Scott Nesbitt

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I'm a long-time user of free/open source software, and write various things for both fun and profit. I don't take myself all that seriously and I do all of my own stunts.

You can find me at these fine establishments on the web: Open Source Musings, The Monday Kickoff, Weekly Musings. and The Plain Text Project.

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Authored Content

3 tools for viewing files at the command line

Take a look at less, Antiword, and odt2txt, three utilities for viewing files in the terminal.

Get started and organized with TiddlyWiki

Take notes, manage tasks, keep a journal, and otherwise stay organized with TiddlyWiki.

10 open source tools for your sysadmin toolbox

Two graphical tools for manipulating PDFs on the Linux desktop

PDF-Shuffler and PDF Chain are great tools for modifying PDFs in Linux.

Terminal command prompt on orange background

Using more to view text files at the Linux command line

Text files and Linux go hand in hand. Or so it seems. But how you view those text files depends on what tools you're comfortable with.

Organize your information on the Mac desktop with nvALT

Try nvALT, an open source note-taking tool based on the popular Mac app Notational Velocity

Opening government data, new life for Mozilla Labs, a bug bounty program, and more news

Catch up on the biggest open source headlines from the past two weeks.

Authored Comments

ScottNesbitt

23 Sep 2020

Run Linux apps on your Chromebook

Well, it is a beta feature. Which these days often means pre-beta. Looks like this feature is on that should be labelled use at your own risk, sadly.

ScottNesbitt

24 Jul 2020

Build your own open source alternative to Google Suite with Nextcloud

Nothing wrong with that. I do something similar. Anyway, making self hosting user friendly is hard.