There is yet another computer language, called Julia. What’s special with Julia, you may ask? It is a language specifically suited for tasks of scientists, engineers and students. Compared to a general purpose programming language, Julia has built-in those complex data types that you need in science. For example, multidimensional matrices are built-in in Julia. …
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Sep 05 2018
How to manage LXD from within one of its containers
In a LXD (lex-dee) installation there is the host (where the LXD service is running) and there are the containers that you create. On the host, you can run the various lxc subcommands (like lxc list to get a list of the containers). The containers, on the other hand, are by default confined and isolated …
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Jun 28 2018
How to run HelloWorld in radare2 (installed from a snap package)
You can write instructions in a language like English, just like I do now with this blog post. If you want to write instructions for a computer, you are likely to use some sort of intermediate language that will then be converted into raw instructions suitable for the computer. Those intermediate languages are the programming …
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Jun 25 2018
How to easily run graphics-accelerated GUI apps in LXD containers on your Ubuntu desktop
UPDATE June 2020: See newer post at https://blog.simos.info/running-x11-software-in-lxd-containers/ for simplified instructions. They require a recent LXD (version 4.0 or newer), and snap packages work. Note: This post is about LXD containers. These are system containers, which means they are similar to Docker but behave somewhat like virtual machines. When you start a LXD (lex-dee) container, …
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May 11 2018
A closer look at Chrome OS using LXD to run Linux GUI apps (Project Crostini)
At Google I/O 2018, one of the presentations was on What’s new in Android apps for Chrome OS (Google I/O ’18). The third and most exciting developer tool shown in the presentation, was the ability to run graphical Linux apps on Chrome OS. Here is a screenshot of a native Linux terminal application, as shown …
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