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Everything about Programming, in One Place

Arghya Sarkar — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:08:55 +0000

As a programmer, or a CS enthusiast, or even a CS student, what are the most common stuff you do except writing code?

Probably it's

Searching up articles
Looking for resources here and there
Finding challenges to learn from
To explore happenings of the computer science world

In any of the cases, we can feel you. I know, it just sucks to find stuff out cuz that's time taking, it affects your productivity for sure. There's not always you find suitable stuff. Me for example, find the same challenges in most of the websites, very common ones.

So this post is about a Newsletter. WAIT, before fleeing off thinking I'm acting like a salesperson, c'mon, read the whole post then judge.

CS Voyager

After months of work, we are on our journey to making CS Voyager more awesome

If you dont know what in world this CS Voyager is, let me brief it.

We believe that, In the near future many new CS domains and techs are going to emerge to revolutionize the world.To keep ourselves updated with these changing technologies, we (youth) should also have the latest skills in the field of CS, which in turn can help us contribute to digitizing our planet and being a CS-aware citizen in the world of technology.

So, To keep the motivation and knowledge flowing, We have came us with an Idea of "CS Voyager"

CS Voyager is a monthly newsletter which will keep you updated with the latest happenings around the globe in the field of Computer Science & will provide focused knowledge specifically designed for CS enthusiasts. Just like a person who goes on voyages, our newsletter is on its voyage & shall explore a different part of CS and this evolving Technology era & present them in front of the reader.

What all can I get?

News and Latest Happenings
You will get the latest info about fascinating thing which has happened or is going to happen, in the field of CS around the globe recently.
Programming Tips and Tricks
You will be given few coding tips & tricks every month to improve the execution of your coding skills & may be to show off your friends...
Games and CodeJams
Bored..? So here we are with some cool games through which you can relax yourself along in your journey of learning & exploring CS & CodeJams will help you to compete with your fellow learners to know your standings at the national level
A lot to learn
Various articles will be published on learning new skills and enriching your skills. You'll get a lot of fun stuff to explore and can get hands on with more resources without much searching.
Fascinating Stories and Articles
Stories About incidents that have happened recently in the field of CS, sometimes funny sometimes scandalous, which will make you a CS-Aware citizens & Fun activites will keep your motivation high to keep learning in this field.

FAQ

When does the newsletter get updated

The newsletter is updated on the 7th of each month.

Why should you read CS Voyager?

CS Voyager helps you to learn more about technology. We include articles on great inventions using technology which will help you learn more about the Computer Science field and will increase your curiosity and interest for learning more! It's not about school, it's not about limited access to education, it's totally about YOU

Who should read CS Voyager?

Are you interested in learning about Computer Science? Are you a technology enthusiast? Are you curious about inventions done with Computer Science? Then this website is the one for you! Go for it!

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Current Status

We have successfully published 2 editions of our newsletter, and are looking forward to our next one, which will arrive soon

CS Voyager has crossed 100 subscribers!! Hence more than 100 people are now reading CS Voyager from around the world

Contact Us

Official Website: https://csvoyager.netlify.app/
Discord: https://discord.gg/AkR6U7eF6S
Mail: computersciencevoyager@gmail.com

As always, I'm open to feedback

Thank You,

Finding Developers For Calinix

Arghya Sarkar — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:45:58 +0000

So if you don't know what CalinixOS is, it's an Arch based linux users focused on power users

We currently need developers for Calinix

GUI Developers. Calinix is FOSS so don't expect any payment from our side. Your contributions are what makes the open source projects great. Join our developer team and get mentioned in our Website and other social media handles. We currently need GUI developers who can make beautiful lightweight apps (hence no electron allowed)

Try to avoid using python, cuz of its slowness, C++ and Java grow as better options. Even if you use python you need to give efficient design.

For joining us, mail us at contact@calinix.tech

Or join our Discord Server: https://tinyurl.com/calinixdisc

Arghya Sarkar,
Founder, Lead Developer, CEO
The Calinix Project

CalinixOS Alpha 5 Stable Release

Arghya Sarkar — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:27:25 +0000

I'm Arghya Sarkar the lead developer of Calinix, and these are the recent updates of CalinixOS

If you haven't seen my previous article, check out

https://dev.to/arghyasarkar/a-modern-os-for-the-power-user-2koe

There I explained what Calinix is. We've come a long way since then, and have released our Alpha 5 Stable release

The stable release fixes all the Bugs that were discovered in the whole series of Alpha 5 Releases.

Our releases currently are made in the following way:

Each Alpha series goes through 10 levels of testing, and the usual stable release (after 10 tests) is expected to have least bugs/no bugs.

Currently we are testing our Alpha 6-4 release (4th testing of Alpha 6)

The Alpha 6 stable release will go through half a month of testing for bugs and stuff then only released

This helps us stay stable and reliable. We even have a bunch of tutorials in our YouTube channel for CalinixOS. You can join our discord server for support too, we have an active support team there, including me myself.

So let's come to Alpha 5 Stable release

The Alpha 5 Stable release is tagnamed "0.5-M". After 10 releases, we announced our first stable release.

The changes:

As its the starting, basically the whole desktop was made in this series of testing. Wallpapers were switched, iris is currently non existent in Alpha 5 Stable (coming in Alpha 6 Stable)

Bugfixes:

Added VirtualBox auto scaling.
Fixed Alacritty
Fixed Picom Non Composition Issue
Added netinstall in Calamares
Redesigned Calamares
Lessened the number of unnecessary packages
Changed Default Filesystem to BTRFS

Bugs:

Some calamares errors (fixed in Alpha 6-4)
Netinstall Fails (removed in Alpha 6-3)
Iris doesn't work (Fixed in Alpha 6-1)

Hold your excitement till CalinixOS Alpha 6 Stable release!! For a more beautiful desktop experience.

This was it about 0.5-M release of Calinix.

Download Calinix Alpha 5 Stable

Grab the latest ISO from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U8eTFyoYxjzBLMUtMoEzBDAFUp3rNR3g/view?usp=sharing

NOTE: If you are running it in a VM, kill picom compositor at first to experience smooth performance

Live Boot Details:

Username: calinix
Password: calinix

Contact Us

Github: https://github.com/Calinix-Team/
Official website: https://get.calinix.tech (under development)
Discord (Our main support channel): https://tinyurl.com/calinixdisc
Forum: https://calinixos.forummotion.com
Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/CalinixOS
Contact Mail: contact@calinix.tech
Sourceforge: https://calinixos.sourceforge.net
Official Blog: https://calinixos.blogspot.com

Discovered more bugs? File an issue in the GitHub Repository, or report in our discord server.

NOTE : We've decided to move the Calinix ISO distribution to sourceforge. The Alpha 5 Stable release will deprecate as soon as Alpha 6 is released as Alpha 5 Stable is hosted in google Drive.

Conclusion

Calinix is supposed to release it's first major release sometime in 2021-2022, make sure to show some support by starring the repo and make sure to press on the "Watch" button so you don't miss any updates.

We would greatly appreciate any contributions, so if you find something that you can improve it, open a pull-request! You can also check out our open issues

A Modern OS for the Power User

Arghya Sarkar — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:51:44 +0000

Hey Guys!
I am Arghya Sarkar! Lead Developer of CalinixOS. Some of you may already know what Calinix is, some of you don't, but this article is going to explain what Calinix is and it's features.

What is Calinix?

Three Words: Power, Beauty, Speed

That's what the Calinix Project is based on! We make products that give you a beautiful interface, a powerful and quick-to-work-in professional desktop and tools you can work on smoothly. We believe that when you are on your keyboard, you get more efficiency and comfortability to work. If you are among those, Calinix is making products for your kind. Calinix Team even believes in speed, so we deliver applications which are fast, even on low end hardware, as your hardware shouldn't decide your workflow.

What's CalinixOS?

CalinixOS is a Linux Distribution I'm developing currently with my other fellow friends. Its made for the Power user who likes to stay on the keyboard, using mouse less and making people's life faster. We try to make our OS the way you can be most productive in. We value your speed of work. Calinix may take some time to get used to, but when you master it, you are on your one stop destination for fastest work. It is currently under development.

Links

Repository: https://github.com/Calinix-Team/Calinix-Arch
Official Discord Server: https://discord.gg/MtQddKmevk
Official Website: https://get.calinix.tech

Features:

What's so special in this distribution?

Just Open the Box. Calinix is Arch, but not necessarily as hard as Arch Installation. Calinix comes with various packages, modern interface and a calamares installer out of the box
Arch without Hassle. Yes, it's based on pure Arch with no custom package control, making your distribution rolling release, reliable and have infinite possibilities
Community Support. Facing a problem? The official developers along with other friendly people of the community await you in the reddit, discord server and forum. We highly care for our community and like to help them in each way we can.
The "Power User" kind-of desktop. With Vim, awesomeWM, Rofi and many other pre built configs, Calinix is a perfect choice for the linux "power users", with perfection! Though it shares it's looks with MacOSX, it is a lot more keyboard centric than MacOS

MacOS vs Calinix

UI
The UI is almost the same in Calinix, a centered dock, Mac like title bar and icon pack make it a lot similar to MacOS

Customization
When MacOS has its limitations, customization in Calinix is limitless. And that actually is about linux as a whole, install any DE/WM and customize it your own way. CalinixOS comes with the awesomewm which is one of the most customizable WMs and can be turned into anything if you wish.

Code
Calinix is completely Free and Open Source. Unlike MacOS which is proprietary and paid, limited to its capabilities of Apple Devices only. Mac is as an Apple-exclusive. If you want to assemble a PC or get a budget laptop (with DOS) and expect to install Mac OS, it’s almost impossible. Mac comes baked in with the system Apple manufactures.

Besides, you can even modify the source code of your OS to add/remove something (which requires necessary technical knowledge) and create your own custom OS. Can you do that on Mac OS?

Security

A lot of people are all praises for iOS and Mac for being a secure platform. Well, yes, it is secure in a way (maybe more secure than Windows OS), but probably not as secure as Linux. Number of Malware in Mac increases every day.

Calinix and Linux in Development

Using Linux doesn’t make you a super-intelligent being and could possibly get you any IT related job.

However, as you start using Linux and exploring it, you gain experience. As a techie, sooner or later you dive into the terminal, learning your way to move around the file system, installing applications via command line. You won’t even realize that you have learned the skills that newcomers in IT companies get trained on.

In addition to that, Linux has enormous scope in the job market. There are so many Linux related technologies (Cloud, Kubernetes, Sysadmin etc.) you can learn, earn certifications and get a nice paying job. And to learn these, you have to use Linux. Mac may be better in development than Windows but can't match capabilities of Linux

Reliability

Calinix offers more control to the user while providing better security. Mac OS does not provide you with the full control of its platform. It does that to make things easier for you simultaneously enhancing your user experience. With Calinix, you can do whatever you want – which may result in poor user experience (for some) – but it does make it more reliable.

Download Calinix Alpha 5-3c

Grab the latest ISO from here:
https://github.com/Calinix-Team/Calinix-Arch/releases/download/0.5-3c/CalinixOS-Arch-2021.09.24-x86_64.iso

NOTE: If you are running it in a VM, kill picom compositor at first to experience smooth performance

Live Boot Details:

Username: calinix
Password: calinix

Contribution

Currently we need developers yes! Our team needs some expansion. We need people with any one of these skills:

Arch Linux Experience (not Manjaro)
AUR Packaging Capabilities
Marketing
Bash Scripting Capabilities
Plymouth Themes and setup
GUI App Developers

urgent tasks to be fulfilled:

Adding chaotic-aur to Calinix by default
Graphic Designers
UI Designers

Contact Us

If you wanna get in touch with us, join our Discord Server:
https://discord.gg/MtQddKmevk

Even if you want to contact with us for being a developer/contributor, join the discord server for the same.

Conclusion

Calinix is supposed to release it's first version sometime in 2022-2023, make sure to show some support by starring the repo and make sure to press on the "Watch" button so you don't miss any updates.

We would greatly appreciate any contributions, so if you find something that you can improve, open a pull-request! You can also check out our open issues

Thanks so much for reading!

Ruling Discord since 2021

Arghya Sarkar — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:56:15 +0000

I've made a Discord bot with python, called Tux, heavily Linux Inspired. But with a lot of fun features. It's pretty nice bot, with awesome multipurpose features

Repository: https://github.com/arghyagod-coder/tuxbot

Invite Link: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=888027860823060500&permissions=466003394369&scope=bot

Rock It With Calinix

Arghya Sarkar — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 03:14:03 +0000

Currently working on my own Arch based Linux Distribution, CalinixOS. Making a distribution was my dream and fulfilling it currently doesn't let my joy stay bound! Its Alpha 5-3rc releases have been published and it's the pretty stable one

What's so special in this distribution?

Just Open the Box. Calinix is Arch, but not necessarily as hard as Arch Installation. Calinix comes with various packages, modern interface and a calamares installer out of the box
Arch without Hassle. Yes, it's based on pure Arch with no custom package control, making your distribution rolling release, reliable and have infinite possibilities
Community Support. Facing a problem? The official developers along with other friendly people of the community await you in the reddit, discord server and forum. We highly care for our community and like to help them in each way we can.
The "Power User" kind-of desktop. With Vim, awesomeWM, Rofi and many other features, Calinix is a perfect choice for the linux "power users", with perfection! Though it shares it's looks with MacOSX, it is a lot more keyboard centric than MacOS

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Explore more about it in

Website: https://get.calinix.tech/
Github: https://github.com/Calinix-Team/Calinix-Arch
A dedicated video: https://youtu.be/I7cBH_jkmLk

Direct Download Link for Alpha 5:
https://github.com/Calinix-Team/Calinix-Arch/releases/download/0.5-3c/CalinixOS-Arch-2021.09.24-x86_64.iso