Have you ever wanted to convert Microsoft Word files to LaTeX files? I have been always looking for an easy way to do so but never seriously went after it. Today, I came across this FREE program called: Word-to-LaTex (Word-to-XML) converter which can do a pretty decent conversion job. It can even convert the equations [...]
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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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Curious to know about Gutsy Gibbon? A list of improvements of Ubuntu 7.10 is already available in its official website. So, I am not going to duplicate those stuff and will try to tell you about my personal experience with Gutsy Gibbon.
I gave the new Ubuntu a try. As usual, I installed it by using [...]
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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 formatting.
-LaTeX and [...]
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An infringement lawsuit was just filed against Red Hat and Novell. As far as I know, this is the first ever infringement lawsuit invloving Linux. This is happening just after Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) blamed FOSS community for violation of IP laws. Read the full story here.
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The portable document format abbreviated as “pdf” is the dominant format being very widely used to digitalize the documents. In Windows, Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to view the pdf files and in Linux applications like Xpdf and a couple of other applications are available for that purpose. But what about editing the pdf [...]
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VirtualBox (VB) is an Open Source project for virtual machine simulation of x86 computers. By VB you can make one or several virtual computers and run them just as if they were real computers. The package is totally free and binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. The Source codes are also available [...]
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By definition, one would expect that the highest level of intellectuality should be found in the academic world. Nevertheless, so far, there has not been enough contribution from the side of the academies to the Open Source initiative. Apart from the Computer Scientists and a limited number of academy dudes from some specific disciplines, such [...]
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