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Learn how to use a host of Linux commands in these 2-minute video tutorials from Sandra Henry-Stocker, author of the Unix as a Second Language blog. Learn how to use the powerful bc command in Linux ...

First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF. Yes, the humble PDF – thanks to its ability to run limited JavaScript – has been coaxed into booting a ...

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Resourceful inventors have proven time and again that the game “Doom” can run on anything – perhaps apart from a slice of salami, but who knows what else is coming –. Now, however, one of them has put ...

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