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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.

?Linux distro is mostly loved for its security features. When we people want more security we use TOR and VPN. Today I am going to tell you about an application called Firejail that helps to protect your personal files via sandbox technique.

Linux Mint creator Clement Lefebvre recently published yet another monthly newsletter to inform the community behind the popular Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution about what's coming to the project.

With the recent release of Fedora 26, Fedora 24 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status on August 8th, 2017. After August 8th, all packages in the Fedora 24 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, no new... Continue Reading →

RabbitMQ is a free and open source enterprise message broker software. It is written in Erlang and implements Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP). In this tutorial, we will install RabbitMQ on CentOS 7 server.

?The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.4, the latest major release of the best open source office suite software available. LibreOffice 5.4 is the last major release of the 5.x family. LibreOffice 5.4 comes with new features for Writer, Calc and Impress and it is immediately available for Linux, macOS and Windows, and for the cloud. The latest iteration comes with significant features in every module, including the usual large number of incremental improvements to Microsoft Office file compatibility. So let’s see what’s new in LibreOffice 5.4.

Ring, Open Source alternative to Skype, has reached its first stable release. Have a look at how to install and use Ring.

It's easy to think other people use their computers and software in the same way you do. That they need every feature and function you rely on. That your computing choices are, or should be, their choices. read more