edafe.org » desktop http://edafe.org edafe.org is the personal site of Edafe Knabe. Sat, 12 May 2012 12:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 What exactly is LaTeX for? http://edafe.org/2009/01/what-exactly-is-latex-for/ http://edafe.org/2009/01/what-exactly-is-latex-for/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:56:06 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=4431 Continue reading →]]> “Many people discover LaTeX after years of struggling with wordprocessors and desktop publishing systems, and are amazed to find that TeX has been around for over 25 years and they hadn’t heard of it.”
Peter Flynn

LaTeX is a free document preparation system that enables you to create beautifully typeset pages. It implements a set of commands designed to control TeX, the typesetting engine developed by Donald E Knuth. LaTeX stores the information about your documents as plain text, thus avoiding the risk of vendor lock-in and ensuring that your documents will still be editable twenty years from now. LaTeX processes the plain text data and, with pdfTeX working in the background, generates PDF output of the highest typographic quality—perfect for viewing on-screen or printing on paper. LaTeX runs on many platforms and is included as standard with most Linux distributions. Ready-to-run LaTeX systems are also available for Windows and Mac OS X.
miktex.org, tug.org/mactex

]]> http://edafe.org/2009/01/what-exactly-is-latex-for/feed/ 0 Ubuntu Linux is for everyone http://edafe.org/2008/10/ubuntu-linux-is-for-everyone/ http://edafe.org/2008/10/ubuntu-linux-is-for-everyone/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:18:28 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=4446 Continue reading →]]> Ubuntu is a relatively new flavour of Linux. Since the release of ‘Warty Warthog’ in October 2004, it has become the most popular Linux distribution worldwide. Similar to its parent, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu is based entirely on free software. It inherits outstanding package management and provides one-click access to thousands of downloadable applications.
Ubuntu can be installed as an application inside an existing Windows installation. This provides new users with a great opportunity to try Ubuntu at no risk to their existing setup. Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is the latest version and available for download from today.
www.unbuntu.com

]]> http://edafe.org/2008/10/ubuntu-linux-is-for-everyone/feed/ 0 What is the X window system? http://edafe.org/2005/09/what-is-the-x-window-system/ http://edafe.org/2005/09/what-is-the-x-window-system/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:05:55 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=780 Continue reading →]]> “Most people today run one of the desktop environments, KDE or GNOME. But if you look underneath, you’ll find the X Window System managing the display and you’ll find a window manager sitting between X and the desktop.” Ellen Siever sees through the X Window.
www.linuxdevcenter.com

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/09/what-is-the-x-window-system/feed/ 0 My workstation OS: Slackware http://edafe.org/2005/02/my-workstation-os-slackware/ http://edafe.org/2005/02/my-workstation-os-slackware/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:28:05 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=817 “Once I tried the full distro, I never looked back.” Michael Stibane explains why he is happy using Slackware.
www.linux.com

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