Users of the Linux desktop talk about why they prefer it over alternatives.
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Tech Preview of KDE Frameworks 5 released
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The KDE Community is proud to announce a Tech Preview of KDE Frameworks 5. Frameworks 5 is the result of almost three years of work to plan, modularize, review and port the set of libraries previously known as KDElibs or KDE Platform 4 into a set of Qt Addons with well-defined dependencies and abilities, ready for Qt 5.
Read more »Konnichiwa! - a new free WordPress plugin for membership sites
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The space is crowded with membership plugins, why a new one? Perhaps you can just go and check, this is the quickest start I have seen so far.
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First look at cockpit, a web based server management interface
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Only recently the Cockpit project was launched, aiming at providing a web based management interface for various servers. It already leaves an interesting impression for simple management tasks – and the design is actually well done.
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KPrinter available for KDE 4
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One of the missing features of KDE 4 compared to KDE 3 was the not longer available KPrinter, a tool to print Postscript documents even out of non-KDE programs.
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[Howto] First Steps With Ansible
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Ansible is a tool to manage systems and their configuration. Without the need for a client installed agent and with the ability to launch programs with command line, it seems to fit between classic configuration management like Puppet on one hand and ssh/dsh on the other.
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KDE Ships First Alpha of Frameworks 5
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KDE released the first alpha of Frameworks 5, part of a series of releases leading up to the final version planned for June 2014. This release includes progress since the Frameworks 5 Tech Preview in the beginning of this year.
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Postfix Architecture Overview
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Postfix consists of numerous services, commandos and queues. The documentation describes them in detail, but a general overview was missing – so I gave it a try.
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12 Completely Free, Open-Source Linux Games
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The overview includes only games which are completely free, with a permissive license for both the code and their content. I could not include here games like Urban Terror or Warsow, since their assets are not free, nor Steam games.
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[Howto] Vagrant: libvirt, (Multi-)Multi-Machine, Ansible and Puppet
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Vagrant is a tool to create and configure virtual development environments. As a wrapper around common virtual machine solutions it helps bringing up and disposing a virtual machine in a glimpse. I played around with it – and, well, got a bit carried away…
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30 Terminal Emulators for Linux
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Terminal emulators, also called console or terminal applications, are programs which facilitate access to the shell, and usually offer user-friendly features like profiles, scrollback history, backgrounds and transparency effects, font configuration, tabs, mouse support and so on.
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[Howto] Using DBUS to query status information from NetworkManager (or others)
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Most of the current Linux installations rely on the inter process communication framework dbus. Dbus can be uesd to gather quite some information about the system – however the usage can be a bit troublesome. This howto sheds some light on the usage of dbus by the example of querying the NetworkManagaer interface.
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KDE wins Linux New Media Readers Choice Award 2014
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KDE won the Linux New Media Readers Choice Award 2014 (link to German language Linux Magazine) for the best Linux Desktop Environment at CeBIT last week. 46% of the readers of Linux New Media's global publications voted for KDE. Runner-ups were GNOME with 18% and XFCE with 13%. Other awards went to CyanogenMod, Raspberry Pi, Bitcoin, Puppet, Tor and Git.
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Pursuing adoption of free and open source software in governments
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Our panel focused on barriers to its adoption and steps that free software advocates could take to reach out to government agencies.
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20 Great Terminal Replacements for GUI Applications
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htop is an improved version of top, a complex process viewer which allows to visualize processes in real time, see memory and CPU consumption, send signals to processes, renice processes, and sort them by various options. It makes use of colors and you can also scroll horizontally and vertically to see the full names of the running processes.
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