Only 1 day is left until the release of the new version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala. Wanna know how to upgrade to Koala? Give this link or this link a shot.
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LyX: a Wordish LaTex
Posted on May 24, 2008 by Dude
LaTeX is by far the best professional typesetting program which is being widely used by academicians as well as by FOSS advocates throughout the world. It is free, standard, powerful, flexible, and enjoyable to work with. But STOP! This is a geeky narration of the story. The reality is that the vast majority of the [...]
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The challenge of bringing Open Source to the masses
Posted on May 5, 2008 by Dude
One of the most important aims of the Open Source movement has always been to involve the masses in the movement. Until very recently, this aim has been too much like wishful-thinking. These days, however, there are some reasons to believe that we are close to reach, at least partially, this aim. In this post, [...]
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Top 15 Open Source and/or free apps for scientists and students
Posted on October 17, 2007 by Dude
1. Type-setting and office – OpenOffice Is a complete Office suite package including Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Drawing, and Database applications. It is well suited to academic applications. The features of particular importance are built-in bibliography utility, possibility to export the Text files as LaTeX, BibTeX, MediaWiki, and XHtml, built-in pdf export capability, and good document [...]
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New FOSS releases- around mid October, 2007
Posted on October 16, 2007 by Dude
New versions of following FOSS projects are just released. 1. TikiWiki (ver 1.9.8.1): A multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware 2. Texlipse (ver 1.2.0): A Latex plugin for Eclipse Java IDE 3. GanttProject (ver 2.0.5): A project management package 4. Notepad++ (ver 4.4): A powerful editor for code development and general purposes 5. KeePass (ver 1.09): A password manager [...]
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Open Source and Linux events in 2008
Posted on October 14, 2007 by Dude
This is meant to be a reference post. You can always find this post in the left sidebar under the title “Reference Posts”. I will keep updating this post to cover as many Open Source events as possible. An RSS feed with possibility of importing the events as ICAL and VCAL is available. But, please [...]
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Open Source acounting package: GnuCash
Posted on October 11, 2007 by Dude
GnuCash is a free and open source package for small business and personal financial accounting. It is developed by a team of developers and is distributed under GNU GPL license. GnuCash is available for several platforms including GNU/Linux, Windows, Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X. GnuCash allows tracking the income, expenses, stocks, and bank accounts. [...]
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