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I have confessed several times that KDE is my favorite Desktop Environment. And even more, that I prefer KDE3 to KDE4. That's why every time I approach Linux distribution with KDE3 on top, I am full of awe.

Chakra 2011.11 is the second maintenance release of Chakra Edn, a KDE distribution that was originally based on Arch Linux, but is now an independent distribution. This release is powered by KDE 4.7.3. In previous versions of KDE, there was a “Users and Groups” management application in Systems Settings, the KDE control center. However, in this version, it is missing (from Systems Settings).

Running a server on a local network opens a whole new world of possibilities. You can access your files and documents from multiple machines, stream media, host your own photo gallery or blog, and much more.

LinuxMint RC 12 Lisa is available for download through and unoficial download Link, the official RC release should be available in the next few hours. Find in this post some screenshots of this upcoming release from LinuxMint.

Ken Starks is, by all standards, a normal guy. He lives in the Austin, Texas area, worked hard his entire life, raised a family, and has lived a mostly good life. Around 2005, Ken was pressure washing a building 38 feet in the air, when the lift failed. He came crashing to the ground, fracturing his spine at the neck. Thus ended one career, and began a new one.

The Humble Voxatron Debut has added some more games with not much time to spare, with only 4 days left you need to pay more than $5.20 to unlock all the games!

The GNOME developers are working on new application designs for Music, Photos, Chat, Transfers, Weather, Web, Mail, Calendar, Videos, Maps, Boxes (application for accessing other computer systems or images) and Notes as well as a redesign for Documents and Contacts. Here are a few very interesting mockups:

lodle writing on the Desura forum has asked for opinions and help in making the Desura client partially open sourced (I say partially as it will use some sort of dual licensing as they are a commercial company).

The init Daemon The init daemon is the system and service manager for Linux. It is the first true process Linux starts when it boots and as such, has a PID of 1 and is the ancestor of all processes. The init daemon has been around since the early days of UNIX, and many people have worked to improve it. more>>

Bash is the default scripting language in most Linux systems. Its usage ranges from an interactive command interpreter to a scripting language for writing complex programs. Debugging facilities are a standard feature of compilers and interpreters, and bash is no different in this regard. In this article, I will explain various techniques and tips for debugging Bash scripts.

It's not often we hear from Pat Volkerding but HPR posted a rare audio interview with him that reveals not only how he develops Slackware, but blows the top off of Time and Space in the meantime.

After yesterday announcement, several more security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the Natty backport of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Is this PowerPoint’s Revenge? A 29-page slide deck – made public this week in Microsoft’s patent lawsuit against Barnes & Noble — outlines, in great detail, the bookseller’s objections to the software company’s campaign to collect patent licensing fees from Android device makers.

The Binding of Isaac, this FUNtastic game from the twisted minds of Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl, is now available as a time-limited offer you can refuse.

IP attorney Edward J. Naughton is repeating his arguments that Google's use of Linux kernel header files within Android may be in violation of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), and tries to discredit Linus Torvalds' thoughts on the matter along the way. Naughton, or the clients he may be representing, seems intent on trying to cast doubt on the legal framework upon which Google's Android platform rests. To that end, Naughton has released a detailed whitepaper containing what he claims are more examples of the kind of problems he's been pointing out. Here's the basic premise of Naughton's arguments:

Fabio Erculiani proudly announced last evening, November 9th, the immediate availability for download of three new Sabayon Linux 7 editions, for the LXDE, Enlightenment 17 and Awesome desktop environments.

The Wine development release 1.3.32 is now available.

BitTorrent Inc. promised last year, when they released the uTorrent Server for Linux, a client version of the extremely popular uTorrent torrent downloader.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx and Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

This is how I generally setup a new debian server or vps. This process normally only takes a few minutes to have a nice, secure, production worthy lamp setup and running quickly. This is one of the main reasons I love debian so much. In this I assume that you have a bare newly rented server without any prior installations and I cover a few of my common practices that make my life as a sysadmin a little bit easier. We will forget for now that some of their policy decisions seem to be motivated by to much coffee and estrogen.