Category: Linux

IT infrastructure for a research group

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During the course of my PhD I became somehow responsible for the IT infrastructure of a research group of more ore less thirty people which are partially performing highly demanding computational tasks. In this small page I want to summarize the tools which make everyone life much easier.

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Must have Linux workstation tools

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This list contains the most important tools which I use on a daily basis in Linux and which took me a while to discover (needless to mention Firefox, GIMP, or Inkscape because they show up in every top 10 linux software list). For now I just start with the ones I have in mind right now. And of course, this list does not contain the right thing for everybody but maybe there are some parts which are worth trying?

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Windows shuts down network adapter making it unusable for Linux

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Windows power saving option for network adapter might disable it for your Linux distribution in dual boot setups.

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Desktop entry for MATLAB in Linux

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To generate a desktop entry for MATLAB (desktop environment XFCE and GNOME) after installation we generate a so called *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=MATLAB
Exec=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2020b/bin/matlab -desktop -softwareopengl &
Icon=/usr/share/icons/matlab.png
Categories=Office;Development
Terminal=false

where we replace the path under Exec with the path pointing to the MATLAB executable. The MATLAB icon in this case was manually added.