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TeX Live 2024

TeX Live 2024 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.

Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.

Writing

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TeX Live 2023

TeX Live 2023 is should now be available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.

Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.

Writing

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The Beatles: Final song

Now And Then was released today, you can view the video here

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Debian updates

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Debian 12 Presentation update

Now that the release notes are available for the next release of the Debian Operating system. I have started to update the presentation that I have been maintaining for the past few releases.

I am also taking some parts of this out and replacing with more technical information. The slides can easily be moved around. added or removed.

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BigBlueButton 2.5.0-beta.1 released!

Just sharing this announcement

We are pleased to announce BigBlueButton 2.5.0-beta.1!

This beta iteration of BigBlueButton 2.5 includes some packaging and configuration improvements and several fixes. It also includes an upgrade of Tomcat to mitigate any danger of Spring Framework Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-22965) by upgrading Tomcat**

Note that BBB 2.3.x and BBB 2.4.x (the maintained versions) are safe, see #14719

At this point we're “feature complete” for BBB 2.5.x Switching to “beta” to iterate with increased focus on testing and clean up bugs. Development is moved on to the next release, BBB 2.6, with pull requests targeting branch 'develop' until we branch out into 'v2.6.x-release' when it's time for 2.6.0-alpha.1

Note that it runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04). If you have a BigBlueButton version earlier than alpha.5, please check the alpha.5 release notes as they contain imporant information on upgrading.

The full release notes can be found on https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.5.0-beta.1

To try out 2.5.0-beta.1, visit * https://test25.bigbluebutton.org/

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LibreOffice 7.3

LO 7.3

Version 7.3 of the Free, Libre, Open Source office suite is now available. You can read more about this here.

Documentation for 7.3 will be available shortly, in the meantime you can still download books for 7.1 & 7.2.

For those of you who dismiss LibreOffice. This is from the blog post.

LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, starting with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats in the areas of security and robustness – to superior support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. In addition, LibreOffice provides filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users.

Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by ISO in 2008, and not on the ISO approved standard, so they hide a large amount of artificial complexity. This causes handling issues with LibreOffice, which defaults to a true open standard format (the OpenDocument Format).

New Features Video

LO 7.2 install on Debian 11

*This worked for me, please use common sense and think before you do stuff, I am not responsible for damage to your system**

I have now downloaded and installed LibreOffice 7.2 on Debian 11.

  1. Goto https://www.libreoffice.org/
  2. Click Download Now
  3. For Debian 11, I selected the 7.2 deb file from the options
  4. LibreOffice7.2.5Linuxx86-64deb.tar.gz Save or move this to a sensible location, so maybe create a sub folder in downloads called Libreoffice
  5. Extract the gz file – this should be unzip *.gz
  6. Extract the tar file this should be tar -xf *.tar
  7. cd in to LibreOffice7.2.5.2Linuxx86-64deb 7a type ls to list files (for me I had 42 deb files)
  8. Goto a terminal
  9. Switch to root, with su - and enter password
  10. You will probably need to check working directory pwd
  11. cd to where your deb files are
  12. dpkg -i *.deb
  13. This should install everything
  14. You will find Libreoffice 7.2 on the menu (I am using xfce)

As always Your Mileage May Vary

Note, the LibreOffice 7.2 menu entries will be BELOW those for the previos install, my video here illustrates how to use menu editor to move them above the previous version.

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TeX Live 2022

TeX Live 2022 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related material(s).

Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.

I will have a copy available at the next Paignton Library STEM Group on April 9th. The CTAN resources are useful, even if you are using websites such as Overleaf.

Writing

Free Software and Hardware

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Libreoffice 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 is out, along with a video highlighting the new features

Mastodon post (embed)

Video – direct on Peertube

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Debian 11 – Bullseye

Debian 11 release day

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Support and help

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