Most Linux distributions - including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch - use systemd as their default init system. However, there are several notable non-systemd distributions as well. This difference can...
Kroki is an open-source, diagram-as-code service that provides a unified API to generate diagrams from plain text descriptions. It supports a wide range of diagram formats - including BlockDiag, PlantUML...
If you're working with Debian-based Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or Kali, the dpkg tool is essential for managing Debian packages (.deb). It acts as the low-level package manager...
Stirling PDF is an open-source, web-based application that provides a suite of tools for working with PDF files. It allows users to perform various PDF-related tasks directly from their browser...
VLC media player is an open-source multimedia player developed by the VideoLAN project. It supports media streaming, playback customization, subtitle synchronization, and even file conversion, making it a powerful all-in-one...
LibreOffice is an open-source office productivity suite developed by The Document Foundation. It includes a range of applications such as Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics...
OBS Studio is an open-source software application used for video recording and live-streaming. It allows users to capture and mix audio and video from multiple sources such as desktop screens...
ShellCheck is a command line tool that automatically analyzes shell scripts to identify syntax errors, potential bugs, and style issues. It provides helpful suggestions to improve script readability. Running ShellCheck...
WebP is a modern image format developed by Google that provides both lossless and lossy compression for images on the web, offering significantly smaller file sizes compared to traditional formats...
In low-level programming, especially when dealing with binary data formats or debugging floating-point precision issues, it's often useful to reinterpret an integer as a floating-point number. This is essentially the...