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Have you ever wanted a combination of Arch Linux and KDE but always seemed to get stumped at the Arch Linux portion of the combination? If that’s you, your days of being left out in the Arch Linux/KDE cold are over. Why? Bluestar Linux.

If you are looking for a decent Google Drive client for Linux, you've come to the right place as we've already covered a couple of clients - Grive and Gdrive - here at HowtoForge. In this tutorial, we'll be discussing another Google Drive Linux client dubbed overGrive. Before we proceed with our explanation on this tool, please keep in mind that all the commands and instructions mentioned in this article have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

f you use VirtualBox in your data center, you've probably run into a situation where you needed to move a file from guest to host or vice versa. When you can't figure that out, you wind up having to use Dropbox or some other third-party solution. You don't have to.

I am far from the only person on a quest for the perfect text editor. It's become so much a part of technology culture that I've actually had the interview question "Vim or GNU Emacs?" come up a couple of times in my career. The bitter truth that regular users of text editors must face, however, is that there just is no One Ring of text editing. Different software development practices, different platforms, even the mindset of the user, can affect the right choice for that moment. read more

Don’t throw away your old PC just yet and you can revive it with a lightweight Linux Desktop Environments.

Writing can be hard. One of the main obstacles that people encounter when sitting down to write something is all the distractions that a modern desktop throws at you such as cats on the internet, cats on twitter, and cats... Continue Reading →

I have always interested in historical dates and determining what actual day of the week an event occurred on. What day of the week was the Declaration of Independence signed? What day of the week was I born on? What day of the week did the 4th of July in 1876 occur on? I know that you can use search engines to answer many of these questions. But, did you know that the Linux command line can supply those answers too? read more

The Linux Mint project just announced the official availability of the Linux Mint 18.1 "Serena" operating system, which ships with both Cinnamon and MATE editions.

While new releases of OpenStack debut every six months, organizations tend to want to run stable cloud deployments for longer period of time. As such, Red Hat is now providing its users with up to five years of support for its OpenStack Cloud Platform.

Debian Linux and the Fedora Project are among the most influential Linux distributions of all time. Not only are both Debian and Fedora among the top ten for page hits on Distrowatch, but many of the other top ten are derived from them. But why would you pick one over another?

When you think about it, "making" is just a more down-to-earth and less abstract version of coding, with results you touch and feel instead of experience on a screen.

"Organizational culture" is something plenty of people are puzzling over today, and with good reason. More and more leaders are realizing that the culture permeating and guiding their organizations will determine whether they succeed or fail. The term “organizational culture” refers to an alignment between two forces inside an organization: values and behaviors. Aligning those forces productively is one of the most difficult and important tasks facing leaders today. read more

Arduino LLC’s $22 “MKRZero” shrinks the guts of the Arduino Zero board to the 65 x 25mm size of a MKR1000, but without the MKR1000’s WiFi. Earlier this year when Arduino LLC debuted its $35, IoT focused MKR1000 board, we suggested it was like combining an Arduino Zero with its WiFi Shield. With its new […]

Red Hat (RHT) is opening its arms to Microsoft SQL Server partners and customers, inviting those ecosystems to test the database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The move comes roughly one month after Microsoft launched a SQL Server on Linux public preview. General availability is expected in mid-2017.

The Kdenlive development team announced a new stability version of the open-source video editor designed for KDE Plasma desktop environments, Kdenlive 16.12, released as part of the KDE Applications 16.12 software suite.

Two of the most popular and highest quality media programs available for Linux are not available through Fedora's default repositories. Of course, these are no other than Kodi and VLC, and they are available on Fedora through RPM Fusion. Kodi, which was previously known as XBMC, has boomed in popularity as of late with both Linux and mainstream audiences.

The task of securing Linux systems is so mind-bogglingly complex and involves so many layers of technology that it can easily overwhelm developers. However, there are some fairly straightforward protections you can use at the very core: the kernel.

I've been doing open source documentation for a long time. Over the past decade, there have been a lot of attitude shifts regarding authoring and publishing. Some of these trends seem to go in cycles, such as the popularity of semantic markup. The latest trends move documentation closer to code, what many have called docs as code. Let's look at a few of the larger themes in documentation trends.........

After announcing back in September 2016 the Beta preview of its latest Flash Player technologies for Linux platforms, synced with the Windows and Mac builds, it looks like the Adobe finally released Flash Player 24, for Linux.

As expected, KDE announced the general availability of the KDE Applications 16.12 software suite for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environments on various Linux-based operating systems.