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

Authored Content

Why the operating system matters even more in 2017

Archive files on your Linux desktop with Ark for KDE

Create, examine, and expand compressed archives on KDE.

Manage your calendar from the Linux terminal with the konsolekalendar command

KDE is well-suited for terminal-based calendaring on Linux. The konsolekalendar command lets you view and manage an iCal calendar from the terminal.

26 open source creative apps to try this year

Build your own open studio with these open source tools for every creative discipline from photography to collaboration.

Learn Perl in 2022

Download the programming cheat sheet and start learning the powers of Perl.

Build your own container on Linux

Buildah is an open source tool for building your own container from scratch.

Try Turris Omnia, the open source router

Whether you're a network engineer or a curious hobbyist, you ought to take a look at the open source Turris Omnia router the next time you're in the market for network gear.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

23 Feb 2022

Crop and resize photos on Linux with Gwenview

Gwenview (and all other KDE apps) are available on RHEL through EPEL:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/

sethkenlon

21 Feb 2022

Why I love KDE for my Linux desktop

Dolphin also has a nice feature: right-click on an archive and do "Extract archive here, autodetect subdirectory," which ensures that a subdirectory is either present or is created (using the basename of the archive) for the archive contents.