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After many work around in the previous beta version of KDE Plasma 5.8 beta,KDE team is finaaly here with their first LTS of Plasma desktop software release, KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS. Beleive it or not, this release is surely gong to attract plenty of non-techie or simple users.But Techies are also not going to lose interest, this Ubuntu based beauty is going to prove the beast features as well.Check out new features of kde plasma 5.8 LTS[....]

Earlier today, Fedora Project's Adam Williamson published a public service announcement (PSA) to inform the Fedora Linux community about an important issue with the internal update process.

An interview with the project team behind India's DigiLocker project, which is built on ownCloud. It also goes into India's other plans to support free and open source software.

The Linux Foundation announced the SPDX 2.1 and OpenChain 1.0 specs, which aim to clarify and standardize open source compliance and management. At LinuxCon Europe in Berlin, the Linux Foundation announced two new releases from different groups attempting to standardize open source license tracking, compliance, and supply chain management. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) […]

I have this book -- a Spanish edition of Stephen Coffin's seminal manual, Unix System V Release 4: The Complete Reference. You can open it on any of its 700+ pages and bet your bottom dollar that the commands on the page will work in a modern-day Linux. Well, except where teletypes and tape storage are involved. Said like that, you may think the *NIX command line hasn't changed a lot since the early 1990s. This is not entirely true.

One day after Linus Torvalds' announcement on Linux kernel 4.8, Jiri Slaby releases the sixty-fourth maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 3.12 kernel series.

As you might know, ISPConfig is one of the best free open source hosting control panels available to manage Linux hosting servers in single and multi-server environments. Today you will see how to deploy and install this amazing control panel with the ispconfig_setup script.

Everybody knows about WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, although they are great and they are popular for a reason, there are quite a few other alternatives that you may have never heard of. Thousands of quality developers and designers work hard to create amazing masterpieces of applications.

Following bellow is verification of status Newton DLRN consistent trunks for TripleO undercloud/overcloud deployment based on packages currently been built via upstream git branches.

The Nextcloud developers have released recently the first maintenance update to the Nextcloud 10 series of the open-source and cross-platform self-hosting cloud server forked from ownCloud.

Klavaro is a free and easy to use typing tutor for Linux operating system. Though it is also available for Windows OS but we're not talking about that. Klavaro is a very simple typing tutor without lots of bells & whistles in the interface. Let's see some of its features and know how we can install & use it in Linux. So let's get started!

Android SDK is the official android emulator which is developed by Google to emulate the Android App in Linux System

European project to clean up software hits halfway point Midway through SUPERSEDE, the EU three-year project backed by €3.25m in funding to make software better, software still sucks.…

Proper quality assurance can save lives and money. (Anyone remember the Ariane 5 explosion in 1996?) That's why the openSUSE and Fedora communities heavily rely on openQA, a fully automated and open source test framework. OpenQA is primarily used to test different Linux distributions, but applications can also be installed on top of it to test desktop environments like GNOME and KDE. read more

Forking is a concept that can strike terror into the heart of any CIO that relies on open source software. Here’s how to make sure you’re on the right side of the split.

'Not convinced Microsoft is committed long term to the OS' Lenovo will not build smartmobes running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system because it doubts the software giant’s long term commitment to the market.…

Today KDE releases its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. If you tried a KDE desktop previously and have moved away, now is the time to re-assess, Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed.

Linux containers are helping to change the way that IT operates. In place of large, monolithic virtual machines, organizations are finding effective ways to deploy their applications inside Linux containers, providing for faster speeds, greater density, and increased agility in their operations. read more

Remix OS is an operating system based on Android-x86(). The OS is developed to provide android for PC. It is developed by Jide Technology. The latest version of Remix OS is based on Android Marshmallow. We hope to soon have the next versions based on Nougat.

Managing and monitoring background running processes are not only basic needs as per view of performance control but security is also a concern in this cyber linked world.Here is a list of important terminal commands used in managing,killing and viewing the processes running in the background.