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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Tech Jam Write up 13/4/2019
The South Devon Tech Jam was very quiet, however both Felix from Encounters Arts and Sue From Sense Abilities attended and we had a really good discussion with regard to the project we are helping them with. More information can be found here. Sue also gave some very valuable input in to this, as…
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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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Following my recent Debian 9.5 install, I was looking for a nice text editor. It seems since I last saw this gedit has had a major overhaul. Well done to the development team. Lot of what look like nice features. I have set the colour scheme to dark. Some of the menu options are…
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The past week has seen a somewhat flurry of activity around a range of different issues. Firstly, I was contacted with regard to CoderDojos starting up in Devon. This is really exciting as it takes Code Club to the next level and extends participation to 7 – 17 year olds. There should be a…
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SCRATCH 3.0 August 2018 will see a new release of the Scratch programming environment. Scratch 3.0 preview needs WebGL installed. I got scratch 3 working by installing chromium browser on my Linuxmint desktop.. This seems to have WebGL support built in, the default Firefox browser does not appear to have this. (I may be…
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Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – April 2018 Presented by 2.times do, and held at Exeter Library This months Exeter Pi jam was really busy and varied. Held in the Rougemont room, there were lots of people including families all hacking away at various projects. Outside of the main room on the way in was the…
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Exeter Pi Jam Feb 2018 This month was the usual mix of robots, raspberry Pi, arduino, etc About 12 – 15 workstations were set up with a range of activities to choose from: Scratch ScratchGPIO Python PythonGPIO Minecraft hacking with the Minecraft API software as well We also had various robots based on a…
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