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KDEConnect has become the standard for interaction between Linux PCs and Android devices. It can handle most tasks and does so very well. For GNOME users, this usually means installing a ton of KDE dependencies on their system. It’s clunky, and it doesn’t integrate well with their desktop of choice.

The development team behind the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt) have released a new maintenance update towards the major LXQt 1.0 milestone.

It's said if you ask 10 people about DevOps, you will get 12 answers. This is a result of the diversity in opinions and expectations around DevOps—not to mention the disparity in its practices. To decipher the paradoxes around DevOps, we went to the people who know it the best—its top practitioners around the industry. These are people who have been around the horn, who know the ins and outs of technology, and who have practiced DevOps for years. Their viewpoints should encourage, stimulate, and provoke your thoughts around DevOps.

Edge computing? -- data processing near where data is generated -- is growing ever more important with the rise of 5G and the Internet of Things. But, it has no standardization to speak of. The Linux Foundation's newly minted LF Edge seeks to remedy this problem.

Pulseway provides a product of the same name that's built to enable IT personnel and give them the ability to monitor, manage and automate their systems and the tasks or applications that they host. And, the best part is that they can do all of these things anywhere and everywhere, from their pockets. In fact, I wrote about Pulseway once before, so check out that article for an introduction.

ERPNext is a completely robust ERP framework intended for small and medium-sized businesses. It covers an extensive variety of features, including accounting, CRM, inventory, selling, purchasing, manufacturing, projects, HR and payroll, website, e-commerce, and more – all of which make it profoundly adaptable and extendable.

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the 14th of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

Nothing to see here Analysis Apple has been granted several patents in recent years related to the Swift programming language, which the iPhone-slinging biz open sourced in 2015 under the Apache 2.0 license with a Runtime Library Exception.…

A recent Stack Overflow problem was solved with ingenious commands from two AWK experts. In this post I explain the solutions in detail.

Taking a screenshot in Linux isn’t difficult, but you can make it better with Flameshot. Find out why you should use Flameshot to take screenshots in Ubuntu.

2DayGeek: Three ways to identify the file types in Linux.

Skype is one of the most popular communication applications in the world that allows you to make free online audio and video calls, and affordable international calling to mobiles and landlines worldwide. In this tutorial we will show you how to install Skype on Ubuntu 18.04.

One of the most popular tasks undertaken on Linux is development. With good reason: Businesses rely on Linux. Without Linux, technology simply wouldn’t meet the demands of today’s ever-evolving world. Because of that, developers are constantly working to improve the environments with which they work...

Learn the basic information about what is SELinux and why you should try to avoid disabling it.

More stuff disclosed, but code host could rarely tell targets Microsoft-owned code repo GitHub has received twice as many requests for user information in 2018 as the prior year, noting a disproportionate rise in accompanying gag orders.…

Want to learn more about DevOps this year? Or just need to explain it to others? Use these resources

2DayGeek: ODrive stands for Open Drive. It’s a GUI client for Google Drive which was written in electron framework.

My personal, one-word theme for 2019 is "growth." As an open leader looking to improve her leadership skills in the coming year, I'm sharing my "19 for 2019" list—19 leadership goals I want to achieve before 2020. Periodically throughout the year, I'll share my progress toward these items. read more

Today we'll continue our MySQL series and learn how to create and modify tables. MySQL tables are the containers that actually hold data. A table with multiple columns and records can be seen as an excel sheet.

With LF Edge, the foundation wants to establish an open edge computing framework that's agnostic of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system.