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

How to get involved with open source if you're a cat

This article is meant for cats interested in getting involved in open source.

Designing tabletop games with open source

Create your own game with print-on-demand, open source software, and some creativity.

7 must-have GIMP brushes

Check out these useful and creative add-on brushes to improve image creation in GIMP.

An introduction to DocBook, a flexible markup language worth learning

DocBook is easy to learn, easy to write, and does things other text markup languages can't do.

How to make a low-cost guitar amp with Linux

With just a guitar, a cable, and open source software, you've no need to "Gimmie Some Money" to take your home recording studio to 11.

Freer than free, opener than open: The fight for the learning management systems

Why you should always do documentation before development

Doc-driven development focuses your code toward a specific blueprint of how an application is meant to work.

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

7 Aug 2020

Do math in the Linux shell with GNU bc

Thanks for asking. You can translate and reprint this article, and you don't even need permission because all articles on opensource.com (unless stated otherwise) are licensed as Creative Commons BY-SA.

For more information, you can read (or translate and redistribute!) this article:
https://opensource.com/article/20/1/what-creative-commons

sethkenlon

3 Aug 2020

Do math in the Linux shell with GNU bc

That's a great comparison. Thanks!