Random thoughts, tips & tricks about Slackware-Linux, Lego and Star Wars

Archive for May, 2010

May 17th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

In preparation for the upcoming release of Slackware 13.1, I reorganized my package repository and took a moment to clean up my Slackware Packages page.
It is like 99% automated now, getting the descriptions from the slack-desc files, the category from the SlackBuilds repository (after approval), etc. Some categories I still add manually through a small [...]

May 14th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , ,

How it all started
On the TRS-80 mailing list I subscribe there was a discussion about an old (from 1977!) game I used to play on my TRS-80 Model I called Space Warp. This game was originally called "Time Trek", based on the popular television series Star Trek. When Tandy/Radio Shack released this game commercially, [...]

May 9th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ,

Introduction
BRL-CAD is an open-source solid modeling program originally created by the US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, that later became the Army Research Laboratory. One of the original creators was Mike Muuss, who also invented the program that has probably been installed on more computers than anything else: the 'ping' utility. (Do check the source code [...]

May 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Introduction
The second CAD program I decided to test on Slackware was FreeCAD. As the name implies, this one is completely free, which interested me
The description on their homepage describes the idea and purpose of this program:
FreeCAD is a general purpose 3D CAD modeler. The development is completely Open Source (GPL & LGPL License). FreeCAD [...]

May 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Introduction
As I wrote in my previous post, looking for a CAD program that runs on Slackware, I decided to check out VariCAD. VariCAD is proprietary software (which means you have to buy it to use it), but they have a fully working Linux version. According to its homepage:
VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD system for mechanical [...]