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It’s been a busy summer for Firefox!  Last month, we delivered the first in a series of groundbreaking updates to...

SonarQube is a free and open source quality management system platform that can be used to automate code inspection. It can analyze source code files, calculate a set of metrics and show the result on the web based dashboard. It is written in Java language and also supports other languages like Perl, PHP, and Ruby.

The debate about whether vendors can thrive and scale if their primary outputs are freely licensed continues to brew nearly two years since I wrote about the topic. read more

The newest LibreOffice is also the best version to date.

While hosting a quarterly town hall meeting with my team a few months ago, I announced that we had finally hired a new senior manager to lead a big portion of the group. This role had gone unfilled for a while, so I'd been temporarily filling it. After describing the new leader and reviewing the selection process, I asked if anybody had any questions or comments. There was just one, and it was something like: "So, now that you are hiring this new person, what are you going to do?" read more

?Ubuntu 17.10 codenamed Artful Aardvark (17.04 Zasty Zapus took us to the end of the alphabets so we are back to A) is expected to arrive on October 19, 2017. It was slated to bring minor improvements to the Ubuntu 17.04 but Canonical has sped things up and is bringing GNOME3 home quite early, Bye bye Unity. So how is the next iteration of Ubuntu fearing so far? Things are not finalized yet but let us see the direction is heading. Note that things might change (they won’t) in the final release.

Apt-Fast is a small shell script wrapper that can drastically improve apt-get & aptitude download speed using multi threaded tool such as axel and aria2.

On October 15, 2013, the Filipino province of Bohol was hit by a powerful earthquake that affected over 3.2 million people. Nearly 71,900 homes and several old and historical monuments were damaged or destroyed. Many of these historical buildings were colonial churches, including Loboc Church, Loon Church, Maribojoc Church, and Baclayon Church. read more

Mageia 6 is the latest version of mageia linux distribution. This release features the current LTS (Long Term Support) version of the KDE community’s desktop environment, Plasma 5.8 include KDE Applications 16.12 and KDE Frameworks 5.32 .

Do you use KMail or Kontact? The KDE PIM developers want to get more knowledge about how KMail is used so they can better know where they should focus and how they should evolve Kmail and Kontact. They want to make the best user experience possible and you can help by filling out a short survey.

If your distro uses GNOME shell or something similar, chances are you are using GNOME terminal or one of its variants. Well, that works alright most of the time. But if you spend a lot of your time in front of a terminal emulator, you might feel the need for a little more than the default terminal emulators offer.

The Fedora Classroom sessions continues this week. You can find the general schedule for sessions on the wiki. You can also find resources and recordings from previous sessions there. Here are details about this week’s session. Instructor Eduard Lucena is... Continue Reading →

I am pleased to announce PiCluster version 2.0! In case you are unfamiliar with PiCluster, it is a container management tool written in Node.js used to manage Docker containers.

If you want to know the local time around the world, Linux has options ranging from plain to gorgeous.[..] What I wanted, though, was a time-notifier that showed me just the local time and day in a few selected places, that could be called up with a keyboard shortcut, that displayed the information in an eye-catching way in the corner of my screen and that disappeared automatically after, say, 5 seconds.

Playing music from the command line isn’t the right option for everyone. MPD is a command-line option for music playback that requires manual configuration. Some people will love that. It’ll drive others insane. It all depends on how you prefer to use your Linux PC.

System76's engineers won't take a break from adding new features to the first major release of the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution, and they recently shared a blog article to keep the community up-to-date with what's they're planning lately.

Webpack is a robust and extensible tool that brings speed, parity between environments, and organized code to your application. It does its best work graphing a modular codebase, tying many graphed dependencies together into a few output files.

This article illustrates the methodology to offload the part of computations to GPU without refactoring the applications. The Crossroads/NERSC-9 Memory Bandwidth benchmark is used to showcase the offload of dense matrix multiplication (DGEMM) computations on GPU by linking (compile time) the newer version of CUDA-enabled ESSL (IBM Scientific Library). The use of CUDA-enabled ESSL gives approximately six times performance gain over CPU-only code.

Hackers at Def Con's voting machine village made quick work of showing just how vulnerable 'secure' voting machines really are.

In the first post of our series, we outlined three components of a modern front-end stack. In the second post, we untangled the challenge of package management with Yarn. In this post, we’ll take a look at the next component in our stack: webpack™, a way of building and bundling assets for web apps.