I am using Ubuntu at work and I am equally impressed every time when I upgrade it. Upgrading the operating system actually works! I still remember trying to upgrade older Windows operating systems and I am not trying that again (must be said that this is some years ago). The Ubuntu Linux distribution is released …
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Finding files on Linux based on file content
I must admit that my ‘find‘ and ‘grep‘ (two Unix commands used to find files and to search in text) skills are not as good as they should be. Luckily, someone has made an application with a graphical user interface (GUI) which makes finding files based on their content quite easy. Regexxer is also included …
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A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 6 – Running Windows Applications on Linux (No More Windows Whining With Wine)
Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API, meaning that it enables you to run a wide variety of Windows applications on Linux. I have known of Wine for quite some time but as normally have had a Windows computer around I have not gone to the trouble of installing it. I guess …
A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 5 – Images, Figures and Graphs
An image says more than thousand words and a PhD thesis can sometimes become quite long. It is therefore nice to replace some words with an image from time to time. To include images in a LaTeX document is it very nice to have resizable figures which look good. To be able to resize an …
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A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 4 – Desktop Tools
In the previous parts (1 2 3) of this series I have primarily written about how to write articles and thesis using the typeset system LaTeX. Using LaTeX is very convenient for some kinds of documents, in particular large good looking documents where you want to add references. For simpler kinds of documents a WYSIWYG …
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