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Irrespective of the operating system used, the text editor is one of those quintessential applications for many users. A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. Text editors are used to write programming code, change configuration files, take notes, and more.

UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced today the availability of the Life is Strange: Before the Storm adventure video game for the Linux and macOS platforms.

This tutorial will teach you how to install R on an CentOS 7. R is a fast growing open source programming language and free environment that specializes in statistical computing and graphics representation.

Today, the KDE Project announced the beta release of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems, a major release that adds new features and lots of improvements across several core components.

Ninth release of Linux Foundation's SDN effort improves security, service function chaining and IP transport.

Thursday, 13 September 2018. Today KDE launches the beta release of Plasma 5.14. Plasma is KDE's lightweight and full featured Linux desktop. For the last three months we have been adding features and fixing bugs and now invite you to test the beta pre-release of Plasma 5.14.

Operating systems all now provide support for almost all languages and locales. Due to the widespread use of servers and computers all over the world, creating support for languages other than English was inevitable.

Many of the programs I've covered in the past have have been desktop-environment-agnostic—all they required was some sort of graphical display running. This article looks at one of the programs available in the KDE desktop environment, KAlgebra.

The CAT command in Linux is not only helpful in creating text files, displaying their contents, but also in merging text from two or more text files. In this tutorial, you will learn the use of the CAT command to combine text from two or more files into a single one.

If you are into programming on Linux and your work revolves around compilers, there are a handful of command line utilities that you should be aware of. One such tool is objdump.

REST services are becoming an increasingly popular architectural style for connecting modern systems with the cloud and to each other as the need for flexible APIs and microservices grows. With Apache Camel, you can write REST services easier and quicker using the REST domain-specific language (DSL). During a poster session at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (September 26 - 28, 2018 in Houston), we will walk audiences through developing their first Camel route using the REST DSL. read more

TrueCrypt was known as a gold standard in filesystem encryption. It was known for providing excellent encryption options, including hidden encrypted volumes. That's something the LUKS can't do. TrueCrypt has been abandoned, but it's been forked into VeraCrypt.

RetroPie users can run into a myriad of problems. Here are some of the most common problems and fixes that will help to improve Retropie performance.

Video has long been an integral part of education—back in the day, movies shown on huge reel-to-reel projectors were wheeled into classrooms to supplement teaching. read more

This guide explains how to connect your WebDAV server to ONLYOFFICE and edit and collaborate on documents online. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allows users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via http://FTP.

SMB built in from ChromeOS 70. At its best without passwords. Oops Google’s Chrome OS tanks crept a little further along Microsoft’s manicured Enterprise lawns with hints that Windows file share support will arrive out-of-the-box in an upcoming version of Chrome OS.…

Depending on who you ask, it's either the silliest or the most important question when it comes to coding style: tabs or spaces? When we asked you, our readers, the question last summer, spaces came out on top. That said, it's a nuanced question where things like programming language, editor, and project style all should play a role. read more

Sometimes kernel developers find themselves competing with each other to get their version of a particular feature into the kernel. But sometimes developers discover they've been working along very similar lines, and the only reason they hadn't been working together was that they just didn't know each other existed.

When getting started with Vim, users face a steep learning curve. It’s true the software is simple. It’s simple in the sense that its minimal interface focuses the user on their main task. But Vim is very powerful. To learn how to use Vim and master that power, we recommend the following free books. Each book is released under an open source license, just like Vim.

News briefs for September 12, 2018.