I have recently seen Home, a film about our planet and what is happening with climate change. I think it is worth to share, since it is very beautiful, independently of what our ideas on climate change are. You can also visit the YouTube channel, with additional videos and information.
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Decision taken: openSUSE defaults to KDE
The openSUSE management took the decision of pre-selecting KDE as default desktop environment. This will be done by pre-selecting the KDE radio button in the current desktop selection screen, presented to the user at installation time. What does this mean? Nothing, for many users absolutely nothing. If a user will click “next” in the selection screen, KDE will be installed by default, but it will be possible to select GNOME with a simple click. The only thing this long and frustrating discussion showed are the old tensions in the community about a question that should have been considered as resolved long ago, in the interest of the community itself. Old…
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Book on rarefied gases and kinetic theory
If you need to an accessible and at the same time rigorous book on the kinetic theory of rarefied gases, with an in-depth discussion on classical and modern methods to derive macroscopic equations from the Boltzmann equation, you should probably read Henning Struchtrup book Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows, published by Springer, and also available in electronic format. The book also targets non-experts of the topic, with an introduction to the basics of the kinetic theory, the derivation of the Boltzmann equation, an explanation of the Chapman-Enskog and Grad’s methods, the regularized Grad equations, to conclude with the order of magnitude approach and the study of the stability…
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Novell Moonlight 2.0 beta available
Miguel de Icaza just announced on his blog the availability of Moonlight 2.0 beta. Moonlight is an implementation of Microsoft Silverlight, which works on Linux, and can be installed as a Firefox extension using this link. Users are invited to test it against Silverlight website and report problems to the developers.
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Installing OpenFOAM 1.6.x and keeping it up to date
OpenCFDTM regularly releases updates for OpenFOAMTM using a GIT repository, which can be conveniently used both for a fresh installation and to keep your current OpenFOAM installation up to date. First installation Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory: mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory: cd ~/OpenFOAM Download the OpenFOAM sources from the GIT repository: git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git Download the third party packages from the OpenCFD website. If you are using a 64-bit system, you need to download also the 32-bit version of the third party package, containing cmake. Extract the third party packages corresponding to your architecture (32 or 64 bit) in the ~/OpenFOAM directory. If you…
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OpenSUSE: doing it wrong again!
A very long discussion on making KDE the default desktop in openSUSE is taking place, digging out a problem that probably many of us considered resolved, but clearly was not. Many KDE users and developers feel KDE should be the default desktop for openSUSE, because the majority of openSUSE users, according to a survey conducted last year, choose KDE (GNOME has a user share slightly higher than 27%). The proposal, after a long discussion is to Pre-select the button of KDE, keeping the alphabetical order of the desktop environments, so that a user who clicks “Next” during the installation process automatically selects KDE Make a formal statement that GNOME is…