Penguin Awareness Day with stories about the moment we learned about Linux.

Jen Wike Huger (Red Hat) 20 Jan 2019 128 votes 22 comments

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Commented on 24 Jul 2020

Build your own open source alternative to Google Suite with Nextcloud

Nothing wrong with that. I do something similar. Anyway, making self hosting user friendly is hard.

Commented on 23 Jul 2020

Build your own open source alternative to Google Suite with Nextcloud

Good stuff, Don. I've been using Nextcloud as my personal hub for a while now and I've had no complaints.