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Today KDE had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability of the first point release for the stable KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop environment.

Files appeal in epic 'Who owns Linux' case against IBM The Santa Cruz Organisation (SCO) just doesn't know when it's dead: the company that thinks it owns Linux is having another try at milking IBM for money.…

Need a design for a garden bed you can print and construct yourself? Or, perhaps you live on an urban farm and are looking for a small run for your chickens? AKER provides these modular designs and others to help build "ecologically resilient, healthy communities." And, as a member of a community-supported agriculture project myself, I also have a keen interest in solving the unique problems presented by our rapidly growing world population and the need to feed it with heallthy food. read more

The U.S. Department of Commerce has just created a Board of Advisors for topics related to the Digital Economy.  I will participate as one of the two co-chairs, along with Zoë Baird, President and CEO of the Markle Foundation.

In a second go-round of its copyright lawsuit against Google, Oracle is hoping to land a knockout blow. A damages report filed last week in federal court reveals that the enterprise-software giant will ask for $9.3 billion in damages.

In its lawsuit, Oracle argues that Google infringed copyrights related to Java when it used 37 Java API packages to create its Android mobile operating system. The damages it's seeking aren't just more than the Java API packages are worth—it's far more than Oracle paid for the entirety of Sun Microsystems, which was purchased in 2009 for $5.6 billion.

rm stands for ‘remove‘ as the name suggests rm command is used to delete or remove files and directory in UNIX like operating system.

The Linux Foundation has partnered with Blacks in Technology and Kids on Computers to increase access to Linux and open source software. The open source space remains a privileged place, but the Linux Foundation hopes to add demographic diversity by partnering with two community groups, Blacks in Technology and Kids on Computers.

Sabayon 16.04 is a modern and easy to use Linux distribution based on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling release model. This is a monthly release generated, tested and published to mirrors by our build servers containing the latest and greatest collection of software available in the Entropy repositories.

Turn the tables on tables. Analysis Despite being assaulted from all sides, the relational model for databases is still the king of the hill and it looks like it will not only survive, but thrive as well.

SolidRun is prepping a tiny, Linux-friendly COM based on Intel’s “Braswell” processors, and featuring SATA, GbE, HDMI, USB3.0, PCIe, 4K video, and more. SolidRun’s Intel Braswell MicroSOM family will launch in April with a new computer-on-module form factor that measures a wee 53 x 40mm. The Intel Braswell MicroSOM features a unique reverse-power design that […]

Due to its syntactic simplicity and flexibility, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become pretty much the de-facto standard data exchange format in many web applications. As JSON becomes widely used to represent structured data with a great degree of flexibility, the need arises for being able to "validate" JSON representations. Thus there came something called […]Continue reading... The post How to validate JSON from the command line on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to look up dictionary via command line on Linux How to parse JSON string via command line on Linux How to access Linux command cheat sheets from the command line What are useful CLI tools for Linux system admins What is a good command-line calculator on Linux

Last fall, you might recall that the hardware tinkering community (and people who just like to fully use the devices they pay for) was up in arms over an FCC plan to lock down third-party custom firmware. After tinkering enthusiasts claimed the FCC was intentionally planning to prevent them from installing third-party router options like DD-WRT and Open-WRT, we asked the FCC about the new rules and were told that because modified routers had been interfering with terrestrial doppler weather radar (TDWR) at airports, the FCC wanted to ensure that just the radio portion of the router couldn't be modified. The FCC stated at the time that locking down the full, broader use of open source router firmware entirely was absolutely not their intent:

Laptop's, in my opinion at least, are still the best portable way of computing. There are a lot of things that phones and tablets still cant do which a laptop can. Problem is, laptops are more fragile then most people think.

The Sabayon Community Repositories infrastructure will build repositories for the community, and it is managed by the community itself. There is a main Community repository while there is room to add other repositories, "slots", that SCR Developers are free to use. More on how it works will come later. Currently we are in alpha state, but we are having great results, some packages are already available to the public. The goal here is to have a system like AUR for Arch and PPA for Ubuntu where Sabayon Community Developers (which are community members first) maintain multiple repositories or packages of the Community repository.

You'll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10.

The same 2D annimation software that's used by Studio Ghibli in the making of its feature length anime films is now available as OpenToonz under an open source license.

Ansible is a great and simple configuration management and orchestration tool. Some times we require to reboot server and do some tasks once reboot is done. Today I came across such requirement where I have to upgrade our production Ubuntu server...

The Internet of Things isn't just a buzzword, it's a rapidly expanding reality. read more

In my last article, I started discussing how to optimize a Web application, looking at the different aspects of an app and where the slowness might come from.

OwnCloud offers you the ability to run a cloud storage service that you administer and control yourself. The latest version, ownCloud 9.0, was released on March 8. Let's look at the process of installing ownCloud 9.0 on a system running Debian Jessie.