• openSUSE

    openSUSE 11.3 is coming!

    Geeko, the openSUSE chameleon, is going to release the newest and greenest version of openSUSE in July. A counter has been created, as usual, and gives you also an idea of the new artwork that will come with the distribution. You can see it in the sidebar. Enjoy 🙂

  • General

    New look and updates

    It has been a while since I changed look to my blog, so I’m trying some new theme. Also, the Works and CV pages have been updated, and a page on CFD, with some details on my work is coming. 🙂

  • General

    OpenOffice extensions for authors and scientists

    OpenOffice.org is the reference office suite for the open source community, and its adoption has been increasing (see here and here, for example) thanks to its complete implementation of the standard ISO OpenDocument format and the good compatibility with commercial formats. OpenOffice.org offers the possibility of extending the functionality of the suite through extensions, which can be downloaded from the OpenOffice.org extensions website. A few extensions are very useful to authors and scientists: OOoLatex allows LaTeX equations to be inserted in your Writer and Presenter documents, without any limitation. The LaTeX installation of your system is used to compile the LaTeX source, and the equation is added to the document…

  • openSUSE

    R is there, a bit hidden…

    R is available for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise on the openSUSE Build Service. Unfortunately it is not so easy to find because the search engine requires more than two letters in the search. However, you can find a complete list of 1-click install links here. Thanks to Detlef Steuer who took care of preparing the page 🙂

  • openSUSE

    JabRef packaged for openSUSE 11.2

    JabRef is a very good multi-platform (it works on Linux, Mac, Windows) tool to manage BibTeX files, with advanced functionalities like automatic management of journal abbreviations, integration with Lyx and many more. You can find the RPM for openSUSE 11.2 in my repository on the openSUSE buildservice. Enjoy 🙂