Steven Ovadia

425 points

NYC

Steven Ovadia writes LinuxRig.com, which features The Linux Setup, interviews with desktop Linux users. He is an academic librarian who writes about how users interact with information in an online context for assorted Library Science journals. He is the author of Learn Linux in a Month of Lunches. You can see all of his publications at steven.ovadia.org

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Authored Content

Open education resources combat high textbook prices

Eben Upton is best known as the man behind the Raspberry Pi, a tiny, $25 computer designed to help turn kids into programmers. Upton priced it at $25 because he thought that's…

3 open source markdown editors put to the test

Very much inspired by my interview with Bryan Behrenshausen, I’ve been spending a lot more time working with Markdown. Day-to-day, at work and at home, I usually work with…

How to write your book using Linux

I spent the past year writing The Librarian’s Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud, a book which focuses on using and thinking about cloud services in an academic research…

Authored Comments

stevenov

15 Jul 2016

4 open source tools I used to write a Linux book

That's a great point. My publisher is handling all of that stuff for me (I'm very lucky!), but it's something that needs to be considered.

stevenov

9 Jul 2016

4 open source tools I used to write a Linux book

Very cool! For me, ASCIIdoc wasn't much of an option. It was either that or LibreOffice. It just turned out that I loved it. But I love any project that lets us escape word processor UIs!