Title: Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?
Tags: english, debian, robot
-Date: 2013-05-11 20:20
+Date: 2013-05-11 20:30
<P>In January,
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">I
announced a</a> new <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">IRC
channel #debian-lego</a>, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
-community interested in LEGO, the marvellous construction system from
-Denmark. We also created
+community interested in <a href="http://www.lego.com/">LEGO</a>, the
+marvellous construction system from Denmark. We also created
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">a wiki page</a> to have
a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes. And several
people showed up to help. I was very happy to see the effect of my
call. Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
<a href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego">hardware::hobby:lego</a>
tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
-LEGO and Mindstorms:</p>
+LEGO and <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/">Mindstorms</a>:</p>
<p><table>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch">scratch</a></td><td>easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt">python-nxt</a></td><td>python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos">brickos</a></td><td>alternative OS for LEGO Mindstorms RCX. Supports development in C/C++</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad">leocad</a></td><td>virtual brick CAD software</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos">brickos</a></td><td>alternative OS for LEGO(r) Mindstorms RCX. Supports devel. in C/C++</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt">libnxt</a></td><td>utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd">lnpd</a></td><td>daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>Simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt">python-nxt</a></td><td>python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt-filer">python-nxt-filer</a></td><td>simple GUI to manage files on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>Compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt">libnxt</a></td><td>utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch">scratch</a></td><td>easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
</table></p>
<p>Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
projects / homepage.git / blobdiff