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6 best orthodox file managers for Linux
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| In the 90s the Linux GUI was a far cry from the present-day Compiz-laced
| bells and-whistles graphical interfaces and there was no Konqueror and
| Nautilus. But you didn't use an orthodox file manager just because it was
| lightweight. You used it because it worked, and with a couple of keystrokes
| could compress a file, generate an MD5, and copy it across the galaxy.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/6-best-orthodox-file-managers-for-linux-605506
6 of the Best Free Linux CAD Software
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| Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design
| of objects, real or virtual. It often refers to the drafting (technical
| drawing and engineering drawing) of a part or product, including entire
| buildings. However, CAD software is used in a wide variety of other fields
| such as electronics and woven fabrics.
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http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090607033315929/CAD.html
Four Astronomy Apps to Help You Watch the Skies
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| Stellarium - With its realistic 3D images of planets, stars, and the entire
| Milky Way it's hard to beat this app's "wow" factor. Eye candy aside,
| Stellarium is a powerful learning and teaching tool that contains catalogs of
| up to 210 million stars. It's approachable enough for home use, but robust
| enough to be used in planetariums and domed facilities.
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| Nightfall - This app is for the closet astrophysicist. It creates "animated
| views of eclipsing binary stars, calculates synthetic light curves and radial
| velocity curves, and eventually determines the best-fit model for a given set
| of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system." In other words,
| it's great for things like measuring the mass of stars. If you just want to
| find Orion's Belt in the night sky, try one of the other apps.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/four-astronomy-apps-to-help-you-watch-the-skies
Recent:
Why Windows users should switch to Linux
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| Forget the thousands of school and university students running Linux on their
| desktops. Forget the nonprofit and charitable institutions worldwide using
| Linux to power their systems.
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| Forget Google, NASA, the US Department of Defense and dozens of global
| government agencies that use Linux for their day-to-day operations. Why
| should you run Linux on your computer?
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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/why-windows-users-should-switch-to-linux-596940?artc_pg=1
Xavier School Deploys 600 Ubuntu Linux Desktops
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| Xavier is the latest K-12 school to move Ubuntu Linux to the head of the
| class. In fact, the school has deployed more than 600 Ubuntu desktops,
| according to Pierre Tagle, Xavier’s consulting IT director. During a recent
| email exchange with WorksWithU, Tagle described why the San Juan,
| Phillipines-based school has fallen for Ubuntu.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/11/25/xavier-school-deploys-600-ubuntu-linux-desktops/
Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu Linux
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| “It’s been a pretty big deployment, well over 1000 desktops and it’s been a
| huge success,” crows the source. “Ubuntu does the same job [as Windows] for
| zero cash. The most painful thing about the change over was moving to
| Thunderbird from Outlook. No one has batted an eyelid about moving to Gnome.”
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/03/gameloft-moves-1000-desktops-to-ubuntu-linux/
Related:
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
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