Ubuntu 19.04 released today Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) should be out Today. More information and download links on the Ubuntu Website. Ubuntu 19.04 comes with new features and fixes to previous releases. You can find a link to the Release notes here.
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Debian Promotion
Debian Promotion In an effort to help promote the Debian Operating system, I had a look for some suitable presentations. It seems, that the last one produced was back in 2013, others are not in English. which is understandable as Debian has a world wide development community. I decided to create my own. Started with…
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I spent part of this afternoon installing ToriOS 1.5 on a netbook, with the view that having usedg the OBI installer software I could write instructions for the ToriOS manual which is my main project. However in order to write the manual you need to have access to the software or system you’re writing…
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I have updated a manual with a basic section on setting up virtual machine manager. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: Add section on setting up virtual machine manager, Paul Sutton README.md updated from https://stackedit.io/, Paul Sutton Update README.md, GitHub Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv2, Paul Sutton add updated manual – new get torios section…
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Today was quiet. Two regulars along with two new members. This actually worked out well as I could spend a little time getting them started. I have found something out too. Going to https://codeclub.org/en/ has a link to the new Scratch 3.0 projects at https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub. However https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/ is still up as a website and…
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Anyone wanting to get involved with free software development, may need to start using IRC (Internet Relay Chat). To help new users or even those of us who already use IRC. There is a list of IRC clients on Linuxlinks. IRC CLIENTS Which is really useful. It is also nice to see Hexchat and…
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I decided to upgrade a spare netbook from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster). This went really well, just a case of editing /etc/apt/source.list then running apt update && apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade I didn’t see any messages during this process. Not the process is not fully automated here, it will stop and ask…
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NETHACK Nethack website From the Nethack wiki “NetHack is a roguelike computer game, and the most famous and popular of its kind. The latest version is 3.6.1, released on April 28th, 2018.” Download page As Nethack-vulture is no longer available in the Debian / Ubuntu / Mint respositories I have gone back and decided to…
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VECTOROIDS APPLICABLE TO DEBIAN 9.x (STRETCH) Vectoroids – is a rock based shooting game, along the same lines as the old 8bit arcade classic asteroids. you can install using apt install vectoroids on Debian. (use root, either with su or sudo). vectoroids/stable,now 1.1.0-13+b1 amd64 [installed] vector-based rock-shooting This version comes with Debian 9 Stretch. By default…
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In a related topic to my previous post. As I am now using Debian. I was looking for the application in the menu called ‘passwords and keys‘ It turns out that this is in fact called ‘seahorse’. This offers an easy to use interface for GnuPG, ssh keys and security certificates. So a good…
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