Designing Electronics with Linux In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing iscompletely new. It may be so new that there isn't even any instrumentationavailable to make your experimental measurements. In those cases, youhave no choice but to design and build your own measuring devices.
Mageia 3 KDE Review: Simple, refined, elegant and fantastic! For me, the release of Mageia 3 was one of the most anticipated releases of the first half in 2013, after Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Raring Ringtail. The release announcement of Mageia 3 promises of absolutely the very latest version of Linux kernel and applications, another reason for me to test Mageia's to ascertain it's stability.
How to use bc, the calculator tool You can do calculation stuffs easily with bash on the command line, however it isnt very intuitive. Bash still works well with some simple calculations but in case you want to perform more complicated calculations, this may become a real hassle. And that is why bc is a better tool for you to perform calculating on the command line. The tool bc can do much more than bash for you and its syntax is ways easier.
OpenRA RTS Engine Releases 20130514 The team behind OpenRA has published a new official release of their game, which includes mods that 'recreate' Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1 and Dune 2000.
GNU/Linux Is Important After All If I was the type to have heroes, Richard Stallman would be near the top of my list, not far below John Lennon and Abbie Hoffman, and way out ahead of Tom Hayden or the several-times-over reinvented Bob Dylan, though the freewheeling Bob Dylan who took it down Highway 61 will always be near the top of the list.
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Development Release: Zorin OS 7 RC Artyom Zorin has announced that the release candidate for the upcoming new Zorin OS 7, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution designed with beginning Linux users in mind, is ready for testing: "The Zorin OS team is excited to finally launch the Zorin OS 7 Core release candidate, the....
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 Core 68 Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13 Core 68, a minor bug-fix update of the specialist distribution for firewalls and routers: "Today the IPFire development team released the 68th Core update for IPFire 2. This update brings various bug fixes and minor enhancements. The strongSwan team....
Distribution Release: BackBox Linux 3.05 Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 3.05, an updated version of the project's Ubuntu-based specialist distribution designed for penetration testing and security assessments: "The BackBox team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, version 3.05. This release includes features such as Linux....
Distribution Release: siduction 13.1.0 Ferdinand Thommes has announced the release of siduction 13.1.0, a Linux distribution based on Debian's (once again unfrozen) "Unstable" branch. This is the project's first release that also includes an edition with GNOME 3. From the release notes: "We are very happy to present to you the final....
Development Release: SparkyLinux 3.0 Beta 1 Paweł Pijanowski has announced that the first beta release of SparkyLinux 3.0, a lightweight distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch, is available for download and testing: "SparkyLinux 3.0 beta 1, code name 'Annagerman', is ready for testing. SparkyLinux 3 provides a few big changes, such as: over 20....
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Distribution Release: ZevenOS 3.1 "Neptune" Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 3.1 "Neptune" edition, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution for 64-bit computers featuring the latest version of the KDE desktop environment: "The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.1. We worked hard and spend a lot of....
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 508 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Review of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 News: Interviews with Clement Lefebvre and Gaël Duval, Fedora and visible passwords, Ubuntu 13.10 features, FreeBSD binary package building Tips and tricks: Scripting and graphical environments Released last week: Mageia 3, NetBSD 6.1, Antergos 2013.05.12 New additions:....
How to Keep SSH Connections Alive In Linux MakeTechEasier: For those that need to work constantly on SSH, it can be very frustrating when the system cut you off after a period of time.
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Zorin OS 7 Release Candidate out now Pre-release version of Zorin OS 7 Core available for testing, the RC including Linux Kernel 3.8 and an overhauled graphical interface
Mageia 3 out, no more delays Mageia 3 has finally been released after a two week delay, fixing the installation bugs of the release candidate, and bringing with it updates and refinements over Mageia 2
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