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In this week's Top 5, we highlight alternatives to Dreamweaver for web design, Mattermost for high school chat, ageism in tech, OSCON's 18th year, and the director of Google.org on unconscious bias in the workplace.

I got a great letter from a reader with a puzzle to solve, so let's dig in, shall we? Here's what he wrote:

Love your column in Linux Journal. I've read it for years and learned a lot about shell scripting, but not quite enough to solve a puzzle on my own.

KDE Plasma is the desktop environment that powers Kubuntu, Chakra Linux and openSUSE (among others). This week sees the release of Plasma 5.6, which brings several tweaks and improvements.

Gumstix has added a customizable carrier board design for Critical Link’s MitySOM-335x COM to its quick-turn carrier board design and manufacturing service.

The 8th annual Open Source Rookies of the Year were recently announced from Black Duck. It's a selection process that takes three or four weeks from start to finish to complete. How's it done? We asked Vice President of Product Marketing at Black Duck, Patrick Carey, to give us a look behind the scenes. read more

Issues can be confidential, moved, or just plain deleted. GitLab claims to have smoothed deployment to Kubernetes and introduced “confidential issues” in the latest release of its code management platform, 8.6.

It's beginning to smell like Vista. So how will Remond clean up this mess? Comment So, Windows 10 isn't the saviour of the PC industry after all – and is beginning to look more like a Windows Vista than a Windows XP.…

Nearly five years ago, my team at GeorgiaGov Interactive began a journey to migrate our enterprise web platform (hosting over 50 state agency websites at the time) away from a self-hosted model with a proprietary content management system to Drupal 7 and a cloud hosted environment. We were the first state to make such a bold shift, but we weren't the last. read more

In a 2013 survey, 11% of contributors to free and open source software identified as women. But perhaps the future looks brighter? We can answer this question by examining the participation of women in Google Summer of Code, a program that provides a stipend for post-secondary school students to contribute to open source software for a summer.

Venerable net-scan outfit Netcraft has issued what clich? would describe as "a stinging rebuke" to sysadmins the world over, for ignoring HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP). Pinning is designed to defend users against impersonation attacks, in which an attacker tricks a certificate authority to issue a fraudulent certificate for a site.

Swift 2.2 includes support for Swift on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 and 15.10.

FriendlyARM’s “NanoPi M1” SBC runs Linux on a quad-core, Cortex-A7 Allwinner H3, and offers HDMI, four USB ports, a microSD slot, and 40-pin Pi expansion. Guangzhou, China based FriendlyARM has further accelerated the race to the bottom in the low-cost, open-spec hacker board market, delivering a NanoPi M1 SBC that costs a mere $11.

The new kid-friendly mBot from Makeblock is marketed as a Science, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) educational learning tool.

The BBC has begun shipping its open source “Micro:bit” — a microcontroller based IoT hacker board for UK schoolkids running ARM Mbed. The BBC announced its open source, Internet of Things-focused Micro:bit hacker board for British schoolchildren a year ago, and revealed full specs in June. After some considerable delays pushing past the scheduled October […]

File transfer between Linux systems (and perhaps all POSIX systems in general) is in some ways a neglected subject. The arcane protocols in common use are far from secure, and the SSH replacements offer too much power and complexity.

MySQL Cluster is designed to provide a MySQL compatible database with high availability and low latency. The MySQL Cluster technology is implemented through the NDB (Network DataBase) and NDBCLUSTER storage engines and provides shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for MySQL database systems. In the shared-nothing architecture, each of nodes has its own memory and disk, the use of shared storage such as NFS, SANs is not recommended and supported.

Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let's round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported across most common browsers, it often involved hacking a layout together by using HTML tables in a way that they were never really envisioned to support. read more

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Swift has landed on Linux. Repeat: Swift has landed on Linux The latest iteration of Apple's open-source programming language Swift has taken its first major step towards Linux support.…

Starting with an upcoming 14nm “Kaby Lake” CPU, Intel will shift to three Core generations per fab process step, instead of two. The “tick-tock” strategy Intel has been using for the last decade with its Core microprocessors has come to an end. Typically, Intel increases the fabrication density in a “tick” generation, such as 5th […]