One of those desktop environments is Cinnamon, a new desktop environment built atop GNOME 3 technologies, so installing it will not take up too much disk space on the system, as most of the required components are already installed on the system.
Read more »OpenShift Online: a non-developer’s guide
OpenShift Online is a developer-targeted service, but this article is aimed at non-developers, just to highlight the aspect of the service you can take advantage of.
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KDE joins the Outreach Program for Women
KDE will – for the first time this year – participate in the “Outreach Program for Women”. This was originally started by GNOME, but has also other participating organisations like Wikimedia, Mozilla, Fedora and others.
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Android has won: now what?
Today, Android commands 70% of the global smartphone market, and even more outside the US, which remains Apple's stronghold.
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How to deploy Piwik Web Analytics on OpenShift Online
If you have a Web hosting account, but not enough resources to host Piwik, OpenShift Online presents an alternative platform to host it on. OpenShift Online is a cloud computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) provided by Red Hat, Inc.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.4
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.4 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Qt Creator 2.7.0 released
C++ support in Qt Creator 2.7.0 got even more improvements for C++11, like handling of alignof, alignas and noexcept, brace initializers, and more lambda fixes.Also there are improvements on the refactoring actions side. QML support got lots of fixes for Qt Quick 2 in the code editor, and there was a lot of work done to make Qt Quick Designer work with Qt Quick 2.
Read more »Riak Cloud Storage released under Apache 2 license
Riak CS offers a highly available, fault-tolerant storage, with support for large objects (up to 5 GB) and multipart uploading, an API and authentication system that is S3-compatible, multi-tenancy and per-user reporting.
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10 things to do after installing openSUSE 12.3
openSUSE 12.3 was released last week and it continues to keep the desktop what it should be – a powerful 'computer'. openSUSE is while known for its professional design and polish there are certain things that you may want to do to get the best of of this great open source operating system. Here is a list of top 10 things I did after installing openSSUSE 12.3.
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KDE releases Plasma Media Center 1.0
KDE is proud to announce the first release (1.0.0) of Plasma Media Center. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies. Designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts. KDE's Plasma Media Center (PMC) is aimed towards a unified media experience on PCs, Tablets, Netbooks, TVs and other devices. Plasma Media Center can be used to view images, play music or watch videos.
Read more »Howto: Sending test mails with Swaks
Setting up e-mail servers can become a time consuming and complex task. Test mails can help verifying the functionality of the system – and here Swaks comes into play, the “swiss army knife for smtp”.
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MongoDB 2.4 can now search text
The latest release of MongoDB 2.4 expands the NoSQL database's capabilities with the addition of text search.
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Using Multiple PHP Versions (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) With ISPConfig 3 (Debian Wheezy)
Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on a Debian Wheezy server.
Read more »Mentoring Organization Applications Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013!
Interested in finding bright, enthusiastic new contributors to your open source project? Apply to be a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code program! We are excited to announce the organization application period is now open.
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Ubuntu to halve support length for non-LTS releases
In a meeting of the Ubuntu Technical Board last night, the technical leadership of Canonical's Linux distribution decided to halve the support time for non-LTS releases to nine months.
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