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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Debian10 Testing
I have updated an old netbook to Debian 10. This is a full install rather and overwriting the existing Debian9 -> upgrade I had previously. This is running the LXDE Desktop. The install went fine, and I have submitted a possible bug report as the installer seems to have Debian 9 in the banner at…
Continue readingToriOS Manual Update 3/4/2019
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…
Continue readingToriOS Testing 1.5 Released
March 2019. ToriOS 1.5 has been released. ToriOS 1.5 is based on Debian 8 – Jessie. Can be downloaded from here. I have updated the manual to include fresh instructions for how to get the new version. We could really do with more documentation for related software, for example virt-manager (Virtual machine Manager) as…
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I have been trying to find a way for a Scratch Sprite to jump, so that it is possible to go and build platform type games for example. Having looked around the solution presented here appears to fit what I wanted to do. However a modified version can also be found here. The main…
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Back in the 80’s, before the actual world wide web was even thought of, people could still communicate over the Internet using a wide range of protocols such as e-mail, gopher, and usenet, or newsgroups as they are commonly known. usenet uses the NNTP (Network News Transfer protocol) which is described in RFC 3977. …
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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…
Continue readingGeany IDE issues
Geany, is one of the Text Editors and IDE utilities available for GNU / Linux. It is quite nice and I have posted previously on how to configure the build settings so you can either run for Python 2 or 3. Recently however it seems to be not playing ball, as the screenshot below shows…
Continue readingToriOS Manual v2 – 1
More updates to the ToriOS manual. Starting to add information on the various applications that come with the Operating System and also update and maintain other parts of the manual. Help with this and documentation for free software generally is always welcome. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: Add section on setting up virtual machine…
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I have been creating some activities for Scratch 3. These are hosted on Github. I have links on my wiki section. Github + stackedit + markdown = easy on-line publishing and resource creation 🙂 I have also uploaded to ScratchEd.
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