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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?</div>
  24       <div class="date">11th May 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><P>In January,
  26 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">I
  27 announced a</a> new <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">IRC
  28 channel #debian-lego</a>, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
  29 community interested in <a href="http://www.lego.com/">LEGO</a>, the
  30 marvellous construction system from Denmark.  We also created
  31 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">a wiki page</a> to have
  32 a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes.  And several
  33 people showed up to help.  I was very happy to see the effect of my
  34 call.  Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
  35 <a href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego">hardware::hobby:lego</a>
  36 tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
  37 LEGO and <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/">Mindstorms</a>:</p>
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  39 <p><table>
  40 <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>
  41 <tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad">leocad</a></td><td>virtual brick CAD software</td></tr>
  42 <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>
  43 <tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd">lnpd</a></td><td>daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS</td></tr>
  44 <tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
  45 <tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
  46 <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>
  47 <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>
  48 <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>
  49 <tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
  50 </table></p>
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  52 <p>Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
  53 currently available in Jessie/testing.  leocad is so far only
  54 available in experimental.</p>
  55
  56 <p>If you care about LEGO in Debian, please join us on IRC and help
  57 adding the rest of the great free software tools available on Linux
  58 for LEGO designers.</p>
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  61       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.</div>
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