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.

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5 open source alternatives to Zoom

Try one of these open source video conferencing services.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 27 Sep 2021
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5 reasons to switch to Firefox right now

Version 0.1 of Mozilla Firefox was released 19 years ago.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 23 Sep 2021 4 comments
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Organize your Magic: The Gathering decks with Magic Assistant

The open source application Magic Assistant makes managing your Magic collection easy.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 17 Sep 2021 3 comments
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Replace smart quotes with the Linux sed command

Banish "smart" quotes with your favorite version of sed.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 13 Sep 2021 3 comments
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Play with model trains in OpenTTD

Don't have room for a physical model train set? Try virtual trains with OpenTTD.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 11 Sep 2021 1 comment
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Contributed Content

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5 Rust tools worth trying on the Linux command line

Try some new commands for common tasks.
Sudeshna Sur (Red Hat, Correspondent) 14 Jul 2021 5 comments
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What version of Linux am I running?

Get these quick commands to figure out what Linux kernel version and distribution your system is running.
Joshua Allen Holm (Correspondent) 30 Apr 2021 5 comments
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Get started with batch files in FreeDOS

Batch files are a great way to write your own simple programs and automate tasks that normally require lots of typing.
Kevin O'Brien 07 Apr 2021
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FreeDOS commands you need to know

Learn how to make, remove, copy, and do other things with directories and files in FreeDOS.
Kevin O'Brien 03 Apr 2021
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Which Raspberry Pi should you choose for your project?

There are a number of different models and versions of the Raspberry Pi computer. But which one is...
Ben Nuttall 31 Mar 2021 7 comments
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Commented on 14 Sep 2021
Replace smart quotes with the Linux sed command
This is a great deconstruction of the article. For more information on how to use sed, check out these articles, as well: https://opensource.com/article/20/12/sed https://opensource.com/article/21/3/sed-cheat-sheet
Commented on 9 Sep 2021
Find files and directories on Linux with the find command
Good catch, thanks. Updated!
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