cargo-update

 As the number of cargo-installed packages increases on my computer, I naturally wonder if there is a convenient way to keep them up-to-date. cargo-update does exactly that. I can first do:

cargo install-update -l

to see if any installed packages are out-of-date. If so, I can then:

cargo install-update <pkg>

to get it updated.

Zoxide

 Zoxide is such a small, nice command line utility that significantly reduce the amount of typing. It works with the Nushell nicely. 

Rust, Helix, and Zellij

I know about Rust programming language for many years but did not think it will be a major player in the open source software world simply because there have been so many good programming languages and development tools. I recently stumbled into a couple of really good open source software, including the Helix file editor and the Zellij terminal multiplexer, both were developed using Rust. Also, there are at least two R packages, rextendr and cargo, that facilitate the calling of Rust function from within R. Maybe it is time to pay more attention to Rust. 

The Nushell is another essential component of this Rust-centric free software ecosystem. 

How GPL makes me leave R for Python

Informative post, especially David's response.

Is Linux Better than OS X? GNU, Open Source and Apple in History

Some history here.

Librem 15 looks promising

A laptop armed entirely with free software, looks promising.

New Zealand abolished software patents

Here are some discussions.

LazStats

LazStats, a statistical package written in Lazarus/FreePascal.

CDE becomes free software

According to this source, CDE (common desktop environment) is now free software. Not sure at this moment whether that will make any real difference to our daily computing though.

Do you see the leash on your neck?

According to this post, both Apple and MS are tightening the leash on general desktop computer users by restricting their freedom of installing and running the software they like, with their shiny new OSs.

Fortunately we still have Linux and BSD.

Richard Stallman was right all along

One more person agreed with Richard Stallman.

Free software

This is a comprehensive analysis of the status of free software, may be helpful for my own research.

Free scientific software

The large number of free scientific software included in the Sage package gives a pretty good idea about what is available.

Stallman's comment on Jobs's death

Here. Very short and controversial. Here is a good analysis. Comments from Eric Raymond.

This guy, Larry, tried to start a war but got beaten up pretty bad.

Free software directory

There are some amazing stuff inside.

X file explorer

Xfe is a flexible and lightweight file manager. It can be changed to a two-panel layout just like total commander under windows.

22 free tools for data visualization and analysis

Good information here.

RedNotebook

Free software for daily journal. First impression is positive.

Handbook of Open Source Tools

Very handy reference book about open source software tools.

Free as in Freedom

Here is a good online book. And here are more of them.