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

Discover the power of the Linux SpaceFM file manager

If you're happy with the file managers on Linux, but you want to try one that's a little bit different in design, SpaceFM is worth a look.

How to write a web service using Python Flask

Try this Python-based file manager on Linux

Dragonfly Navigator is a general-purpose file manager written in Python and Qt.

Travel back in time with the mc file manager on Linux

The Midnight Commander file manager exists in a Linux terminal, but it feels like a modern keyboard-driven application with intuitive actions and easy navigation.

5 reasons to love Linux GNOME Files

GNOME Files is the name of the file manager for the GNOME desktop. Its intuitive design is just one of the many reasons I love to use it.

Why the operating system matters even more in 2017

Enjoy two-panel file management on Linux with far2l

Far2l runs in the Linux terminal and is designed around a plug-in structure, enabling compatibility with SSH, WebDAV, NFS, and more.

Experience Linux desktop nostalgia with Rox

Rox-Filer is a snapshot of an old desktop style. It was originally intended for the defunct Rox desktop but is now available for any Linux desktop.

Contributed Content

The right and wrong way to set Python 3 as default on a Mac

There are several ways to get started with Python 3 on macOS, but one way is better than the others.

20 Linux commands every sysadmin should know

If your application isn't working—or you're just looking for more information—these 20 commands will come in handy.

and old computer and a new computer, representing migration to new software or hardware

How to dual-boot Linux and Windows

Set up your computer to boot into Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04 as needed.

Our favorite open source writing tools

Opensource.com correspondents share their favorite tools for churning out words.

5 humans review 5 open source video chat tools

Members of the Opensource.com team stress-test five open source video-conferencing applications so you don't have to.

Drop PNG and JPG for your online images: Use WebP

Get started with this open source image editing tool to save time and space.

Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

YAML cheat sheet

By Seth Kenlon

YAML is a simple but robust data serialization language. It achieves high flexibility with just two data structures: sequences (a list) and mappings (key and value pairs). If…

Linux find cheat sheet

By Seth Kenlon

The find command is a great tool for searching through your system, but it's also a really useful front-end for the powerful Parallel command. There are many reasons to learn…

JavaScript cheat sheet

By Seth Kenlon

JavaScript is a loosely typed and dynamic scripting language developed for the Internet and a core technology of the World Wide Web. It is a surprisingly multipurpose language…

Linux dnf Cheat Sheet

By Seth Kenlon

The dnf command is a Linux package manager on RPM distributions, including Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, OpenMandriva, and Mageia. The more you know about how your package manager…

Kubernetes cheat sheet

By Seth Kenlon

Kubernetes manages clusters of containers, providing tools for deploying and scaling applications, managing changes to containerized applications, and optimizing the use of…

Authored Comments

sethkenlon

25 Dec 2022

How to use your Linux terminal as a file manager

My favourite grep options are --with-filename and --ignore-case. One ignores case, and the other displays which of many files my search string appears. Brilliant.

sethkenlon

22 Dec 2022

Linux commands: Drop these old utilities for modern alternatives

I would give real money for there to be a standardized protocol for package management. Then I propose we rename the current `install` command from coreutils to `ginstall`, and adopt `install` as the universal package management command. It can be symlinked to any given backend, but functionally it would work the same everywhere.